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

[dysfunction]

Here's one I took of London last year.

That looks computer generated to me....

 

[old.user4556]

Very, very little post-processing has been done on that shot. White balance correction and some sharpening; that's it. Why do you think it's photoshopped?

 

[old.user4556]

I'm referring to the jetty shot btw.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Still water usually makes things look fake, even if it makes for an excellent shot. Add that to the blue lighting of the pilars contrastig to the orange and presto, looks rendered

 

[dysfunction]

I don't know. it doesn't look real to me. It seems too clean and clear. Especially the bridge and the first bridge pillar.

And yes it may also be the water...

Perhaps it's because it is not how it looks with a naked eye....
I think I prefer a photo that comes close to how things look with a naked eye

 

[Aoami]

Bank of China Tower by Bonnett, on Flickr

Someone post process some sunshine here, it's been grey and raining for the last 3 days

done

 

[Ch3tan]

That looks computer generated to me....

It's just a long exposure, so the water is smoothed as it's moving.

 

[Moriath]

when you take these long exposure shots and and all do you wander around london with a tripod or just find somewhere you can rest the camera on.

I think i would feel a bit wierd wandering round with a huge tripod and all looking for places to take pictars hehe

 

[Ch3tan]

when you take these long exposure shots and and all do you wander around london with a tripod or just find somewhere you can rest the camera on.

I think i would feel a bit wierd wandering round with a huge tripod and all looking for places to take pictars hehe

Meh, loads of people doing it along the Thames, especially around southbank.

 

[caLLous]

Some long exposures that don't involve water.

They do love a good fireworks display in France (Carcassonne again) on Bastille Day.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Those castles look fake

 

[TdC]

those fireworks are awesome. they look like flowers, or bright plants

 

[caLLous]

Hey, man, if it's good enough for Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, it's good enough for me.

 

[Fweddy]

...and what about the rest of you

I use a legal copy of Photoshop CS5 courtesy of my work and I use it as little as possible because I spend half of every day using it at said work. I open the RAW, click auto, tweak a couple of sliders if I think it needs it, crop/straighten and then save and upload.

I love those firework shots Callous, especially the first one.

 

[Tom]

I don't know. it doesn't look real to me. It seems too clean and clear. Especially the bridge and the first bridge pillar.

And yes it may also be the water...

Perhaps it's because it is not how it looks with a naked eye....
I think I prefer a photo that comes close to how things look with a naked eye

Its because your brain is telling you that the water may be out of focus and so why isn't the bridge also, when in reality it's just shot using a long exposure.

 

[dysfunction]

Its because your brain is telling you that the water may be out of focus and so why isn't the bridge also, when in reality it's just shot using a long exposure.

My brain tells me the water looks frozen not necessarily out of focus. But it's more than that. The thing is if I hide the water from the picture it still looks "fake" to me.

The first bridge pillar in the picture especially seems weird to me...

 

[caLLous]

Well it really isn't fake in any way. I don't know of the science behind it but the camera has captured light for 2 or so seconds and it builds up on the sensor so its not like when we look at something for 2 or so seconds. You get light where normally if you just looked at something (the bridge pillar for example) it would probably be quite a lot darker "in real life".

I know that's a pretty wanky explanation, someone else can do better.

edit - With my fireworks pics for example; because the exposure was longer (5 seconds for the 1st one), the camera sensor captured light wherever light was in those 5 seconds and added it to the image. Our eyes don't do that, we just see where the light is at any particular point in those 5 seconds.

 

[dysfunction]

I understand how it all works. I think I must just prefer pictures taken without long exposure times and therefore have a more "real life" feel to them. For me anyway.

 

[Moriath]

In my eyes those pictures look hyper real .. not really fake but more than real .. dont get me wrong i really like them just the definition and the colour saturations and all make everything feel more than real because its more than the eye sees as we proces real time not an image every 2 secs ..

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I understand how it all works. I think I must just prefer pictures taken without long exposure times and therefore have a more "real life" feel to them. For me anyway.

That's not quite true. You don't seem to understand how it works because longer exposures, when combined with filters or HDR rendering techniques create a larger dynamic tonal range, similar to one seen with the eye. Without those longer exposures it looks less like it does to the human eye because dark areas are underexposed and/or light areas overexposed.

 

[dysfunction]

That's not quite true. You don't seem to understand how it works because longer exposures, when combined with filters or HDR rendering techniques create a larger dynamic tonal range, similar to one seen with the eye. Without those longer exposures it looks less like it does to the human eye because dark areas are underexposed and/or light areas overexposed.

I do understand all that. What I'm saying is the bridge doesn't look like that when you are standing right there so something else is "messing" with the picture.

This one for example looks a lot more real to me than Big G's photo.

'http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbell/663468603/lightbox'

Maybe it's because it's "sharper" I don't know...


edit: ffs it keeps trying to show the pic as a video!

 

[old.user4556]

It's got burned highlights, not the best exposure.

Callous, loving those firework shots, they're not easy to do! First one is my fave, I'll stick a couple of firework shots up later.

 

[Ch3tan]

Looks like I'll be spending a few days in St Andrews over xmas, so I'll be able to hopefully take lots of photos.

 

[old.user4556]

Lovely place.

 

[eksdee]

From a few years ago on a trip to Pisa, I'm no photographer but I thought this was a decent shot:

 

[Wazzerphuk]

It's good, I like! Could possibly do with levelling out the horizon IMO.

 

[old.user4556]

Yeah that's a good spontaneous urban shot. Wazz is right, needs a rotation, also maybe try black and white?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Stop ignoring requests for links to your other pages, G. Or we'll keep asking!

 

[old.user4556]

Fook yew!

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Gifv Flickr!