Aspies For Freedom

Those are really beautiful.  I like them all.  I think the 2nd & 3rd are my favorite.  The 2nd one could hang in an office and the 3rd is really luscious looking and commercial quality.  Great job!

Awesome

i like them, you have talent

Nice macro work.  Did you do any post production work on them (colour correction etc), or are they as taken?  I really do like the colour/light balance the the attention to detail and form.

You totally earned them.  Wow!  :-)

I love how you focus on the intricate details of everyday objects that would normally go unnoticed.

Those two clouds make a great couple.  It looks like they're frolicking through the sky.

frolic - to play in a frisky manner; romp; to engage in merrymaking

Glad you like my avi.  It is a refracted image of the Sun on a CD.  You'd never see it like that with the naked eye, though.  It has to be overexposed in a camera.

Have you seen the flowers and colorful CD pics here ?
http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthread.php?tid=9908

Those pictures are really sensational and I like the different angles of vision on them too.

Wow, the bit where they intersect looks like an upside-down love heart.

Wow - I love to look at pictures of nature - taken through someones eyes. Beautiful photos!

Yes...great some photos CSI-Fan3 and WhitbyWoof.
VERY impressive

The key is to take lots of pictures with different distances, angles, exposure times, and various other camera settings.  Then you can select the best photos later on the computer (assuming your camera is digital).  On average I only keep about 1/3 of my total pictures.  I keep most of my shots of still objects because they are easy to predict, so I don't take many pictures of them.  When I look at more unpredictable subjects like people, animals, and moving objects, I take lots of pictures, and consequently, I delete most of them while keeping the best two or three.  

Maintaining good focus is an important point to mention.  My digital camera has the feature where if the shutter button is pressed slightly, it will autofocus.  It takes the picture when pressed completely.  It really helps to focus first, then take the shot once it is in focus.

If your shots are blurry from motion, rather than lack of focus, you will need a tripod.  But even that is sometimes troublesome because pressing the shutter button still jiggles the camera a little bit.  For my camera, I had to build a special adapter to attach a flexible shutter cable.  With that, the camera is very still during the entire exposure.

I also find it helpful to use the flash only when absolutely necessary.  The photos look more natural when the subjects are illuminated by ambient light, just as our eyes see them.  If we all walked around with little flood lights right next to our eyes, then the flash would be great because that's how we would perceive the world every day.

But, of course, the most important thing is to practice.  When I first got my camera, I read most of the manual, then took pictures of just about everything in my daily life.  It's a great way learn photography.

There will be unexpected surprises, even if you think the picture will come out bad.  I accidentally overexposed this picture of my parents' dog, but I really like how it turned out.  It's very surreal.

There is a rather good contempory stock photography collection that is up and coming called 'Photoshelter', (google it) and as long as you can abide by the techi rules - have a good camera, and have an eye for the content they are look for (something different....like us?  ) thn you should have a go at submitting.

I got accepted a couple of days ago!  *yes - and whirled around the room several times!*  lol.

A.