R.Young, love the entire set from the Old Military Road in Scotland, and the B&Ws you posted later. Great atmosphere!
dubaiphil, all are really good, but I especially like the last one (three men sitting next to Suraya Fashion sign).
te4o, congratulations! Sweet capture.
Rodluvan, #2 is stunning. So detailed and the composition and pattern really draws you in.
Rodluvan wrote:
Why is it a hdr btw, was the light that extreme?
No, light was not extreme, but I'm extreme allergic to blown skies. I most probably could have extracted quite similar image if I would have had energy to play 5 minutes with the sliders, but it would have had worse tonality and colors would not have been as pure as they are in the HDR. In this kind of bordercases I more often just shoot it HDR, than drown later to the endless slider hell. As always, life is compromise; few HDR artifacts or unnatural looking tonality and colors?
Here are the 3 images and and their histograms (in sRGB) and HDR histogram - as you see all 3 images are useless, but together they produce ok result:
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
No, light was not extreme, but I'm extreme allergic to blown skies.[..]
Samuli
Thanks for explanation. Blown skies are pretty daft, but in this case the sky had no textured and covered only a very small part of the image, also the extremely difficult subject for a multiple exposure HDR (moving branches with much detail) would've put me off it (actually I never do hdr's using dedicated software). However you managed pretty well considering all this.
fracas: nice fairytale scenery
Samuli: proper use of HDR
Rodluvan: great "interaction" between the sky and monument
HelenaN: like the minimalism in the 2nd shot
weissj: not the safest place to be. Did you shot more pictures there?
Ulff: totally agree with Rodluvan: nice autumn colours.
Zeiss 21/2.8
Going slightly offtopic now...
Almost the same shot, but than with another "Zeiss" on a very special phonecamera: the Nokia 808 Pureview
Rodluvan wrote:
Do you often do hdr's?
Yes, unfortunately. I'm forced to use the technique quite often due to subject matter (e.g. shooting in dense forest). I don't like doing HDRs, but many times there is no alternative. It's really annoying that sensor technology has not evolved at all in past few years (high ISO high ISO high ISO is all they develop, could not care less about that). Personally I would only need 2-3 stops more usable dynamic range and would almost never need to shoot HDR anymore - I have waited that 2-3 stops already quite long time - and I have feeling I will be waiting quite while more - we will have ISO 1000000 before I get my dynamic range...
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 @ f/5.6, HDR(0.3s, 1/10s and 1/30s) - larger
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/28 @ f/5.6, HDR(1.6s, 0.5s and 1/6s) - larger
Samuli Vahonen wrote:
Yes, unfortunately. I'm forced to use the technique quite often due to subject matter (e.g. shooting in dense forest). I don't like doing HDRs, but many times there is no alternative. It's really annoying that sensor technology has not evolved at all in past few years (high ISO high ISO high ISO is all they develop, could not care less about that). Personally I would only need 2-3 stops more usable dynamic range and would almost never need to shoot HDR anymore - I have waited that 2-3 stops already quite long time - and I have feeling I will be waiting quite while more - we will have ISO 1000000 before I get my dynamic range...
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Oh, I don't know about that. Take the leap from D200 to D700. It was huge in terms of usable range. The problem seem to be the opposite of film, where you exposed for the shadows. With digital you have to expose for the highlight as they are never savable.
I'm eagerly anticipating the D600 (or whatev) with it's non-insane-Mpx-count and perhaps even better range.
Been away again for a time and missing this group a bunch. A storm came through last night so I decided to check it out and the view from my balcony. Zeiss 35/1.4 on the 5D3.
LZ, awesome works for all those P85 and MP100 WO shots. I know how difficult they are
Samuli, I wish I have half of your PP skill. All your pics have ultimate fidelity.
fracas, Beautiful light.
Rodluvan, The Tomb of Field Marshal Luigi Cadoran shot is best 21mm shots from you so far. I really like the perspective and dramatic PP and sky.
Helen, Both beautiful high key images. Sky looks wonderful. and excellent frame on House on fire.
Ulff, Such a beautiful light and composition.
Bob, Great one! Nice exposure at such difficult lighting situation.
Perfecty done RJI. May I ask about the settings. I've always wanted to photograph lightning like that, but on the few occasions there is any I don't haven't had my pod or the settings. I assume large apertures and long exposure times, but still I want to expose the city correctly as you've done.
do you set the camera on sequential shooting?
anyway, another photo of mine.
I'm not sure about the colours of her skin here. My screen is not perfectly calibrated. What do you guys think?
