Photography?

[TheWalletInspector]

Pretty cool photo, imo.

:-)

but is it me or does Spiderman appear to have a large red arrow pointing down to his crotch

:shock:

Can't say I was looking.

[villavipers]

Took a few a while back on a sunny day in Birmingham, some of them came out nice I like the last one the most.

[villavipers]

In photography you should try not to focus on the negatives...

unless its a film camera!

AHA! you see what i did there! negatives..film camera...film strips...photos!....:shock: I'll get my coat.

[bickster]

Righto, playing around with CS5 has finally inspired me to get on with My Australia / Singapore photos

Here's the first one

[bickster]

[Designer1]

That's a great shot fella.

[MrWeedMcGrass]

I suck at this but what the hell.

[Killeen30]

Both taken in Belfast last October.

[Gingerlad]

I took this in my garden with a point and shoot type, for some reason I really like it.

[rjw63]

I took this in my garden with a point and shoot type, for some reason I really like it.

Feck, you even like ginger-ish insects!

[leviramsey]

Teh Grauniad seems to be taking after the Boston Globe in the photography stakes, with the added feature of analyzing the composition etc. of news photos.

[roonst83]

Here's a few I took in NYC in January:

oh and here is my website

[Grant(aka_eddy)]

They look quite heavily touched up, which I'm not generally a fan of, however they're shots to be proud of I think Roonst. Great work.

Quality on the last few pages has been really good and particularly liked the set in Brum a page or so back.

[bickster]

roonst, you're clearly using some HDR techniques, care to share them?

[roonst83]

roonst, you're clearly using some HDR techniques, care to share them?

Absolutly Bicks. You're right those shots were edited using HDR techniques. Basically I had auto bracketted the original shot so that it created images that were both under and over exposed. However, my camera (Nikon D40) does not have this function built into the camera unlike alot of SLR cameras, therefore I manually over and exposed each shot. From here I used the software Photomatix which allows you to tonal map your images after combining all the exposed shots into one image. Then I took some time editing the many features within Photomatix such as saturation, strength, luminosity, shadows, white balance etc until I was happy with the final image. The I processed it.

Im relatively new to HDR but it can change the way you think about certain scenes/photo opportunities. For example, I was out running the other week and passed this disused barn (see below), ive probably run past this plenty of times - but after experimenting with HDR I could see an opportunity for making an interesting composition, so I went with my camera to shoot it then edited it using HDR techniques.

[AVFCLaura]

Gorgeous pictures Roonst.

[mjmooney]

Those NYC pictures remind me strongly of some of the "post-apocalypse" artwork that abounds on the net. Was that deliberate?

[roonst83]

Those NYC pictures remind me strongly of some of the "post-apocalypse" artwork that abounds on the net. Was that deliberate?

I didnt set out with that in mind no, but when I was post-editing I chosethe effect that I felt worked the best in HDR and it turned out to be more dramatic, atmospheric and, as you say, 'post apolocalyptic' than expectd. The barn image, however, I always had in mind to create in a creepy and sinsiter way.

Ps, thanks AVFCLaura. :winkold:

[bickster]

OK Technical question, what is photomatix like if you only use one raw file and then create 3 images, one two stops under, one correct exposure, one 2 stops over?

[roonst83]

OK Technical question, what is photomatix like if you only use one raw file and then create 3 images, one two stops under, one correct exposure, one 2 stops over?

This is what I did with the photos you can see above - because my camera doesnt have the function to autobracket. As you say, I chose two under, one correct and two over (sometimes 3 under and over to maximise detail). My original file was a RAW file and then the other images thereafter were .Tiff files (16 bit).