Official Photography Thread: Vol. ICan'tFindTheLastOne

[Fong$tarr]

Old Photo:

New One:

So I went back near the Pier to skate and decided to take a better pic of it with some camera adjustments. I still have no idea what I am doing but the whitebalance has been fixed a little but there is still hints of blue. Came out decent but it could be better.





And check out these photos from another Fatlace blogger in Greece. It shows I need a new lens badly and need to stop with this stich assist crap. Dope stuff:

 

[j2o]

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Wow that looks like it was taken with a digital camera Mr Bing. Came out nice.

Fong see that looks 10x better with Tungsten. For me more blueish > yellowish.

Peace.

 

[ebayologist]

Originally Posted by j2o

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Wow that looks like it was taken with a digital camera Mr Bing. Came out nice.

Peace.

Still a little on the fence about it photographically. But in application (for vinyl sleeve for "Homecoming by Mr. West") it should workquite well just part of me feels like it what little has changed over the reshoots etc may or may not have been worth it but oh well... what's done isdone.

 

[relevant sx]

c&c always welcomed and sought out for

 

[14tez]

@ those Greece pics

3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Rebel XT, 50mm f/1.8

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ptez

 

[nayokochan]

^^ I like, very clean.

 

[relevant sx]

14tez, how do you get the lighting in that shot to come out like that?? i've been trying to get an answer to this question for so long

 

[irpstakid]

^^^ He uses lightroom to edit his pictures.

 

[crank dat niketalk]

Originally Posted by 14tez

@ those Greece pics

3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Rebel XT, 50mm f/1.8

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ptez

chapman stick FTW

I'll buy one when I get that engineering/photographer job

yo EBAYOLOGISY - what do you mean "3 different nights spend up on my buildings roof, $48 worth in film and film processing, the O.G. stitched filethat's 784.1MB and 252.2 Megapixels that crashed my 4GB Duo Core MBP 4 times (I've never gotten it to crash like that even once...)"
did you leave the exposure on for 3 days ? lol IDK that much about long shots. I know astrophotography does like 5-min shots

my SLR doesn't do that

minolta 3000i ....

What film SLR do you recommend for long shots ? As there any technique to long shots ? Like any accessories or tips ? besides a tripod duh lol

 

[irpstakid]

^^^ He spent 3 nights trying to get the right shots.
Hence, 3 different nights.

And I just noticed that picture, hahha.

 

[14tez]

Originally Posted by irpstakid

^^^ He uses lightroom to edit his pictures.

yessir

 

[ebayologist]

^^Yeah, just 3 separate times. It was shot on this Ektachrome tungsten balanced slide film that's real sensitive. Slide film to begin with is reallysensitive exposure wise, the stuff I used is even more. First time it was underexposed. 2nd time the exposures from negative to negative weren't perfectlyeven. 3rd time technically a little over exposed but it worked for what I wanted it for. While that film is made for shooting at night it's not made forlong exposures so it's bit of guessing game on how to do it right. Just to give you an idea with normal negative film you'd double the exposure timeafter 2 seconds because of resprosity failure but I was in fact halving the exposure times and the film is technically overexposed because it's really notmade for long exposures.

For long exposures on film slr all it really needs is (b) bulb shutterspeed and you're good, I'd use a low iso film like 160VC would be nice, a lockingcable release so you don't have to stand there holding it like +@%@%@%, and double the exposure if its longer than 2 seconds with regular negative film.The problem is that every negative film I've ever seen is daylight balanced so it's even bigger pain in the !*@ to correct that if it even correctsproperly against the city lights of a nightscape.

 

[rowenarrow]

Ok so I am going to give this a shot. Both shots I used my Canon Xti. I am new to this so comments are welcome. Anything that helps me get better I would enjoyto read....

 

[ross is here]

money shot too...

 

[Sinner]

Generally speaking, do you guys tweak your photos with PhotoShop or are your photos 'as-is'? some of the photos here are super-sharp and the only way Ican get mine to look like those is to do some PSing afterwards...

 

[mytsharp]

I leave mine as-is.

The only PS'ing I do is my tbiii[emoji]169[/emoji].

The lens is sharp enough, no need to make it look grainy.

My-T.

 

[Fong$tarr]

I tweak out the colors on all my photos. I think it gives it that extra kick but 99.9% of all the shots I do are all messed with in PS. I would never mess withthe sharpness though. If a photo is blurry to me, then it's just a bad photo. Most of the time its the brightness/contrast, saturation, and colorselection. I know it goes against the grain of real traditional photography, but I think it's the design side of me that needs to always adjust stuff. AlsoI crop almost every picture I take.......

 

[ross is here]

Originally Posted by Mr Fongstarr

I tweak out the colors on all my photos. I think it gives it that extra kick but 99.9% of all the shots I do are all messed with in PS. I would never mess with the sharpness though. If a photo is blurry to me, then it's just a bad photo. Most of the time its the brightness/contrast, saturation, and color selection. I know it goes against the grain of real traditional photography, but I think it's the design side of me that needs to always adjust stuff. Also I crop almost every picture I take.......

Is PS considered cheating? Because I was reading an article on the photography magazine and it sounded like it's ok to do it...well not gonna likeevery picture I've posted so far have all been enhanced using photoshop. Here's what I normally do: Crop, Adjust the brightness/contrast,highlights/shadows, exposure, color balance or the channel mixer.

here's and example:
unedited...

Ps'ed...

This photo was one of the first pictures I took when I first started, which was last november...I'm still learning and just hoping to get better.

 

[seattle206]

the only things is mess with in ps is contrast, & color balance.

 

[relevant sx]

Originally Posted by 14tez

Originally Posted by irpstakid

^^^ He uses lightroom to edit his pictures.

yessir

jw, is there a specific name or term for that type of photo altering?

 

[irpstakid]

^^^ Lightroom is a program in the computer, like Photoshop, used to edit pictures.


Went to a car show yesterday, I'll post more pics later.

 

[relevant sx]

Originally Posted by irpstakid

^^^ Lightroom is a program in the computer, like Photoshop, used to edit pictures.

yeah, but i meant the type of effect that was put on the picture.. such as these, shown below.. is there anyway i can edit my pictures to look like that inCS3?

 

[kingcrux31]

First time doing a panorama shot using my G9 with the help of Canon photo stitch software.

Not perfect but I'm happy with the result.

 

[ross is here]

Originally Posted by RELEVANT SX

Originally Posted by irpstakid

^^^ Lightroom is a program in the computer, like Photoshop, used to edit pictures.

yeah, but i meant the type of effect that was put on the picture.. such as these, shown below.. is there anyway i can edit my pictures to look like that in CS3?

you can probably use the Lighting Effects filter....

 

[nayokochan]

Pictures taken at Sakura Matsuri at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden earlier today. Now I have to wait an entire month to upload more pics to my Flickr because ofthese...

Sorry for the OD sizes.
Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated.