You definitely can, I just tend to eye B&W photographers with suspicion as most photographers seem to have little or no understanding of color theory or how it applies to the craft. Not so much with nature photography as that tends to take care of itself.

Also, it's rather hard to live down a reputation of that magnitude once established. Sometimes B&W is cool, but it does allow the photographer to get lazy about things like exposure and learning to work with color. It's even somewhat easier to reduce distractions and back during the days of film, you could usually get away with more sensitive films.

Very cool. I don't really like the noisy sky, but I like the composition a lot : I like the opposition of the dark buildings on the left to the white buildings on the right and the perspective. Good job. :)

thanks!, the noisy sky certainly wasnt ideal, i may give it another go from the original another time

also, ran one of my pics through an HDR program and got this as the result

thank you, certainly came out better than i expected at the time

I always appreciate seeing an HDR photo that isn't garish.

I wouldn't call photography even my hobby, I just have a semi-decent camera and I tend to take pictures when I feel like it, which is not very often, really.

I took this one a while ago and it's nothing original, just a camera stuck inside one of those thick thread rolly thingies, but I like the way it came out, nonetheless. Might as well share.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2lt6f89&s=6

heres another one, tried another one of the preset settings on an old pic and was pleasantly surprised with how it came out

Winners of the National Geographic traveler photo contest

Some interesting shots

Look, I caught a ladybug!

This is probably my single favourite image from my summer vacation batch.

One is the full image, scaled, the other is cropped to show details in full-size.

The scaled one has not been modified in any way except the scaling, the cropped one has a little bit of detail brought out from the shadows.

I do enjoy photography, but most of my images come out looking like ... well, not fit for viewing - every once in a while though, I get a lucky shot like this one.

Camera is a Nikon D5000 with a Nikkor 18-55mm lens.

it's come out well, theyre annoying things to try and get pics of, i know from experience

I did take a few images of her wandering about on that rock, but only in that last one did she decide to show anything but her behind. Then she flew away.

Thanks Cambrey.

Most of those were shot in 2009 with a Canon S3 IS. A 6.1 MP camera point and shoot. I used sport mode which automatically locked it at 800 iso. I kept the exposure setting on manual because of all the lighting schemes Willie Williams had set up for the shows. After seeing enough 360 shows I was better able to anticipate the changes on the fly.

In 2010 they postponed the US tour since Bono nearly paralyzed himself. No concerts then :o[

2011 they resumed the tour. Picked up a Nikon D80 a few weeks before the 360 tour resumed. Literally learned how to use it the day I was leaving (didn't come with an instruction manual). Used an 18-55mm for the Denver/Salt Lake City shows and the 18-70 mm lens for the East Lansing- Moncton leg. Lowest setting I could shoot at with at the time (lens limitation) was f3.5. I only had a UV filter on these lenses.
Since then I'v picked up a prime DX f1.8 50mm and a Nippon Kogaku f1.4 50mm (AI converted) . I couldn't believe the difference. Literally night and day :o]
And between the auto f1.8 and manual f1.4, huge difference too.
Until I knew better, I assumed a longer lens gave you better conditions for low light. How naive yeah? Lesson learned.
I first used the f1.8 on the April 2012 JAMES west coast/desert tour. Recently used the f1.4 for the Las Vegas 2012 Clawfest show at Hard Rock on the Strip. That place doesn't have very much lighting so the f1.4 upgrade really paid for itself.

the JAMES Vancouver 2012 show is probably the last time I will ever use that trusty Canon S3 IS for concerts.

http://s139.photobucket.com/albums/q309/u2jedi/James%202012/James%202012-04-07%20Vancouver/

Will update after I've organized Flickr.

Boo.

I'm about to buy a macro lens for my camera (probably the Tamron 90mn)... but I just don't know where. All the camera stores I knew in my area closed, one after the other. The closest camera business is an hour and a half away and I don't feel comfortable ordering online.

Anyway, right now I'm having fun with the Out of Bounds technique.

That's unfortunate, 3rd party lenses in particular are best bought in person, so that you can easily exchange them if you get a bad copy. I had good luck with my Tamron lens, but I've heard of other folks with the same model getting a bad copy.

But, even with the OEM option, you can still get good and bad copies.