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[Firky]

Cheers, dude!

I like the blooming

It is untouched other than B&W and USM. I think it could do with a little work in the foreground to add a bit more light but I think that would lead to me altering the rest of the pic.

G tells me it was an old laundrette that was destroyed by fire in the 6Ts. It is in the N16 area behind the cemetry, (which is also quite cool). The owner keeps getting offers every year from developers as it is in a prime location but he keeps waiting for the 'big one'

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's ok, but the photo has no focus, no centre. There's nothing unifying it, pulling it together.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

<snip> What you could also do is take both of those photos and blend them, but that's way more complicated.

Sounds interesting. Can you recommend an online tutorial? I'd like to try it.

 

[Firky]

It's ok, but the photo has no focus, no centre. There's nothing unifying it, pulling it together.

Yeah, now you come to mention it... you have pointed out a gaping hole. I see exactly that you mean. Gah! I don't like it as much anymore.

 

[mauvais]

Sounds interesting. Can you recommend an online tutorial? I'd like to try it.

Yeah, this, basically:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/blended_exposures.shtml

Best done with a tripod, and hard to do for bigger differences. If you have an SLR then it's a lot easier; one shot, and different exposures taken off it.

Here's one I did like that - put the sky back in, basically:

http://wapoc.com/web/manc/maths.jpg

 

[jeff_leigh]

Sounds interesting. Can you recommend an online tutorial? I'd like to try it.

here's another Blending exposures Tutorial Here

 

[Firky]

the matrix stylee

 

[kerb]

 

[mauvais]

Are you really banned? Heh! Love the picture, interesting shapes, and the people lend it a sense of scale. Great contrast etc too - film? The black line could be a bit distracting, but easily PP'd out should you so desire. That's about it really, good one!

Here's one from me - tried to capture more where they were parked but kinda failed, yet got something else instead.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I like this photograph a lot for the very reason Johnny Canuck2 doesn't! Because there is no focal point the viewer is forced to study the whole photograph. The essence of the picture is the scatter of decay and lack of order although there is a strong sense of composition and perspective. It could have been much better mind. You want to take a look at Thomas Struth's style of cutting through the chaos

 

[Bernie Gunther]

here's another Blending exposures Tutorial Here

Aha ... thanks. You too mauvais mangue. I'll have a bash at this I think. Looks useful.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Are you really banned? Heh! Love the picture, interesting shapes, and the people lend it a sense of scale. Great contrast etc too - film? The black line could be a bit distracting, but easily PP'd out should you so desire. That's about it really, good one!

Here's one from me - tried to capture more where they were parked but kinda failed, yet got something else instead.

Another good photo from mm. Great feeling of action.

 

[Firky]

Purdy, I'd try an burn the people so they're more noticable and give a greater sense of height and perhaps a bit of dodge around in the right to take some of the black out (could just be my monitor but all I see is a black hole).

I like the cable however! Leave that in

 

[Firky]

Here's one from me - tried to capture more where they were parked but kinda failed, yet got something else instead.

Meh, I like it. Not sure about the white building so close to the fuzz's car. I like the texture on the road, could do with a little more DoF but it still works the way you shot it

I'd be shot or stabbed if I went out at night with my camera here

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

http://static.flickr.com/46/133739515_a337f0a43e_b.jpg

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yes, it's a silhouette. I just like it because it has my kids in it.

 

[Firky]

http://static.flickr.com/46/133739515_a337f0a43e_b.jpg

slightly over exposed but the colours are nice and vivid in places. get a chick which isn't pasty white

silhoutte pic is cool albeit pretty simple, were they ninjas?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

slightly over exposed but the colours are nice and vivid in places. get a chick which isn't pasty white

silhoutte pic is cool albeit pretty simple, were they ninjas?

The first one is straight out of the camera. I wanted to crop it etc, but had some computer problems.

Second one: I suppose they were ninjas in their own minds...

 

[KeeperofDragons]

I took this on a day out with my little optio. Only played with the gamma slightly to keep the tree from washing out

Parliament

KoD

 

[mauvais]

Johnny, your silhouette one's ace. The only thing wrong with it is that the subject's centred, and somehow I don't like that. I think maybe a border would solve it, or otherwise my preference would be to pan right a little bit, possssibly up too, maybe not, and do the whole rule of thirds thing.

Parliament, I don't know. It might look better in colour but at the mo it's a bit confusing. The tree and the background kind of clutter each other. There's probably something can be done with a little bit more editing, i.e. dodge and burn perhaps.

Here's one of mine. It's quite silly - I liked the colours of the scene so I played with composition a bit and tried to capture it. It's not entirely worked, and technically it's a bit off, but I quite like it all the same.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Johnny, your silhouette one's ace. The only thing wrong with it is that the subject's centred, and somehow I don't like that. I think maybe a border would solve it, or otherwise my preference would be to pan right a little bit, possssibly up too, maybe not, and do the whole rule of thirds thing.]

You might be right, but then I'd lose the centering of the figures against the fading sunlight and the clouds.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Here's one of mine. It's quite silly - I liked the colours of the scene so I played with composition a bit and tried to capture it. It's not entirely worked, and technically it's a bit off, but I quite like it all the same.

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I like it too; great colour and compo. Do you ever take a bad picture?

 

[mauvais]

You might be right, but then I'd lose the centering of the figures against the fading sunlight and the clouds.

Yep, you're right. The centre thing works fine, and probably best. I've changed my mind, but what I would do is make them perfectly centred, then add a border. A bit like this - will delete in a bit.

As for bad photos, at least one for every good shot. That one took about five. The recent urban decay stuff I did, I got about half of them usable, and I was dead happy

 

[chriswill]

One of the cage in Lyme park.


Levels and saturation adjusted

 

[mauvais]

One of the cage in Lyme park.

Levels and saturation adjusted

You could bring the sky out a lot more, I reckon. The road bugs me a little; it's not really integral enough to the shot, so gets in the way. I'd clone it out, which should be quite easy, because it's thin.

 

[chriswill]

You could bring the sky out a lot more, I reckon. The road bugs me a little; it's not really integral enough to the shot, so gets in the way. I'd clone it out, which should be quite easy, because it's thin.

Should be easy, I'd probably get it tits up tho'

 

[chriswill]

Another that is slightly different.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

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That is very, very nice.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yep, you're right. The centre thing works fine, and probably best. I've changed my mind, but what I would do is make them perfectly centred, then add a border. A bit like this - will delete in a bit.

As for bad photos, at least one for every good shot. That one took about five. The recent urban decay stuff I did, I got about half of them usable, and I was dead happy

The border's ok: kind of a lot of black, though.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That is very, very nice.[/QUOTE]

Something else about that pic.

I recall reading somewhere, that the test of a good colour photo, is that it would also be effective if done in black and white.

No doubt the colour adds to this pic, but compositionally, I think it would still be pleasing if it was b&w.