Beautiful picture thread!

LEDZEP · 02-15-2006, 07:41 PM

Nikki - I hope you don't mind the adjustment, but I trimmed your bush for you.

Sorry, there was just no way I could resist saying that!!

Nikki · 02-15-2006, 07:42 PM

hahahaha thanks

shuzmaker · 02-15-2006, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LEDZEP

Nikki - I hope you don't mind the adjustment, but I trimmed your bush for you.

Sorry, there was just no way I could resist saying that!!

Nice bush trimmin...

LEDZEP · 02-15-2006, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikki

The last shots? I just resized and sharpened those ones a little.

I don't remember what fill is.. but I'm guessing then I didn't use it..sorry lol. I believe it was a 2" shutter. Thanks for the encouragement. I took those shots a few minutes after I talked to you.

By fill I just mean fill flash (I was a photojournalsit and freelancer long enough to still use lingo, sorry about that). Fill flash is just a very weak flash on a low setting generally used to overcome heavy contrast (like the shadows when shooting an object in front of a window in the daytime) and light up shadows. It's also good at night when there is almost enough ambient light for the shot but you don't want a really long exposure. Another use is to help color balance if your primary light source is something like incandescent light or flourescent light. This practice is also referred to as "a wink" of flash.

Your night shots are great - so what ever method you're using don't change it. Natural existing light is almost always the best way to go!

Nikki · 02-15-2006, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by LEDZEP

By fill I just mean fill flash (I was a photojournalsit and freelancer long enough to still use lingo, sorry about that). Fill flash is just a very weak flash on a low setting generally used to overcome heavy contrast (like the shadows when shooting an object in front of a window in the daytime) and light up shadows. It's also good at night when there is almost enough ambient light for the shot but you don't want a really long exposure. Another use is to help color balance if your primary light source is something like incandescent light or flourescent light. This practice is also referred to as "a wink" of flash.

Your night shots are great - so what ever method you're using don't change it. Natural existing light is almost always the best way to go!

Thanks, I don't know if I have a "fill flash" but I have tried simply turning on the flash and shutter together when it is too dark even with a very long shutter but it always comes out like crap because the flash doesn't travel far enough...though I've never tried it for close up shots like that.

LEDZEP · 02-15-2006, 08:07 PM

If it's a simple on camera flash it wouldn't work well anyway. The flash would completely wash out the photo and give you tons of glare. Your natural light exposures are great!!

StewtheBassman · 02-15-2006, 08:36 PM

LedZep, you're not one of those guys that works at the Sears photography studio are you?

lux.sh · 02-15-2006, 08:41 PM

All of you nice photographers must learn one thing.
POST HIGH RESOLUTION PICS SO WE CAN USE THEM FOR DESKTOP BGs!!!

Nikki · 02-15-2006, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by lux.sh

All of you nice photographers must learn one thing.
POST HIGH RESOLUTION PICS SO WE CAN USE THEM FOR DESKTOP BGs!!!

Yeah, some of them are really nice but kind of small. All of mine on my site are 1600 x 1200.

LEDZEP · 02-15-2006, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by StewtheBassman

LedZep, you're not one of those guys that works at the Sears photography studio are you?

Ha ha. You got me! Say cheese!

lux.sh · 02-15-2006, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikki

Yeah, some of them are really nice but kind of small. All of mine on my site are 1600 x 1200.

Yeah. I always visit your site for nice BG pics. one of them is already on my desktop!
thanks nikki!

poldim · 02-16-2006, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Nikki

Yeah, some of them are really nice but kind of small. All of mine on my site are 1600 x 1200.

Still small. My craptop is 1920 x 1200...

Maybe you can make them 1920x1440 and let the normal folks desktop resize it and I can chop yours for my wide screen....
:rocks:

Nikki · 02-16-2006, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by poldim

Still small. My craptop is 1920 x 1200...

Maybe you can make them 1920x1440 and let the normal folks desktop resize it and I can chop yours for my wide screen....
:rocks:

lol wtf kind of screen is that??? lol i don't think it would let me attach pics that big here

Nikki · 02-16-2006, 01:55 PM

lol here you go:

http://nikki.e90post.com/Images/huge.jpg

poldim · 02-17-2006, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Nikki

lol here you go:

http://nikki.e90post.com/Images/huge.jpg

I love you....

20 pix narrow, but I pulled it.

What size do you take your pics at with your SD?

Nikki · 02-17-2006, 10:42 AM

oh sorry lol I am silly. lol, i take most of them at the largest setting which is like 3000 by something.

poldim · 02-17-2006, 05:35 PM

Awesome. I do the same with mine. My Documents are 20 gigs, My Pictures are 17.

bearfoot · 03-12-2006, 10:36 AM

Nice car, nice setting:

Thomas · 03-12-2006, 10:58 AM

Taken in the autumn of '05 in the east part of The Netherlands by my little brother..

MB330 · 03-12-2006, 05:03 PM

Jackbmw · 03-12-2006, 05:40 PM

@Thomas & Bearfoot:
Could you post your pictures in size 1280x1024? Or 1600x1200? They are beautiful but unfortunately too small to set them as a background of 17 inch LCD monitor. Thank you in advance.

P. S. I have already resized all pictures from Nikki's web and I must say that these are one my favorite BMW wallpapers

KevinC · 03-12-2006, 07:57 PM

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Nikki - I hope you don't mind the adjustment, but I trimmed your bush for you.

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