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[Vintage Paw]

Brand new to this whole 'proper' photography malarky. Am very aware I have lots to learn. Just got my new 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor, on my D50 took this as a test shot this morning.

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[jeff_leigh]

Heh!

I did that - http://photo.wapoc.com/world/manchester/DSC_7546.jpg.html

I think I prefer yours, though it's maybe a little oversharpened.

thanks mauvais a few people have commented on some of my images being a little over sharpened, sometimes i use the same photoshop action when i've got a lot of images to process

 

[jeff_leigh]

following jeff leigh walkway theam

walkway Tunnel
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is that the same Walkway before it was finished? great minds think alike eh?

 

[mauvais]

thanks mauvais a few people have commented on some of my images being a little over sharpened, sometimes i use the same photoshop action when i've got a lot of images to process

Yeah - each image requires something different, and especially don't use the 'Sharpen' or 'Sharpen More' actions. If you use Photoshop, then Unsharp Mask as the final step, radius 0.3 to 0.8, amount 60-200%, threshold 3.

A tip I got told was to crank the amount to 500% and find the lowest radius without halos, then reduce the amount to suit. It doesn't always help though.

 

[chriswill]

Vapour Trail.






Levels and colour tweaked.

 

[Firky]

this was just a snap shot but i liked the way it turned out.

slight s curve added to it, and saturation knocked up by 7 in PS.

 

[Firky]

Vapour Trail.






Levels and colour tweaked.

Quite like that actually, did you use a filter to get the fringe at the top?

 

[suzi]

what is it? is it a cat's head? can't figure it out.. - the photo posted by vintage paw i mean..

 

[chriswill]

Quite like that actually, did you use a filter to get the fringe at the top?

I use a UV most of the time, The fringe probaby came about through the editing.


Should know that really.

 

[Vintage Paw]

what is it? is it a cat's head? can't figure it out.. - the photo posted by vintage paw i mean..

Yeah, abstract eh?

 

[mauvais]

following jeff leigh walkway theam

walkway Tunnel
Land of the Bluebell

These are ace. The tunnel could do with straightening up a little and both could be brought out a lot more in post-processing - you should do some - but they're just fundamentally good.

Firky, your sunset/sunrise/whatever shot is pretty cool. I'd have liked it shifted up a little to get the tip of the Gherkin in at the expense of the ground. It's also a bit tall to view properly. It feels a little bit wonky, but if anything, it's that bloom/blown out sky thing that annoys me. Any way of reducing it? I'd maybe lighten up the whole thing a little, I don't know. PS: check out Raw Shooter Essentials/Pro, it's free/cheap and I love it.

Vapour trail doesn't work for me. It's a lovely sky but there's just no subject. It needs something else prominent in there to make it a shot rather than just a pattern.

Can't decide about the cat - think the abstract idea's got potential, but something not quite right IMO

 

[mauvais]

Reet, couple from me. There's loaaads of photos on my computer - 14,000 it says here, though that's a bit wrong - and most of 'em are rubbish.

Still, every so often I go back through 'em and see if I can find anything worth rescuing with whatever gizmos and sk1LLz wot I've acquired recently. Slightly worringly, I only got two. Well, maybe a few more, but I can't be bothered...

Both are from last year.

 

[Cerisa]

Mauvais Mangue: i took them using a digi-cam, so i don't really have any aperture control, although it does have different settings i could experiment with. oooh photoshop, that never even occurred to me. i don't have it on my laptop - how much would a good program cost? i'll definitely try cropping out the excess though. thank you for all the feedback

and cheers jeff leigh, it's definitely one of my favourites, esp as it's all in hues of blue

 

[blackadder]

Instead of submitting a single picture, can I submit a series please, as I need to select the best few out of it, for sending to the newspaper.

The series is of a carpet of fallen blossom, which was helped by a strong wind earlier that day.

As I arrived at the scene a suited man with an identical pink as the petals coloured shirt, walked through the petals. If I had got there earlier, I reckon I would have got a great shot.

Anyway, here is the series http://www.flickr.com/photos/99585382@N00/sets/72057594129057447/

 

[zenie]

Reet, couple from me. There's loaaads of photos on my computer - 14,000 it says here, though that's a bit wrong - and most of 'em are rubbish.

Still, every so often I go back through 'em and see if I can find anything worth rescuing with whatever gizmos and sk1LLz wot I've acquired recently. Slightly worringly, I only got two. Well, maybe a few more, but I can't be bothered...

Both are from last year.

That is wicked mate!! Well done.

What did you do to it?

and where is that? Very pretty!!

 

[suzi]

Yeah, abstract eh?

very good

 

[suzi]

anyway, my feeble effort:

<IMG SRC="http://static.flickr.com/45/140430662_1f5716bb8d.jpg">

oh, it doesn't work. never mind.

 

[Robster970]

anyway, my feeble effort:

<IMG SRC="http://static.flickr.com/45/140430662_1f5716bb8d.jpg">

oh, it doesn't work. never mind.

is that butlins in bognor?

 

[Derian]

anyway, my feeble effort:

<IMG SRC="http://static.flickr.com/45/140430662_1f5716bb8d.jpg">

oh, it doesn't work. never mind.

There you go....

 

[suzi]

There you go....

oh. thank you. that is my work.

 

[Derian]

oh. thank you. that is my work.

Yes - I thought you were having probs posting it so I did it for you.

 

[mauvais]

That is wicked mate!! Well done.

What did you do to it?

and where is that? Very pretty!!

Pretty much as shot with a little playing contrast-wise to make them into proper silhouettes. The main thing was realising that shots don't all have to be 3:2, which in this case would just have produced rubbish!

It's pretty fuzzy, partly cos it's badly focused and partly cos of the haze, but it looks OK for a web version.

It's oop north - St. Annes, Lancashire. Cheers!

 

[suzi]

is that butlins in bognor?

oh you've been already.

 

[Robster970]

oh you've been already.

I have - have a similar picture http://www.photo-sight.co.uk/index.php?s=y&id=gallery__butlins&p=2&view=file that's why I recongnised it

 

[suzi]

I have - have a similar picture http://www.photo-sight.co.uk/index.php?s=y&id=gallery__butlins&p=2&view=file that's why I recongnised it

i was joking. mine was taken in kew gardens.

 

[Robster970]

i was joking. mine was taken in kew gardens.

LOL - you can tell the kind of places I frequent

 

[Vintage Paw]

suzi - thanks

mauvais - it was a test shot from my new 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor, it was raining, I couldn't go out, and the cat was the nearest thing that looked like a half-decent subject Not a lot of thought went into it - in fact, it was all I could do to keep him relatively still for a half second to shoot it!

 

[foamy]

firky posting

Firky, your sunset/sunrise/whatever shot is pretty cool. I'd have liked it shifted up a little to get the tip of the Gherkin in at the expense of the ground. It's also a bit tall to view properly. It feels a little bit wonky, but if anything, it's that bloom/blown out sky thing that annoys me. Any way of reducing it? I'd maybe lighten up the whole thing a little, I don't know. PS: check out Raw Shooter Essentials/Pro, it's free/cheap and I love it.

Yeah, I didn't really have time to line it up properly as I was doing about 40mph in the car

I also shot in jpeg, so no raw

I just like it because of the colour and blooming... for which you don't

 

[dlx1]

mm
(nice) on beach wounder much difrence<? in B&W
lol like the spray in 2nd "televison lies"

 

[Vintage Paw]

My most recent one:

http://snaps.catbc.com/2006/05/61.php

I am rather proud of it, if I do say so myself