evil_bunnY posted:

Eh, I thought the whole point of hyperfocal focusing was to shoot stopped enough that your foreground *and* background are focused

evil_bunnY posted:

When someone smarter than me explained it, what I understood is that you shift focus back from infinity and stop down until both foreground and background/infinity are in the field. It's pretty easy to visualize on old-rear end lenses with both a focus and a depth of field scale.

Way Past Cool! posted:

You've pulled it off well, especially in the second one. The overall composition reminds me of Japanese wood block prints.

Interrupting Moss posted:

This is pretty cool.

slearch posted:

quazi posted:

(I developed it a couple days ago in front of about 50 people.)

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.

fenner posted:

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.

Momonari kun posted:

Just got back from China and am wondering what to do with these shots from the Great Wall. The weather was really rainy and while some shots have a good atmosphere to them, some are just plain hazy. I'm not really sure what I need to do in post to get rid of the color cast in them.

Smekerman posted:

Not bad but they're too obviously HDR (or tonemapped, rather). The sky just looks off in the last two shots. It's like the mountains are glowing, especially on the far left and right of the pictures. They'd be nice sunset shots if you could actually fix that. I'll get to the first one as well in a bit, but here's some random critiques for the last two shots:

- In the second shot, your horizon is almost straight down the middle. I'd shift + crop it from the bottom left to get rid of the empty space at the bottom and lower the horizon at the same time
- It also seems like you have some barrel distortion on the horizon in the second shot, it looks curved. I didn't bother pixel-peeping and I might be wrong due to perspective or something, but you might want to double check that.
- I'd also clone out that tiny-rear end moon, it's kinda cool but at the same time it's so small that it just jumps out at you and distracts you from the rest of the shot. It's literally the first thing I noticed.

- The white thing on the right in the third shot is really distracting. I'd consider cropping that.
- You have a couple red pixels in the shot which draw the eye to them. I'd clone those out.
- Again, glowy mountains. It's somewhat better in dynamic range than the second shot, but you can really tell something's up by looking at the mountain on the left. Notice how areas near its center are darker than areas closer to both the water and the sky? Really distracting.

And now let's talk about your first shot. This should would be pretty dope if:

- You got rid of that half-a-house in the bottom left.
- You color-corrected the really blue tinge in the mountains with maybe a masked color balance tool, adding more yellow or something.
- Fixed the tonemapping in your HDR process so that the forest in the foreground has somewhat of a similar toning, ie. trees in the foreground aren't lighter than trees in the background, as it makes no sense for that to be the case, you had no light source illuminating said trees.

Anyway, overall, when shooting HDR I'm really way less concerned about preserving all/most shadow detail in shadow areas. Go for a more natural look (ie. slightly blown highlights and/or dark shadows) when shooting HDR, rather than think "I'm shooting HDR, I need to have detail in both shadows and highlights!". If I had to choose, I'd say go with details in the highlights, and personally I feel you kinda nailed that with this first shot. Shadow detail, however (and again, this is only my opinion) isn't nearly as important, as long as it's not pitch black.