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I really love the water in all of your landscapes. I think that the water is generally more calm and clear there and I am very jealous. Landscape photography in my opinion is about 40% willingness to go to difficult locations, 40% post processing and about 20% actual photography knowledge. I could be wrong though I tend to over process a lot of my photos compared to Dread. For me anyway, it is more about getting outdoors and enjoying the scenery first hand, and if you get a good photo then that is just a bonus. Also the weather network is your friend, take into account wind speed and how quickly the clouds will be moving. I tend to prefer a windy day as conditions can change quickly and you can get a lot of different skies out of a short window of time. Some winter photos because I haven't really been out this summer yet.   
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Kazy posted:How much post did you do on this one? I've really only got one sunset picture I enjoy, however I'm pretty rusty on sunsets. I know to expose for the sky near the sun, but that's really it. Well sunsets will almost always require two exposures, one for the sky and one for the foreground. That photo was 3 shots I believe. One for the sky and a dark and light foreground exposure. Instead of dodging and burning I layered a lighter foreground on the dark one and just masked it in where the photo needed to be brightened up. Aside from that just some sharpening and some cloning and desaturating to get rid of the lens flares. Here is an example of what happens when you try to be lazy and "create" your second sky exposure in camera RAW.  As you can see, there is a bright aura above the sun that is pretty ugly. If that had been two exposures the sun would look nice and defined against the sky without that blotching. whaam fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Jul 15, 2009 |
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ElZilcho posted:
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Aug 8, 2009 01:33
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 Crosspost from PAD. First of the Hurricane Bill photos gathered over the last few days. Managed to get by without losing any shingles or siding so I'm a pretty happy camper.
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Aug 24, 2009 00:47
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SKULE123 posted:Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, Canada. Feedback welcome, babby's first (well, first couple of months) post-processing here. Definately tone down the saturation. Peggy's Cove is a hard spot to shoot without getting people in the shot but you just need to go at the right time of day. (Hint: very early or very near sunset).
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Sep 30, 2009 17:42
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Dread Head posted:Digging the first one, the contrast of the water against the dark beach with a nice sky. You must be done editing your trip photos if we are seeing rocks again 
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Oct 28, 2009 17:32
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Meant to ask you, what do you pack your gear in when backpacking? Do you just take the body and wide angle and pack it in your backpack or something else? I just picked up a medium sized pelican case that should fit body+grip+lens and an extra tele, but drat is it heavy, probably too much so for my pack. The smaller peli's that would hold just the body+lens all seem too shallow to allow for the grip it seems.
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Oct 28, 2009 20:00
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rockcity posted:Nah, I think you're right, I was shooting at a bit of an angle and wasn't focusing on getting things perfect on the camera. I'll fix that. Is the sky comp'd in? Whitezombi posted:I'm loving all of these canyon shots of yours, especially this one. Dread Head posted:Got my rear end out of bed for sunrise this weekend. I've been too busy to get out in ages, just starting to find some time now just in time for eternal northern darkness  Might try a sunrise or set this weekend I guess, but waking up in the dark and leaving work in the dark is killing me already and it's only December.
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Dec 10, 2009 18:43
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Dread Head posted: I even think the uneven horizon works on this, it feels natural to see the curvature of the earth when looking such vast distances. Wubble posted:Finally got a working tri-pod. Aside from the dirtyness I really like this, especially the funky stuff going on in the foreground. Got to ease back into this 
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Jan 4, 2010 14:13
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octane2 posted:Here's a few more from me... Holy poo poo, loving this.
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Mar 29, 2010 13:21
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Dread Head posted:Are you using an ND on all of your water shots?
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Nov 4, 2010 13:05
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  Been a long time since I've shot anything, but found a good deal on some new gear and it's given me some motivation. Really liking everything I've been seeing in this thread lately, excited to get back into it.
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Sebastian Flyte posted:A couple more from Scotland: Hot drat, both incredible.  
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Dread Head posted:I really need to go to iceland and new zealand. I'd settle for anywhere with elevation over 50 ft above sea level. 
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HookShot posted:
Wow, these are something else. 
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Jan 2, 2012 12:36
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Dread Head posted:This looks like a nice spot but the dark shadows on the rocks are jarring with the smooth beach rocks. It looks like you may have used a mask and if this is the case I would try to bring up the exposure on the rocks that frame the shot or at least even the exposure out between them and the smooth rocks at the bottom. I was thinking the same thing actually. I had my grad ND a bit low and ended up putting to much on the rocks. I just brought the rocks up as much as I could and burnt/+contrasted the foreground stones a bit. Not ideal but I don't want to push the noise too far in the dark rocks. Thanks 
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Jan 2, 2012 23:04
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I'm having trouble finding subject matter around here that isn't all coastal shots. There just isn't that much interesting stuff where I am that doesn't involve rocks 
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Jan 17, 2012 19:43
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Kujaroth posted:A few from this weekend's escapades: They are all very pleasing to the eye, the first and third being the strongest in my opinion. Great leading lines in the first, water looks buttery and smooth. The sky in the second one is a little hard on the eyes, a bit too neon. Third has the same great depth as the first and those impressions in the rock almost look like footprints walking towards the background. Last one has a great interesting foreground although with its strong rusty color it kind of dominates the frame. Great stuff and so much more colorful than the drab stuff I'm shooting.  I made a mistake on this one thinking that the little rain run-off in front of me was going to make a significantly interesting foreground. To the eye it was really roaring and looked like it would create a great capture at 20s exposure, unfortunately because of its clarity and the rocks beneath you can barely even see that it's a stream. There was some serious surf and in hindsight I should have gotten a lot closer to the water and made it my point of interest and not the rocky beach or the stream.
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Jan 29, 2012 13:36
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e.pie posted:
First one I love, the colour and comp, trees give it good scale. Second one is beautiful but the shadow in the foreground is a bit stark, unavoidable I'm sure though. Great stuff. 
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Jan 30, 2012 18:19
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What is everyone using for ND/grad setups? I've got a Hoya screw-on ND16 and some cokin P series grads but have been looking for a grad ND in the 100 x 150mm range to be a bit more versatile on the horizon position, the problem is all I see is these Lee kits that start around $500 just for the adapter and 2 filters.
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Feb 2, 2012 15:16
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Gambl0r posted:
I was impressed with the gold-n-blue polarizer myself, but all of those SR are crazy expensive new and I've had zero luck with ebay. The filter I want and need the most is a 150mm+ long GND or reverse GND. The standard Cokin P size I have doesn't have enough glass to set the horizon anywhere but the center of the shot.
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Feb 4, 2012 01:44
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Gambl0r posted:I hadn't even mounted the Cokin holder on my 5D since buying it a few months ago and you got me worried there for a minute that somehow the filters would not be usable now that I've gone full frame. But even on FF with my widest lens (17mm) I can get a standard P size filter's center line to the top and bottom of the frame. Are you shooting medium format or something? 10mm at the widest, if I move the center line of the cokin GND to the top 1/3rd of the frame I can see the edge of the glass in the bottom 1/3rd. (full frame equiv would be 16mm on this sensor I think)
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Feb 4, 2012 02:03
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Well the cokin GND worked out ok this morning, but it still is very limited at this length.
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Hezzy posted:My favourite shot so far. Noticed that there was something wacky going on near the wind farms and there was loads of fog around them. End result; Pretty amazing ^ 
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Feb 19, 2012 04:08
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daemon posted:Love it, makes me yearn for summer. X-post from PAD.  
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Mar 12, 2012 14:03
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Kujaroth posted:Love this one, great shot. Love that sky
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Jun 2, 2012 13:41
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RangerScum posted:Here are some landscapes from my recent trip to Alaska: Loving the whole set but this really stands out. 
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Jul 29, 2012 12:22
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One of my dogs almost fell down a waterfall when I was taking this.. No more dogs invited on photo trips.
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Sep 26, 2012 16:43
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wizard sticks posted:Three pools just outside of Wolfville NS? Yeah that's the spot. You in ns?
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Sep 27, 2012 02:35
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Saint Fu posted:Reprocessing a photo from last year Don't know what the original looked like but this is fantastic.  Screwing around with a new body, think I need a proper CPL next. whaam fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Oct 14, 2012 |
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Oct 14, 2012 13:56
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1st AD posted:Oh man this image is loving awesome. Where is this? Reminds me of the La Jolla cove. Nova Scotia. Love this surf shot, not crazy about the third but the first two with the surfers are fantastic, great scale, great sky. 
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Oct 16, 2012 00:08
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1st AD posted:Yeah, I couldn't find a good composition in that one but I still love the color of the sky there. In the first one the sky wasn't pushed aside from a general +5-10ish saturation layer. The second one the sky was pushed a bit further maybe +15-20. I was going to leave it how it was but I felt there was so much green in the foreground that pushing the sky balanced it a bit. I don't know if its pollen or what but usually after the sun breaks the horizon our skies have a very magenta hue most of the time, moreso in the winter, not sure the science behind that though. I saw Dread Head use his thumb to obscure the sun in a shot once and tried that here but ended up using most of my arm in the right portion of the image to reduce lens glare. Then had another shot of the sun and right side with a grad ND. One thing I don't like about this type of area is those granite rocks are very rough and sharp (to the touch) and even with very minor sharpening in post they end up looking over-sharpened, which isn't the look I was going for. whaam fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Oct 16, 2012 |
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Rot posted:
This is something else. The perspective, the angle, the motion of the grass, and the animals that I didn't even see at first. As someone mentioned earlier, I love seeing "busy" landscapes especially when they draw my eye in like this one. I guess my only critique would be the foreground is overexposed a bit but its so minor I feel silly mentioning it.  
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vote_no posted:Holy poo poo, please tell me how you did that. 10 stop ND filter and exposure stacking? 20s, f/16, 4 stop ND and a soft grad nd handheld, 2 exposures. I almost left the spot and gave up early because I had my dogs with me (big mistake) and they were leashed up to a rock just behind me, of course this made them decide to howl like they were dying the whole time, right in the middle of a coyote infested area.
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First one is awesome. Are you using a CPL on most of your water shots? You always get such clear transparent water.
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Oct 25, 2012 12:55
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Dread Head posted:Which is exactly why I have not got the photo in my mind. There is probably a good chance I will never get it. It does not stop me from going out and trying and ending up with something different than what I had in mind. Like you say when it really comes down to landscape photography a lot of just happens to being at a certain place at a certain time. That said when I am out I always keep that idea in my head so if I do find a location that I feel would work and the conditions are not right it is something I can come back to. This is pretty much what I do too. I'll get an idea in my head about a particular location and every time I see a forecast or sky that appears to be cooperating I'll drive out if I'm available and try for it. Usually if the sky or light or wind or water isn't behaving right then I'll practice a few other compositions and see if I can find a better one for next time. It's enjoyable even when you don't come back with a shot and it makes the final product feel like more of an accomplishment when it does come together in the end. JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:Yeah, I'm getting into that argument. Everyone on the internet is obsessed with "great light" and I am not really sure what that is anymore. Theres no need to offend people's work here to make your point, some people take photos because they want to showcase nature and beautiful scenes, not make an artistic statement, and that is just as valid of a use of this medium as what you are talking about. I'll be the first to admit that there isn't a single shot I take that has some emotional meaning or statement behind it, its just a photo of something I thought looked nice enough to share, and I spend just as much time and effort making that photo as does someone who is doing a series of black and white film shots about "the soullessness of our suburbs and the plague of urban sprawl".
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Don't know how I missed this one. This is a savage photo, I love that hard line from the lights reflection, at first you look at it thinking its unnatural, then after thinking about it for a second it makes sense. The image just oozes atmosphere. Finally got my CPL but didn't need it this time, nice to have though. 
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How am I supposed to shoot a variety of landscapes when the only thing around me is loving rocks.  
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