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Should have panned a little to the right on the first to give the sign some space but I like it otherwise. 
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Jun 25, 2011 20:35
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A couple of photos from my recent trip home to visit my family in central New York.  
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Jun 28, 2011 01:20
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Jun 28, 2011 10:24
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Reichstag posted:This is well nice; what film were you using for these? Here's a few from a working holiday in Croatia:    
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SAD crosspostin' burzum karaoke fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Jun 28, 2011 12:15
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aliencowboy posted:SAD crosspostin' I really like the processing on the first. Not as big of a fan of the second.
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Falco posted:I really like the processing on the first. Not as big of a fan of the second. Yeah. I was staring at it long enough in Photoshop last night that it was tough to tell which one worked better, so I just posted them both. Looking at it today, I like the coloured version a lot more.
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Scatterfold posted:This is well nice; what film were you using for these? The one you quoted and the Tree are Ektar 100, the house is Astia 100, and the road is Kodak 400UC. I can't decide if I like this shot (Ektar) of the road better. 
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Cross-posting from SAD Misty Morning by alkanphel, on Flickr
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Jul 1, 2011 03:11
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Dread Head posted:I love the color of the sky and clouds in this one. xzzy posted:They probably are.. mountains have a huge effect on shaping winds, and if surface air get pushed upwards, can trigger cloud formation. Thanks to wikipedia and an entire morning slacking off at work, I now know way more about clouds than I probably should. We did notice that the clouds seemed 'attracted' to the central mountain - the day it stormed, all the storm clouds were gradually pulled towards it before burning up. Given there isnt really any other land around for hundreds of miles, it makes sense I guess. BrosephofArimathea fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jul 1, 2011 |
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 Crashing waves by xxyzz road, on Flickr TheAngryDrunk fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Jul 1, 2011 |
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Jul 1, 2011 08:01
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zapateria posted:Just some Norwegian nature: Oh wow, the composition is spot on in this one 
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Hotwax Residue posted:New Zealand Wow, awesome. Long exposures? What filters?
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Spent a week in Glacier National Park. Most beautiful place I've ever been. An aside, I have before put a lot of pressure on myself to shoot a lot of photos in places like this. I did not do that this time, and I made many more photos I like. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanjou/sets/72157626975374631/show/with/5894326373 A couple of my favorites here, please view the rest on flickr. I hope you enjoy. I may make a separate thread in a bit and talk about backcountry hiking for photography and what went into these.  Sunset on Lake Mcdonald by Bryan Cook, on Flickr  Dusk at Lake McDonald by Bryan Cook, on Flickr  Saint Mary Lake by Bryan Cook, on Flickr
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Jul 2, 2011 21:02
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:Spent a week in Glacier National Park. Most beautiful place I've ever been. Please do. I'm planning on going to Glacier in August. Due to time constraints I'll only be there a couple days (and won't be doing much, if any, backcountry hiking) but would appreciate any tips you could give on visiting.
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:Wow, awesome. Long exposures? What filters?
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 Ripon Landscape by avoyer, on Flickr I'm having a hard time with landscapes, I think I'm giving it too much thought? I will try to longer exposure during sunset hours this week 
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:Spent a week in Glacier National Park. Most beautiful place I've ever been. The quality of light in these are amazing. Good work.
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aliencowboy posted:Dread Head posted:Perhaps you need to edit more selectively? If you're very interested in long exposures, use that experience in other areas? I hope other people can chime in here. -- I'll post a thread tomorrow about the photos. Thanks for your kind words.
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Jul 5, 2011 05:18
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 Tumult of granite by Nebuchadnezzar II, on Flickr Auditore fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Jul 5, 2011 |
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whoops... That's better:  Sunset at the Greig Lake Dock by bernsai, on Flickr CarrotFlowers fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 6, 2011 |
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Jul 6, 2011 03:31
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xenilk posted:
Also for Dread Head, I feel the same way as Jay does. One perspective shift that may do some good is using a moderate telephoto lens for landscapes. Do you feel you're in a stylistic rut at all? Would like to hear your opinion before expanding on this.
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Well, was going to respond last night then my internet ate poo poo. I do feel like I have been taking too many water fall/stream photos so I had been trying to avoid them. Those last 3 are from a trip I was on down in Panama and we hiked into a place that had water falls so I was going to shoot them. I feel like it is sometimes difficult to make waterfalls interesting, specially if you shoot them on a semi regular basis and I am not really sure how to change that. There really is only so much you can do, I am all up for suggestions. What would you change on those last shots or what are they missing?
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Something I've started doing is focusing on forms/textures and less on the subject per se. To explain, when photographing Little Chief I didn't think "Show a mountain." It was beautiful to see, of course, and the clouds flowing over it were great (I'll come back to this), but I focused on the texture of the mountain against the cloud, and composed the shot forgetting it was really a mountain and instead focusing on the shape of the two together. The rule of thirds is often floating through my mind, too. I could have used the 20mm and shown the whole vista, but I chose the single most interesting thing and concentrated on it. My square crop kick is also something that seems to make it easier to focus on shapes/textures. I also shoot with a 50mm a lot, forcing me to isolate subject areas in some cases. East Lake's suggestion of a telephoto lens is similar, though that may be harder. Or easier! I don't know what will work for you. Now, as for the flowing cloud thing. If I had a stack of ND filters it would have been fantastic to shoot a long exposure of these clouds blowing over the mountain. Would have been a hugely different feel. This is kind of what I was after earlier; you like motion and showing it through long exposures, try exploring that without the water. Lots of things move. Don't be afraid to fail. JAY ZERO SUM GAME fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jul 6, 2011 |
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To me it seems like you should keep taking those waterfall pictures but avoid looking toward this method/process as a way to advance your skill with photography. Taking those shots to remember your trip is reason enough to keep doing it but if I were to open up outdoor photography magazine or something similar I'd see legions of dudes taking similar pics. This certainly does your style no favors. I tried searching through National Geographic's stock site to find waterfall images I thought were more imaginative but didn't find much that caught my eye, though I'm sure they're out there. I did find this though. Photographer is some guy I didn't bother to write down. The image is very literal, almost like what you'd remember if you had walked through that area. If you had posted it here I wouldn't have thought twice about it. The two big things I always worry about are composition and establishing an atmosphere that is unique. While it's probably oversimplifying it I feel the above shot does suffer from having way too much to look at, same thing crossed my mind when I saw your last three images. There's tons of elements to segment the images and break apart my focus on anything. Rocks, branches, wood, water, waterfall, all occupying a small space in the image fighting for dominance, this picture of yours doesn't have the same issue. A print may have more bite and nuance but at these sizes I feel detail is also being squashed by the wide-angle view. The lighting is also pretty drab, only an isolated part in your second image catches my eye in regards to lighting, slightly behind the closest tree branch where it darkens and looks cave-like. Sometimes I'll stumble onto a nice landscape and find no way to compose it well enough to do it justice, and maybe it's worth taking the picture anyway but at the same time you have to move on knowing that at that point in time there wasn't much you could do to make a successful image out of it. Establishing your own unique processing style (lighting still is still extremely important!) is a bitch, at least for me, but I know that learning lightroom and ps inside and out is not something I should ignore, even though I'm currently doing that with slide films. I hate sitting at the comp too long to learn what seems like a b.s. in Photoshop Sciences, hopefully slowly learning one function at a time will help! I think the overall atmosphere/processing really separates a lot of the great photographers from everyone else. Once you establish a distinct look I think you'd find it would help with shots like your most recent three. This one is from Michael Kenna.  And this one is from 2001: A Space Odyssey  The 2001 snapshot really doesn't do it justice but you can see how these are composed in a similar manner. The mood in each is very different though, enough that you wouldn't think one is all that similar to the other. You don't often see landscapes like the ones above, and for good reason, it takes a great amount of vision and steps to get those results, heck the 2001 shot might be a matte painting, I don't know! But it's within our ability to create scenes that are as unique as these. They don't have to be as heavily separated from real life either, subtle alterations are fine as long as you're confident with the look. I think it's important to think about what kind of image you'd produce if you had no obstacle in realizing it, even something with no physical counterpart. Maybe an alien landscape that only exists within your head, then think about how you'd get a similar processing style and quality of lighting in the real world. Then you might know where your style should go, or maybe you'll still be as uncertain as everyone else, who knows! Alright I rambled quite a bit but I hope what I said was of some use, I'm pretty clueless in a lot of ways myself so maybe if we post enough nonsense we'll figure something out.
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Jul 6, 2011 07:05
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Just to add to what Jay said, since you clearly also like landscape photos of the coastal areas, why not try going to the same locations a while after sunset (or get one of these), then you can extend the exposure to a matter of minutes which completely destroys the shape in clouds and makes all sea swell into mist. Here's an example by a famous landscape photographer. Not an entire change, but possibly something you may want to explore for some variation.
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Thanks for the replies, to tell you the truth I am feeling a little uninspired right now. Not overly happy with my shots lately but it seems like this happens in cycles, hope something will come along...
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I recently read this book by Bryan Peterson. One of his tips was looking for another photo within a photo you have just taken. It does not always apply, but it can be a good way to get cleaner, stronger compositions. An example from me:  btw I didn't get much else from the book.
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Dread Head posted:Thanks for the replies, to tell you the truth I am feeling a little uninspired right now. Not overly happy with my shots lately but it seems like this happens in cycles, hope something will come along... Hotwax Residue posted:One of his tips was looking for another photo within a photo you have just taken. It does not always apply, but it can be a good way to get cleaner, stronger compositions.
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Dread Head posted:Thanks for the replies, to tell you the truth I am feeling a little uninspired right now. Not overly happy with my shots lately but it seems like this happens in cycles, hope something will come along... I had a music teacher once offer the idea that when you get bored, you're on the verge of learning something new, or moving to the "next level". I have doubts it's completely true, but the advice has been helpful for getting through the slumps because it keeps me on the lookout for inspiration. With photography, my MO is to find some pictures by other photographers I really like, and try to copy what they did in a different scene. It at least keeps the wheels turning.
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