The composition and colors are wonderful. Especially the sunsets here.
(It has been ages since I've had the pleasure to visit scenic Cornwall.)
May I ask, do you have a set workflow for processing your images? Do you do much? -- thanks again, Martin
Martin these are the moon rise, I am on the south coast so travel to the north coast for sea sunsets. Sadly I did not bother to carry my tripod, wished I had and compromised on the shots because of it.
The processing for these was very quick, quicker than usual because of their simplistic nature, also at this time of night apart from the moon the dynamic range is very comfortable. Shot in Raw and a a little exposure and highlights adjustment in SPP, export 16bit Tiff, open from Cs6 Bridge into raw adjustment, where I did little, straightened horizon, again highlights and a touch of grad filter. Open and played a tiny bit with levels and a weeny boost too saturation as I shoot raw to be converted as neutral file, so colours are quite flat as in contrast. I dont use contrast though always either use levels for that or a grad layer set to saturation, far more subtle than the contrast slider which does alter the colours to much for my liking. I used to export for web but now resize myself with a dpi setting of 1 then the size either 1600 or 1400 pixels on the long side for landscape, depending where it is to be posted. I export that file from Cs6 using 'save as'. Save as Jpeg . Same procedure for most images but some I do spend a little bit of time on, maybe up to ten minutes or so, I am getting more lazy though, Not always keen to be at the computer screen as much as I used to be.
Julian, your last set is outstanding. The second photo looks like a Pete Turner album cover. I think the credit here goes to the photographer far more than the Foveon sensor.
Cadaver wrote:
Julian, your last set is outstanding. The second photo looks like a Pete Turner album cover. I think the credit here goes to the photographer far more than the Foveon sensor.
Thank you.
I think a good photograph is always down to the photographer as are bad ones. Good photographers shoot bad shots. Not so competent photographers sometimes shoot good shots, the better photographers are simply more consistent and yes gear has very little relevance as long as it is appropriate for what you wish to capture. I use the Sigma's as I was intrigued by them initially, love their rustic raw output, quirks, their obvious resolution and superb lenses, in such a tiny package. But Had I had my 5D, E-M5 or Nex, I hope I'd have come away with similar images and probably would have.
Looks as if I am a lone Sigma user at times.
