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10b4me
Social climber
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The sooner you veer away from aperture priority and move to manual the better
that's what I was taught. Kind of like going from Photoshop, to Lightroom.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2015 - 04:47pm PT
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I hate you guys. ;)
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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I usually just push the button a lot. Bound to get something decent every once in a while. Especially if you put yourself in some cool spots and pull the camera out when most others would not.
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alleyehave
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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I occasionally shoot HDR
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 2, 2015 - 10:44pm PT
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alleyehave,
The sky in that shot looks like it underwent some post?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2015 - 12:39pm PT
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Greg,
The composition in the first image seems strong (the subject climber offset of center), the second image seems fairly bland in comparison. What were hoping to pull out of the second image?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 3, 2015 - 12:45pm PT
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Btw all, in keeping with the spirit of the thread and maintaining focus, I've update the original post to clearly state that images posted here will be critiqued.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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TY
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Original image, one of the last of the day in very low light, and it came out with poor white balance (although it may be fairly close to the way I perceived it in the dark conditions):
Using the google plus tools I brightened it up, shifted the colors in a warmer direction to more accurately reflect the colors (but not accurately reflect how they looked at dusk), lightened the shadows just a bit, and reduced the contrast to make the bright spots in the water less harsh after the overall picture brightening.
Better or worse? I think it looks better, perhaps a little too much like a fantasy (what it could have looked like in ideal lighting conditions), but the original probably does a better job of capturing the mood at the moment the pic was taken.
My intention was to get the blurry water and sharp glistening rocks and foliage. I was using a point-and-shoot camera in P mode, but maybe in A mode, probably with a mini tripod and long shutter speed (and probably 2 seconds shutter delay to let the vibrations of clicking the button settle down). Left side moss is blurrier than I like, but overall I'm happy with this given the equipment and my rudimentary knowledge. Any suggestions for tuning it, or different ideas on how to capture these scenes?
Normally I use the cloudy mode for white balance to make everything look warmer, sometimes but rarely use the shadow mode, but in this case there was probably just too little light.
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10b4me
Social climber
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Nutagain.
It's really hard for me to decide, but I think I like the original.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2015 - 10:10am PT
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Tyeary, it looks like there was some saturation added in post. My question is: in the first image compared to the rainy juniper image, did you use the same amount of saturation, if you did?
Nutagain, I prefer the water in the first image. Can you do the lightening up mostly in the upper right part of the image?
I just recently watched Joshua Cripps quick vid on processing landscape shots. It's a quick watch and now I realize how limited my software is.
https://www.joshuacripps.com/2015/03/post-process-landscape-photos-in-5-minutes-photoshop-tutorial-and-workflow/
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Munge, First image indeed has some added saturation. As well as some shading and lightening.It was a very difficult lighting situation and I was trying to recreate what I saw. Controls on camera were limited as it was taken with a Nikon p/s. The second image you mention was taken with d-600. Nothing added except boost the contrast and a backlight function.
TY
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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4 photo stitch shot from 150'
12 photo stitch shot from about 125'
Hero4 black for both
Need to figure out the Lightroom trick to reduce just the sun
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Nut- still looks too green to me. Can you crank the tone a little bit so it's more purple? I would back off the exposure just a tiny bit, so it looks just a cvnt hair darker..
Doug- just throw a radial filter on the sun. Then you can adjust the exposure and highlights.
If it looks funny you can try a gradient filter on the whole sky, bring down the exposure a bit and then crank down the highlights.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2015 - 09:05pm PT
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That's a lot of dark space Jim. Dramatic tho.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
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bravecowboy, is that a Point and Shoot camera? Little out of focus for me. But composition of the coyote centered in the white rock and the boulders around the white rock is cool!
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