February 2015 Photo Thread

[stowpirate]

 

[Pingu]

B&W expert types some advice on improving this shot would be appreciated please. I don't really do much in B&W but am starting to appreciate its abilities to create some nice contrasts. Still very much a noob though when it comes to making adjustments in b&W output

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[Greebo]

B&W expert types some advice on improving this shot would be appreciated please. I don't really do much in B&W but am starting to appreciate its abilities to create some nice contrasts. Still very much a noob though when it comes to making adjustments in b&W output<snip>

ViolentPanda

 

[Sweet FA]

Brighton Tattoo Convention 2015 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbishie/sets/72157648634998493/

Excellent set of photos - think I fell in love about half a dozen times looking through them.

 

[shaman75]

Battle Scarred by entoptika, on Flickr

 

[ViolentPanda]

B&W expert types some advice on improving this shot would be appreciated please. I don't really do much in B&W but am starting to appreciate its abilities to create some nice contrasts. Still very much a noob though when it comes to making adjustments in b&W output

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It's pretty good as it is. You could probably get a better tonal range by setting a manual white balance with a white card or similar beforehand, rather than relying on auto white balance or a program white balance setting (that way the dog's tongue wouldn't look whiter than the dog's teeth ), and metering off of the dog and the background separately then averaging the two and manually-inputting that, rather than letting the camera provide a reading that's either centre-weighted,or averaged across the whole frame. You used a wide enough aperture to blur out extraneous background detail (about f4-f5.6?) but not so wide that the zone of focus is only as long as the dog's nose.
Post production-wise, you could mess around with levels, but all in all your pic is a good one.

 

[ViolentPanda]

mrs quoad . Great photos with only one niggle - you've got a central horizon line in almost every pic, whereas the rule of thirds/the golden ratio provides more choices for composition.

 

[dlx1]

Bye Bye old cameras

New baby HX50
Just need to learn how to use & ISO business

 

[kage]

Myanmar with the Fuji

 

[kage]

pt2

 

[shaman75]

Total fluke this, as I was trying to use the screen on my camera to get good focus, but by the time I'd released the button and the camera had switched off the screen and actually opened the shutter, it'd started diving.


Dive Dive Dive by entoptika, on Flickr

 

[shaman75]

Knocked the tripod


Shard Shake by entoptika, on Flickr

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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[shaman75]

That's lovely.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[neonwilderness]

More here

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[RoyReed]

Nice light.

 

[Pingu]

It's pretty good as it is. You could probably get a better tonal range by setting a manual white balance with a white card or similar beforehand, rather than relying on auto white balance or a program white balance setting (that way the dog's tongue wouldn't look whiter than the dog's teeth ), and metering off of the dog and the background separately then averaging the two and manually-inputting that, rather than letting the camera provide a reading that's either centre-weighted,or averaged across the whole frame. You used a wide enough aperture to blur out extraneous background detail (about f4-f5.6?) but not so wide that the zone of focus is only as long as the dog's nose.
Post production-wise, you could mess around with levels, but all in all your pic is a good one.

thanks it was at f4
i will take it into lightrroom/photosop and do some post production on it. hopefully wont ruin it in the process

 

[stowpirate]

 

[ViolentPanda]

thanks it was at f4
i will take it into lightrroom/photosop and do some post production on it. hopefully wont ruin it in the process

Just make sure you keep a digital copy of the original!

 

[Pingu]

Just make sure you keep a digital copy of the original!

i shoot in raw so will always have the original

 

[stowpirate]

70cm repeater

 

[stowpirate]

I don't really get the Dachstein shark thingy?

 

[Pingu]

taken from inside a moving car doing 70 mph on the A55 last night using a samsung galaxy s3.


there are times when i could seriously kick myself for not carrying a proper camera with me all the time but this turned out pretty well

no photoshoppery has been involved at all.