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Mike Litoris

awec wrote: »

This is class.

You had some Monday, Mike!

Thanks guys. First time this year I was up before sunrise. I was off work and actually thought it was Sunday. I was swanning around the Dublin coast oblivious to what day it was until I hit mental traffic in the docs.

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awec wrote: »

This is class.

You had some Monday, Mike!

Have to agree, great photo

Wailin

Church of Christ the King

That is top class redape. Superb processing.

awec

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Another one from Monday morning.

Wild grass by Anthony Murray, on Flickr

This is class.

You had some Monday, Mike!

PaulieC

ED E wrote: »

My OCD hates you.

not straightness ?

ED E

PaulieC wrote: »

My OCD hates you.

Myksyk

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!

wersal gummage

Myksyk,

If you see this.... How did you you create that look in that portrait you posted? I've seen they style obviously before and when done well (as you have) it looks very good. Is it elaborate set up with flash and background screens etc, or post processing, or both?!

Thanks!

awec

Mike Litoris wrote: »

I think Judge uses multiple exposures. One might be a long exposure? I could be totally wrong though!! He posted some stuff on his technique a while ago. It's a great effect all the same.

I went and found it for anyone else curious. Sounds like a lot of work

Great photo Judge (again)!

Judge wrote: »

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).

Mike Litoris

awec wrote: »

The Flickr info must be wrong then, it says exposure was 1/160? Is flickr often inaccurate there?

I think Judge uses multiple exposures. One might be a long exposure? I could be totally wrong though!! He posted some stuff on his technique a while ago. It's a great effect all the same.

awec

fixxxer wrote: »

It's cloud moving during a long exposure.

The Flickr info must be wrong then, it says exposure was 1/160? Is flickr often inaccurate there?

fixXxer

It's cloud moving during a long exposure.

awec

Judge wrote: »

Irish Management Institute

This may be a silly question but how do you get the effect of the rays of light coming from behind the building?

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Keps.....No birds ???? What's happened to you?

https://flic.kr/p/27o8Gpb

awec

dinneenp wrote: »

Many might find this a boring photo. There's something about the circles that drew me to take the photo

Very thought provoking.

Who eats like this? The crumbs suggest there was toast, but the beans remain untouched. Beans and toast, but eaten separately? This is crazy. And then there's the ketchup, it looks relatively untouched.

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Wailin wrote: »

West Cork is glorious, particularly the Beara peninsula.

Agreed. Stayed in castletown bere this week:)

Wailin

West Cork is glorious, particularly the Beara peninsula.

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Cooper coast is a fantastic coastline.
I'm down in West cork this week and it's a dream.
2 kids in tow doesn't make for frequent photo stops unfortunately:(

Wailin

Portlawslim wrote: »

Thanks Tony, your a gent. Walked that way a couple of years back, need to revisit it again. Give me a shout next time your down this way and if I'm free we can head out for a shoot?

Yeah nice one George, definitely. I'll give you a heads up next time I'm coming down and if you're free, great!

Portlawslim

Thanks Tony, your a gent. Walked that way a couple of years back, need to revisit it again. Give me a shout next time your down this way and if I'm free we can head out for a shoot?

Wailin

Portlawslim wrote: »

Wailin;106954726Copper coast phone pic. Definitely coming back to this location with my dslr, absolutely stunning coastline along this location.

Copper Coast, Co. Waterford
Where was this taken Wailin?

It's between bunmahon and ballydowane George. There's a few beautiful spots along here to photograph. Access is not easy though, its across farmland and walking along precarious cliffs. Park the car at the gate here (without blocking of course!) and just follow the track until you reach the cliffs. Then head east of ballydowane for a few fields.
Dropped pin
near Unnamed Road, Ballydowane East, Co. Waterford

https://goo.gl/maps/SDaKJje6m6A2

Edit: Here is the exact location for that particular sea stack.

Dropped pin
near Ireland

https://goo.gl/maps/uJpWcgUXMHT2

Portlawslim

Wailin;106954726Copper coast phone pic. Definitely coming back to this location with my dslr, absolutely stunning coastline along this location.

Copper Coast, Co. Waterford
Where was this taken Wailin?

Simply Red

Hope nobody minds me asking this here.

I'm looking for a picture posted years(10 years maybe) ago in one of the random photo threads. It was a photo of an elderly man standing outside what I think was Holles Street Maternity Hospital smoking right beside a no-smoking sign. Long shot I know but just wanted to chance it to see if anyone remembered.

Thanks

ED E

Comhra wrote: »

[URL="[url=https://flic.kr/p/24aKJTs][img]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/974/40148145400_2a9de0749c_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/24aKJTs]Achill Island roadway-1[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/72063932@N00/]Tipp55[/url], on Flickr"][/url]

Achill Island.

1000px.....

Mackerel and Avocado Sandwich

magicbastarder wrote: »

heh, was that the same field my friends were in, i wonder? they were saying it was full of photographers.

I just took a quick snap with an iPhone 5!

magicbastarder

heh, was that the same field my friends were in, i wonder? they were saying it was full of photographers.

Mackerel and Avocado Sandwich

This is taken from Greystones on Sunday. That weird cloud just kind of enveloped Killiney and nowhere else.

Wailin

Isaias Warm Self-denial wrote: »

Where was the Bear Island photo taken from?

Click on the photo and check the comments. I added a link to the location as someone asked the same.

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Where was the Bear Island photo taken from?

Mike Litoris

awec wrote: »

The detail on the dog hair is incredible.

How many goes did it get to get him to sit like that though?

He normally wont sit still for a second but he was in another world!

I fired off about 6 shots hand held using live view low down from the kitchen. It really shouldn't be that sharp. The lack of an AA filter on the D5500 helps too with sharpness.....and photoshop!