Nigel Tufnel posted:

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

On the topic of editing, I will edit the poo poo out of stuff from a composition standpoint if I need to.

An example, this church that always looks very nicely lit at night. I get the drone up 150 feet or so, and realize how the sausage is made. That light isn't visible from any street angles, so you never know its there until you get up high.

Well, I'm not letting it ruin my shot, dammit!

Nigel Tufnel posted:

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majour333 posted:

Thanks

Fart Amplifier posted:

onezero posted:

Blackhawk posted:

alkanphel posted:

The Artificial Kid posted:

Dread Head posted:

samantonio posted:

Tallgrass Prairie Natural Preserve, KS

samantonio posted:

Thanks, it's been controversial. Most comments center around "you wasted all that space." lol that's why I love it.

xzzy posted:

gently caress yeah, fog AND some direct light

xzzy posted:

Nigel Tufnel posted:

Beautiful

p0stal b0b posted:

Some fantastic stuff on this page...

My gut reaction to these is that they might benefit from more tonal range or emphasis in the mid-tones, but everyone else here seems to dig them, so what am I missing? I'm trying to learn to properly appreciate a wide variety of photographic styles, even if I can't yet successfully emulate them, so if the thread feels happy to educate me, what do others appreciate about these photos, or what do people feel makes them good? (Serious question, not trying to be snarky or anything!)

alkanphel posted:

Finger Prince posted:

Here's a quick and dirty edit - please don't take offense, it's your image after all, so this might not be what you were looking to accomplish. I knocked the contrast and a bit of the brightness down in GIMP, then applied a q+d high pass filter just on the neon bail bonds sign to bring it back into poppiness. This is my version of what I saw in the original vlog-like grey washed photo, without the grey wash.


I did it because it's a gorgeous photo and it just needs a tiny bit of tweaking to get to the next . My tweaks might not be the best but hopefully they help explain what I was thinking, seeing the original.

Spedman posted:

Here are my blunt thoughts on this photo and every other "vintage aesthetic" you see these days:

The photo is a lazy heavy handed approach to produce an aesthetic that only every existed in the minds eye of people who never lived through that period of time

it's a fantasy, and a boring one at that

bellows lugosi posted:

if you can't see that this is showing you why this is a wasteland i think you're not looking closely enough

Finger Prince posted:

What exactly about, again picking on the hope church, religious symbolism, declining small town America, and some vague idea of hopefulness isn't a trope? It's practically a genre unto itself. Open national geographic from any time in the last 50 years and you'll see examples. Using tropes is fine, it can be done well, it can be done badly. But to argue that doing lifted blacks or a nostalgic aesthetic is a trope unworthy of "true" art, while lauding other tropes like washed out black and white and crumbling Americana sounds like some kind of weird gatekeeping, and I have to ask, what gate exactly are you keeping here?

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TomR posted:

2021-08-07-4 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr

Megabound posted:

Cacator posted:

This page is severely lacking in mountains.

xzzy posted:

Also here's a mountain I saw this summer. Mountains are nice.



Very much not confident with my B&W conversions so if someone thinks I hosed it up I'd love to hear what I did wrong. There was a lot of slider wiggling so I'm worried I overcooked it and am blind to it.

xzzy posted:

Yeah, I sweated over that for a bit in LR and there's even a radial filter over it to bring down the highlights. Nothing in the histogram is clipped though. But I couldn't wiggle sliders enough to get it to naturally blend in better.. anything more started to make ugly halos. I could fix it in photoshop but I also kind of wanted to see if anyone else commented on it.

My issue with the color version is it's pretty low contrast. There was smoke haze, the greens were kinda dingy, and the mountains were pretty flat. I didn't feel color brought anything to the table. If you care to form an opinion on your own, here's an unedited export: https://i.imgur.com/3cyJ9cv.jpg

I'll agree it's heavy on the left. Looking at the conversion next to the color maybe I pulled down the darks too much.

Yes it was!

Nigel Tufnel posted:

I can't tell of this is criticism or praise?? Anyway I dig real nap poo poo's stuff. Although I didn't get it at first I must admit.

I see their work as a really cool documentation of the banal. It's precisely because no one really notices or looks at this bland stuff that to see it photographed and presented as art really works for me. Once all this turns to rubble there will be a million pictures of the Sydney Opera House but few people are documenting strip malls. Maybe as a brit there's a bit of fetishising the open-space modern americana of it all.

I do prefer the more empty scenes without cars though I must say. Although given that cars are stationary 99% of the time I suppose there as much a part of the landscape as the buildings.

bellows lugosi posted:

i’d be interested in you posting some examples (not of your own images, of course) of what sort of photographs really excite you

bellows lugosi posted:

i'm curious to see some visual examples (photographs) of what you find interesting, perhaps if you were to show some it might help folks understand where you're coming from

seravid posted:

Heck yeah to these



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