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What's your own personal favorite photo from the last year?
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Interesting post.. most maybe all ? are not in the boards book and are probably more interesting than whats in there (incl my own) !
Mine too, I chose my book pic of my daughter based on one set of criteria (sentiment and a follow on from last year's pic mostly) but my favourite of the year has been posted already on another thread, from when a fellow boardsie came to play on the Sligo coast taken with a lensbaby at f2:
When ThOnda met the Wave
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Some really fantastic shots in this thread
I have to ask... was ThOndas camera/lens completely destroyed by the wave?
Anyhow, mine;
As soon as I purchased my 70-200mm lens I got this idea in my head and spent weeks waiting to get this shot:
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I have several, all taken by Robin, my g/f, but here's my current fave:
Just 2 miles or so east of the 395, about 1 mile south of Mono Lake. At roughly 0550 hours, and about 20 effing degrees Fahrenheit.
It's looking west, and just over the ridgeline is Yosemite Nat'l Park, the far east end.
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My favourite shot came right at the very end of the year on a photo club outing to Carton House, Maynooth.
I've added in the blog entry about the shot from my website underneath for anybody who is interested in how the shot was taken/processed.
HDR from 3 exposures
-2 0 +2
f22
ISO 100
I took this photo on the grounds of Carton House in Maynooth during an outing with my photography club. Normally when I go to Carton, I photograph the beautiful boat house on the other side of the river in the left of the shot. On this particular morning however, it was the cool winter light casting beautiful shadows on the ground and creating wonderful textures on the surfaces it reflected off that grabbed my attention.
This scene was a perfect candidate for HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography as it allowed me to preserve all the details of the sky during sunrise as well as the shadows and textures in the foreground. A single photograph would have left much of the foreground as a silhouette.
Firstly I put my camera on the tripod in order to ensure a perfectly sharp shot. I set up so that the sun was behind the tree to prevent too many blown out highlights and to the right of the path so that the path would lead into the shot from the bottom left corner in a diagonal across the scene.
I used an aperture of f22 to ensure that the scene would be sharp from foreground to background. I set the ISO to 100 to keep noise to a minimum (which is even more of an issue when shooting for HDR). I then set the auto exposure bracketing to -2 0 +2.
Now I like to have a human element in my shots but unfortunately on this morning there were few people around and the others were off photographing the beautiful river house. To overcome this I set the 10 second timer and then ran down the path in order to be provide the human interest myself........much to the amusement of my photography club friends.
Luckily the Canon 40D takes the 3 bracketed exposures automatically when the timer is on so all I had to do was set up, click the shutter and get into position. It was important to stay perfectly still for the 3 exposures in order to prevent ghosting during post procesing.
I converted the 3 RAW files to TIFFs in Lightroom and then used Photomatix to merge the 3 shots to HDR. I then finished off the processing in Photoshop. HDRs by their very nature lack contrast so I like to add some contrast back in during processing. The great thing about HDR is that because all of the tonal detail from shadows to highlights is present in the scene, you have total control over the contrast.
Thanks to HDR I was able to preserve all the detail in the sky during sunrise as well as the foreground detail. This would not be possible with a single shot. This is the beauty of HDR.0 -
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Probably this one
It didn't go in the boards book because i had it as my computer wallpaper for months and was bored of it...
Its my favourite was it was a kinda shot i wanted to take for ages while saving up for my first DSLR (& cheap ebay remote for super long bulb exposures).....That and the fact that its a 424 second exposure taken in the middle of a very very cold February night *Freezing*
I just wish i had discovered RAW so i could play with it now. The above is the jpeg straight out of the camera!0 -
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of two of my friends dancing along during the flash mob in Cork earlier this year. I knew they were around and got some very nice shots while looking for them. I eventually found them and while this shot isn't technically great or composed very well, its the one that I enjoy the most. I'm really glad of the flash mob as I think it is one of the few things completely unsullied by the tribulations of the rest of my life this year, despite its motivations.
Umm... I think your friends might have a thing or two to admit to you about their political leanings. :eek:
Great thread btw!
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Took quite a while for me to pick out my favourite.... and this probably isn't it... or maybe it is...bah.
- that is one nice site.houseoffun14 wrote: »My landscape favourite of 2009 http://www.photoimagery.net/latest-images/boyne-dawn/0 -
This is mine. Spent about 90mins trying to get this.
All done manually on my own, from scratch - pressing the shutter, focusing each time, dropping the water, cleaning the water, setting up the lights. It was a hard enough slog - which until the last few minutes didn't seem rewarding at all!:D0 -
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Sorry Keith, I missed that. lol. I wasn't being cruel. She dosn't need any encouragement to cry. Turning on the water works is whats she's best at. I just wanted to prolong the moment a little bit to capture it, for posterity and all that.
It would seem to be a female thing, an on/off tear gene.......0 -
I went out with my kids to see some kite board & buggy surfing out by Seapoint back in May. Unfortunately the winds were so strong it was too dangerous for the surfers to go out. A few of the buggy lads tried and broke their rigs.
I went for a walk with my son and daughter along the dunes and caught this one of my daughter. It's my favourite shot of the year as it captures her at a time of change. She is maturing from being my little daughter into a young woman. Coming into herself. Being happy within herself. My daughter who I cherish and love.
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