Random Photos : Part 3

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Adz The Rat

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Thursday 11th October 2012
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Excuse the quality but this was caught on my GoPro and its hosted on photo bucket, but it made me smile.....


...Mole...

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Thursday 11th October 2012
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Chaos by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

lloyd h

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172 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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One from a low level location in Scotland..

Overlooking St Marys Loch by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr

...Mole...

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Thursday 11th October 2012
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Split by ScottAMurray, on Flickr

GFWilliams

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206 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Got a D800 today, here's a test shot out the window:


full res for those interested:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8078244756_294e...


LongQ

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232 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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GFWilliams said:
Got a D800 today, here's a test shot out the window:


full res for those interested:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8078244756_294e...
Interesting.

What was the lens?

It's probably nothing but ... pixel peeping the full res image I saw a white spot that looked out of keeping with its surroundings. Given the resolution available and the impressive DR I reckon the sensors need to be perfect so a check for possible flaws would be sensible. Odd challenged pixels on the periphery of a frame are not usually a problem but this spot, though small, was almost right in the centre. Might be a genuine white object of course but ... if not it's best to know now and make a decision about what to do.

Other than that ... a great new challenge to enjoy!


GFWilliams

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Friday 12th October 2012
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LongQ said:
Interesting.

What was the lens?

It's probably nothing but ... pixel peeping the full res image I saw a white spot that looked out of keeping with its surroundings. Given the resolution available and the impressive DR I reckon the sensors need to be perfect so a check for possible flaws would be sensible. Odd challenged pixels on the periphery of a frame are not usually a problem but this spot, though small, was almost right in the centre. Might be a genuine white object of course but ... if not it's best to know now and make a decision about what to do.

Other than that ... a great new challenge to enjoy!
Nikon 24-70

I can't see this white spot, can you point out where it is?


markmullen

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233 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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RobDickinson

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253 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr

RobbieKB

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182 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
Only you could justify not being convinced! I think it's excellent. You just don't get that light around here frown

LongQ

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232 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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GFWilliams said:
Nikon 24-70

I can't see this white spot, can you point out where it is?
Thanks for the lens info.

The "spot", whatever it is, is at x: 4383 y: 2713 or thereabouts.

Or, to put it another way, in the large conifer and to the left of the trunk just over half way up is a largish grey bird - probably a pigeon. Find that and drop down the image to the lower edge of the thick set of branches below it. Look left along the lower edge about half as far as the edge is below the bird. There is a fairly large light spot that seems to be out of context with its surroundings - i.e. it has approximately the same RGB values as the sky area and some of the white flowers along the path and stuff visible through obvious gaps in the foliage to brighter items in the background BUT doesn't seem to be the same sort of "show through" detail. So it looks out of place and worthy of a check.

On the other hand it occurred to me just now that the pigeon appears to be preening and it's just possible it's a feather or something falling to the ground. In which case that is absurdly good resolution. (Or, of course, rubbish jpg if one can see the details of the feather in an original RAW file .... wink )

If it IS a feather and the resolution IS what is seems to be then it's just possible the feather structure detail may be visible in RAW before any processing is applied .... That would be remarkable.


RobDickinson

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Friday 12th October 2012
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RobbieKB said:
RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
Only you could justify not being convinced! I think it's excellent. You just don't get that light around here frown
heh Cheers, the light is nice, just there isnt really any identifiable subject.

RobbieKB

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Friday 12th October 2012
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RobDickinson said:
RobbieKB said:
RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
Only you could justify not being convinced! I think it's excellent. You just don't get that light around here frown
heh Cheers, the light is nice, just there isnt really any identifiable subject.
Yeah I know what you mean. If you were further removed from the hills it would be perfect but it's great none-the-less!

How'd you like the 7D? I've been toying with getting one for quite a while now.

RobDickinson

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253 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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7D was pretty good, better body than the 5d2 apart from the sensor.

LongQ

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Friday 12th October 2012
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RobDickinson said:
RobbieKB said:
RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
Only you could justify not being convinced! I think it's excellent. You just don't get that light around here frown
heh Cheers, the light is nice, just there isnt really any identifiable subject.
Have you considered cropping a chunk off the right?

I can see why you have sat on it rather than binned it. Great light and information that somehow doesn't quite work at your standards. (Would be fine for me though!)

I think the structure doesn't quite come off (hence the suggested crop) and the extremes of the DR are maybe too extreme without a little more middle ground. Any chance of a little selective colour based lightening in the darker areas? Something to make it more cohesive without taking away too much of the drama.

Just some thoughts as a starting point for seeing it differently - which you probably need to do if you are not convinced by it already.

...Mole...

2,780 posts

190 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
If this was mine I wouldve cropped the majority of the sky out with a 17:6 crop. and flipped the image horizontally I feel this emphasises the pattern in the hills caused by the low lying sun that was fighting for attention over that huge cloud in the uncropped image.

I like the Dark shadows in this, There is a lack of dark shadows in a lot of landscape work nowadays, adds a bit of mystery to an image for me.

Something like this (very rough as I only have Gimp at work frown )



that's just my view though

Edited by ...Mole... on Friday 12th October 11:34

LongQ

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Friday 12th October 2012
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...Mole... said:
RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
If this was mine I wouldve cropped the majority of the sky out with a 17:6 crop. and flipped the image horizontally I feel this emphasises the pattern in the hills caused by the low lying sun that was fighting for attention over that huge cloud in the uncropped image.

I like the Dark shadows in this, There is a lack of dark shadows in a lot of landscape work nowadays, adds a bit of mystery to an image for me.

Something like this (very rough as I only have Gimp at work frown )



that's just my view though

Edited by ...Mole... on Friday 12th October 11:34
An interesting result.

Why is flipping it important to the composition? I ask because as a piece of landscape "art" there is no reason not to flip it but as a photographic record of a place that (local) people can visit flipping may create some adverse responses. So I'm intrigued to understand how it makes a difference.

RobbieKB

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182 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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LongQ said:
...Mole... said:
RobDickinson said:
Oldish one I've sat on for ages. Still not convinced.


Peninsula sunset by robjdickinson, on Flickr
If this was mine I wouldve cropped the majority of the sky out with a 17:6 crop. and flipped the image horizontally I feel this emphasises the pattern in the hills caused by the low lying sun that was fighting for attention over that huge cloud in the uncropped image.

I like the Dark shadows in this, There is a lack of dark shadows in a lot of landscape work nowadays, adds a bit of mystery to an image for me.

Something like this (very rough as I only have Gimp at work frown )



that's just my view though

Edited by ...Mole... on Friday 12th October 11:34
An interesting result.

Why is flipping it important to the composition? I ask because as a piece of landscape "art" there is no reason not to flip it but as a photographic record of a place that (local) people can visit flipping may create some adverse responses. So I'm intrigued to understand how it makes a difference.
In the western world because we read from left to right allegedly if you have the more interesting content on the right hand side of a photo the viewer will spend longer looking at it and love it 67% more.

The second half of that might not be strictly true

...Mole...

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Friday 12th October 2012
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LongQ said:
An interesting result.

Why is flipping it important to the composition? I ask because as a piece of landscape "art" there is no reason not to flip it but as a photographic record of a place that (local) people can visit flipping may create some adverse responses. So I'm intrigued to understand how it makes a difference.
I wouldnt say it's important just personal preference to me. I like it flipped as my eye follows the image down the shadowy hill in to the focal point of the sun bathed hills in the background quite nicely.

I tend to flip images if I feel it's needed for the composition as I don't see my photos as being records of places. However I would be pretty apprehensive of flipping an image of an area that is particularly well known.

LongQ

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Friday 12th October 2012
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...Mole... said:
LongQ said:
An interesting result.

Why is flipping it important to the composition? I ask because as a piece of landscape "art" there is no reason not to flip it but as a photographic record of a place that (local) people can visit flipping may create some adverse responses. So I'm intrigued to understand how it makes a difference.
I wouldnt say it's important just personal preference to me. I like it flipped as my eye follows the image down the shadowy hill in to the focal point of the sun bathed hills in the background quite nicely.

I tend to flip images if I feel it's needed for the composition as I don't see my photos as being records of places. However I would be pretty apprehensive of flipping an image of an area that is particularly well known.
So why doesn't that work with the same image unflipped? (And yes I am aware of Left brain/Right brain responses, the effects of blind spots and so on and page layout issues in publishing but most of those are not really of concern for a stand alone landscape image surely?)

If it's the reading left to right thing - as Robbie proposes - presumably there are a lot of people around who would find the image more appealing the way it is? And many who probably wouldn;t particualrly notice which way it was oriented.

All of which makes this a rather challenging pastime well beyond the technical aspects of taking a snap. wink
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