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evolutionqy7

I'm pretty sure the whole image is atleast 3 images combined.

Im pretty sure he wasn't trying to be realistic there anyway 😂

magicbastarder

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Has the moon been composited into this it seems unnaturally large

i *think* you'll find that effect can be easily achieved using a telephoto lens.

DaireQuinlan

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the whole image is atleast 3 images combined.

Im pretty sure he wasn't trying to be realistic there anyway ��

:eek:

Myksyk

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

:eek:

uck51js9zml2yt

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the whole image is atleast 3 images combined.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to be realistic there anyway ��

I'm not so sure about that. A rhino sitting on a beach somewhere on Dublins Northside with a boy is totally realistic !:D

New Home

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=104243749&postcount=1007

Is that an Angel's Fishing Rod? I love that plant, and its name too.

Adrian.Sadlier

New Home wrote: »

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Is that an Angel's Fishing Rod? I love that plant, and its name too.

I'm afraid I don't know. It was in the walled garden in Malahide Castle.

John mac

New Home wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=104243749&postcount=1007

Is that an Angel's Fishing Rod? I love that plant, and its name too.

Dierama pulcherrimum,

I have a couple in the garden . flower from July through to end of august .

New Home

Thanks, John Mac.

New Home

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That's like the sky in the Empire of Light by Magritte.

Wailin

redape99 wrote: »

Cormorant by redape99_, on Flickr

Absolute cracker of a shot....

ED E

+1, yourself and keps have some whopper timing.

uck51js9zml2yt

Can we go back to people saying where they took the shot when posting photos?

It would help budding amateurs

redape99

Thanks lads! I'd say Keps might be quick on the trigger but mine would be more trigger-happy! Think I get 5-frames a second in Continuous High mode and I just hope that 1 of them comes out OK.

New Home

b318isp wrote: »

And something more conventional : sunset silouette


IMG_9785 by b318isp, on Flickr

This reminds me an awful lot of those Art Nouveau vases and lamps, like this Daum.

Adrian.Sadlier

Myksyk wrote: »

Myksyk,

as an owner of two (oft photographed) Westies, I have to say that this is one of the best, if not the best, portrait of a Westie I have seen.

The composition, lighting and focus are spot on (even shows those beautiful brown Westie eyes).

I'd be proud to have taken a shot like this.

Adrian

Myksyk

Thank you Adrian. Very much appreciated.

OldGoat

redape99 wrote: »

Autumn Storm by redape99_, on Flickr

This is one of the loveliest images I've seen posted on Boards in all my years here. I know it's not every ones cup of tea (no image will ever please everyone) but it ticks all my boxes. It captures the wind*, it's got an impressionistic quality that I love and it's coupled with a strong composition. I'd have that on my wall any day of the week. Kudos.

*Pet project of mine, photograph the wind.

ED E

Wailin wrote: »

Lovely shot, my wallet cries at the thought of €1600 for a "niche" use lens though.

uck51js9zml2yt

ED E wrote: »

Lovely shot, my wallet cries at the thought of €1600 for a "niche" use lens though.

If that's "Messing around" I can't wait to see his serious stuff.

Wailin

ED E wrote: »

Lovely shot, my wallet cries at the thought of €1600 for a "niche" use lens though.

Thanks Ed. It's not really a niche lens though, as most people think. I normally shoot landscape with 16-36mm F4 lens, usually at 16mm. Don't get me wrong, really great lens and very sharp. But it does suffer with field curvature, lens distortion and slight softness in the corners (it's still a far better lens than the 16-35mm F2.8 mk II though).

Using the shift function on the 24mm TSE allows me to take 3 vertical shots without moving the actual camera and is roughly the equivalent of 16mm FOV when stitched but with no distortion (very little anyway), perfect sharpness from corner to corner and much higher resolution for prints because its 3 large files stitched together. Only have it a few days but very pleased with the results so far. I may end up selling the 16-35mm if this takes over all the wide angled stuff.

The tilt function is something I can't see myself ever really using, I just put it to the test while at Lough Dan the other day.

redape99

OldGoat wrote: »

This is one of the loveliest images I've seen posted on Boards in all my years here. I know it's not every ones cup of tea (no image will ever please everyone) but it ticks all my boxes. It captures the wind*, it's got an impressionistic quality that I love and it's coupled with a strong composition. I'd have that on my wall any day of the week. Kudos.

*Pet project of mine, photograph the wind.

Thanks for the very kind words OldGoat... I was just pointing the camera at the trees across the way during Ophelia taking lots of 1 second-ish exposures, stopping when I thought the window was about to get blown off its hinges! Most of the shots didn't work and only 1 or 2 came out in any way aesthetically pleasing so there really is a random element to it.

OldGoat

redape99 wrote: »

... so there really is a random element to it.

That's 99% of my results when shooting for movement.

uck51js9zml2yt

redape99 wrote: »

Thanks for the very kind words OldGoat... I was just pointing the camera at the trees across the way during Ophelia taking lots of 1 second-ish exposures, stopping when I thought the window was about to get blown off its hinges! Most of the shots didn't work and only 1 or 2 came out in any way aesthetically pleasing so there really is a random element to it.

First rule of photography....It was a planned shot!:eek:


A question to those of you who have black backgrounds. How did you get them ?

Metric Tensor

@Judge

Judge wrote: »

Fitzwilton House

I really like this range of architectural photographs. As a total novice I'd love to know how you took and processed the shots.

keps

Just to add to the above.

Judge's photos of Dublin buildings posted over the past 2/3 years( is it?) have been truly outstanding.

They all give a true - but always personal, unique and sometimes quirky ( in a nice way) representation of buildings a lot of us just pass by and take for granted.

I think there is a photo-book there

Judge

Metric Tensor wrote: »

@Judge

I really like this range of architectural photographs. As a total novice I'd love to know how you took and processed the shots.

keps wrote: »

Just to add to the above.

Judge's photos of Dublin buildings posted over the past 2/3 years( is it?) have been truly outstanding.

They all give a true - but always personal, unique and sometimes quirky ( in a nice way) representation of buildings a lot of us just pass by and take for granted.

I think there is a photo-book there

Thanks to both of you for your very kind comments.

You've probably guessed that the black and white pictures I've been posting recently have undergone very significant post-processing – much, much more than my colour work, which in most cases has involved little more than a few adjustments in Lightroom (15-20 minutes work per picture on average). No changes have been made to the physical structure of the subjects (bar removing some distracting elements like poles or wires) but the light that appears to fall on the buildings is almost completely artificial. The intention is to create a highly subjective view of each building – one that uses light and shade to emphasise and highlight shape, form and volume.

The technique for taking and processing these pictures follows that pioneered by the likes of Joel Tjintjelaar and Julia Anna Gospodaru. Work by Jay Vulture, Gediminas Karbauskis and Jin Mikami have also been influential. Joel Tjintjelaar's website contains a number of useful tutorials on the techniques used.

Most shots are long exposures using either a 10 or 16 stop neutral density filter with exposure times of anything from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This eliminates any people or traffic at street level and to smooth out the sky. In a few cases I've cheated and replaced the sky altogether.

The post processing involves:-

- Initial developing in Lightroom to correct any perspective issues and to produce a neutral, rather flat image with limited contrast.

- Conversion to black and white in Silver Efex Pro.

- Moving into Photoshop to make an often painstaking series of selections of elements of the picture, mainly using the pen tool but also using other select and mask techniques such as channels, color range selection and luminosity masks. The picture of Fitzwilton House has approximately 100 individual selections. This is the longest and most tedious part of the process.

- Using the selections I have made in combination with Photoshop's Layer Mask, Curves and Gradient tools to build up the light and dark portions of the image.

- Tidying up removing any artefacts, halos etc. caused by the processing and applying sharpening as required.

- Returning to Lightroom for final tweaks to the image, plus captioning, keywording and geotagging.

Metric Tensor – as a novice I hope the above doesn't scare you off! We were all novices at some time. There is a lot of work involved in putting together these images – including a lot more time in front of a computer that I'd really like – but the payoff in terms of personal satisfaction has been worth it (so far).

Metric Tensor

Great response Judge - thanks very much for the detailed descriptions. A lot of work to do before I get that far but good to see/know how it was done.

You've linked some impressive photographers - but I think some of them go a step too far. I like how yours come in just on the "real-life" side of otherworldly!

mystic86

Loki98 wrote: »

Great timing Mick and a great example of 'F8 and be there' :P:D

Loki98

But.... but.... the planning...... the packing......the travel......