twoeye, looking your images and REALLY hoping that we don't get any more snow this year.
Johnny B Goode, great background for your shallow DOF bush, very smooth and nice.
JaKo, nice contrast on the flower pot-photo. Did the background come so dark naturally or did you aid it with PhotoShop?
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 @ f/5.6, 1/400s (this required many sliders to be touched in Apple Aperture, this is middle frame of the 3 image HDR set, but I was not getting correct tones from HDR and tweaked better with the sliders in Aperture)
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 @ f/5.6, HDR(1/200s, 1/640s, 1/2000s)
Samuli wrote: Did the background come so dark naturally or did you aid it with PhotoShop?
Thanks! Actually, the flower pot was in bright sunlight, but the upper/left sides were in partial shade (the dark background is deep-blue water in Victoria Harbour marina)
I used center-weighted exposure and metered right on the flowers hence the darker background. Also, vignette was not corrected.
BokehBeauty wrote:
These are gorgeous pictures and B&W processings. Reminds me of the look of the best 20s and early 30s German mountaineering and ski films and pictures. Would you mind sharing some of your B&W processing secrets?
Thank you so much! All my B&W images processed in Silver Efex Pro 2 and VSCO film. Depending on the image I use different film presets and play with slides in Silver Efex Pro 2. There is no recipe universal for every image, as every image is different and requires different adjustments. Try different color filters, film looks, play with slides until you are happy with the result.
johnahill, I'm usually not big fan of urban ultra wide angle shots, but those two were nice, specially liked the 2nd one ("Covent Garden, London").
Ronny, your 2nd image was nice, even I don't care much about Makro-Planar T* 2/50 rendering style. If I counted correctly 3rd photo with that lens I end up liking.
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