Official Photography Thread

[OhioBlue]

a couple more...





and this one could really get me in trouble with her, but here's a self-portrait of sorts:

[Art Vandelay]

I'm so glad this thread is back on track...

OB those are amazing photographs. The pictures of you daughter (?) are perfect. Does your wife do much photoshop manipulation of levels and colors?

Scott R, I haven't officially welcomed you to CUF yet, not that my welcome is of any significance. Keep showing off your photos, I greatly enjoy them.

[Scott R Nelson]

a couple more...

I really like these two. It's so hard to capture a bee in flight. Apparently it's even harder to get them to turn around and face the camera.

Nice job capturing the drip from the icicle too. It's been a few years since I've seen one of those.

Scott R, I haven't officially welcomed you to CUF yet, not that my welcome is of any significance. Keep showing off your photos, I greatly enjoy them.

I'm going to keep posting one a day until I run out of photos that I find interesting. I'm trying hard not to repeat myself.

[OhioBlue]

Does your wife do much photoshop manipulation of levels and colors?

She does play around with photoshop on some of her stuff, yes. But as far as I know, not anything too complex. Other than the first one which clearly has been photoshopped, I'm not sure about the rest.

[UtahDan]

She does play around with photoshop on some of her stuff, yes. But as far as I know, not anything too complex. Other than the first one which clearly has been photoshopped, I'm not sure about the rest.

Welcome to CUF OhioBlue, stop by Ellis Island and introduce yourself.

[Katy Lied]

Other than the first one which clearly has been photoshopped, I'm not sure about the rest.

Very nice vignette on that one. And the bee picture has an exquisite green background. She might have a D40 but she's got some serious add on glass.

[TripletDaddy]

OhioBlue, where was the beach pic taken? That place looks like skimboard paradise!

those are all very nice pics, btw. I have no skills, so no feedback from me, other than keep the pics coming.

[Katy Lied]

I've always loved sunsets, but it can be hard to photograph them and capture the feeling. This shot was taken out in the Central Valley while I was headed over to see my daughter in Fresno. It has not been distorted in any way. One of my big pet peeves is when people stretch images in either direction. The shape of the sun in this shot has something to do with gravity and atmospheric distortions.

It was shot with my Canon S5-IS zoomed in all the way. This is one of those photos that I didn't realize what I had until I got back home and saw it on my computer. Normally telephone poles are a nuisance, but I like what they do to this image.

That big round thing in the background is seriously blown out.

Kidding. Ever notice that when you stare at the sun in your picture it seems to grow? (You have to look at the edges of the sun)

[Scott R Nelson]

Ducati Desmosedici at Alices

There is a place in the Santa Cruz mountains south of San Francisco and west of Silicon Valley where Highways 35 and 84 cross. At the intersection is a restaurant there called Alices Restaurant and a parking lot across the street at Skywood Trading Post that is THE place to go if you want to show off your special motorcycle. You have to have something pretty special to rate a second glace there.

While I was there on my totally ignorable Ducati ST2, a guy pulled up on a new $72,000 Desmosedici, kind of the equivalent of pulling up at a car hangout in a Ferrari F40. I don't usually take people photos, but I like this photo for how it captures the admiring glances of the crowd. And the owner of the bike (not in this photo) was a totally nice guy who talked to me about the bike for a few minutes.

[OhioBlue]

Very nice vignette on that one. And the bee picture has an exquisite green background. She might have a D40 but she's got some serious add on glass.

I asked her about that and she said she has a macro filter, not a macro lens. Oops. Tells you what I know.

And tripletdad, the beach shot she took somewhere south of San Francisco.

[DapperDan]

Here are some shots from my trip to London last fall.

St Paul's from the Millennium Bridge



The dome. Stone Gallery at the bottom, Golden Gallery at the top.



Tower Bridge and The Monument through a sea of cranes




My ninja HDR photo inside the dome of St Paul's. I had to wait until both 'guards' were far enough away and took the photo from my lap.



Looking down at St Paul's with the Gherkin in the background



Westminster Abbey w/cameo by Big Ben

[HelenOster]

http://www.adorama.com/Als/ProductPage/ICADRT1IKR.html

Any thoughts about a refurbished one? Bad idea? That's the cheapest one I've been able to find with or without a lens, which is good because I haven't found a kit lens for less than a hundred bucks.

All refurbished units sold by Adorama Camera are factory refurbished by the manufacturer, for example, Canon cameras are refurbed at their manufacturing plant in Newport News, VA.; they can have simply been pulled from the production line if something appears faulty, or if it hasn't passed the final inspection. Most of the time it is a very minor issue that needs correcting, nevertheless, once it is pulled from the normal flow of production, it gets flagged as a refurbished model, so you may get a unit straight from the factory that has never been used.

A refurb may also be an ex-store demo, possibly used in field tests or sales displays, or it may have been ordered in error and returned to the retailer (who can't then sell it as 'new' so it has to be sent back to the manufacturer for refurbishment).

All refurbished items will have been checked over by the manufacturer by hand, inspected very thoroughly, diagnosed, and calibrated by experienced technicians, and could therefore turn out to be more dependable than a new item - which will only have been checked by a process of systematic quality control protocol (ie by random sampling as it comes off the conveyor belt).
The room that houses Canon’s entire refurb process is said to be completely dust-free, and with every employee working in there being required to wear special booties.

All Canon refurbished products from Adorama come with a 1 year return-to-Adorama warranty; the warranty we give covers anything the manufacturers warranty covers for a new unit, including shutter defects.
All other refurbs sold by Adorama come with a 90-day return-to-manufacturer warranty.
In addition, Refurbs come into us with the firmware updates and latest fixes which were carried out at whatever stage it was at when we took delivery.

If you need additional firmware updates you can download them, but for any hardware fixes the unit would have to be sent to Canon.
[By the way, if you send a camera (any camera) to Canon for any hardware work, they will always update the firmware].


As to the individual history of a single item, the honest answer is we have no way of knowing. Refurbished equipment is not like new inventory; the manufacturers contact us when they have a batch to sell, and the availability is unpredictable. However, if you were to ask my personal opinion on whether the equipment that Adorama offers as refurbished is typically less than a year old, based on the regularity with which we receive batches, I'd be inclined to think it is all relatively new.


I hope this helps, but please don't hesitate to email me directly if you need any advice or after-sales support, at any time.

[falafel]

What the....

[Jeff Lebowski]

Welcome Helen. You should stop by Ellis Island and introduce yourself.

[RobinFinderson]

Welcome Helen. You should stop by Ellis Island and introduce yourself.

It is always great to have more women join the board.