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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · My little intro

Morning all, got some great advice in the Nature section about imaging birds and I felt I should post a couple here as well, seeing as how I'm a landscape shooter first and birds second

I live on the East Coast in New Brunswick, Canada right on the Fundy Coast and the area provides a million and one places for shooting. Just thought I'd post a few as an introduction.

Been lurking for years here, just blown away by most of you. Figured it's time to grow a set and post some + get more active here instead of just viewing

Feel free to CC, thank you in advance for any.

This one was when I went back to Calgary to work for a bit in 2012-14. Just south of a little area called Keoma. We used to go here for star viewing.
https://s23.postimg.org/6tmg2bxzv/IN2_9985.jpg
Pentax K-7

This is overlooking the Millidgeville Docks in our city's North End.
https://s28.postimg.org/3m915875p/IN2_7784.jpg
Pentax K-7

Just a little spot amongst the hundreds like this you can find all over the area here.
https://s24.postimg.org/ma9c2n60l/IMGP3713.jpg
Pentax K-7

Dec 21, 2016 at 08:55 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · My little intro

The first two have a really weird purple cast on the top portion of the image. Were you using filters? Both images would benefit from cropping out the top portions were the color cast is dominating. The last one seems a bit yellow all over. Cooling down the white balance would probably fix it. Thanks for sharing and don't get discouraged.

Charlie

Dec 24, 2016 at 03:22 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · My little intro

Welcome. Really like the second.

I visited the bay of Fundy area about 45 years ago and it is still on my list for a return visit.

Dec 24, 2016 at 07:45 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · My little intro

CheechzeppLn, yea filters. This was originally a B+W image, I had B+W in mind when I shot it. I've recently been going through older stuff and maybe giving new life to some shots I passed on before.

Cropping, unless it's a bird pic, I don't do it for any reason. I shoot for full frame, non-negotiable sorry.

#1 Is just about 4 years old now. I wanted to see if it worked in colour. Now, I'm not a big proponent of processing - I hardly do any. So, selectively picking parts of a scene and correcting - I'm not too savvy yet. Still stuck in the film days where processing wasn't anything like it is now. I still try to shoot pure, however, I also do try to stay current with editing techniques. I do practice the stuff, just need to do some more I guess

#2 SOOC. No filters, 1 second exposure

#3 ooooooo this one is almost 10 years old now lol. It had a horrible blue cast when shot, guess I over corrected too much.

Thank you for your input

Dec 27, 2016 at 07:28 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · My little intro

Hi VeeJay,

Welcome to the landscape forum! I like your compositions overall, and I think I prefer #1 except for the processing (or lack thereof). Since you've ended up with strange casts in #1 and #3, are you editing on a color calibrated monitor?

The magenta cast in the clouds, and the green grasses look oversaturated like they've been colorized rather than part of the original scene. The contrast seems to have been pushed too much as well. The windswept grass and the slow shutter speed can definitely give a sense of the mood, but it doesn't usually work well for me.

For #2 the color in the sky is nice, but a small nit is that the bottom should either have more shoreline or less. It feels ever so slightly cut off. Otherwise I really like the silhouette and the clouds.

#3 doesn't do too much for me as it feels pretty generic (as you already stated from its description). The shape is ok, but there isn't anything there that makes me want to explore the image.

For your philosophy on photography, you may have reasons for wanting "straight out of camera" and no cropping, but without explanation I find them both confusing. Refusing to crop a photo to its detriment leaves you with uncompromised images that are less good than they could be. Why?

I am a big proponent of naturalistic processing, but the SOOC, no filter, pure shooting, whatever other tag just says I don't know, and I don't want to know. I think it's disingenuous to claim these titles because you are playing off of ignorance of the general public where "Photoshopped" means fake and manufactured. Yet those same people recognize Ansel Adams one of the greatest photographers, and they'd be shocked to hear just how much processing he did. You could benefit hugely from learning the digital darkroom so that you can adjust the image to fit your vision. I learn more processing every year, and it makes my images more natural looking according to my eye rather than less.

You don't have to defend yourself to me, and I don't mean this as an attack. My goal is to get you to think about your philosophy rather than stick with it unchallenged.

Tim

Dec 29, 2016 at 04:00 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · My little intro

To my tastes, #2 has a nice composition and painterly quality. The weird colors detract from #1 and #3. Color gimmicks in those two are risky and are turn-offs--not much art in those two supercilious treatments.

Dec 29, 2016 at 04:26 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · My little intro

...echoing what others have said about the colors. I do like the movement in the green grass in #1. #3 is nice.

Dec 29, 2016 at 08:28 PM


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