Also, please make those a tiny bit smaller? Shouldn't have to scroll four ways to see one shot.
And yeah, just extend the canvas size however many pixels, whatever color.
Edit- On another note, there are some issues with exposure, try not to burn out highlights, and try not to have shadows too dark to where it kills detail.
I put my camera down for a second, and the lens got so fucking dusty. I didn't realize it till I had to spend an hour with corrections when I got home. Hope it was worth it.
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daaang bread, that first shot has some seriously amazing colors. I think the clincher for me is the mixture of that bit of blue in with the glorious orange sky; 'tis a beaut.
So guys, I snagged a nice "part time job" as the photographer for my 'neighborhood,' which is more like a subdivisionesque ranch place with a huge nature preserve of like 300 acres. Lots are around 1-5 acres; my parents' is 3.5 (I think? maybe 2.5).
Anyway, parents are chums with the one guy who sells the lots, and he has me shooting around for photos to be put in ads and on the website, for $10/hr. Field work and post work time. So that's pretty rad all by itself.
Then, I've just recently gotten the Sigma 10-20mm lens, and the quality and wideness (width?) of this glass is a nice, welcome change from my previous Tamron 18-200, which I got last year for my trip to Italy. I shot with the sigma for the first real time today, for 2 or 3 hours, and man oh man, is it wonderful.
I've also been shooting in RAW a lot, and doing most of my editing in RAW. It's really quite good once you get used to everything and realizing just what everything does. The brightness'shadow control and saturation adjustments are way, wayyy better than just regular photoshop, at least for my uses.
Alright, enough words, here are some shots:
These are all from my first shoot, five days ago, and I'm not really too satisfied with any of them except fo rmaybe the first two. But they're flowers, so meh. Anyway, the shots from today's shoot with the new lens were much better, and I'll post them soon.
edit: the quality on some of these is kinda botched because of flickr's shitty resizing, sorry.
daaang bread, that first shot has some seriously amazing colors. I think the clincher for me is the mixture of that bit of blue in with the glorious orange sky; 'tis a beaut.
So guys, I snagged a nice "part time job" as the photographer for my 'neighborhood,' which is more like a subdivisionesque ranch place with a huge nature preserve of like 300 acres. Lots are around 1-5 acres; my parents' is 3.5 (I think? maybe 2.5).
Anyway, parents are chums with the one guy who sells the lots, and he has me shooting around for photos to be put in ads and on the website, for $10/hr. Field work and post work time. So that's pretty rad all by itself.
Then, I've just recently gotten the Sigma 10-20mm lens, and the quality and wideness (width?) of this glass is a nice, welcome change from my previous Tamron 18-200, which I got last year for my trip to Italy. I shot with the sigma for the first real time today, for 2 or 3 hours, and man oh man, is it wonderful.
I've also been shooting in RAW a lot, and doing most of my editing in RAW. It's really quite good once you get used to everything and realizing just what everything does. The brightness'shadow control and saturation adjustments are way, wayyy better than just regular photoshop, at least for my uses.
Alright, enough words, here are some shots:
These are all from my first shoot, five days ago, and I'm not really too satisfied with any of them except fo rmaybe the first two. But they're flowers, so meh. Anyway, the shots from today's shoot with the new lens were much better, and I'll post them soon.
edit: the quality on some of these is kinda botched because of flickr's shitty resizing, sorry.
Oh, yeah, and crits and comments and whatnot are totally welcome.
How did you get such a fiery sky? Must be a photoshop job, I dont believe that is the real sky for the image either.
But then again I am not always right.
Polarizer filter + there at the right time, right place, and right day. The clouds yesterday were really expressive and plentiful, and the sky was particularly deep blue. Use a polarizer filter when the clouds are already very defined, and you get something quite surreal. Couple that with the sun setting, and well, you get something unbelievable.
The only photoshopping I did with this thing was basic corrections (ie contrast, blacks, saturation, etc.), resizing, and some dust removal. The sky is as it was when I shot it, it is not a composite image. Notice the slight reflection of orange light on the water and the wet sand, and how the eastern side of the buildings are in shadow, as they would be if direct western light were hitting their western faces.
Proxy - How's the vignetting on the 10-20mm on a film camera? Have you tried it on one? I'm thinking about getting the 10-20mm as my next lens, it looks plenty sharp and a really wide angle. Congrats on landing that job. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Also, RAW is fucking great. I love how you can control the blacks right there and absolutely all the corrections you'd need to make are laid out in a slider format. On top of that, exposure and white balance corrections. Amazing.
There's a great quality about that first shot, but I'm not too sure about the second. I think it's because of the change in background color once you get to the top of the flower.
On a completely unrelated note, I think I'm having some sort of an allergic reaction to the developer in my school's darkroom. I'm getting some weird red marks on my hands. Am I dying? I don't want to die before I finish my prints today.
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It's chemicals, so yeah they will eat away at your skin if you don't bother to wash your hands. Does your darkroom have tongs?
I take care to dry my hands whenever they get wet from touching any of the chemicals in the darkroom, then wash my hands once I get out. Yeah, we have tongs but sometimes some idiot puts the developer tongs into the stop bath by mistake and they gotta be washed, so sometimes it's inevitable to get your hands in some of the chemicals. The red marks started going away though so it's no big deal. My professor said he gets the same thing sometimes. And to my knowledge, developer isn't acidic, fixer is.
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Yes, I do actually. Made it for my laptop wallpaper. I'm gonna leave that link working for a little while in case any one else wants it. And if anyone has any other size they'd like, feel free to ask.
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Seriously, if I see you quote the person directly above you and include all of the images in the bloody quote one more time, you will bloody well regret it, Kworn. There's absolutely no need for it other than to increase page load times.
Seriously, if I see you quote the person directly above you and include all of the images in the bloody quote one more time, you will bloody well regret it, Kworn. There's absolutely no need for it other than to increase page load times.
Thank you, Grifter. It was driving me nuts, I wasn't sure it was proper to say something about it.
Seriously, if I see you quote the person directly above you and include all of the images in the bloody quote one more time, you will bloody well regret it, Kworn. There's absolutely no need for it other than to increase page load times.
Thank you, Grif.
My first two prints, ever. Forgive the poor scan quality. Currently don't have a real scanner.
Did like 6-7 more today, I'll have em tomorrow when they've dried.
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And yeah, just extend the canvas size however many pixels, whatever color.
Edit- On another note, there are some issues with exposure, try not to burn out highlights, and try not to have shadows too dark to where it kills detail.
After a bit of consideration, I have come to the conclusion that I love this photo.
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NICE!!!!!!
I put my camera down for a second, and the lens got so fucking dusty. I didn't realize it till I had to spend an hour with corrections when I got home. Hope it was worth it.
Wow.
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So guys, I snagged a nice "part time job" as the photographer for my 'neighborhood,' which is more like a subdivisionesque ranch place with a huge nature preserve of like 300 acres. Lots are around 1-5 acres; my parents' is 3.5 (I think? maybe 2.5).
Anyway, parents are chums with the one guy who sells the lots, and he has me shooting around for photos to be put in ads and on the website, for $10/hr. Field work and post work time. So that's pretty rad all by itself.
Then, I've just recently gotten the Sigma 10-20mm lens, and the quality and wideness (width?) of this glass is a nice, welcome change from my previous Tamron 18-200, which I got last year for my trip to Italy. I shot with the sigma for the first real time today, for 2 or 3 hours, and man oh man, is it wonderful.
I've also been shooting in RAW a lot, and doing most of my editing in RAW. It's really quite good once you get used to everything and realizing just what everything does. The brightness'shadow control and saturation adjustments are way, wayyy better than just regular photoshop, at least for my uses.
Alright, enough words, here are some shots:
These are all from my first shoot, five days ago, and I'm not really too satisfied with any of them except fo rmaybe the first two. But they're flowers, so meh. Anyway, the shots from today's shoot with the new lens were much better, and I'll post them soon.
edit: the quality on some of these is kinda botched because of flickr's shitty resizing, sorry.
This Photo is just plain awesome.
How did you get such a fiery sky? Must be a photoshop job, I dont believe that is the real sky for the image either.
But then again I am not always right.
Oh, yeah, and crits and comments and whatnot are totally welcome.
Polarizer filter + there at the right time, right place, and right day. The clouds yesterday were really expressive and plentiful, and the sky was particularly deep blue. Use a polarizer filter when the clouds are already very defined, and you get something quite surreal. Couple that with the sun setting, and well, you get something unbelievable.
The only photoshopping I did with this thing was basic corrections (ie contrast, blacks, saturation, etc.), resizing, and some dust removal. The sky is as it was when I shot it, it is not a composite image. Notice the slight reflection of orange light on the water and the wet sand, and how the eastern side of the buildings are in shadow, as they would be if direct western light were hitting their western faces.
Proxy - How's the vignetting on the 10-20mm on a film camera? Have you tried it on one? I'm thinking about getting the 10-20mm as my next lens, it looks plenty sharp and a really wide angle. Congrats on landing that job. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Also, RAW is fucking great. I love how you can control the blacks right there and absolutely all the corrections you'd need to make are laid out in a slider format. On top of that, exposure and white balance corrections. Amazing.
There's a great quality about that first shot, but I'm not too sure about the second. I think it's because of the change in background color once you get to the top of the flower.
On a completely unrelated note, I think I'm having some sort of an allergic reaction to the developer in my school's darkroom. I'm getting some weird red marks on my hands. Am I dying? I don't want to die before I finish my prints today.
awesome eh?
I take care to dry my hands whenever they get wet from touching any of the chemicals in the darkroom, then wash my hands once I get out. Yeah, we have tongs but sometimes some idiot puts the developer tongs into the stop bath by mistake and they gotta be washed, so sometimes it's inevitable to get your hands in some of the chemicals. The red marks started going away though so it's no big deal. My professor said he gets the same thing sometimes. And to my knowledge, developer isn't acidic, fixer is.
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Nice what a great horrific looking tree.
Would be good to see a filter on this one, maybe red?
Thank you, Grifter. It was driving me nuts, I wasn't sure it was proper to say something about it.
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Zero Photoshop. Just did a very long exposure with my camera on a tripod.
It should be noted that, to a large extent, I don't know what I'm doing when taking photos.
Any tips/suggestions would be appreciated.
Oh animals, you so crazy.
ha, that WOULD be cool.
It's called "the Mother of the Forest" and is in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California
I would not get into a fight with that tree, i think it would kick my ass
Thank you, Grif.
My first two prints, ever. Forgive the poor scan quality. Currently don't have a real scanner.
Did like 6-7 more today, I'll have em tomorrow when they've dried.
Probably because fiber is 5,000% better than RC!
They're all 35mm Ilford Delta 100 printed on Ilford 11x14" glossy fiber paper.
Nope, Neo (if the question was directed at me of course :P)