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fixXxer

parko202 wrote: »

Absolutely love this picture.

parko202

fixxxer wrote: »

Absolutely love this picture.

Thanks! It was taken when I was equally tired with my F90 with a 50mm on ilford xp2

Morrisseeee

New Home wrote: »

Lovely little fledgling, but I don't think it's a swallow. A sparrow, maybe? (I stand to be corrected)

Actually you're right, looking at other baby sparrow pics, I just presumed it was a baby swallow as it was directly below the swallow nest ! weird !

wersal gummage

Myksyk wrote: »

Cheers for the thumbs up wersal gummage. The lighting for the portrait is extremely simple ... a one light set up using a 135 octa set slightly in front and above to achieve a standard Rembrandt effect. It is shot against a grey background.

There is a lot of (hopefully reasonably subtle) post work on this. Skin clean up, cooling specular highlights, sharpening eyes and adding selective colour, a lot of painstaking dodging and burning to create depth in the face, replacement of the background, three to four LUTs and a B/w layer all set at low percentages but masked off the skin at least 50%, significant de-noising to create a waxy, painterly look with a hi-pass filter to bring back sharpness in the small detail and an unsharp mask to bring back contrast. a little liquifying where required. Think thats about it.

Hope that's helpful!

Thanks for that, very helpful indeed and sounds extremely daunting! I can obviously Google the individual components of that (and I'm aware of some already), but just curious if you would recommend any particular source for learning these techniques? Thanks again. Great photo

Edit : by source, I don't mean YouTube as such, but any specific video or author etc!

CelticRambler

I've found Philip McCordall's videos on lighting pretty good. Bite-sized examples with a dose of (British) humour thrown in for good measure.

Myksyk

Glyn Dewis is the guy I learned a lot of this stuff from. Good books, good online tutorials.

ED E

redape99 wrote: »

Puffin with Sand Eels by redape99_, on Flickr

Fat bastard that one!


Cracking shot, mind if I ask what kinda glass was that with? EXIF doesnt include it.

redape99

Thanks ED! It was taken with an F4 600mm but is also heavily cropped down from a 36mp raw file.

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redape99 wrote: »

Thanks ED! It was taken with an F4 600mm but is also heavily cropped down from a 36mp raw file.

When were you down there? Any idea when the puffins are gone?
Hoping to make a return trip this summer.

redape99

I was there on June 10th... flat calm on the trip over and some fog for an hour or two which added to the atmosphere... saw a good few puffins early on in the morning, none later on in the day.

Not sure when they start to leave the island but just looked back in Lightroom and I have photos of puffins there on 2nd July 2017 and 2nd July 2016.

fixXxer

awec wrote: »

Depends on the effect you want and what the water is doing.

If the water is moving you can get a nice Smokey effect:

Smoke on the water. #dublin #ireland #dunlaoghaire #longexposure #insta_ireland #icu_ireland #igersdublin #lovedublin #dublinbible #irishpassion #sea #coastline #dublinisblackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography by Simon Smyth, on Flickr

Or if its not moving much it can be smoothed out nicely:

Soft skies and hard granite. #dunlaoghaire #eastpier #dublin #ireland #insta_ireland #icu_ireland #nofilter #longexposure #lighthouse #sea #igersdublin #discoverdublin #dublinbible #dunlaoghairepier #huaweisnapys #lovedublin by Simon Smyth, on Flickr

When I started doing long exposures, I read this guide here. It's full of great advice, so I'd recommend reading it if you want to do more. Just another point, if you want to do it properly, I wouldn't use cheap filters on the lens. Your image is the light coming in through the lens, so the last thing you want to do is compromise it with cheap filters.

ED E

Instagram hashtag ****e has invaded Flickr now? The world is doomed....

fixXxer

You used to be able to share directly to flickr when sharing from instagram, that's all.

awec

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

Shadow, nine years ago by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

Love this one.

Do you take these with an unlit black background or are you adding the background in in post processing?

Adrian.Sadlier

Awec, most of these "on black" images are taken in natural light. The background is darkened down in LR and PS. Animals are a pain as they have so much fur and the fine details can't be handled by a simple selection. Usually I end up dodging in at 1000% or greater magnification.

A slow process....

awec

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

Awec, most of these "on black" images are taken in natural light. The background is darkened down in LR and PS. Animals are a pain as they have so much fur and the fine details can't be handled by a simple selection. Usually I end up dodging in at 1000% or greater magnification.

A slow process....

Ah, that must take forever. Great dedication, but the result is fantastic. We used to have a westie, they are brilliant dogs.

Interestingly, I actually just watched a Scott Kelby video today on a technique he uses to easily select hair in photoshop. It's a free video.

It's lesson 9 here:

https://members.kelbyone.com/course/skelby-learn-ps-one-hour/

Not sure if it's useful for you, but might be.

ED E

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

A slow process....

Jaysuuuuus. Thats a passion for the art.

Adrian.Sadlier

ED E wrote: »

Jaysuuuuus. Thats a passion for the art.

Or a sign of insanity

OldGoat

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

Or a sign of insanity

Probably easier just to shave the dog.

Morrisseeee

@ duckmusic (ref > post 2271) Coronas pic

Fantastic live band, I presume you had a Photographers PASS

duckmusic

Morrisseeee wrote: »

@ duckmusic (ref > post 2271) Coronas pic

Fantastic live band, I presume you had a Photographers PASS

I did, I was lucky enough to get a pass. They put on an amazing show!

New Home

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Hey! She took someone's nose! Hope she gave it back... :pac:

DaireQuinlan

redape99 wrote: »

Is this a Peregrine, or a Kestrel ? I was thinking maybe a female Peregrine, but it does look as though it's in a classic kestrel hover.

Wailin

Sorry redape but I agree with Daire, that's a female kestrel!

redape99

I'd say on reflection you're both right, thanks! The location is a small hill in Cheshire in England and it does have resident peregrines (for a few years now) but I've probably been seeing mostly kestrels... gonna review them all later!

Wailin

Lovely capture nonetheless!

awec

Yea it's class, the light creating the outline makes it really stand out.

redape99

Thanks lads! What about this taken in same place... still has a long tail but looks slightly different to the other pics?

keps

redape99 wrote: »

Thanks lads! What about this taken in same place... still has a long tail but looks slightly different to the other pics?

I'm sure the guys over here would love to see and comment and identify



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redape99

Good thinking Keps!