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Flicking through some old holiday shots from a while back and found these:

Alaska, Inside Passage:

Ingleton Falls, Yorkshire, UK.

 

[Gaaraz]

So many amazing photos/photographers in this thread! Going to check in more often for inspiration

I’m loving Lightroom CC’s interface but as a very light user can’t justify paying £120 a year for it - can anyone please recommend something similar (ie. super simple) on Windows 10? Thank you

 

[Gaaraz]

I’m loving Lightroom CC’s interface but as a very light user can’t justify paying £120 a year for it - can anyone please recommend something similar (ie. super simple) on Windows 10? Thank you

Bump - any suggestions please?

 

[iExplicit]

Artist Promo for Vices to Veils.

Senior portrait for my friends girlfriend.

Bring Me The Horizon in Chicago.

 

[PulseONE]

I don't have a great camera or anything, so my stuff might look a bit shit compared to some of the professional level stuff in here but...well I'll post some anyway as an amateur (yes I know they're JPGs, I can see the compression, sadly lost the originals of most of these)

All shots taken in various places in Trinidad and Tobago

 

[TFGB]

Bump - any suggestions please?

Hi Gaaraz.

You should check out Affinity Photo.

It has quite a few useful features and there is a free trial you can dowload to see if it works for you? There is also a highly regarded tablet version too which, I believe, offers all the features of the desktop version.

I'm not sure if you know of the Nik Collection that was purchased by Google a while back and is now offered for free? I've been using the plugins/modules for years and still use them all the time. It's a shame Google purchased the software rights as they've now been abandoned which was inevitable. However, they are extremely effective in their own right if you don't need to make separate layer adjustments a la Photoshop?

EDIT: Actually it appears as though DXO have purchased the rights to The Nik Collection, so download them for free while you still can!!

https://nikcollection.dxo.com/

 

[iExplicit]

Will there be a 2018 thread soon or is there already one and I just haven't seen it?

 

[Gaaraz]

Thanks so much for this! Will give Affinity Photo a look now Sorry for the late reply, completely forgot about this until I've just found around 10k unsorted photos on my hard drive. I'm actually growing increasingly tempted to just throw everything into Google Photos

 

[Corderlain]

I'm going to Iceland next week and will be sure to grab some pics for everyone! All I've got is a pixel 2 and I've never done any sort of photography. Any suggestions on light, contrast, framing?

 

[rykomatsu]

I'm going to Iceland next week and will be sure to grab some pics for everyone! All I've got is a pixel 2 and I've never done any sort of photography. Any suggestions on light, contrast, framing?

Some basic composition is where I would start:

Rule of thirds, breaking the photo into a 3x3 tile and composing elements along the lines...usually horizon elements would be aligned against the horizontal lines that divide the scene into 3 rows and a subject of interest along the vertical lines that divide the scene into 3 columns.

Symmetry - sometimes having the left and right side of the photo by virtue is beautiful

"Guide"(?) lines - drawing the viewer along a path or using the path to lead to a subject can be interesting

Framing using natural objects - for example trees next to a lake provide a perfect frame for the lake.

There are no hard and fast rules, though - use those as guidance but don't feel afraid to play around.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

Just came back from a trip to Switzerland, and took a few pictures of the crazy beautifull mountains.

 

[TFGB]

Nice to see this thread resurrected. A few pics taken with iPhone 7:

Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey)

Wilmington, East Sussex

 

[Fuser]

Did a 1600 round trip last week across England and Scotland. Weather was rubbish for most of it so seemed to spend most of the time stood in the rain covering the camera. In the brief dry spells was able to get a few shots though. Scotland never fails to amaze me, I love it. First time to the Lake District and that wasn't too bad, either

Glencoe, Scotland














Lake District

 

[TFGB]

Lovely Fuser. The Lake District and Scotland in one trip? Jammy git! Both fantastic locations.

 

[Fuser]

Lovely Fuser. The Lake District and Scotland in one trip? Jammy git! Both fantastic locations.

Thanks. Yeah it was something alright. I live in the south of Devon so it's quite a way to go but so worth it!

Before I got home I had already booked a trip in 2019 up to Skye, which remains my favourite place for photography.

 

[Chittagong]

Nice to see this thread resurrected. A few pics taken with iPhone 7:

Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey)

Wilmington, East Sussex

iPhone 7 shots? What kind of wizardry is this? Would love to hear what apps you used for processing the images and what you didto them

Amazing shots Fuser, just gorgeous light and compositions

 

[Domisto]

Those are some intimidating shots everyone, don't mind me

Some holiday snaps from Japan this year. Taken on a basic point and shoot, unaltered.

 

[TFGB]

iPhone 7 shots? What kind of wizardry is this? Would love to hear what apps you used for processing the images and what you didto them

They were 2 exposures (one for the sky and one for the foreground or subject) layered in Photoshop. I would’ve used Photoshop’s Camera Raw Filter for overall adjustment of shadows and highlights, then Nik’s Viveza and Color Efex Pro for selective adjustments.

I think I mentioned the Nik Collection plugins earlier in the thread when they were free, but Google sold them to DxO who are now charging for them. Extremely useful tools and you might still be able to find the link to a (legal) free download online somewhere.

 

[Fuser]

Yep, Nix is a pretty good set of tools. I find you have to only make minor adjustments with them though otherwise they let ok over processed.

Your iPhone shots look great, never would have known they are mobile shots!

 

[TFGB]

Cheers Fuser! A couple from my recent stay at Ballyfin Demesne, Republic of Ireland.

Nikon D850, 16-35VR, Lee Big Stopper.

D850, 16-35 VR.

 

[Gaaraz]

Those are some intimidating shots everyone, don't mind me

Some holiday snaps from Japan this year. Taken on a basic point and shoot, unaltered.

I know this is super late, but please can you define basic point and shoot? I have a FZ330 which I think is a basic point and shoot, but these photos look way better than anything I could take (and I don’t think it’s just the composition)

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I saved one of those images and looked at the metadata and it appears to have been taken with a Sony RX100 series camera. I have the RX100 V, but the whole line (as well as the RX10 series) employs a very nice 1" sensor, which is much larger than most compact point and shoot cameras and can take very good images as long as light is decent (and the ISO is kept under 1600 or so). There are a lot of great 1" sensor cameras from Sony and Panasonic that have excellent image quality while retaining a very compact size.

 

[Domisto]

I know this is super late, but please can you define basic point and shoot? I have a FZ330 which I think is a basic point and shoot, but these photos look way better than anything I could take (and I don’t think it’s just the composition)

@Zefah nailed it. It's an RX-100 (first model). It was already 5 years old when I bought it but that meant it was an affordable compact with a better sensor than most similar sized cameras at that price. The only other secret is good natural light. Although it performs nicely as an all rounder.

I remember being annoyed at the limited choice when I got it. The compact market has been chewed out by mobiles.

 

[Gaaraz]

Thanks so much guys, have to say with hindsight I’m pretty gutted about my choice of camera as an older RX100 is a similar price to my camera... not that I’d be taking photos anywhere near that good anyway So impressed with the quality in this thread.

I should take the time to learn the settings rather than shoot everything on auto too.

 

[Liquid_015]

Shot on: Canon 5D Mk 4.