I like all of them. For me the Cathedral would work better either with two gates or if possible have taken the photo standing more to the right using the walkway to lead into the photo. Also, the lighting on the clouds appears to me to be coming from the left, while the everything else the afternoon sun is on the right.
Also, while I like the last one (wine glass) I would have preferred a full reflection of the glass, but that's just me. Also, it is tilted as others have said.
Update: I posted without reading the second two pages of comments and didn't know what I commented about was already posted.
I think I like the last one best, all good.
These are all very good in my opinion. My favorites are the "Raven" and "Trying Harder".
I have tried this panning technique with mostly poor results, none that resulted in any keepers. You have inspired me to try again.
I like them all, #2 is my favorite.
These are from the Old Soldiers Cemetery near Puyallup, Washington.
Actually for most places outside or inside using flash I just use Auto white balance. I use a gray card or coffee filter method if inside where I am not using flash, or if there is a combination of flash & incandesant & flourescent lighting. Example of when I went to a flight museum with it's different kinds of interior lighting and I didn't want to use flash. As I enter each room I did a custom white balance using just a coffee filter over the lens. For me it worked satisfactory.
On the web there are plenty of articles about using coffee filters for white balance. Here is just one link that compares various methods.
http://www.ppmag.com/web-exclusives/2008/11/product-comparison-white-balan-1.html
lleach wrote:
Hi,
Did you compare it to using Auto white balance or the various selections for known lighting (e.g. sun, shade, cloudy, incandesant, varous kinds of flourescent, flash) available on most cameras?
Regards,
Larry Leach
wingincamera wrote:
I have use a gray card and compared it using a coffee filter over the lens for custom white balance. I couldn't tell the difference. I now just the coffee filter, much easier and very cheap. Google it to read articles about it.
You might try sending a photo to two or three different photo labs for comparison. Where I live I found that the local Costco store is very good, and pricing is good to. Of course you have to be a member..
I have use a gray card and compared it using a coffee filter over the lens for custom white balance. I couldn't tell the difference. I now just the coffee filter, much easier and very cheap. Google it to read articles about it.
I now carry at least a point & shoot with me all the time. Back in my earlier days I had a disposable camera in the glove box of all my vehicles, buy them on sale for about $5.00 and each year recycle them for new (glove box can get pretty warm and ruin film used back then). I would give the old cameras to my kids to use. This way if the car got broken into and camera stolen, my lost is about $5.00. I only had to use them twice, each time it was for someone else's misfortune.
I take photos mostly for my own pleasure, family shots and photos for my church. I did have a personal web site, but since have gone to a photo web site (Zenfolio).
As my photographic skills get better, I am thinking of purging my web site of a lot of older photos.
Currently I use a Canon 5Dc.
My Zenfolio site is at: http://wingincamera.zenfolio.com/
My first dSLR was the Canon 350XT, then last year I purchased the Canon 5D Mk 1. Within a few weeks my XT was up for sale, I love the picture quality of the 5D and lack of noise. I shoot mostly landscapes and this camera excels with that.
I am finding with FF the lens quality makes more of a difference, so more money for lens.
The market for a used 5D is pretty stable at around $900 to $1000.00 (US) so if you picked one up and decided you didn't like FF, you should be able to resell it for what you paid for it. Here is a link for photos taken with the clasis 5D. I am sure Nikon has similar message boards if you want to check them out.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=996038
Since you have a Canon camera, go to the Canon web site and download Canon Digital Photo Professional if you didn't get it with the camera. It is free and will convert to jpeg or Tiff and then if you want to open that file in another software.
That's what I use to use before using Lightroom & Photoshop.
I use to use a desktop, built three of them. But several years ago I got a Dell Inspirion 14", next a Dell 17" XPS but I didn't like the weight & heat it gave off. Now I use a Asus 15" gamer and love it. The screen size is fine and it runs nice and cool. Also the batter life is great. I run Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 with no problems. The test was processing ten raw files to make a panorama photo, worked great. The most I could do with the Dell was four raw files for panoramas.
Then I use two TB USB drives for external backups.
If a compact camera will work, a while back dpreview.com did a group test on several compact waterproof cameras.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q311waterproofcompactgrouptest/