The Photography Thread

[skylineGTR_guy]

Jesus
You're getting insanely good at shooting cars. [/img]

Thanks I'm hoping it will eventually lead to something down the road.

love that AM/PM shot too!

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Excellent shot.

 

[suzq044]

anyway to create a fisheye lens effect in photoshop?

yes; use liquify - but it'd be hard to do the whole pic without literally changing the photo's shape.

 

[exigeracer]

Canon 10-22 My favorite lens for shooting cars.

Nice. It seems to pull the outsides like a fisheye almost. I don't know all too much about lenses (my optics class was several years ago), but don't all lenses do to a certain degree? Your shots look like they do a lot for a normal lens, which is a good thing.

 

[tait]

I believe fisheye's have a different distortion. The distortion from a wide angle is caused by the extremely short distance the light travels from the lens to the sensor. The light gets stretched to fill the frame of the sensor.


Random art piece.

 

[Boz Mon]

/\ I just saw that one on deviant art. Neat photo

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Nice. It seems to pull the outsides like a fisheye almost. I don't know all too much about lenses (my optics class was several years ago), but don't all lenses do to a certain degree? Your shots look like they do a lot for a normal lens, which is a good thing.

All lenses should do it, but the ultrawides have internal elements that correct this distortion, and try to bring the image back into a more normal shape, whereas fisheyes have a huge curvature on the front element that exaggerates the distortion.

A well-used fisheye leads to some really cool shots, but like any "effect" it quickly becomes tiresome when used bluntly.

 

[exigeracer]

All lenses should do it, but the ultrawides have internal elements that correct this distortion, and try to bring the image back into a more normal shape, whereas fisheyes have a huge curvature on the front element that exaggerates the distortion.

So the closer the subject, the harder it is to correct the distortion on a wide lens?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

So the closer the subject, the harder it is to correct the distortion on a wide lens?

Correct. This is why wide angle lenses (say, less than 30mm on full-frame, or 20mm crop) aren't really suitable as portrait lenses: you get strange perspective distortions that are almost always unflattering.

 

[Danny]

I realise this is nowhere near the standard of photos in this thread (kudos to everyone as well) but this makes me happy.

 

[TwinTurboJay]

Just took this one last night in my backyard..snow fall all day and freezing rain made for some beautiful scenery.

 

[Spock]

HDR Attempt

 

[F1GTR]

Is that some TRUE HDR?

It's overdone IMO.

 

[Spock]

Is that some TRUE HDR?

It's overdone IMO.

Tone Mapped HDR.

But I've never really used qtpfsgui before, the highlights are also really blown on the lights.

 

[F1GTR]

I'd recommend Photomatix and 3 bracketed RAW exposures (that's if you only used one, or 3 .jpgs).

 

[Nitrof1]

Tone Mapped HDR.

But I've never really used qtpfsgui before, the highlights are also really blown on the lights.

try this
http://www.nill.cz/index.php?set=tu1

 

[Spock]

I'd recommend Photomatix and 3 bracketed RAW exposures (that's if you only used one, or 3 .jpgs).

No I tend to use 5 exposures or more, (Ev: -2,-1,0,1,2, or -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3, the -3 & 3 are total guesstimates), I also stick to .jpg, RAW is cool and all, but RAW kills my system when I process them for anything, even my 40D's sRaw.

try this
http://www.nill.cz/index.php?set=tu1

I saw that along time ago, but it doesn't look right on any image when i run them through that process (manually, or with the PS action script).

 

[tait]

 

[Spock]

Another Try...

 

[lethalAE86typeR]

Here are all i took today, 2-3-08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/turb0edbaboy/sets/72157603846247102/show/

This is what i did on my super bowl sunday.

 

[Nitrof1]

Another Try...

this is much better:tup:

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

 

[tait]

got some medium format rolls back and scanned;

 

[lethalAE86typeR]

I took a couple of portraits today.

 

[ferrari_chris]

The second HDR attempt looks much better. 👍

 

[bondy_1625]

Just been messing about with the photoshop action and a couple of old photos. I think these came out alright, maybe a little overdone...

Opinions?

 

[lethalAE86typeR]

Some shots I did today, i baked these today in class.

 

[Spock]

Still Needs Some Work.

 

[tait]

bondy i like the composition of the first one, and i really like it in the second one; but ease up on the hdr. you too spock. i don't know if you're into that kind of thing; but they just look like mud to me. everything becomes so mid-gray and unnatural.

 

[Spock]

bondy i like the composition of the first one, and i really like it in the second one; but ease up on the hdr. you too spock. i don't know if you're into that kind of thing; but they just look like mud to me. everything becomes so mid-gray and unnatural.

I Know, I Like The Effect. For 99% Of My Photo's I Shoot Several Different Exposures Anyways. The Unnatural Look Is Exactly What I'm Looking For.