The "Post your pictures here" thread.

[Trick]

A handful from this evening:

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[Rojin]

Some lovely colours there Trick, nice one.

 

[martinturner]

Loving that first one Trick!

 

[PaulStat]

wow nice skies there trick

 

[Trick]

 

[Participant]

Paris

A few from Paris this weekend. Taken with a Canon Ixus 860IS so nothing special, bit like my photography skills. Would be keen to hear comments and criticism. They're just holiday snaps really, but I'd still like to hear how I can improve.

1. View from the top of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

2. Bird under the Tour Eiffel

3. Tour Eiffel

4. Louvre

5. Looking towards Place de la Concorde from the gardens of the Louvre Palace

6. Looking down at the vast Cimetiere du Montparnasse from the 210m high Tour Montparnasse. Many famous people are buried here, including Jean-Paul Sartre

7. Statue above the main entrance to the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

8. Notre Dame de Paris

9. Tour Eiffel

10. Looking up to the dome of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. Some ropey staircases lead up here from the bottom. My wife got vertigo and claustrophobia!

11. Eternal flame underneath the Arc de Triomphe

12. Enjoying a remarkably cheap beer in le Jardin des Tuileries (€2.50)

13. Champs-Élysées at night

And one for fun, taken in Peugeot showroom on the Champs-Élysées:

Quick question: I've resized these using Irfanview and maximum jpeg quality and they don't seem as sharp as when doing it manually using Photoshop's reduce and sharpen. Is this to be expected, since PS (I assume) uses more advanced resizing coding etc., or is there a free batch resizer that will produce high quality results with file sizes around 400KB at this size?

 

[peterattheboro]

I just use Photoshop and save for web, although you lose your EXIF data that way.

Your pictures are good, better than some people with much better cameras. However, you really need to straighten your lines. The images of buildings and towers need to be precisely vertical as it just looks crap when they are at an angle.

Use your ruler in PS as the guide. (CTRL + R)

 

[Participant]

I see, thanks for the tip. Funny I never even thought about that, but it makes sense. I'll have a play in PS tonight.

 

[86JR]

Moar picz.

All corrected only using photoshops cs5 auto color, auto tone, auto contrast.

all jpeg straight off camera

This plane flies really low every day, always bugged me, finally caught it today followed by this military helicopter.
My first ever avaition pictures too, fully manual on D70, no auto mode here!

Bodmin Moor Horse / Pony

 

[p0ss3s3d]

I just use Photoshop and save for web, although you lose your EXIF data that way.

Your pictures are good, better than some people with much better cameras. However, you really need to straighten your lines. The images of buildings and towers need to be precisely vertical as it just looks crap when they are at an angle.

Use your ruler in PS as the guide. (CTRL + R)

You can keep you EXIF if you change the metadata from none to all, or if you wish all except camera info just to keep the IPTC and Captioning.

 

[Participant]

You can keep you EXIF if you change the metadata from none to all, or if you wish all except camera info just to keep the IPTC and Captioning.

Good to know.

Another from Paris, Montmartre.

 

[Cyclone]

Was in the area and thought I'd have a wander down to the Emirates. Taken with N900.

 

[cHk4]

Ok guys, these are my first pics I've tried to take to be good.

Please be honest and slate them, if any are good please tell me which ones and please advise where you think I'm going wrong.

My camera is not great it's a Panasonic Lumix FZ28. Lighting wasn't great if I'm honest as these were taken in the last hour or so.

I'll link to my flikr, none are edited just transferred them now.

Thanks


http://www.flickr.com/photos/50980939@N05/

Does that link work?

 

[Zogger]

The ride was a little faster than expected

 

[Mr.Stu]

Zogger - nice shot, like that.

twoblacklines, the first horses shot and the duck look out of focus to me?

 

[86JR]

The horsey one was shot through a window so probably, the duck one, i think it focused on the ducks bum!

 

[Janesy B]

Mr Squirrel came up pretty close!

 

[Janesy B]

Taken at Monterey Bay Aquarium which was awesome.

 

[Participant]

the duck one, i think it focused on the ducks bum!

No, because that's out of focus also.

 

[cHk4]

Some cracking pictures makes my ones feel so crap but they were my first!