I've noticed that this title in the MF section of the forum is hugely popular, breaking a record for all threads I would estimate.

That disturbs me. I don't think MFDB users should take over this forum.

So I'm going to kick off this thread with a recent shot of the Himalayas, taken shortly after dawn from a 3000m hill, with my Canon 5D.

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Okay! More down to earth. My local shopping centre at Booval, Queensland. By now, all you Americans should realise that Queensland, Australia is bigger than Texas. Our prime Minister recently informed Mr Bush of that fact.

I live in Queensland and I'm a proud Queenslander. Bigger than Texas .

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There's this thread...

Anyway, here's a candid shot of my stepson:

Great Sand Dunes, Colorado 2006. 160 megapixels (you can count needles of that far away tree:) )
Fuji S3

Nice to show that we not only like camera sensors, RAW files and histograms.

Last holidays in Namibia and Botswana: Dune 45 in the Namib desert, Giraffe in the Etosha pan and students in Victoria Falls.

I don't care the format, I'm just looking at images and I have to say that those images are splendid GLuijk.

My bairns - 1Ds3, zf35, iso1600 plus 1 stop in (very quick!) processing

Mike

Great shots! I wish I had a website so I could present images without having to click on 'enlarge'.

Guillermo's images are quite superb, and I bet he didn't even have to use any serious noise reduction.

I agree. It just goes to show the stupidity of the argument that people who obsess over technical stuff must be artistically inferior to those who do not.

When I was designing speakers for a living one person commented that I must only own 10 CD's, implying if you are a technical "nerd" you mustn't listen to much music....funny......how can someone design something world class without enjoying the Art that it is associated with? Well I'm in NH visiting with my G9 so I'll post a shot to see if it gets thrown off the 35mm recent works thread onto the P&S recent works thread!
Marc
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Wow Michael, wow!


Wow!

*steve

ps WOW!

Guillermo and Michael

Lovely images.

Guillermo, I love Namibia, though we've not been for nearly 10 years (children!!). The Namib is one of my favourite places and Etosha is outstanding. Somewhere, I have a slide of a line of Zebra crossing the pan in the midday sun with nothing else in sight. Even though I haven't looked at the slides for some years the memories stick.

Mike

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sign of the times, don't we wish

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Not as impressive, but makes a nice print - only 68 megapixels from some stitched 5D frames

Mike


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some out takes from a shoot last summer....

5d 17-40


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Where is the APS-C Recent Works thread?

My nephew as captured by 5D + 70-200mm f/4 L USM

Thank you very much Ray and the others. I never apply any noise reduction but a slight colour noise reduction when coloured noise is present (not here obviously).

I love to minimise captured noise playing with ETTR and ISO, or eliminate noise improving textures with techniques like overexposure blending.

But if noise reduction is to be achieved at the cost of losing any texture, I will never apply it. That's why noise elimination plugins simply aren't for me.


Nice pictures here, and nice to see a different thread like this in this section.

You can post them here; my first posting was from a 1D-MkII. Here's a 1Ds image:

Isn't there a saying that 'exception proves the rule'?

A few from Japan:





Cheers,
Bernard

I really connect with this shot, B&W or just a B&W day?

Did you give up the 4x5?? I'm still working with the Linhof.

I notice your doing more stitching. I've played with it a bit, but I'm waiting for 2 camera, the rumored D3x and the small body D3. The D2x is still holding me over (for the moment).

Take care,

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the kind words.

It is indeed a conversion to B&W, but there were very colors to start with, except for a pretty intense dusk blue hue.

I still have the 4x5 gear, but I use it a lot less these days. The main reason is the cost of film processing. In the case of this particular trip, 4x5 was also not really an option because there was a lot of walking to do with food etc...



Indeed. I am getting excellent results with stitching. It has become a second nature, and doesn't take me that much time anymore nowadays. Compared to the time it takes to take the tripod out etc... stitching only adds 30 or 40% more time once you get used to the gear and procedure.

I still have my D2x as a back up for the D3, but will probably sell it in May time frame.

The D3x will definitely be my next DSLR, but the D3 will remain an excellent back up for it, and will probably stay the main camera for everything but landscape images.

Cheers,
Bernard

Shanghai Pu Dong

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1Ds III


don

Three of my recent shots here:
You Yangs Dawn Shoot

My best one from this winter.

I really like your images. Very nice work indeed. If you don't mind, what do you use for stitching i.e.
software & hardware. Or is it just Photoshop aligning?
George

No prizes for guessing where.

August 2007, hand-held, about 10 shots on my 5D with 28-105 mm. Stitched in PS2
Bigger / other views here.

Stitch with Canon 5D and TS-E 90mm 2.8.
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Another one from White Sands, 5D with 70-200 2.8 L IS.

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and Bosque

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Recent shot from Morro Bay, breaking in the sensor on the new 1Ds III.

Reverting to the kiddie shots, my youngest daughter on her third birthday...

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Jeremy

People:





'Things':

I'm afraid these are none too recent (been slammed with running my computer repair biz), but these are some 5D shots from last fall that I'm happy to show off.

The point here, in relation to Ken's article, is that Guillermo has been able to take these fine shots with a very modest camera (the Canon 350D, I think, but I could be wrong). Would these shots have been more artistic if he had used a 1Ds3 or a DB? That's the question?

nice ron

thanks man

Alaska is also bigger than Texas. (Louisiana is smaller but originally the Louisiana Purchase was much, much larger.)

Earlier this morning, a view out of my window

My favorites from a recent trip to Patagonia:









Lisa

Better Days




Rich

And a snapshot of mine from Easter - my brother-in-law's grandson - taken with a Canon G9.



Later,
Johnny

Perhaps, perhaps not. A much more pertinent question is "would having a better camera have detracted from the artistic merit of the image", and the answer to that is most likely no. There is no evidence to suggest that switching to a technically superior camera will negatively affect the artistic merit of the resulting images. The fact that a fancier camera doesn't automatically improve a photographer's work does not prove that it will degrade it. And face it, there are times when improving the technical quality of an image improves its artistic merits to some degree as well. If the camera doesn't matter, then focus shouldn't, either:





Which of these images do you prefer? Why?

Well this came out this month from National Geographic Books with an image of mine from Antelope Canyon on the cover:



The book is an excellent natural history of the various physical forces that have forged our planet. Watch for the serial documentary of the same name in the next couple of months on NG cable. I haven't seen the documentary but it's BBC-produced and considered their follow-up to Planet Earth seen last year on Discovery. If it's as high quality as the book, it will be a good one.

And here's a few more from a fruitful trip to California over a wet week in February:









Derek von Briesen
www.dvbphotography.com

Death Valley

Some very nice work in here.

Here are two images from the winter in Austria.

1DsMk2 each around 100Mp.

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Actually, the first could be seen through tears?

I am not going to get involved any deeper in this separate debate...

Mike