a photograph i took

DotOrg

some fantastic light in dublin the past month, wa down on the beach around 10:30am this morning, got this, any opinions on it?

conorgriff

Hey dot org, nice pic although Do you not think the exposure is a little off? It's over exposed in the centre of the sky and a couple of other patches and a little under exposed in the lower corners. Maybe that was the intention for some effect. I have limited knowledge but I suppose I'm just giving an opinion

What lens did you use?

DotOrg

shooting directly into a low sun will always produced some area that is over or underexposed.

a large print shows that it's not actually overexposed apart fom where the sun is in the sky. computer monitors are all calibrated differently and generally very differently than what prints turn out like

kjt

Lovely picture, I really like it. The DOF on the pic is
amazing. Its sort of a mystery/heavenly picture. I
agree with Conor a little bit, Its only really noticable
to me in the very middle of the pic. The extreme white
in the sky. Then again, if that wasnt there it could look
quite dull.

Nice job.

conorgriff

yeah that's fair enough, figured it might be the monitor cause I'm not on my own pc. What lens did you use, the wideangle really suits the photo. Nice perspective

larryone

If I was in the advertising department for Guinness, I would buy that photograph from you. Looks like something they would use =0)
I think it looks great (but being a n00b I know nothing about overexposure (apart from the obvious))

rabbitinlights

I love it, the clouds to the right are amazing.

What Camera and Lens did you use and what changes did you do after?

Oriel

kjt wrote:

The DOF on the pic is
amazing.

Is it just me, or is the DOF large in that image, meaning that everything is in focus, meaning that there effectively really isn't any DOF?

S.

conorgriff

yeah the dof is huge
prob a typo - or misunderstood term

Subliminal

excellent pic dotorg, i think larryone is right, its making me want a pint right now! Im only learning, but was wondering

A: What camera did you use?

B: Did you take it in b&w, or in colour and make it b&w in photoshop etc?

C: Did you use a polarising lens to help the reflections?

Great pic, really like it.

Sub

Oriel

Personally, I'm not too keen on the photo. The difference in exposure is too great for my liking. I personally would probably have just concentrated on the water and left the sky out of the frame completely - it wrecks the exposure and the water is a lot more interesting anyway.

The histogram on that image is weird too - was that a case of photoshop > Auto Levels and Auto Contrast?

S.

conorgriff

well I would think the histogram just shows that the exposure was bad apart from the narrow spike in the middle which is unusual, but an equally dramatic shot would have been possible without the exposure problems from a different angle I think.

kjt

sinecurea wrote:

Is it just me, or is the DOF large in that image, meaning that everything is in focus, meaning that there effectively really isn't any DOF?

S.

What I meant was that there's alot of dept within the pic..........
Wrong use of dof?

Oriel

The depth of focus is the "range" of focus within an image. In DotOrg's photograph, pretty much everything is in focus, which means there is a large DOF.
If you take this image from me (please ignore the watermark - I'm trying to change those) you'll see what I'm talking about.
Only one part of the subject is in focus - which means there is only a small range of the image in focus - which is a small depth of focus.
So in a small DOF, only a small part of the image has a sharp focus, in a large DOF you can see everything clearly.

I hope this helps clear things up

S.

DotOrg

the part of the sky that is white is the sun, so yes, the sun is overexposed, impossible not to

large dof from my canon 10-22mm lens used on my canon 20D

i did several changes to colour, then made a duplicate layer, converted it to B&W using curves in photoshop, then blended the B&W layer into the colour layer using multipy

then merged the layers and converted the whole image to B&W using curves again

I cropped off a lot of the foreground as it was so dark it wasn't adding anything to the shot and the square format was trying (poorly) to emulate a MF camera

alb

DotOrg wrote:

the part of the sky that is white is the sun, so yes, the sun is overexposed, impossible not to

A graduated ND filter would help lessen it a bit.

Also in reference to what other people have said about DOF, it's a great DOF in this pic because it's so big. It's in focus from the immediate foreground all the way back. A great DOF can be a very large DOF or a small DOF depending on the picture in question so it can be a bit confusing I guess

King Eric

Hey DotOrg, out of interest, any chance cud you post the original photo before it was photoshopped, just to see the difference

Hagar

Nice shot, very nice.

Third_Echelon

Really like the pic...

rabbitinlights

DotOrg wrote:

large dof from my canon 10-22mm lens used on my canon 20D

Nice, How do you find that lense? Im looking to get it when I get my 350D. How much was it and what are the good bad points? I would love the canon, but I may only be able to afford the Sigma version.

S.

Great, Great Photo

DotOrg

i love the canon 10-22mm lens. bad points are the price and it doesn't have a wide enough aperture for low light photography, everything else about it is superb

i can post the original shot but i shot it in raw format so i still have to decide on what parameters to apply to it like white balance etc

DotOrg

1/400th
f10
iso 200
10mm lens
shutter priority

below is the raw image with no parameters touched at all
i might play around with it again and do lots of burning and dodging to get exposure more even throughout

DotOrg

i wasn't actually out there to shoot the scenery, was shooting a band, this is one quick edit of the band out there

rabbitinlights

WOW. Very nice shot.

S.

Valentia

The first pic reminded me of another one I came across on Trekearth the other day http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/France/photo283724.htm

I have no problem with the exposure but, unlike your second pic, it lacks a focal point. I like your PP work.

Flipflip

Unusually, I think the under and over exposure really sits well in this pic.

Especially the underexposure in the low corners, it just suits the pic nicely, keeps your attention on the main part of the pic.

And yeah, the DOF is ****ing unreal.

DotOrg

with a 10mm lens, the problem with dof is that you can't get shallow depth of field, if you want something sharp and the background out of focus, it just ain't gonna happen when shooting that wide