The Photography Thread
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gotta love those sun behind the cloud shots, you get some really awesome shots especially if you get that rainbow effect too. Only down side is when your at 200mm framing your shot and the sun decides to peek out lol
Danoff
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That's closer. I was thinking cold. Like maybe take the "before" shot and squash out all of the yellow and red. You might leave the contrast as-is too to give it a gloomy look.
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ok so, being the noob that I am, I never really ever bothered to use the curves tool in photoshop, or the mask, or even the patch tool, all I've pretty much ever used is brushes, burn tool, clone stamp, and hue/saturation/contrast filters etc.
needless to say I'm an idiotas curves are one of the coolest tools around
found a tutorial online explaining it and decided to give it a try with the image they provided and I like the result. It kinda makes me wonder what other things I'm neglecting... the pen tool has to be one of them...
I think the image is a bit too 'chaotic' in the first place. Curves does own me and my family. It's great for contrast, recovering dark areas, and creating Integra Type R like color tones using the channels. I did this using curves for colors;
I can't think if you're missing anything else, all I really use are curves, Auto Color and Auto Levels (so what), and dodge & burn.
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I've used levels before just not curves.
Is the pen tool that much better than the polygonal lasso tool?
Is the pen tool that much better than the polygonal lasso tool?
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Yes. It's much more precise. Here are some tutorials:
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorial/pen/1/
http://www.photoworkshop.com/adobe/softwarecinema/Eddie_Tapp/index5.html (very useful one, that's the one I used to learn from).
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- cod_father_204
Mental note to not bother with Ilford film anymore. While it is a very nice film and does make for some nice pictures, two weeks to get it processed (no where here in my city can process it) and cost of $22 for one roll plus a CD (of which they did a crappy job of scanning)
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here's a quick panorama I did of my living room. The original file was over 17,000 pixels wide. Here is a 1000px wide version and I'll link to the medium size 5000px wide version.
Link to the 5000px wide version. heh, can't use imageshack because the file is too big.
http://xs117.xs.to/xs117/07286/rom_panorama_large.jpg
Link to the 5000px wide version. heh, can't use imageshack because the file is too big.
http://xs117.xs.to/xs117/07286/rom_panorama_large.jpg
Keef
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I took quite a few pictures on my Tail of the Dragon trip, and some of them ended up being pretty neat. I was using a friend's Nikon Coolpix L4
These three just happened because the camera is slow.
This is a 1:00am picture of the dam and generator building at the bottom of the Dragon.
I did some messing with the curves of the first, and edited the second to look old:
EDIT: Actually I'm editing some other pics now. Their weird, but neat, I think. I took them all in Denny's.
These three just happened because the camera is slow.
This is a 1:00am picture of the dam and generator building at the bottom of the Dragon.
I did some messing with the curves of the first, and edited the second to look old:
EDIT: Actually I'm editing some other pics now. Their weird, but neat, I think. I took them all in Denny's.
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ooh i like it DM =)
keef that 2nd to last shot is my favorite
keef that 2nd to last shot is my favorite
hey, i'm kinda new here, and i do photography as well, but mostly analog (diapositives)... I've got a small digital now (Canon Powershot Pro 1, 8mp, but not so good i think), and i got it three times to rallycross, but now it's still learning a bit...
when i've got some good shots, i will show them...
greetz Jelle
when i've got some good shots, i will show them...
greetz Jelle
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- murphykieran
He got some major shortcoming's, like the low aparture (only till 8), which make panning with a lot of light as good as impossible... And it will be very difficult to find a solution for that... I think I just learned photography with too good analog camera's (AT-1, A-1, EOS 1000 FN)... I will try to post some try-to-pan pics with the powershot...
greetz Jelle
greetz Jelle
Because we always used canon SLR-camera's, we only got color filters and special filters for bigger canon-objectives... Buying a filter that only can be used on the small powershot pro objective seems like a waste of money, because i'm saving for a (second hand) 300D, 350D or 400D... I tried to upload some photo's on a site called deviantart, but it doesn't worked like it should...
greetz Jelle
greetz Jelle
I finally got the deviantart thing how it should be, http://dendc.deviantart.com
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Here are some of the random pics I take:
Aircraft
Cars
Unorganized Pics
I'm still organizing stuff though...
Aircraft
Cars
Unorganized Pics
I'm still organizing stuff though...
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^Organizing stuff is always a pain, hu? 
You have some interesting shots in the "Unorganized Pics", but you really should make a selection.
Anyone care for these?
It goes without saying that there isn't any kind of second intentions in that first shot...
About the second one, I really like it. Or at least I liked the idea... It was taken from inside a tram, but the dynamic range was too big and it needed heavy post-processing, so I'm not sure about the result.
You have some interesting shots in the "Unorganized Pics", but you really should make a selection.Anyone care for these?
It goes without saying that there isn't any kind of second intentions in that first shot...
About the second one, I really like it. Or at least I liked the idea... It was taken from inside a tram, but the dynamic range was too big and it needed heavy post-processing, so I'm not sure about the result.
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I found this mask at work and decided to do a little self portrait in the studio, I'm having trouble deciding on a fav one, thoughts?
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just a closer up version dont vote on this one
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just a closer up version dont vote on this one
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