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I love that waterfall octane2. Edit: I'll put this one too. 
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whaam posted:Holy poo poo, loving this. Me too. The falloff of the light near the bottom is fantastic, and the tones of soft and lovely.
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Mar 30, 2010 01:14
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A couple midafternoon sun shots from turkey and south america - this summer i'll be out on a cycle tour & will hopefully be up early enough to catch some decent light every day The Euphrates running through eastern turkey, immediately after the Ataturk Dam.  Cityscape of Sanli urfa, turkey  Calcium deposits in Turkey - I really should have composed/cropped the right side of that image to give it some balance  Atacama desert, chile All shot on a d40 kit lens sans tripod - I'm at least bringing an ultrapod with me next time I'm out on a photo taking mission, the shots in here are inspiring (also - getting my rear end out of my house/hostel/hotel/tent before noon would be nice)
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Mar 31, 2010 08:12
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This thread has reminded me that I've done next to no landscape photography since acquiring my D40. These were taken in the Galloway region of Scotland.   
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Mar 31, 2010 11:30
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Omena posted:This thread has reminded me that I've done next to no landscape photography since acquiring my D40. With the first, I think it's overexposed. My eyes are drawn to the grasses, but there's very little detail there and it's blown out a bit. The detail in the sky is lost as well. You may be able to adjust the exposure in Lightroom or something to get a little bit of that detail back. With the second, the sky is beautiful. For me, I find capturing the water at high speed looks ugly for lakes and fairly still bodies of water. Try retaking that same shot with a longer exposure (using lower ISO or a ND filter to help stop it down) to smooth out the water, or get a day when you can catch the reflections off the lake. The exposure on the last one is good, but there's not enough perspective on the grasses to give them much texture- a higher vantage, pointed down towards the grasses might have caught the tops of them a bit better. With that said, try two crops of this- one with almost all sky, the other with almost all grass- I think you will notice a dramatic difference in the impact of the shot.
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Mar 31, 2010 14:49
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ElroySmin posted:A couple midafternoon sun shots from turkey and south america - this summer i'll be out on a cycle tour & will hopefully be up early enough to catch some decent light every day My god, that sky. Did you use a filter, or do any post work on these?
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Apr 1, 2010 04:19
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thetzar posted:My god, that sky. Did you use a filter, or do any post work on these? The gradient from pale blue to navy bluish-black is a dead polarizer giveaway. Certainly possible to do in post, but just screwing on a polarizer is much, much easier.
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Apr 1, 2010 05:14
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orange lime posted:The gradient from pale blue to navy bluish-black is a dead polarizer giveaway. Certainly possible to do in post, but just screwing on a polarizer is much, much easier. Correct. When it's that dry and/or you're at crazy elevation, the polarizer does wild things with the sky
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Apr 1, 2010 06:48
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octane2 posted:Here's a few more from me... Darken the greens in the top left by maybe half a stop and this will be absolute gold.
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Apr 6, 2010 18:58
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 Hooray for good weather in an otherwise lovely climate!
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Apr 8, 2010 08:12
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Here's my best from my trip to Muir Woods this week. I was lucky for these given the park was experiencing "field trip day" and I had my impatient family with me. I would really appreciate critique! 
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Apr 9, 2010 03:09
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ElroySmin posted:
Found this place randomly in northwest Oklahoma. Color or B&W?   I forgot to throw on the polarizer since my car was going to be towed in 15 minutes and I had to run 1.5 miles down a mountain sooooo
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Apr 9, 2010 04:18
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Interrupting Moss posted:I like this photo. Could you try a square crop? Holding up my hands it looks like it would balance nicely if you centered it to the left a bit. Black and white for me. The colors are nice, but still fairly washed out (the subject, not the post), but the detail and contrast look far better to me in B&W.
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Apr 9, 2010 04:25
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Interrupting Moss posted:I like this photo. Could you try a square crop? Holding up my hands it looks like it would balance nicely if you centered it to the left a bit. What was the nearest town? B&W.
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Interrupting Moss posted:I like this photo. Could you try a square crop? Holding up my hands it looks like it would balance nicely if you centered it to the left a bit. I think they're both nice and it just comes down to preference, although with the color version you can push it further with levels and the WB needs to be cool'd down a little - i think that is what is giving the B&W version the slight edge right now.
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Apr 9, 2010 08:29
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The colour version has potential. Try mucking around with the levels. Bringing in the low and mid will really give it some punch.
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Apr 9, 2010 09:25
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Finally been getting around to experimenting with grad filters, nothing very special but I quite like how it came out:
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Whitezombi posted:What was the nearest town? Here's a better color version; I'm always conservative with colors. I still like the B&W version better.  e: also I hadn't calibrated in about two weeks; ever since I upgraded to Windows 7 Huey doesn't prompt me every 48 hours for calibration. No wonder no one liked the first color version. JAY ZERO SUM GAME fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Apr 9, 2010 |
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Apr 9, 2010 15:41
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Interrupting Moss posted:Fairview. Google Maps link to exact location. I found the general area by looking at topographical maps and Google street view. I do not know how I missed that place - I went water skiing at Canton Lake all the drat time. Must have been the massive amounts of beer and weed.
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Apr 9, 2010 15:57
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Here I am failing at water.  
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This seems to be the best thread to ask this in: I'm looking to replace my crappy 18-55mm kit lens that came with my D40, does anyone have any recommendations for a decent wide angle lens to save up for? Right now I'm looking at the Nikon 24mm f/2.8 or 20mm f/2.8 and the sigma 10-20mm.
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Holistic Detective posted:This seems to be the best thread to ask this in: I'm looking to replace my crappy 18-55mm kit lens that came with my D40, does anyone have any recommendations for a decent wide angle lens to save up for? Right now I'm looking at the Nikon 24mm f/2.8 or 20mm f/2.8 and the sigma 10-20mm. 17-35mm 2.8? I took one on vacation with my D80, and it was a great lens. I rented it though, and you may be saving a while- I think they're about $1200-$1500.
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I don't think the 24 2.8 would give you many more options of your kit lens, kit lens is already sharp around the wide end and is like f/4 at that length too and you will be shooting around f/8 for landscapes mostly anyway. For the same reason I'm going to have to say the 17-35 2.8 probably isnt a good idea either, unless of course you want to go fullframe then its an entire different story. The best options for ultra-wide right now (giving you something new) are the tokina 11-16 2.8 and the sigma 10-20 3.5 but obviously if you do want to go fullframe these are crop only lenses.
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Some beautiful shots on the last page, heres one from me. ISO 400 and I don't like using noise ninja, deal w/ it.
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Apr 10, 2010 10:15
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hybr1d posted:Here's my best from my trip to Muir Woods this week. I was lucky for these given the park was experiencing "field trip day" and I had my impatient family with me. My biggest complaint is the blown sky to the left. I know, limitation of the camera but it is fairly distracting. The photo itself wouldn't be bad except for that. I normally hate HDR but this may have been a good candidate for it done tastefully and realistically.
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Dracon Wolf posted:My biggest complaint is the blown sky to the left. I know, limitation of the camera but it is fairly distracting. The photo itself wouldn't be bad except for that. I normally hate HDR but this may have been a good candidate for it done tastefully and realistically. Thanks for the feedback. I'm not certain how much HDR would have helped here, outside of a full-on composite of two different shots, much like a sunset. The creek was in full shade, and the area on the upper left was from where the 10am sun was breaking through the canopy. I guess that will teach me to either bracket the poo poo out of everything or just stick to the first hour of daylight.
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hybr1d posted:Thanks for the feedback. I'm not certain how much HDR would have helped here, outside of a full-on composite of two different shots, much like a sunset. The creek was in full shade, and the area on the upper left was from where the 10am sun was breaking through the canopy. I guess that will teach me to either bracket the poo poo out of everything or just stick to the first hour of daylight. Have you tried "HDR" from a single RAW file? It isn't so much true HDR as just bringing out some tonality in the photo. Photomatix will do all the processing automatically for you. I've used to to salvage some blown skies or some black shadows.
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Dracon Wolf posted:Have you tried "HDR" from a single RAW file? It isn't so much true HDR as just bringing out some tonality in the photo. Photomatix will do all the processing automatically for you. I've used to to salvage some blown skies or some black shadows. I'll look into those, but I went back to my shot with the lower exposure and looked in Lightroom to see what the lowest exposure of that area of the shot- there is very little detail to be salvaged there. Thanks though- I personally would like to see far more feedback in these threads.
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Going much earlier or on a day where the sky is more diffused is definitely the best option you have, I recently took a similar shot to this were it was just ruined thanks to daylight. Otherwise I think the best option is to use a GND filter and just slant it towards the left, of course you could just take an exposure and mask it in too. I find that using ssoftare that automatically creates your HDR, for a scene like this where there are a lot of moving objects, it will probably turn out pretty badly or messy thanks to stuff not aligning up. Sculptures on a rock!   
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Apr 11, 2010 12:45
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I found this picture while going through all my old photos and I like it. I'd like some critique though. I just got myself a T2i and am pretty much just starting out with photography and I'm basically not sure if this photo is decent enough to use as kind of a "hey you did something right here" idea or if it actually sucks!  
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Apr 12, 2010 19:58
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   All taken at Loch Awe (Loch awwww poo poo), Scotland. All from http://www.flickr.com/photos/northward
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Took this one tonight. Really like the colour of the sky.
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Apr 13, 2010 03:32
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One from the weekend.
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Disgustipated posted:northward posted:
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Apr 13, 2010 11:38
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I'm trying some more extreme post processing here:  
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Dread Head posted:One from the weekend. I like this one a lot. I know someone in PAD commented that they didn't like the left side of the image, but that's what makes the photo for me. northward posted:It's too bad the shadow of whatever you were standing on is present in this one because aside from that it's my favorite of the three.
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TomR posted:The second image is good technically, but don't fall into the "WOW THAT'S A PRETTY SKY" mystique; it takes more than a nice sky. I actually think you could have a nice photo if you cropped out the rocks and tried a square crop on THIS image, perhaps creating just a bit more tonal variance between the sky and the water while doing so. Dread Head posted:One from the weekend. fenner posted:*** Went back to Gloss Mountains. Spent most of my time eating a sandwich and just sitting there, but I eventually made some photos. Remembered to bring the polarizer this time, as well.   
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