Recent Professional Works

[JessicaLuchesi]

Hey, I have one question that may come up as incredibly silly, but I don't shoot with MF backs, but since this is a Recent Professional Works that You're proud of, I wonder if us kids with small cameras could post something here every now and then

[Frank Doorhof]

From today.

[cyberean]

Hey, I have one question that may come up as incredibly silly, but I don't shoot with MF backs, but since this is a Recent Professional Works that You're proud of, I wonder if us kids with small cameras could post something here every now and then

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....showtopic=35189

[david o]

Awesome.

Thanks, I appreciate.

[JoeKitchen]

Spent three hours setting up this technical nightmare and it came out pretty good.  My client really liked it.

[rsmphoto]

Spent three hours setting up this technical nightmare and it came out pretty good.  My client really liked it.

Joe, I appreciate the effort that you put into this. A glass curtain wall is always a bit of an exercise to light, and I hope you take this criticism in the constructive way it's intended. I think you may a have overlit this space, just a bit. You might want to consider about how you could light this kind of space to give it a more naturally lit feel.

Best regards,

Richard

[JoeKitchen]

Joe, I appreciate the effort that you put into this. A glass curtain wall is always a bit of an exercise to light, and I hope you take this criticism in the constructive way it's intended. I think you may a have overlit this space, just a bit. You might want to consider about how you could light this kind of space to give it a more naturally lit feel.

Best regards,

Richard

That is something to think about and I do not mind critiques.   I really would have liked to have shot it with light coming into the stairwell but the clouds did not want to cooperate and I was forced to shoot it at that time of day.

[Frank Doorhof]

A little bit influenced by the flu....

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

Spent three hours setting up this technical nightmare and it came out pretty good.  My client really liked it.

mind sharing how you lit this scene?

[rsmphoto]

Nicely illustrated Ashely. My point exactly. Your example feels as if the light illuminating the space comes from the window and no where else - no evidence anywhere of your supplemental lighting (if in fact, you used lighting, which I assume you did). In my opinion, generally, in day lit interiors, one's lighting should not be evident.

Richard

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

I would agree with Richard here... but that's just my personal opinion.
If your client was happy, then that's all that really counts.

A recent example of my attempt, at capturing a similar sort of thing - all be it a much smaller and different type of space...


Cheers,
Ashley

Ashley Morrison
[email protected]
http://www.ashleymorrison.com

Ashley,


You have allot of beautiful pictures in your website, more beautiful than this one. I wonder why you used this one as an example? Is it the reflective surfaces all over the place that make this scene particularly hard to shoot?

One more thing, going though your gallery it seems you used HDR on most of those pictures, is that correct?

[Kirk Gittings]

Ashley,


You have allot of beautiful pictures in your website, more beautiful than this one. I wonder why you used this one as an example? Is it the reflective surfaces all over the place that make this scene particularly hard to shoot?

One more thing, going though your gallery it seems you used HDR on most of those pictures, is that correct?

I actually see little or no HDR in these images. I see them as just very carefully and elegantly lit. So if these are HDR, they are the best I have ever seen.

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

I actually see little or no HDR in these images. I see them as just very carefully and elegantly lit. So if these are HDR, they are the best I have ever seen.

possibly lighting setup plus HDR for best results?

[Josh-H]

Thanks.

 
It was just a recent image which we produced, that I felt illustrated a similar 'technical' problem to Joe's image... but showed what Richard was referring to, when he said: "give it a more naturally lit feel".
In my case, the mirrored wall showed 3 other rooms, all of which needed to be taken into account as well.


For the most of those pictures, I use Bowens.
Kind off old school I know - but I still believe time spent behind the camera, is better spent, than time in front of a computer.
Plus I also feel one can control the look and mood more.

Not saying I don't use PhotoShop, because I do - it just when asked to create this sort of image..

.. when it originally looked like this..

.. I find PhotoShop has it's limitations.

No rights or wrongs - just my personal preference and what my clients seem to like too.

Cheers,
Ashley

Ashley Morrison
[email protected]
http://www.ashleymorrison.com

Yikes - that is one heck of a before and after. How many hours did you spend re-touching that?

[Graham Mitchell]

Yikes - that is one heck of a before and after. How many hours did you spend re-touching that?

I think the point was that shooting it right first time is a lot better than trying to Photoshop a lemon.

[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

Not saying I don't use PhotoShop, because I do - it just when asked to create this sort of image..

Very impressive Ashley, you have manufactured the scene. I particularly like how you focused in on what is important to reinforce the mood you were creating.

Thanks for sharing!

[Wayne Fox]

Yikes - that is one heck of a before and after. How many hours did you spend re-touching that?

Very impressive Ashley, you have manufactured the scene. I particularly like how you focused in on what is important to reinforce the mood you were creating.

Thanks for sharing!

I thought he was saying just the opposite  ... it was easier to shoot it this way than do solve the problem with photoshop.  So I thought they were two different shots.

[Wayne Fox]

I usually review and enjoy the images in this each day, but haven't ever posted anything.  Not a lot of landscapes lately in the thread lately, so I thought I'd throw one in for some variety.  After reading Peter Cox's article then discovering some work I really enjoy by Patrick Smith, I have started experimenting with Grad ND filters.  I have disregarded them for years as an outdated tool ... much to my surprise they are fascinating to use.

Anyway, here's one of my first experiments with them  (PhaseOne/ p65+ with 55-110 lens, f32 for 2 seconds, .06 +.09 hard Grad ND filter.)

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[Abdulrahman Aljabri]

I thought he was saying just the opposite  ... it was easier to shoot it this way than do solve the problem with photoshop.  So I thought they were two different shots.

That's what I thought too. What I meant by manufacturing the scene is the lighting setup.  

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very nice image. the processing in the rocks stands out too much though. Perhaps the rocks need to be slightly darker?

[Wayne Fox]

That's what I thought too. What I meant by manufacturing the scene is the lighting setup.

ah ... I see what you meant.  my bad.

very nice image. the processing in the rocks stands out too much though. Perhaps the rocks need to be slightly darker?

no processing.  This was literally a 10 second conversion.  C1 doesn't have local adjustments, so haven't even pulled this into photoshop to drop the foreground slightly.  As I mentioned just learning to use the Grad filters.  should have tried it with a stop or 2 less.