Random Photos : Part 3
Discussion
River Muick by Brent Leport, on Flickr
Not sure about the black and white but the scene was mainly shades of brown anyway!
rehab71 said:
This theard makes me want to give up 
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Everyone started somewhere! (
There are lots of talented folk on here sure, but what is great is that they don't mind explaining how they made particular shots - sharing their knowledge.
I'm sure if everyone looked at the shots that took a few years back they can see the progression - just need to keep inspired, motivated and surrounded with the tools and knowledge to improve your work
flat-planedCrank said:
Everyone started somewhere!
There are lots of talented folk on here sure, but what is great is that they don't mind explaining how they made particular shots - sharing their knowledge.
I'm sure if everyone looked at the shots that took a few years back they can see the progression - just need to keep inspired, motivated and surrounded with the tools and knowledge to improve your work
Aye, this is the kind of thing I was taking 7-8 years ago!There are lots of talented folk on here sure, but what is great is that they don't mind explaining how they made particular shots - sharing their knowledge.
I'm sure if everyone looked at the shots that took a few years back they can see the progression - just need to keep inspired, motivated and surrounded with the tools and knowledge to improve your work
Whole Lotta Foam by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr
Neath River by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr
Sgwd Gwladus by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr
Riding The Wave by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr
LongQ said:
Until quite recently the more extreme requirements of distortion correction were not handled at all well by 'standard editors, at least not for professional work. Probably well enough for 6x4 prints and 1024 pixel images though.
However the advent of ever crappier lenses (small and light and easier to make) that require software fixes in the PP process to be usable has led to (or has been enabled by) the ability of software to fix the crud. This is helped, to en extent, by lots of pixels in the sensors 'cos you can hack stuff around and throw stuff away and you still have "enough" information to reconstruct something that fudges the issue but will look acceptable for most purposes. However what you can't get is a movement of the plane of focus. Not yet anyway.
The T&S lenses for SLR type cameras are intended to address the sort of functionality that old style 'bellows' cameras provided.
Try this as another starting point.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/tilt-sh...
However the advent of ever crappier lenses (small and light and easier to make) that require software fixes in the PP process to be usable has led to (or has been enabled by) the ability of software to fix the crud. This is helped, to en extent, by lots of pixels in the sensors 'cos you can hack stuff around and throw stuff away and you still have "enough" information to reconstruct something that fudges the issue but will look acceptable for most purposes. However what you can't get is a movement of the plane of focus. Not yet anyway.
The T&S lenses for SLR type cameras are intended to address the sort of functionality that old style 'bellows' cameras provided.
Try this as another starting point.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/tilt-sh...
RobDickinson said:
If you want to shoot that with say a 17-40L instead (at 24mm where its decently sharp) you would first have to set it to about 18-20mm because you need to overshoot the foreground otherwise you loose it with perspective correct, then you point the camera up so get convergent verticals. Shoot, load into photoshop and fix the distortion from the lens (-5% resolution) then fix the verticals which further reduces the resolution along the top by about 30% or so. I'd be surprised if you ended up with something with half the real resolution even before you take into account the difference in lens quality.
Thanks Gents Rob - veering off topic here but is the 17-40 not sharp at the wide end then? I am contemplating a move to ff and it would need to involve a 17-40 as I seem to shoot quite a lot at 10-15mm on a crop so a 24-105 would not be wide enough I think
Your input would be appreciated
Adz The Rat said:
Is that flare in the top left added in post? Because I think it detracts, by overpowering the main subject, from what is otherwise a really nice picture of a great car.CommanderJameson said:
Adz The Rat said:
Is that flare in the top left added in post? Because I think it detracts, by overpowering the main subject, from what is otherwise a really nice picture of a great car.
3 (F) Squadron 100 Year Anniversary Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 by lloydh.co.uk, on Flickr
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