Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: feppe on November 15, 2008, 04:51:55 am
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Is this yet another recent works -type of thread? Almost. Please follow these three simple rules:
- Every post should have an "obligatory" photo - you can comment on other's work, but please post a photo of your own!
- One photo per post
- Please be civil in your comments
Below my obphoto. Taken in August on my trip to China, it is the new National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing - better known as The Egg. The shot is a vertical 3-shot stitched panorama, each shot bracketed 5 times to take full control of the tough highlights, and to get rid of noise in deep evening shadows - combined in Tufuse and Autopano Pro.
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I'll play. Somewhere in the back prairie of Richardson Nature Center.
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I'll join in.
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South Shore of Lake Tahoe California side.
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Sean McCormack has a short video over on Lightroomnews.com on making a triptych in Lightroom using one image. Thought I'd try it with this image, shot about 15 years ago in southern Nebraska.
Mike.
Really like the first image in this thread, BTW...
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Click the image to see 800 pixels tall version:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/november2008/small/_3A24814%20copy.jpg) (http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/november2008/large/_3A24814%20copy.jpg)
I took this one two days ago.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/brendanwiebe/IMG_1214.jpg)
Three Fly Agaric Mushrooms. BC, Canada. Canon G9, ISO 80, f/3.5, processed in LR 2.1.
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An image from last year that I found the time to process recently.
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October in Ohio....
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I really like the opening photo of the thread.
This one's from Stavern lighthouse, summer of 2007. The lighthouse is fully automated, and until the summer of 2007, it was rentable by employees of The Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
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I really like the opening photo of the thread.
I also like it, it's verges on the abstract and shows great vision on Harri's part.
Now I have to add another image, so here goes:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/november2008/small/_1A61207%20web.jpg) (http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/november2008/huge/_1A61207%20web.jpg)
See the 1024 pixel wide version by clicking the image.
This is an IR image taken from Sand Hill Rd. near the Stanford Linear Accelerator.
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My contribution is an image I recently stumbled across while going through my files. I didn't think I had come away with a good shot from Myer's Creek/Gold Bluffs Beach in Oregon when I was there in June. The shot for which I was trying the hardest certainly did NOT work out (my GND filter was scratched and it proved impossible to shoot into the sun without dozens of bits of flare -- and I don't know how to exposure blend effectively). I had slept in my car over night and set my alarm for sunrise. I arose to dense fog and took an obligatory, and casual, shot or two. It was one of these that I stumbled across recently and decided to work on. This is a bit of a draft in progress, but what the heck I'll share.
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Tony, I love your second (IR) image. Great sky and lovely composition with the tree and branches twisting into the sky.
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My contribution is an image I recently stumbled across while going through my files. I didn't think I had come away with a good shot from Myer's Creek/Gold Bluffs Beach in Oregon when I was there in June. The shot for which I was trying the hardest certainly did NOT work out (my GND filter was scratched and it proved impossible to shoot into the sun without dozens of bits of flare -- and I don't know how to exposure blend effectively). I had slept in my car over night and set my alarm for sunrise. I arose to dense fog and took an obligatory, and casual, shot or two. It was one of these that I stumbled across recently and decided to work on. This is a bit of a draft in progress, but what the heck I'll share.
It's well worth sharing!
I generally like the composition, but I think it would look better if you got more of the foreground; the water mirror is a bit too close to the lower frame for my taste.
It might also work if you cropped off a bit of the left, creating more symmetry between the rock on the left and the hill on the right.
The contrasts are lovely, but it looks like you've over-cooked your local contrast adjustments, see the halo around the prominent rock on the left.
My next image is from the subway in Rome, taken on my InterRail trip this autumn. I'd decided to catch some typical graffiti from each city I visited, but sometimes I got something else than I was looking for.
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I'm a bit uncertain whether I should add more fill light (yes, I've tried), I'll try it in print first.
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My contribution is an image I recently stumbled across while going through my files. I didn't think I had come away with a good shot from Myer's Creek/Gold Bluffs Beach in Oregon when I was there in June. The shot for which I was trying the hardest certainly did NOT work out (my GND filter was scratched and it proved impossible to shoot into the sun without dozens of bits of flare -- and I don't know how to exposure blend effectively). I had slept in my car over night and set my alarm for sunrise. I arose to dense fog and took an obligatory, and casual, shot or two. It was one of these that I stumbled across recently and decided to work on. This is a bit of a draft in progress, but what the heck I'll share.
Thank you Ian for your kind comment, I like that image quite a lot too.
What I like most about your image is the way you chose to crop it. The extra wide framing adds to a sweeping quality and makes the foreground more effective. The lighting was unfortunate, and speaks volumes to why catching all a scene has to offer requires either lots of opportunities, good luck, or both.
I rather like the square crop I chose for this shot:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/november2008/websize/_3A24867%20copy.jpg)
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I generally like the composition, but I think it would look better if you got more of the foreground; the water mirror is a bit too close to the lower frame for my taste.
I agree... if possible, a little more beach to add weight to the bottom of the image would be good. A fine effort, though. I really like the near symmetry and thus slight asymmetry of the image just above, too.
Finally, I've noticed that since people actually have to share their work in each post, this thread (so far) is much quieter!
Let's see now...
Something I came across in an alleyway the other day. When I saw it I thought, "Cinderellas' Slipper?"
Mike.
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Driving down Mauna Kea
Marc
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The clouds look very surreal in that shot, almost as if they were takenfrom above in a plane.
Been using my Ricoh GX200 for street stuff of late. Grown to reallly like the camera, bar the useless high ISO, heck even 200 is pushing it. So to speak!
I love having a 24mm wide lens on the zoom.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/3043622081_f170d6f889.jpg)
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I love having a 24mm wide lens on the zoom.
You must mean 24mm @ 135 format equivalent since that camera's actual focal lengths are: 5.1mm to 15.3mm. I don't want to be a pedant, but 24mm is 24mm regardless of the format it is used on; although I agree that the wider field of view is useful. BTW, I really like the use of the foreground in your shot; although I would have crouched lower to narrow the distance the road places between the explicit message and the implicit subject.
Speaking of focal lengths, this image was taken with a 50mm lens on DX format:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/december2007/websize/_AB01704_2.jpg)
It seems a little bright on my monitor, but the print on my bedroom wall feels just right.
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Thank you all very much for your constructive critiques.
I, unfortunately, have no more beach along the bottom to offer to you (the beach ran out there anyways and became grassy). I agree 100% with the haloing and I also find the vignette just a touch heavy and the detail in the rock faces a bit too suppressed (I said it was a work in progress).
I have posted a newer and much improved version in my portfolio on photo.net here: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8258145&size=lg (http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8258145&size=lg) .
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jjj, I like your shot very much. The texture of the pavement comes out beautifully and the vignette adds a lot here (IMO). You toning is very compelling -- is it a blue/magenta split-tone? Lovely regardless. I have the GX100 and love the wideangle ability too. But, I can never seem to get in the habit of carrying a camera all the time and do not use it nearly enough.
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Since I now must post another shot, I will give you guys the best of the night before. It is a bit pedestrian, but pretty nonetheless.
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Something I came across in an alleyway the other day. When I saw it I thought, "Cinderellas' Slipper?"
Mike.
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Lovely photo Mike. This one and Tony Beach's remind me how much I love black and white. One day there will be time to do some......
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I was passing through Letchworth park in New York on my way to see a brother in MA. I had stopped to shoot the Genessee river and falls. When I headed back to the car I found that a Packard and classic car outing had stopped to park!
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October in Ohio....
Looks a lot like October in West Virginia. I took this one in '04, and it was my first try at HDR. If I remember correctly, I did two raw conversions from the same original, then mushed them together in an early beta of Photomatix. It's dark, to recall the mood of that particular sunrise. The shot was not intended to stand on its own, but to provide background for a cell phone screen.
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I was passing through Letchworth park in New York on my way to see a brother in MA. I had stopped to shoot the Genessee river and falls. When I headed back to the car I found that a Packard and classic car outing had stopped to park!
Nice car!
This one's not as fancy...
Mike.
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This is a photograph that has languished as a RAW file in my Lightroom structure for almost a year - mostly because I just wasnt sure how I wanted to process it.
I finally did process it last night - Titled 'The Hook'
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You must mean 24mm @ 135 format equivalent since that camera's actual focal lengths are: 5.1mm to 15.3mm. I don't want to be a pedant, but 24mm is 24mm regardless of the format it is used on; although I agree that the wider field of view is useful. BTW, I really like the use of the foreground in your shot; although I would have crouched lower to narrow the distance the road places between the explicit message and the implicit subject.
I know it's not the actual focal length, but unless one knows the sensor size, it's a bit meaningless stating the actual measurement, so using the 35mm convention that everyone understands and without translation is easier.
jjj, I like your shot very much. The texture of the pavement comes out beautifully and the vignette adds a lot here (IMO). You toning is very compelling -- is it a blue/magenta split-tone? Lovely regardless. I have the GX100 and love the wideangle ability too. But, I can never seem to get in the habit of carrying a camera all the time and do not use it nearly enough.
Don't remember toning off hand, sorry.
I feel naked without a camera, always have. It makes even going to supermarket to buy food more interesting. I've even been ejected for taking photos in Tescos, by an overzealous security guard who was spoiling for a punch up. And even came out with the deeply ironic line," I didn't fight for my country, just so the likes of you can...blah, blah"
My evil crime - taking this image
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/3055098780_e6637430ed_o.jpg)
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I know it's not the actual focal length, but unless one knows the sensor size, it's a bit meaningless stating the actual measurement, so using the 35mm convention that everyone understands and without translation is easier.
No more meaningless then trying to compare a 5.1mm lens with its optical characteristics to a 24mm lens with its optical characteristics. I might well wonder why I can't get any subject isolation with a 24mm "equivalent" focal length at any aperture whereas I can get some with an actual 24mm focal length.
"I didn't fight for my country, just so the likes of you can...blah, blah"
I've seen lots of images of carnage in Iraq taken by US soldiers, so it is indeed ironic for him to make that argument. OTOH, it is private property, so the owner and their representatives get to make the rules. BTW, that's a funny shot -- you see clowns (like the security guard) all the time, but not someone dressed as one while shopping.
Here's one taken with my 45/2.8 PC-E and D300:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/september2008/websize/_3A22368%20web.jpg)
Sadly, it's in the shop being worked on as it has a bad environmental seal and resulting dust behind the rear LCD monitor. The lens I used for this image is also at Nikon, I'm having its tilt and shift functions aligned to the same axis.
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I feel naked without a camera, always have. It makes even going to supermarket to buy food more interesting.
It's interesting that the woman beside the clown here seems completely oblivious to his presence. Maybe she was worried she was about to be on a 'Candid Camera' episode.
Here's one from today. Taken quickly with a digicam, but the clouds were incredible.
Mike.
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No more meaningless then trying to compare a 5.1mm lens with its optical characteristics to a 24mm lens with its optical characteristics. I might well wonder why I can't get any subject isolation with a 24mm "equivalent" focal length at any aperture whereas I can get some with an actual 24mm focal length.
I was referring to angle of view, so completely meaningful. DoF is an other thing altogether and also aperture dependent.
Another supermarket shot, oddly enough Tescos again - where I don't normally shop.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3291/3054229049_a54ea23d9e_o.jpg)
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I was referring to angle of view, so completely meaningful. DoF is an other thing altogether and also aperture dependent.
I don't get why angle of view isn't simply measured in degrees (preferably on the long axis). It's as if someone told you how fast they were going based on their engine's rpms. As far as I'm concerned, when referring to 24mm we are really referring to all the optical characteristics of that focal length, which includes the distance required to attain a degree of magnification (which are the other two parts of DOF along with aperture); only angle of view is format dependent.
(http://photos.imageevent.com/tonybeach/mypicturesfolder/september2008/websize/_3A22640%20web.jpg)
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I don't get why angle of view isn't simply measured in degrees (preferably on the long axis). It's as if someone told you how fast they were going based on their engine's rpms. As far as I'm concerned, when referring to 24mm we are really referring to all the optical characteristics of that focal length, which includes the distance required to attain a degree of magnification (which are the other two parts of DOF along with aperture); only angle of view is format dependent.
Angle of view isn't good enough, either, because it varies with focus.
In case someone doesn't realize how noticeable this effect can be, please see the animated GIF attached at the bottom of this post.
Here's a more industrial shot from September 2007:
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Animation subject: the image above, on my screen, brightened for effect, with focus changing from too short to too long.
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro.
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Quack......
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