Resurrecting this thread in light of the 'alt monthly competition' thread here https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1129796 which I think is a good idea, but I like this one because it's a chance for the alt community to showcase its better images that otherwise might be overlooked if one isn't interested in a specific equipment set...
So to continue, here's one from a week back in June that I considered for the monthly competition...
I was out for a downtown walk just prior to an 'art crawl' and liked this view of a parking garage entrance with the yellow lines. Just as I framed it the guy poked his head around the corner. Somewhat surprised by this I immediately made the image. I think he heard the camera, looked up and pulled back. I waited a few more minutes but he didn't reappear Luckily the first and only shot worked out OK. M9 with 50 Lux ASPH ISO 320 1/125 f/1.4 with minor tweaks in LR3 for WB and some dodging to pull out detail in the guy.
From last Friday. Roaring Fork Motor Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Galtinburg Tennessee. I love the peacefulness it conveys even though the circumstances were challenging. It was the last day of our family vacation, we had rafted 7 miles earlier in the day, had a brew in the local microbrewery in Gatlinburg and later header up the trail. I was whipped, perched on a boulder hoping my tripod was stable...tired. Kids driving my wife and I crazy. And a steady stream of cards coming down the road on the left. It was getting late and we had to drive back to Asheville as we were heading back to Pennsylvania the next day.
http://www.devine.us/img/s1/v46/p576995449-5.jpg
Canon 5D Mark II
Zeiss 21mm Distagon ZE
6s @ f/11 / ISO 100
Singh-Ray LB Warming Polarizer
Cropped to 4/3rds
Oh whoops, sorry for missing the rules :-) It's a Nex-7 with the 21 Super-Elmar. I saw the bird fly close over my head and had the impulse to get a BIF, then laughed because I had a 21mm lens on. But when it landed, I saw the pole, lines, and bird against a completely solid blue sky and thought why not, and took the pic anyway. The original color isn't bad, but I still found myself clicking on B&W and then adding some highlight/shadow tones anyway.
Here's another B&W conversion, from today. Probably the best shot of the day as well. I wanted to get the shoes hanging on the line as well as the street fair in the background, thought it'd be a nice juxtaposition. I didn't even notice how well the lines matched up w/ the sidewalk until I saw it on the computer later! :-) This is also the Nex-7 and 21SE. B&W in PS3.6, some more subtle split toning. The sky was overcast today so it generally looked pretty horrible, so B&W was an outcome of that. The contrast was also too high so this has a lot of fill light and exposure is up 0.7, brightness and contrast turned down.
briantho wrote:
Bumping again, and adding a pic of the local church. Nice heavy clouds and sunshine allowed me to get quite a few good landscape shots monday morning on my way to work.
LeadyGonzales wrote:
.. this is soo nice, why ? is it the biogon or the NEX ?
Thank you Leady, It's not the camera or the lens, it's the photographer
Well OK, maybe the gear does help a little. In this case though I think the secret is the composition of the image. I wish I had a better eye for composing when I'm actually out taking photos. To get this comp, I had to crop heavily in PP. You can't tell by looking at the image on the web, but look at the image below, and you get the idea. It will be problematic to make a large print of this image because of the heavy crop.
FlyPenFly wrote:
I really need to watch a few LR training videos.
Seriously, if you think the "golden equation" will make you take better images, you need to think more before tripping the shutter. Not watching more LR training videos.
Makten wrote:
Seriously, if you think the "golden equation" will make you take better images, you need to think more before tripping the shutter. Not watching more LR training videos.
It may not make you take better images, but knowledge about composition rules definitely can make your taken images better. Composing before tripping the shutter is of course optimal.
Makten wrote:
Seriously, if you think the "golden equation" will make you take better images, you need to think more before tripping the shutter. Not watching more LR training videos.
Why wouldn't you use the golden equation in some of your images?
that I considered for the monthly competition...
