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[captive]

New quarter new thread.

Here's the last few posts from Q1.

Went to Kimbros (local music place here in Franklin TN) and took some photos.

My first attempt at street photography whilst walking around York. Spur of the moment and just thought I liked the composition with the dog, and also helped when the dog turned to the camera as I took the photo.

new series I'm gonna start (8Bit Dan) and this is my tribute to infamous

Still trying to get better at PS cuz I usually dont do much other than standard touch ups

I have a thing for clouds.

Old Triumph + Ektar, love that yellow

clouds are your friend, is the saying.

These look very nice.

My wife and I went to San Antonio last weekend. Here are a few shots I took. I tried using just a a 50mm 1.8, it's all I took to the river walk. Any critique would be appreciated.

Not bad with your processing, your colors are very pleasing. I would work on your focal points, or points of interest. In the photos of the woman and the drink its very clear, in some of the others its not,

 

[NathanMcMahon]

 

[StopMakingSense]

edit: one more:

 

[SLV]

Earth Hour

 

[seventynine]

More liquid paintings.

 

[Pepto]

 

[Phoenix4]

My last post kind of got lost in the previous thread as it was posted at the end of March, so sorry for the repost. Pretty happy with how this one turned out during a stroll through the old town in Stockholm.

Gamla Stan, Stockholm on 500px.com

 

[Goodlife]

Took this of my daughter and her grandfather.

May not be the best composed photo, but made me smile

 

[heliconsoul]

The wife wanted a few picture of her birthday gifts, turns out the light coming in through the window did all the work for me.

 

[Tugatrix]

First batch of the pictures i took in Rome this weekend:

 

[RapidCancel]

Just a few from my trip to Japan.











Any critique would be great, I'm just a beginner! I'm especially lost when it comes to post processing though. I really have no idea where to start and I just kind of slide things around. I'm usually not 100% satisfied with how they come out in the end. Can anyone give me any tips or somewhere solid to start?

 

[am_dragon]

I think a graduated ND filter may have helped here, anything else I could have done?

 

[DagsJT]

Just a few from my trip to Japan.











Any critique would be great, I'm just a beginner! I'm especially lost when it comes to post processing though. I really have no idea where to start and I just kind of slide things around. I'm usually not 100% satisfied with how they come out in the end. Can anyone give me any tips or somewhere solid to start?

Really like the colours, and nice composition too.

 

[AnkitT]

 

[theepicoftyler]

I've taken these the last few days. I've yet to start editing any RAW files because I just figured out that I need to convert them from Sony's proprietary format, and I don't have permissions to install a converter on my work computer (where I do most of my photo stuff).







Still learning the ropes. I take a lot of photos and think they're good in the moment, only to hate them when I get back to my computer and have them blown up.

 

[Collete]

I'm an amateur photographer compared to everyone else here.
However, I do enjoy the hobby and I decided to get into it recently.
My recent project is growing Cress on various objects and seeing if it's possible.

There are more photos on my tumblr post if anyone's interested in this:
Tumblr Post

 

[Pepto]

 

[Fëanor]

View from Natchez Trace Bridge

 

[Represent.]

 

[JORMBO]

 

[Toddler]

Darkness consistently one of my favs

Shot stills for a music video last weekend:

 

[Chairhome]

You guys are all amazing! I took a few pics with my kids last week. I liked a few of them. :-D

 

[StopMakingSense]

 

[RefigeKru]

Some recent stuffs.

I really like your stuff, StopMakingSense. Particularly the landscape stuff, really nice mood to them.

 

[Damaged]

I've had an old 1916 Kodak eastman brownie as an ornament for the last fifteen years and finally decided to try a roll of film through it,



Not bad for a 98 year old camera

 

[Tugatrix]

 

[captive]

@stopmakingsense - you have very wonderful tones.


I don't always shoot street photography, but it was definitely fun and interesting in Times Square.

All with D800e and 135mm f2.0

 

[Faith]

Great photos. I love it when pictures are just out of cam. Not a fan of Photoshop and HDRs.

 

[dannethmps]

only shot off a NX1000 so nothing like most of the above, some great images.

 

[theepicoftyler]

I did some long exposure stuff again tonight. I used the NEX's smart remote app, only to find out that it doesn't shoot in RAW with those modes. So I guess I'll have to get an IR remote.

I am rather pleased with how these turned out.





Does anyone have any tips for how to address the way the street lights flared in these pictures?

 

[StopMakingSense]

@stopmakingsense - you have very wonderful tones.


I don't always shoot street photography, but it was definitely fun and interesting in Times Square.

All with D800e and 135mm f2.0

Sigh, one day I will get that lens... (Or the 105... Or both...)

 

[heliconsoul]

I hope y'all like doors.

Taken with my Mamiya M645 1000S and some crappy expired Shanghai GP3, I love that camera. Wish it wasn't so damn heavy.

 

[gsrjedi]

Does anyone have any tips for how to address the way the street lights flared in these pictures?

You need a bigger aperture, the starburst effect happens when you stop down quite a bit and those photos were shot at f/22.

Here's a link I found explaining it a little bit more.

 

[theepicoftyler]

You need a bigger aperture, the starburst effect happens when you stop down quite a bit and those photos were shot at f/22.

Here's a link I found explaining it a little bit more.

Thanks! I was just working on the assumption that less light = better quality for long exposures. So much yet to learn.

 

[SBH]

The quality of pictures in these threads has always intimidated me from posting, as I have just an old crappy pocket camera, but here goes.

Last week I went to the shop, saw the monsters known as swans were back and took this:

 

[Collete]

That first picture is amazing, where did you take that?

 

[Tugatrix]

That first picture is amazing, where did you take that?

In Villa Borghese (Rome) last week when I went visit the city, is big park and I was fortunate enough to catch the cherry tree blossoms

 

[TxdoHawk]

Still learning the ropes. I take a lot of photos and think they're good in the moment, only to hate them when I get back to my computer and have them blown up.

Sometimes this is just an inevitable part of learning photography, but I'd highly recommend you look into the popular photo processing suites and set up something for yourself. RAW manipulation and modern software are almost unreal in their ability to "save" a photo that looked better in your head and/or on the screen.

 

[commedieu]

this is breathtaking. Not trying to be an ass. But.. it made me hold my breath. Nice moment captured.

Everyone's got a real good eye in this thread.

 

[RapidCancel]

Really like the colours, and nice composition too.

Thanks, appreciate it!

More from Japan, might be a bit too much processing, but I've been toying around with Lightroom a bit more trying to mess with things I haven't before.







Again, critique and anything would be appreciated

 

[elfinke]

As usual, some wonderful pics in here. The train tracks above are terrific!

Here's a small selection of pics I've grabbed in the last week or two, in medium res - though they're clickable for other versions:













(the CA appears worse here than it does in LR... ah well!)

 

[jd196]

Shot with a Pentax LX.

Bronx, NY


Bronx, NY


Bronx, NY

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

Hi Gaf,

After a break from photography, I've decided to do a Photoshoot with a girl I knew, something for fun, heres the latest pics, hope you enjoy =)

 

[Aurongel]

Felt like having some fun with still life photography and tried some new processing techniques:

 

[Tugatrix]

Felt like having some fun with still life photography and tried some new processing techniques:

Cute knife what's the brand?

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

Felt like having some fun with still life photography and tried some new processing techniques:

Love those edits, would u share how u did that ?

 

[teh_pwn]

One of these days when I'm older and fatter I'm going to splurge and get the future equivalent of a D800 + Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S. And then travel Europe/Asia/South America, and during Autumn go to the NE or east TN.

 

[Aurongel]

Cute knife what's the brand?

I'm not quite sure, there's no manufacturer markings on it. It was a personalized gift from my girlfriend last Christmas. She's asleep right now so I can't ask her but a quick Google search leads me to this which looks soooorta similar.

Love those edits, would u share how u did that ?

The above is the raw photo straight out of my camera, shot with an 85mm f/1.8:

-> -> -> -> ->

-Selected the entire image and reduced the magenta saturation to 0 (removes the chromatic aberrations along the knife edge).
-Image > Adjustments > Exposure and raised gamma while decreasing gamma correction to get a more contrasty look.
-Smart sharpened the entire image slightly.

-Then I painted on some blue hues to the entire image and used the polygonal lasso to trim the knife out from the blue hue which makes it look sharp against the background.
-The snow effect is actually from a brush collection found HERE.
-I set the dust particle paintbrush to white and dabbed some dust particles all over the image and then gaussian blurred the layer and added some motion blur.
-I then repeated the dust brush trick on different layers each with a different amount of gaussian blur. By doing this, you create the illusion of depth with the snow by having some layers more blurry than others. With some practice, you can get some convincing results.

-The lens flare is the standard 35mm prime lens flare preset under Filter > Render > Lens Flare. I then trimmed the knife out and put it on top of the lens flare so that the flare didn't reduce the contrast of the knife.
-The slight beams of light trickling down are the result of another random dust layer with a zoom blur applied to it (Filter > Blur > Radial Blur). Cranking up the zoom blur gives it that neat ray of light effect. It's a good trick for nature photography.

-And finally, I went to the exposure adjustment menu and raised the Offset while decreasing the Gamma Correction which gives the shadows that milky/misty look.


Usually I don't like to rely on Photoshop to adjust my photos this drastically but shooting some still lives out in the woods lets me try out some stylized processing techniques that I later adapt into my portrait/nature work.

 

[RuGalz]

Got some free time in hand this past month because I'm on furlough to finally snap a few shots at various places. C&C are welcome.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

I'm not quite sure, there's no manufacturer markings on it. It was a personalized gift from my girlfriend last Christmas. She's asleep right now so I can't ask her but a quick Google search leads me to this which looks soooorta similar.



The above is the raw photo straight out of my camera, shot with an 85mm f/1.8:

-> -> -> -> ->

-Selected the entire image and reduced the magenta saturation to 0 (removes the chromatic aberrations along the knife edge).
-Image > Adjustments > Exposure and raised gamma while decreasing gamma correction to get a more contrasty look.
-Smart sharpened the entire image slightly.

-Then I painted on some blue hues to the entire image and used the polygonal lasso to trim the knife out from the blue hue which makes it look sharp against the background.
-The snow effect is actually from a brush collection found HERE.
-I set the dust particle paintbrush to white and dabbed some dust particles all over the image and then gaussian blurred the layer and added some motion blur.
-I then repeated the dust brush trick on different layers each with a different amount of gaussian blur. By doing this, you create the illusion of depth with the snow by having some layers more blurry than others. With some practice, you can get some convincing results.

-The lens flare is the standard 35mm prime lens flare preset under Filter > Render > Lens Flare. I then trimmed the knife out and put it on top of the lens flare so that the flare didn't reduce the contrast of the knife.
-The slight beams of light trickling down are the result of another random dust layer with a zoom blur applied to it (Filter > Blur > Radial Blur). Cranking up the zoom blur gives it that neat ray of light effect. It's a good trick for nature photography.

-And finally, I went to the exposure adjustment menu and raised the Offset while decreasing the Gamma Correction which gives the shadows that milky/misty look.


Usually I don't like to rely on Photoshop to adjust my photos this drastically but shooting some still lives out in the woods lets me try out some stylized processing techniques that I later adapt into my portrait/nature work.

Thank you kindly =)

Your image is quite sharp, do you use some sort of sharpness adjustment ?! You'r using a full-frame sensor ?