summerkl
Veteran
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
- Name
- Kevin
Unintentional B&W as the backlight caused the effect. I wanted the white sheer curtain to be a solid background.
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Just wonderful tones in that first one (I don't normally like lower-contrast stuff, but this is superb) and wonderful handling of depth of field there too ... there's such a vivid sense of vitality about the subjects, about the immortality of the moment
When I see a shot like this, I get a "I wonder why I bother" feeling about my own photography ...
It took me a minute...until I scrolled down, Traam.
Unintentional B&W as the backlight caused the effect. I wanted the white sheer curtain to be a solid background.
That's nice, how did you get the curtain behind it or does already happen to be in the right place?
Ahh - already in place but pulled taut so that the pleats didn't show ... also my wife wasn't home to see me stretching the sheers
I decided to convert some of this mornings shots of a rather disappointing sunrise at Start Point into somewhat moody Black and White images.
The graduated filter was applied in the software (Bibble Pro 5), I've yet to finish a project to make a holder for real graduated filters so that I can hold them in front of 12mm and 15mm Voigtlander lenses (no filter threads built into them), although the flexibility of the software grad makes me wonder if it's worth using the real thing.
The 'graduated' part looks like it extends a little into the ocean, separating the sky and ocean from the land, it would be hard or impossible to do that with an actual lens on the camera so the flexibility of post is a plus. On the other hand I was thinking that you'd need the filter to use in more extreme light differences, the only way to do it without actual filters would be to go into HDR territory which is fine by me I suppose.
I like it. I know some people have an innate hatred of anything that has any remote HDR to it, but I'm interested in the visual results. Honestly, I've liked every version of this picture so far, Peter. I'll have to check out your Flickr stream to see them nearer each other, I think, to compare.
The textures are superb!
Yes Traam, it would be good to be able to contour the edge of the filter effect, the sea has been darkened too much in the area around the two off shore rocks on the right hand edge.
I'm working on a home made mount to enable me to put ND grads in front of either the 12mm or 15mm Voigtlander lenses, neither of which have filter threads.
I like it. I know some people have an innate hatred of anything that has any remote HDR to it, but I'm interested in the visual results. Honestly, I've liked every version of this picture so far, Peter. I'll have to check out your Flickr stream to see them nearer each other, I think, to compare.
I'm surprised that the 12mm and 15mm don't have filter threads, one would've thought that one of the primary purposes that people get these wide angle lenses for are landscapes and that surely people would want to have some kind of polariser or other filter installed.
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I don't understand why people dislike HDR. I have no problems with it, it's just another photographic technique or style that is available to the photographer. I can't imagine that people would have the same criticism of a painter for exploring and utilising different painting techniques.