For Members who haven't posted - what is your perfect photo?

[Glen]

Hi all,

Many members here have looked at our membership and noticed many haven't posted. I would guess that is because they feel they don't have something to contribute. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just to make it easy to have a post, I am going to start a topic for all those who haven't posted. Those who have posted are free to contribute as well, of course.

WHAT WOULD BE THE PERFECT PHOTO YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE? For some this may be the statue of Jesus in Rio, for others this may be Carmen Electra naked. For me it would be a photo journalist shot because I don't usually get to take anything like that. Especially as I don't walk around with camera and 70-200. In fact what I would really like is a PJ shot which won the latest challenge, "Decisive Moment". The closest I came was when there was a hostage situation at my local bank, but my shots weren't what I wanted and I was distracted by my emotions as I knew the people inside as it was my bank. What is your perfect photo? Two or three words or ramble on like I do.

[MHD]

Kea in flight against the backdrop of one of the big New Zealand glaciers (like the Tasman or Hooker)

[Dargan]

Great idea and post.

My perfect shot .... The moment of truth

In the remote chance that I could ever win a Challenge, I would throw that into the ring.

[Geoff]

Great question there Glen!

I love to capture the laughter and innocence of kids playing, for which my niece and nephew are always having photos taken of them by me..I'm yet to find one I *really* love .

[johnd]

I'm new to this photography game so some of the things that will be my perfect shot will have been done heaps of times already. But for me, it is to find a really nice looking tree and get a series of shots of it thru the seasons, all taken from the same place. More of a sequence of perfect shots. Anyway, I'm planning to start this weekend.

Cheers
John

[jdear]

* a star exploding
* the shaft of light that is apprently visible when the egg is fertilized by the sperm
* heaven
* new zealand / alaska / antartica
* some celebrity doing something stupid the media would pay big $$ for
* anything in space - cos id have to be there too!

hmmm thats it for now

JD

[jdear]

oops i have posted an image before...

oops does it have to be reality?

JD

[Onyx]

The initial moment of meeting the woman of my dreams.

(who may or may not be featured as my avatar)

[Link]

Hum... I'd love to take a photo of the earth from the sky My computer screensaver is a satellite photo of the world at night (with bright dots showing light and electricity distributed accross the globe) and it's one of those pic I never got bored of!

Link.

[Pauld]

I would love to capture one of those shots where a lightning bolt has been frozen against a dark night sky with may be the glow of the bolt lighting up the thunder clouds behind it.

I guess it is a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

[Yedrup]

The truly honest and open look of bliss on a childs face when happy. It is a look I have seen only a few times in photographs and they have stayed in my memory since.

Great question.

Cheers,
Terry

[Killakoala]

I think it is one of those photos that you never knew existed until you develop it in the dark room and say, 'WOW'.

(Insert PSCS where applicable)

[ozimax]

The emotion on Nathan Buckley's face as he kicks a 65 metre goal after the siren to win the 2005 AFL flag, taken with a nice 600mm Nikkor lens on a sunny afternoon at the "G".....

or

A perfect "10" ride on a 10 metre wave at Bell's Beach on a sunny afternoon with me safety ensconced on a jet ski with a waterproofed D70....

or

Mt Cook from Zurbriggen's Ridge just after sunset and snow on a perfect winter's day in NZ...

or

[resnikov]

the perfect photo for me would be a picture of my daughter (due 7th Sept and we think its a girl) and wife when hey first mee when they put the baby on the mothers chest.

[Byron]

I’m running with the photojournalist shot too as this is the style of photography I admire most and typically exhibitions I attend. Only time I get the chance to participate myself is on holiday adventures, caarrnnn next holiday. I travelled to Cuba a few years back, photographers treat, cars, dilapidated buildings, people, Cohiba cigars, kids spying a camera & think they are movie stars.

[Bandit]

For mine, a shot of a school of hammerheads swimming above a diver in the Galapagos Islands. Sun filtering in through the background as well is a must

[chris1968]

liked the idea of this thread, and some of your ideas are truly inspired, yet i could not put my finger on what my perfect shot is, then it occured to me.

Given i'm my own worst critic the perfect shot has to be one that i have taken and am happy to get printed up and framed on the wall - there arent many that get that kind of treatment!

that said i've browsing the nikon brochure, no-where can i eee an adapter to fit the D70 to the business end of the Hubble Telescope

[radar]

An amazing shot would be a sea eagle pulling a fish out of the ocean. We see them often gliding along the cliff here, sometimes in pairs chatting to each other.

I'll start by getting a picture of them in flight when the next southerly blows.

Cheers,

André

[gstark]

that said i've browsing the nikon brochure, no-where can i eee an adapter to fit the D70 to the business end of the Hubble Telescope

Chris,

Just grab a Nikkor 80-400VR and you can take shots, handheld, of the full moon, just like this one.

[chris1968]

just one word Gary - stunning!

handheld..! appreciate the VR helps ward off the shakes but do you not even have a heartbeat?

that is the kind os shot i'd be pleased to hang on the wall - just cant decide if i'd go for a square crop around the moon itself or leave it as is - in 'space' - no pun intended...

fraid the much praised VR is more out of reach for me than the moon - next purchase for me, dare i say it here, will be a sigma 70-200 2.8 with teleconverter, thought theres always the lottery......

[NeoN]

As Glen pose the question a couple of months ago,for all of us who haven't posted a photo before,and since i just converted some of my old slides to a cd .I thought some of them are worth looking at .
All criticisims are welcomed.
NeoN.[/b]

[wendellt]

Parisian sumertime, twilight hours at the Hôtel de Crillon, any kind of female portraiture shot in the background a view overlooking Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées

otherwise photojournalism shot showing the human condition in any afflicted country, national Georaphic Style. I love a shot that tells a story
e.g the work of Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson

[kinetic]

Hey - awesome moon shot
I think the most awesome shot ever would be being out in space somewhere and taking a shot of our planet!

Alternatively - I'd love to photograph Meerkats! They have personality to burn. I read a National Geographic article a year or two ago, and the photographer who did the shoot said that the Meerkats got so used to them that they'd go up and sit on the photographer!

[Glen]

Well it seems my hopes are more modest than most here. These ideas have really got me thinking.

Kinetic, look like Willy Wombat can point you in the right direction http://www.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t=7426&highlight=

[hARDWARE]

I'd love to get some great sports action/emotion shots.

Preferably an All Black scoring the World Cup winning try.

Please God let it happen in my lifetime!

[gstark]

I'd love to get some great sports action/emotion shots.

Preferably an All Black scoring the World Cup winning try.

Please God let it happen in my lifetime!

ROTFLMAO!

[Raskill]

I'd love to get some great sports action/emotion shots.

Preferably an All Black scoring the World Cup winning try.

Please God let it happen in my lifetime!

You might need a couple of life times, but no where near as many as I will to see a Scot score the same try....

[Glen]

Raskill, you better be 5 yrs old

[Manta]

Perfect shot? A portrait of Osama Bin Laden in a very secure studio with a phone nearby so I can dobb him in and advise where to deliver my reward money.

Seriously?

Mist rolling off a loch near Glencoe

The look on the mouse's face just as he springs the trap (sorry animal lovers)

A space shuttle launch

The clasped hands as a potential suicide reaches for his rescuer

The garage attendant as he puts "50c per litre" on his price board!

[dooda]

Picture of me, jumping off of white cliff, halfway in the water, halfway out, with a flock of seagulls cheering me on from the cliff wall.

[Jonesy]

I am either a action/sports moment just like johndec's current POTW, or theres plenty of Motorsport ones...

Or its a people shot. but a kind of candid photo... fun, laughter and the subjects seeming like the camera isn't even there. Just very natural moments

If that makes sense

Cheers