Photography The Post Your Photos Not For The Photocomp Thread For Critique Or Just For Fun Thread

[old.user4556]

Cheers. I have a few of the pony. The wave shots - 0.6 to 2 secs exposure smooths the sea but still retains some detail in the wave patterns.

They are all awesome, I've always liked your pastel toned processing.

 

[milou]

Near Tenby, taken with a Nokia 5800.

Ta. That headland looks so similar to Newgale.

 

[milou]

They are all awesome, I've always liked your pastel toned processing.

Cheers. The sea around Lewis/Harris is quite something - blues, greens like I've never seen e.g. a Flickr fave >>

 

[old.user4556]

I don't think most of the public understand how gorgeous the north of Scotland is .

 

[milou]

Indeed. I work one day a week in the stink of central London.

 

[Clown]

The rest of the set is on Flickr.

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[old.user4556]

Good stuff, number 4 has great potential, super lead, could just use some filtration in the sky, or maybe an exposure blend. Good to see some different work mate, keep 'em coming.

 

[Clown]

I don't know how to do HDR without paying for it. I think I should get some ND somethings if I really want to do more stuff like this though!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

HDR is easy.

Use autobracketing or manually just take different exposures. Then download Photomatix and fiddle with settings until it looks ok. You know when shots are pushed too far in HDR so you won't have any problems.

 

[old.user4556]

Don't have to go HDR necessarily, you can take two exposures and then blend them together using a gradient adjustment layer in photoshop.

 

[Clown]

I don't have Photoshop but that sounds like the definition of HDR to me?

 

[old.user4556]

Depends on what you mean really, there's a difference between "dynamic range increase" HDR and tonemapped HDR. When you say "HDR" to someone, they think this ugly shit:

However, nicely blended images for an increase in dynamic range can look more natural:

http://www.johnrobinsonphoto.com/tutorials/basic-exposure-blending/

They're both examples of increased dynamic range, just different techniques (I should have been more explicit in what I meant by HDR above ).

Edit: another tutorial on exposure blending - http://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/PhotoGallery/Tutorial/Exposure Blending.php

 

[Clown]

I'm going to have to get a tripod and blend blend blend

 

[old.user4556]

If you're looking at a tripod, go the whole way and get a carbon fibre tripod. I bought a Manfrotto aluminium tripod which has been absolutely brilliant, but it's heavy and not ideal to long walks / days on the hills. I bought a Manfrotto carbon fibre tripod and now the aluminium one never comes out the cupboard - it's firmly a backup unit. I've yet to see how the carbon fibre stacks up in strong winds given that it has less mass (can always hang the bag from it).

 

[Clown]

And some panoramics.


Porthmadog to Penrhyndeudraeth. by Clwn, on Flickr


Llyn Ogwen. by Clwn, on Flickr


Llyn Ogwen. by Clwn, on Flickr

Can't decide which of the last two I like better so I'm keeping both. If anyone wants a link to the huge panos let me know and I'll post them here

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Prefer the bottom, not too keen on the warping of the road in #2.

 

[Clown]

What do you guys do when the subject is bent one way, and the horizon doesn't match? Photoshop? Delete?


Nissan Taxi. by Clwn, on Flickr

Have a 5000px wide panorama.

Lake Bala. by Clwn, on Flickr

 

[milou]

What do you guys do when the subject is bent one way, and the horizon doesn't match? Photoshop? Delete?

Straighten tool or for more complex issues >> http://a.blip.tv/jhpvideotutorials/...ion-with-the-transform-and-warp-tools-5030564

 

[Clown]

Everything these days is pointing me towards buying Photoshop!

 

[Fast]

Took this a few weeks back of the GF's Niece. HTC Desire.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Would probably be improved a bit more with some white balance correction.

 

[Fast]

Cheers Waz. Not sure how to do that. I did change my camera lense settings to the ones that were listed in this thread.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Actual shot-wise (composition, subject, framing etc) it's good stuff. Changing white balance will be a matter of post production and will depend on what software you use...

 

[Clown]

Slightly underexposed. You might be able to change white balance on the camera itself before you take the shot too

 

[milou]

Might be something to be said for cropping the shot in half so the child appears to be floating on a sea of yellow.

 

[Clown]

Sorry. More car.


Lamborghini Diablo. by Clwn, on Flickr


Lamborghini Diablo. by Clwn, on Flickr


Lamborghini. by Clwn, on Flickr


Ferrari 365. by Clwn, on Flickr


Nissan GTR. by Clwn, on Flickr


Jaguar. by Clwn, on Flickr


Ace Cafe. by Clwn, on Flickr


Ace Cafe. by Clwn, on Flickr


Chevrolet Camaro. by Clwn, on Flickr

 

[old.user4556]

Been thinking about this one for Flickr. I took it on a hillwalk last year just as a 'curtain' of shower pushed in torrential rain.

I've not uploaded it to Flickr yet because I'm not sure about it. I like it, I feel like I captured the moment well with the drama of the rain, the lead in of the path and that little extra of the walker further down the hill giving a sense of scale. Yet, there's something annoying me about it?

 

[Shagrat]

Urgh, its like there's a guy with no face halfway down the path wating for you.....

 

[Clown]

It's not up to your usual standard. The saturation in the bottom and the ground brighter than the sky looks weird to me
That said, I've been using Flickr as a photodump now. I want to find somewhere else to put my best pictures.

 

[Fweddy]

I like the sky but I find the foreground a bit distracting. If it was my image I'd be looking at cropping out the guy and everything below him.