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Can’t recommend long lenses for landscapes enough. Not as an exclusive technique, but as something to try It’s very common in American culture, and really many cultures worldwide, for landscape to be a backdrop. When we see them, experience them, and are in them, it’s easy to mentally see what are actually far away details as the subject. And they might be! If you find yourself realizing that, or drawn to those details, go against the grain and grab a long lens. It’s very enjoyable. Personally, a beautiful landscape with a 24mm or whatever lens better be pretty bangin. To me, it’s easy to see a pleasant vista, but not always easy to make a photo that is balanced in shape and form. I try very hard to make images that, if it were of a grocery shelf or a model or whatever, that the shapes, forms, textures… the composition stands alone. I just happen to like doing it outside. It was a real aha moment I had at the Nelson atkins museum many years ago at an exhibition of Chinese landscapes. There were a few objects that were pieces of marble cut in a way to look like a landscape. I was smitten, and I’ve chased something like it ever since Go to museums. Im glad some people like the photos.
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The issue I've had with it is vantage. Quite commonly the mountains are very far away so you have to shoot through atmospheric haze or you're in a tunnel of trees and can't see them. It's relatively rare to be in a valley where everything is "perfect" and you can swing a 400mm around to play with composition. Probably the most profitable area I've done that kind of shooting in is in the valley north of the Kananaskis Lakes, the slopes are quite close the road and they're very steep with frequent clearings. The badlands of SD are fun too. And the alabama hills. I've also seen some amazing work out the Iceland highlands and I hope I get to go there someday. I'm sure there's plenty of other ranges out there, I just don't know about them. I've been doggedly exploring the mountains in my new home in Colorado and spots are definitely out there.. but the trees make it a bit of work.
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xzzy posted:The issue I've had with it is vantage. Quite commonly the mountains are very far away so you have to shoot through atmospheric haze or you're in a tunnel of trees and can't see them. It's relatively rare to be in a valley where everything is "perfect" and you can swing a 400mm around to play with composition. Whereabouts in Colorado?
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torgeaux posted:Whereabouts in Colorado? Castle Rock area. I'm not complaining by any measure, there is absolutely stuff out there, just saying that within ~2 hours of home there is a lot of dense forest and I'm still discovering the options.
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All of those photos are in Colorado, as are many more I’ve made in the last 15 years. You’ll find em E: I’d also say, 70-200 is what I carry, so don’t think you have to reach SO far. The snow field is just up near a lake, a little detail to pick out JAY ZERO SUM GAME fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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edit, street thread
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i think that's probably street photography great work though
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Doh! Yea, that makes sense. I'll post there.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:
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Neat, It almost looks like a miniature.
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Never seen it but I'm glad you like it
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 313A2196 by Austin DeGroot, on Flickr
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me banging on a table after every post "CROP IT SQUARE"
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:me banging on a table after every post "turn the sliders down 90%" that one is way overcooked
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Piss filter
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yeah its funky and looks kinda stupid and weird, but I like it as a change of pace (or maybe ironically) here's another one that I added red to for no reason. this was across the street from the piss farm 
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Blood Horse and Blood Horse II: Piss Farm is my favorite horror series
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here's one that's more up this thread's alley. a boring road with some trash 313A2177 by Austin DeGroot, on Flickr
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loving all of these! while I'm sticking to black and white generally I have been trying to learn colour grading, mainly for a vintage filmic look. what do you think, are these overcooked? I wanted them to be warm but still have blue skies etc. i think theyre probably overdone since red is starting to go magenta.  
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please don't post erotica in the landscape thread
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field balm posted:loving all of these! I don't think so, but I'm also more liberal with my edits than a lot of others. I think these are great. Jokes aside, this is beautiful
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as i get used to Lr, i'm agonizing over minor details and wondering if my edits are any better than the original versions of photos or if i'm just making a big mess of things. after a while i can't even tell what looks good or not or better or worse staring at the same image too long lol. original  stupid edit 
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Going through some shots from the last Norway trip here. DQ6J3546-5 by C M, on Flickr
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the teal of the building in the center is a step too far into unreality for me but given the water and sky don’t look read too saturated maybe it’s just an aggressive paint job! are they both korea or just the second?
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ShoogaSlim posted:as i get used to Lr, i'm agonizing over minor details and wondering if my edits are any better than the original versions of photos or if i'm just making a big mess of things. after a while i can't even tell what looks good or not or better or worse staring at the same image too long lol. Honestly I think the colours are very nice in the original, and still fine in your edit - I kind of prefer the greenish tint on the headlights in the original but thats just a taste thing. I think the crop you made does the image a disservice though, the foreground is the more interesting part of the image compared to the empty blue sky at the top and you've cut it off part way through a car. Crushed blacks are dramatic but it would be interesting to see with some more exposure on the forground? Nice shot eitherway! Clayton Bigsby posted:Going through some shots from the last Norway trip here. This is super nice. haruspicy posted:the teal of the building in the center is a step too far into unreality for me but given the water and sky don’t look read too saturated maybe it’s just an aggressive paint job! are they both korea or just the second? thanks - yeah the bright teal and the reds are what have me questioning it too. Here's the raw without any editing, the paint job is pretty aggressive but it came out a little too neon!  Those photos are both from South Korea - the first one is Songdo Beach and the second is near Haeundae Beach, both in Busan! Here's a shot that is a little bit bland otherwise but the sky came out really good: 
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This is great. Too wide IMO. How about this? 
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I like the wider view but I really love panoramics so am biased. But I'd probably make it a 6x17 or something and lose part of the foreground.
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field balm posted:Honestly I think the colours are very nice in the original, and still fine in your edit - I kind of prefer the greenish tint on the headlights in the original but thats just a taste thing. I think the crop you made does the image a disservice though, the foreground is the more interesting part of the image compared to the empty blue sky at the top and you've cut it off part way through a car. Crushed blacks are dramatic but it would be interesting to see with some more exposure on the forground? Nice shot eitherway! thank you for the feedback! i spent so much time looking at little details i didn't even "see" that i cut off the headlights at the bottom. a great example of how you can focus on some details and easily miss more obvious ones. i was taking some inspiration from the last sunset pic i posted to reveal more stuff in the foreground, and my original edit had more detail there, but every time i went back and forth between edits and original, i couldn't help but love the deep contrast shown. perhaps that's a pitfall of newbie photo editors? before this thread i had never heard of the phrase "crushed blacks" so it's something i'm going to keep in mind. as for removing the green from the headlights, i was trying to avoid it contrasting with the warm tones in the sky to make it feel christmasy. red/green is like my kryptonite but i'll try to unlearn that. lots to unlearn as i go deeper in this hobby. thanks again! 
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blue squares posted:This is great. Nope, original way better.
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I like the wider better too but move your horizon either up or down and crop off the top or bottom.
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