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snowman posted:Nice shots, I love the water and color. Are you using a neutral density filter on these? I actually have to ask dread head the same question. If you guys are, what brand and how many stops? I have been looking at buying one to slow down day time shooting. Nope, no ND filter. f/22 on kit lens  . I really need an ND filter though, ND8 is the most common and gets the job done fine I think, but I have no idea about brands.
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I'm having some trouble, often when I'm shooting landscapes in good light the colors dont come out very vivid/saturated, even shooting at f8, iso 100 on a tripod. Here is an example, I had to boost the hell out of this in photoshop to get something like it was IRL, but it fucks the colors boosting them so much, so they're not as natural. Is this just a limitation of my kit lens?
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Dread Head posted:Lets get back on track... Goddamnit dread, you are the god of landscapes. 
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woot fatigue posted:Landscapes are definitely not my area of expertise, but I'll give it a go with some of the better ones I've taken over the year or so. Holy. Amazing, this shot is absolutely amazing, if I had money I would actually ask to buy a print from you. Care to share some post techniques, your shots have a different look to them which I really like but would have no idea how to go about doing it myself.
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I think the main problem here is that the corn field is hard to focus on, unlike the sunflower(?) field that was posted before were your eyes can focus nicely on the flower heads, the cornfield just looks like a green mush.
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Whitezombi posted:This shot is amazing, I stole it for my desktop and everytime I tab to desktop it blows me away. Care to share your processing technique on this masterpiece?
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Whitezombi posted:
Would love it  send it to fenner.no.u@googlemail.com thanks a lot and keep shooting
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Sep 26, 2009 23:52
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Crosspost of some from snapshot thread.  Also which of these do you guys prefer? first one is cloned to hell.  
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Sep 28, 2009 13:26
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ConspicuousEvil posted:I have to say all the shots in this thread are amazing and I am super jealous. Obviously equipment plays a role in some of these pictures, but more to the point is learning what works for particular types of shots. That being said, as a beginning photographer and the owner of only a lowly kit lens how can I make the most of my equipment and setup to take great photos. I've been trying to shoot at the lowest ISO possible, should I reconsider? What would be a good f-stop to use when shooting things from very far away? Should I not bother? Obviously these factors will affect my shutter speed. Is it better to compensate for something underexposed by boosting the in-camera compensation, or just increasing exposure time? I shoot all my landscapes with a kit lens, its really not as bad as you think. Shoot f/8 or f/11 and you'll definitely be fine, although its decent at any aperture if you ask me. If you don't have a tripod already this is what you NEED for landscape photography, itll allow you to use your lowest iso and any aperture you want, since you wont get any blur from long shutters. I also have the 50mm 1.8 and don't really use it at much/at all for landscapes, but I have used it on some rare occasions. e: let me clarify, you don't NEED a tripod, but it helps a hellova lot fenner fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Oct 19, 2009 |
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ConspicuousEvil posted:Thanks, the tripod was one of the first things I bought. The pictures I've taken so far (and shared above) have all been at wide apertures and I'm just not happy with them. Especially the shot of the Sandias because they're slightly out of focus and lack detail. Ah great, well try to shoot at like f/11 then and focus on something in the middle of the scene (go look up hyperfocal distances if you want to do this properly), focusing at infinite may leave some foreground out of focus. If you're really struggling just stop down even further, f16.. f/22 you lose a bit of quality due to how the optics work, but an in focus scene is better than an out of focus scene. But you should definitely be fine at f/8 most of the time shooting wide angle, unless your foreground subject is really loving close.
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Been messing with shooting panoramas on my 50mm, to make up for it not being wide. Oh its so nice compared to kit lens, no distortion etc. this one was actually done with the kit lens, still really nice, im loving the detail you can capture by merging images as a panorama 
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Zygar posted:Lake Tekapo and Mt. Cook are both great. Wow, thats a pretty tree . I think I've seen that panorama of Mt. Cook a couple of times before - its beautiful.
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GrAviTy84 posted:Awesome photos. If this is cheap stuff, i'd be intrigued to see what expensive stuff can do... because holy poo poo did those come out well.   
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Nice shot Reichstag, I wish the perspective would literally just be top-down though.
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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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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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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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rockcity posted:A couple questions for you landscapers. This July I'm going to be venturing out to the Pacific Northwest and plan to do a lot of photography while I'm out there. Right now I'm shooting on a 40D and my widest lens (aside from my 8mm fisheye) is a 20mm Sigma. I'm weighing my options of either renting a 5D or a wider zoom lens, possibly with an ND filter, for my trip and am wondering what might be the best route to go for this one. Do you have to rent? I'm kinda against renting since it just seems like a waste of money to me. But if you have to rent I guess just go for the 5D, why not? If you can buy then the most used wide angles are the sigma 10-20, tokina 11-16 and canon 10-22. The canon lens is overpriced in my opinion and I would definitely look into the sigma/tokina, I desperately want the tokina myself. e: another 2  
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Cross_ posted:That's an awesome action shot. Care to elaborate on what kind of post you did ? Not a lot, I never really have a plan with post or a certain style that i'm aiming for. Anyway, fuckloads of fill light before opening the file, general curves layer affecting the entire picture, curves luminance mask affecting the darks, vibrance and an unsharp mask.
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HPL posted:I went for a walk in the forest today with a 17-50 and an 80-200. While it didn't yield any great photos, it was an interesting exercise in composition in that I found that using the 80-200 forced me to find actual subjects to photograph whereas with the 17-50 I tended to take broader, more sweeping photos that weren't nearly as interesting because they lacked a central focus to make them interesting. I've tried this by taking my 50mm 1.8 instead of my 18-55 and shooting at the wide end... I never come back with anything I like. It's a possibility I should try this more often to see if it will improve my composition, but I could miss out on some great shots whilst doing it.
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RangerScum posted:Ahhhh, this is gorgeous! Where is this at?? Thanks, It's the Three Sisters (the three rocks at the left) in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
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MrBlandAverage posted:Apparently there are waterfalls in Illinois. Absolutely fantastic. I think the rock on the left could do with a tiny bit more space, but this is just a nitpick, this is a beautiful landscape.
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Went to the beach to try capture a storm, it didnt fully develop but still made for some nice dull depressing shots.  Something different, I rarely use shallow dof in any of my shots, so I am trying to experiment incoporating it into my photos and open up more possibilities. 
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Nice Reichstag, always nice to see something different and unique executed well.   
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Thoogsby posted:Those are all amazing. Thanks! I just found this awesome tool and thought some of you would be interested. Basically it shows the direction of the sunrise/sunset/moonrise/moonset overlayed on google maps, along with the time. Makes it nice and easy for judging where the light rays are going to hit before you even go somewhere. http://stephentrainor.com/tools
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HPL posted:Hey fenner, octane2 is calling you out. I know octane2 in real life and I let him know about this location, hes a worthless photographer who just steals other peoples locations! 
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Mindblowing landscapes as always octane2. Interrupting Moss those B&Ws are awesome, they're so well done and have a strong impact. This shot is the aftermath of getting drenched by the wave, kit lens and d200 have now taken 3 full waves and live strong - love you Nikon  
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Mannequin posted:
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Just thought i'd show this guy off here, his front page of photos are absolutely amazing! http://www.flickr.com/photos/absolutelynothing/page1/
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Reichstag posted:
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