Photos you have taken in the last month of which you are proud?

.duncan – I think I read in an earlier post that you aren't a professional photograher, but have you ever considered it as a part time job?
Your work reminds me very much of my Nephew who's only 21 and turned professional 2 years ago and he's doing very well out of it.

el_boufador – Is that a laser between his legs or was he just pleased to see you?

Have to agree with Bunnyhop – there are many fantastic images in this thread, but .duncan's are just a notch above – the snail macros and the dirt jump shots are visually stunning.

I'll console myself in my mediocrity with a picture of a cat's bollocks:

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@ Bunnyhop & stuartie C thanks for the nice words.

I have vaguely considered it, although being in full time education still and soon to depart to uni to do maths any ideas have been put on hold.

a few since my last post (basically my 365):

Some absolutely stunning shots in this thread

here are a couple of mine

Thanks lodius 🙂

dudie your second one is superb!

Also have to agree about .duncan's pics – very impressive. Sack off the boring maths mate! 😉

@grum – Have you been taking pictures up the end of my road as well?

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That match shot is awesome crewlie – how did you go about getting it?

tinribz – where is that?

@OCB – yes I've been stalking you for some time now 😉

Sometimes on this forum there can be a lot of arguing and petty backstabbing and pointless trolling, but deep down we're a pretty good bunch of people with a fair amount of talent and a thread like this proves it, and makes STW a decent excuse for sitting in front of the web all day.

Well done to all.

Some genuinely brilliant pictures on this thread all – really good to see that much talent – feel quite inspired now. Thank you!

Grum,

Bit late for a comment but…
that shot of the "twig" in the foreground with the sea in the background is my favourite one on here.

Beautiful.

Got my new gf1 a few weeks back and am now trying to figure out all the settings.

Grum
Thanks.
Trial and error really.
Camera on tripod, flash on manual, big box of matches, and a wife who hates the smell of the things striking repeatedly:).Then cropped in and sharpened.

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Duncan, that dirt jump pic on page 7 is awesome!

FeeFoo – thanks very much – I'll sell you a print if you like 😉

Cheers crewlie – never tried stuff like that but will have to have a go at some point.

Lovely sunset pano

Just been out in my garden…

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4502759475_8bff36865b_m.jpg/img%5D

photo post virgin – 😳

Here ya go

oh thank you how did you do that ?

Just took the image address – http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4502759475_8bff36865b_m.jpg and pasted it inside image tags – you can use the img button and just past in the link above.

Flickr like you to link back to them – you can do it so when you click on the image it is also a link but I can never remember how.

cool cheers… i'll try later watch this space 😀

You've got the http:// bit in twice, that's why it's not showing.

Just popped out and taken this along the road……..

Looking across the Holy Loch towards Sandbank, Glen Massan and Beinn Mhor. Volcanic ash has its uses!

Bought myself a 50mm prime lens last week, so I was out playing with it at the weekend. Does make you move about a bit more, rather than simply standing around zooming everything.

Didn't quite get the focus right on this one, but there's something about it I like

Grum – you take some bloody good photos. Are they all straight off the camera, or do you play about with them to achieve the vibrancy of colour?

Thanks! 🙂

I tend to do a reasonable amount of messing around, though not always. I shoot RAW almost exclusively and import into Adobe Lightroom, which I think is great. I often add clarity and up the contrast, sometimes using the levels adjustments – also often use vignettes and graduated filters as well. Sometimes I will do (subtle) HDR, though not on most of these pics.

On this pic I actually toned down the saturation!

This one I think I upped the contrast a little which made the reds in the sky a bit more dramatic.

Shooting RAW seems to give you a lot of leeway in adjusting exposure, colour balance and fill light etc. If you don't mind faffing on a computer a little it's definitely worth it.

I'm not claiming to be any kind of expert btw but I've been pretty happy with my results. I do also shoot bloody loads of pictures and my shots/keepers ratio is not that great. 🙂

Have only just started playing with my GF's DSLR. Hur hur…

This was just me experimenting with trying to get depth into a photo. I also like the light and shade on the petrol flap. Comments encouraged:

Seeing as this thread seems to be more of a nice photo sharing thread – I was thinking of making another thread to get some constructive criticism going?

No where near David Bailey standards but some of my favs i've taken this month

Sorry more cheesy sunset pics!

Nice shag.