When a photo just works for you!

Hard to decide, but probably this. Was taken on Boxing Day last year and it was a pretty tranquil day. I think the colours and the smoothness sums up the atmosphere there, and I like the ambiguity and solidarity of the two figures (actually my dad and uncle) and the stone. Got a few shots that day, including a double rainbow which was pretty special but the lighting was hard and doesn't capture the same atmosphere imo.

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lucklessloser said:
Thats a great shot! Its great when something comes out just the way you intended it to. It doesn't happen that often for me unfortunately but i'm working on it!

The picture below was taken on holiday earlier this year. It had been raining all day but my friend and I decided to go down to the beach anyway and after half an hour the rain just stopped and this amazing sunset appeared. I had no filters with me and no tripod so this was taken handheld standing in very heavy sand!!! Its not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and could be criticised on pretty much every level - but I like it :)

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You can get some pretty epic shots at Perranporth Beach.

Here's one i captured years ago. I saw the sunset out my windows so i rushed to the car and drove a mile down to the beach! The amount of photographers out there was funny!

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Logsi said:
You can get some pretty epic shots at Perranporth Beach.

Here's one i captured years ago. I saw the sunset out my windows so i rushed to the car and drove a mile down to the beach! The amount of photographers out there was funny!

I love Perranporth - been there so many times now but it was the first time i'd seen the sunset there and had my camera :) Your picture is amazing - so lucky to live so close (not jealous at all lol!). I'm not surprised there were loads of photographers there, what a shot to capture! :) Fingers crossed i'll pick a week next year where it doesn't rain most of the time lol!
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This one is mine. I took it 5 months after having bought my D40 and getting into photography and only a month or so after having bought my 50 f/1.8. I went for a walk along Lake Geneva in Montreux armed with them. At the time, I knew I had taken a few decent shots and that one was nothing special as the original is much larger and in portrait. But when I looked at it on the PC, I was amazed at the sharpness, colours and bokeh. I played around with landscape crops to eventually settle on this one.

It is my favourite "photo" (strictly speaking a crop) ever personally. It might have been beginner's luck, as I have yet to come up with something that good. I think I try to think too hard about shots in my head these days (composition, iso, focus, expsure, etc, etc) and not just shoot with my heart. Probably a bit feminine to have it printed and framed in my bedroom, along with 2 other flower shots, but I am proud of them.

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I don't really have any shots that would fit quite right into this criteria, if I'm honest I'm not sure I have ever taken a picture that has met how I envisioned it (not without some PP work anyway). I haven't quite worked out yet if my expectations are too high or I'm a pants photographer! :D

Today was my first time out at the Rugby with a 50D, after recently selling on my 1DmkIII. To completely honest I'm a bit depressed about the whole photography thing now, results today were very poor. It didn't help that it is the time of the year where the sun is a big problem with glare (it sets right in from of the stand), but overall it didn't inspire me to take the camera again. There was one shot however, that even though technically trashed with glare, I really like. I don't know why, but "it just works for me", so even though I have used black and white for it to be what it is to me, I think it fits the thread?



There's hope yet.

edit: Oops didn't mean to be rude, lovely shots in here. Great in particular by GTRacer and alexisonfire, Mr Jones has caught a moment very well as well. Good work all :)
 
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..this is an excellant thread. I like the photos and the explanations about how they were took.

... when i read the title i immediately thought of one of my photos which i'll upload when i find it on one my 100+ saved DVD's....
 
This one was taken about two years ago. Bought my wife a hot air balloon ride for her birthday. We were helping out to set up the balloon and basket etc when the pilot checked the balloon.

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