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Dread Head posted:These are shot at the wrong time of day, it looks like mid day sun which is very unflattering. Try to shoot around sunrise or sunset, the light will be softer and have a nice colour. Alternatively you can wait for a stormy overcast day and get some nice storm clouds. Yeah you are right it was the midday sun. Unfortunately most of my free time is between 11 and 3 which is all in the midday range  . Thanks for the criticism and advice - I love your landscapes.
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slearch posted:Yeah you are right it was the midday sun. Unfortunately most of my free time is between 11 and 3 which is all in the midday range Try to wait for a stormy or dramatically overcast day and you can easily get away with shooting in those times of the day. Landscape photos have a lot of variables that can be very difficult to control such as light, weather etc so a lot of it is just waiting for the right moment it can be very frustrating but when it all comes together it is great. If you are limited to those times try to find a location that the light can work for you for example a forested area can often still be shot during those times or some place that is shaded. Also as the days get shorter the ends of the days will get much closer to the time you have available.
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Whitezombi posted:Oh hells yes. Don't you DARE listen to anyone who says these are too dark. Get the color one printed on Kodak Endura Metallic and the black and white ones on true black and white paper immediately.
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Dread Head posted:These are shot at the wrong time of day, it looks like mid day sun which is very unflattering. Try to shoot around sunrise or sunset, the light will be softer and have a nice colour. Alternatively you can wait for a stormy overcast day and get some nice storm clouds. I'm not too sure I agree with you on this one. I agree that morning or evening light is of a much nicer colour and that storms can work too but for the subject of corn fields I think midday lighting can work quite well. The shots shown aren't all that dramatic or necessarily well composed but the first one does make me think of a country summer afternoon.
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Aargh posted:I'm not too sure I agree with you on this one. I agree that morning or evening light is of a much nicer colour and that storms can work too but for the subject of corn fields I think midday lighting can work quite well. The shots shown aren't all that dramatic or necessarily well composed but the first one does make me think of a country summer afternoon. What would you suggest as far as composition?
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slearch posted:Couple of a corn field South of Ottawa or you could do this BAM ruined image, but you get the idea 
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slearch posted:What would you suggest as far as composition? I assume you drove there? Or at least took some sort of beaten path and didn't just walk through miles and miles of corn? Maybe if there was a nice little section of winding road/dirt path/whatever you could try to include it in the shot. That's just an example though. Really, anything that can act as a focal point or just break up/lead the viewer into the image a bit would help a lot.
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I think the main problem here is that the corn field is hard to focus on, unlike the sunflower(?) field that was posted before were your eyes can focus nicely on the flower heads, the cornfield just looks like a green mush.
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Radbot posted:Oh hells yes. Don't you DARE listen to anyone who says these are too dark. Get the color one printed on Kodak Endura Metallic and the black and white ones on true black and white paper immediately. Thanks. I really need to get a bunch of prints made. I have yet to print any of my stuff.  
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Whitezombi posted:Thanks. I really need to get a bunch of prints made. I have yet to print any of my stuff. These are the best pictures in the thread.       Genderfluid fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Sep 4, 2009 |
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Twenties Superstar posted:Ektar is neat-o I am *REALLY* digging this image. It could use a bump in blacks and/or saturation to set it off!
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How do you guys process sunsets well? I can't even start because trying to mask out the sky is proving nigh impossible with this picture. Pay attention to the border between the mountains/sky and you'll see what I mean. Is it just a matter of going over it with a 5-pixel-wide brush for hours or is there a better method?
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JaundiceDave posted:jeez where is this? also the background could use a bit more contrast, imo. but it is my background at work now.
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Whitezombi posted:This shot is amazing, I stole it for my desktop and everytime I tab to desktop it blows me away. Care to share your processing technique on this masterpiece?
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fenner posted:This shot is amazing, I stole it for my desktop and everytime I tab to desktop it blows me away. Care to share your processing technique on this masterpiece? Thanks. I use Lightroom. I did a basic grayscale conversion from Lightroom and then made a ton of adjustments from there. I could give you all the numbers here but I will just link to the EXIF - it shows the exact numbers. I made a preset that I can email you if you use Lightroom. 
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Whitezombi posted:
Would love it  send it to fenner.no.u@googlemail.com thanks a lot and keep shooting
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fenner posted:Would love it Just sent it.
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guidoanselmi posted:jeez where is this? Thanks! It was at a quarry outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. Jean-Paul Fartre posted:I'm really wanting to go to Yosemite or Yellowstone, anyone got anything from there? Oh wow, these are really fantastic. The first one's almost abstract, and while I've seen many a blurred river shot, this one is really great. Good job! Do you have a flickr?
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Haven't posted in PAD/CC in forever: Here are a handful from Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota:   The kittens I would kill to live in a location to visit the ocean and desert as easily as I can visit TRNP. D:<
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I took some snapshots during my recent trip to Yangshuo, China. These aren't ideal landscape shots (most were taken during high noon), given my travel partner's intolerance for photography, but it does show off the incredible karst peaks there. It's an amazingly alien area, like out of a fantasy movie, and a great trip if you like photographing landscapes.    
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some of those scenes are really beautiful. those pictures could definitely benefit from some post.
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First attempts at landscapes, they are really really tough.    I have no idea what is going on in the third. That corner is just really dark, could the lens hood on my tamron 17-50 be causing that?
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Whitezombi posted:The view from Sandia Crest. Whitezombi - Are you filtering these somehow (with a filter or a red-biased channel mixer selection in Photoshop)? The skies look brilliant, perhaps I'm just not used to seeing such beautiful haze-free skies here in Southern California.
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Radbot posted:Whitezombi - Are you filtering these somehow (with a filter or a red-biased channel mixer selection in Photoshop)? The skies look brilliant, perhaps I'm just not used to seeing such beautiful haze-free skies here in Southern California. Nope. Part of it could be the way I process in Lightroom but the skies here in New Mexico pretty much look this way.
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Jean-Paul Fartre posted:
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The Finn posted:How long of an exposure is this and what did you do in post? It was 30 seconds. For post I lightened a bit, added saturation and removed dust spots. Sorry I don't have a flickr JaundiceDave. Thanks a lot for the comments though.
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Here's a couple of shots I took in Boracay, Philippines. All taken with an XTi with the kit lens. I'd love to hear any suggestions and tips. Looking at the pictures, I really wish I brought a sharper lens along.  
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I haven't really done much landscape but it's certainly something I'd like to get into more. I guess generally I have a hard time planning my life around waking up early enough to get to the scenic areas while the light's good. Here are some shots I took while on vacation in Switzerland this summer, I posted a few in PAD but I'd love to have some critique on them so I can know what to improve upon the next time I set out to shoot some mountains. Even telling me which you feel are strongest or if I overdid it with the processing will help me out a lot. I processed them all in Lightroom from RAW 5d MkII files. Most of them were shot with my 24mm prime f/1.4 so I was a little limited compositionally.        
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going to Sequoia NP on a several day trip on the high sierra trail (before a really stressful work month). if the weather cooperates, i'll have a bunch of good photos for this thread.
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Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, Canada. Feedback welcome, babby's first (well, first couple of months) post-processing here.
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