Wild places, post em if you got em...

[MediumRare]

Hiking near Chico , CA...

Anton, are you also the photographer, Mike Manzone?

 

[GD Fan]

Polar bear in the wild.

 

[Mikig]

the train arrives in an enchanting place….

 

[Mikig]

when electricity shows up…

 

[Ron Texas]

Down View by Ron Scubadiver, on Flickr

The lake is at about 11,000' altitude. Camera location is around 11,240' above sea level. It kind of takes your breath away.

 

[antcollinet]

It kind of takes your breath away.

at just about 2 miles above sea level - probably literally for some.

 

[Gorgonzola]

A cruise ship on Taiya Inlet leaving Skagway, Alaska. Taken by me on June 21, 2017 ...

 

[DanielT]

I'm a terrible photographer. If you can even call yourself a photographer when you take pictures with your phone BUT a few years ago I managed to take ONE good picture. It's a view of a frozen sea.

Picture taken on the west coast of Sweden:

 

[dedobot]

The Central Balkan mountain , where I spend my free time:

 

[MarcT]

I'm a terrible photographer. If you can even call yourself a photographer when you take pictures with your phone BUT a few years ago I managed to take ONE good picture. It's a view of a frozen sea.

Picture taken on the west coast of Sweden:
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Well, these new phones have some pretty incredible processing capabilities. I took these two sunset shots with my Samsung S24 Ultra and look how much foreground shadow detail there is, yet without the sunset being totally blown out. The only difference between these two pics is a slight difference in ISO.

I also had my Nikon D7200 with me and took a couple shots with it, but in order to get good exposure of the sunset, the foreground was completely black. And this was while using Nikon's Active D-Lighting. I don't know how they do it but these cell phone camera makers have some really good engineers and algorithms.

20240504_194932 by MDTshots, on Flickr

20240504_194952 by MDTshots, on Flickr

 

[Gorgonzola]

A couple of pics taken by me on June 26, 2024 atop the Loen Skylift at Loen, Norway, on the Nordfjord;

Zip line run at the top of the Loen Skylift ...

Nordfjord obscured by clouds from atop the Loen Skylift above the cloud level ...

 

[LTig]

I'm a terrible photographer. If you can even call yourself a photographer when you take pictures with your phone BUT a few years ago I managed to take ONE good picture. It's a view of a frozen sea.

Picture taken on the west coast of Sweden:
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You need to crop it (remove the foreground) and slightly rotate it for a straight horizon - that will make it a great shot.

 

[LTig]

Well, these new phones have some pretty incredible processing capabilities. I took these two sunset shots with my Samsung S24 Ultra and look how much foreground shadow detail there is, yet without the sunset being totally blown out. The only difference between these two pics is a slight difference in ISO.

I also had my Nikon D7200 with me and took a couple shots with it, but in order to get good exposure of the sunset, the foreground was completely black. And this was while using Nikon's Active D-Lighting. I don't know how they do it but these cell phone camera makers have some really good engineers and algorithms.

You need to shoot a normal cam in raw and correct exposure differently for sky and earth. My Pixel 8 pro does this all by itself. Night shots are incredible good.

 

[MarcT]

You need to shoot a normal cam in raw and correct exposure differently for sky and earth. My Pixel 8 pro does this all by itself. Night shots are incredible good.

Thanks, well, I'm too old to be spending that much time in post-processing! But I do shoot my Nikon in RAW+JPEG.

 

[LTig]

Thanks, well, I'm too old to be spending that much time in post-processing! But I do shoot my Nikon in RAW+JPEG.

Yep. It would be great if the cameras and raw converters could adopt the sophisticated postprocessing algorithms used in highend smartphones. Just think about what the combination of a full frame camera and smartphone processing could achieve with respect to image quality ...

 

[LTig]

You need to crop it (remove the foreground) and slightly rotate it for a straight horizon - that will make it a great shot.

@DanielT: Like this for example:

 

[Bob from Florida]

My backyard wildlife this morning.

 

[DanielT]

@DanielT: Like this for example:

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That turned out really nice, I must say. Thanks for fixing it.

 

[Chrispy]

From day before yesterday when we got warm/sunny briefly

 

[DavidMcRoy]

Wyoming, USA