lol
Isn't the kit lens nice ?
@Alias : I love what you did with the potato on photo 390. That one made me laugh.

It is indeed. All of my lenses but one are fixed focal. The quality for the kit lens looks great, does it have a plastic mount or metal? I need to go look at them myself . . . =)
Here is a possible steampunk shot. It's actually a scan of a 4 x 5 negative followed by inverting. In the early 90's (late 80's ??) locomotive # 1218 made one last trip before going to the museum so . . .took some shots. My goal was to get a full gray-scale in this exposure of the drive wheels (dia = 70 in ). The image doesn't show the scale of the train so . . . here is a video for scale. Not my video by the way. I didn't even know I was into steampunk back then . . . =)
Edit: ol' 1218 even has a Wiki page it seems, who would have thought?
Some of those are awesome, the water, fog, skyline etc. Proving once again that great shots have nothing to do with expensive equipment . . . =)

Plastic, and the lens is pretty light.
N&W 1218 is an awesome subject. There is a similar locomotive not too far from where I live. They keep it in a shed that they open for a week in august during an annual fair. Since the engine stays in that small shed, I won't be able to shoot the whole thing, so I will have to focus on details.

Just for fun.

LOL . . . excellent ! . . . =)
I can't help but think of M.C. Escher's work and wanted to zoom in to see if the artist was captured in the eye orbs.
Edit: Hand-held makes it more impressive, I really need a D90 . . . =)

Ha! Very creative!

I don't have many subjects around me suitable for that kind of post treatment, but here is my 1st (decent) HDR picture.
Sorry about the "photomatix" that show up across the picture, but I only have the trial for now.

Nice shot, it looks like the process enhances the exposure and clarity for the image especially the shadow areas. I'm not fully aware of the benefits of the HDR process, can you post a "normal" image of the shot for comparison? What does the HDR software cost?

Here are the 3 different exposures required for my HDR version. Photomatix (which is, according to most people, currently the best software out there) costs $100.
I know that you can get even greater results using Lightroom. I need to check out and see if there is a trial version.
I'm still learning how to properly use the bracketing though.

IMPRESSIVE RESULTS . . . =)
Thanks for the images . . . NOW I see why I should learn more about HDR.

This thread doesn't deserve to die... damn it !

Wow, that's moody and atmospheric, awesome

Thank you. I love to take pictures right after a good storm. Heh.

Go Mater !!