Thanks,all, I pulled one and reprocessed it, made this one a BW. I had a lot of noise on these this day, my ISO must have been higher, plus it was M9, not M.
Well, here is one to ponder the processing of... Opinions?
There was a lot of processing going on here, so I want to step away from it and get an outside opinion. thanks... I do have a sensor spot to clean up on it, that's no problem, just a matter of if the processing is right! I have a bit of a hard time judging BW ranges, and special processing. :-)
Doug, I like this one. Maybe not so much the color tint, but the tonality to me looks more believable. The earlier ones are very dramatic and my nitpick with those would be how the nearer valley areas, against the tree line, tended to get quite bright. I think it's probably a side effect of using shadow/highlight and clarity adjustments. Sometimes the halos in dark to lighter transition areas can become very exaggerated. In this most recent one, I feel the dark foreground and dark upper clouds work well to frame the brighter area along the horizon.
Arka - beautiful colors! Tough decision between the two. I like the peacefulness (as noted already) of the second one, and it's more balanced feel, but would probably pick the first one because of how the incoming water adds some tension and motion to the scene.
Fursan - really like the India temple scene in particular. Great philosophy too!
Jawad - wow, you guys got snow way down there already? Still waiting for winter here...
Joe - I think I figured out why you've elected to be the event's photographer. Having photographed many corporate meetings, I suspect sitting down and having to pay attention is very taxing, based on the number of nodding sleepy-heads I've seen. Agree about how deceptive the Nocti and even Lux ASPH can be about looking longer than 50mm. Great job!
Thanks for the comments Gary & Ron, and everyone else for the likes.
Jawad, crazy weather pattern huh?
Doug, pretty much the same comments as others, very nice on the composition but could probably do less with toning on the last B&W, at least for web viewing. I think you might be surprised how little pp both M9 and M240 files need, go "au naturel"
Ron, another excellent set, colors and pp spot on as always. And yes, agreed, taking pics during these events breaks the monotony, at least for me.
Gary, looks calm before the storm! ZM25 looking sharp. -34C? wow, that's cold! Do most people in your part of Canada still use oil to heat their homes or its more natural gas?
Thanks Joe. Yes, I really like the ZM25… It's actually around -26C but with wind chill it is in the -34C ish range. Mostly all people in Western Canada use natural gas forced air furnaces. As you move towards Eastern Canada, there are more homes which use oil with radiant type heaters in each room. Any way you slice it, one needs heat in such frigid weather…
I pondered the coloring of the BW, whether that would be well received, heck, whether I liked it. In the end, I decided to try it.
I think some history should also be known. The lighting was very harsh at the time I took these photos. Late day at Clingman's Dome, the sun gets really harsh off the mountain there. So, I had quite a mixture of light to meter by, and I have tried to balanace in the photos, this harsh lighting.
I'll go back to the well again. It's not that these have to be oh so great, I just like to learn about what I like, and what people I respect like as well, thank you for participating.
Ok, here is a quite bland process job. I kept my hands off it for the most part. Not sure I like it, but here is what I have to work with... The area in the forground is underexposed, compared to the sunny area. I suppose the ideal situation would have been to have a graduated ND filter of some kind. I am still struggling with my filtering for Leica at this point, it's a growth area for me equipment wise, and knowledge wise.
But you know actually, the more I look at this image, the more I do like it as is. There is darkness when you expose off middle area, there is brightness at a distance when you expose off middle area. There's no way not to have these extremes in an image like this, without manipulation somewhere.
I went to my daughter's first winter indoor track meet this year for her high school team. As usual, I took my D3 with 70-200 zoom for some of her team photos. But this time, I also brought my M9 with Noctilux ASPH just for fun. I thought I post something different here - "Noctilux does sports."
The two images here were shoot at ASO 160 with 1/500 at f0,95 (push 2.5 stops in the post).
Gary Clennan wrote:
Thanks Joe. Yes, I really like the ZM25… It's actually around -26C but with wind chill it is in the -34C ish range. Mostly all people in Western Canada use natural gas forced air furnaces. As you move towards Eastern Canada, there are more homes which use oil with radiant type heaters in each room. Any way you slice it, one needs heat in such frigid weather…
Gary, do people in Calgary actually wear skimpy jackets in -30C? That's a one tough city!
Vancouver got 'hit' this morning with -4C and I had to jump back to a warm car in between shots.
Hey Jack! Most people bundle up big time in this weather. It's really not so bad if you keep active and shield yourself from the wind. Mind you, my son (12yrs old) thinks it is much "cooler" to wear his hoodie when he walks to school….
Having photographed many corporate meetings, I suspect sitting down and having to pay attention is very taxing, based on the number of nodding sleepy-heads I've seen. Agree about how deceptive the Nocti and even Lux ASPH can be about looking longer than 50mm. Great job!
