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octane2 posted:So the photograph is horrible. I understand that. I thought I'd try something different. That's the beauty of experimenting, especially with photography, if it doesn't work out, you can try something else another time. I don't think that photo was horrible. gently caress the rule of thirds.
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jackpot posted:Oh my God. Where is this place, and did you have to die to get there? It's just off of I94 in North Dakota. You can see sunflower fields from the highway but have to take a half hour of dirt farm roads to find a decent vantage point. Oh and be willing to stand on the roof of your car.
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SiB posted:If you don't mind, can you share your editing you did to that sunflower shot? Sure. I used an antique lightroom preset ( from here http://www.camielschoonens.nl/journal/photography/lightroom-presets/), then cropped square, cranked up the black level to 35, bumped the exposure around a stop and a half to get the mid tones where I wanted them, then used highlight recovery to get back some detail in the sky, then just a bit of sharpening.
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wandler20 posted:Do you remember passing this thing? (cross posted from snapshots thread) Yes but it was dark. I drove from Woodville WI to Glendive MT in one day.
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I think I might be doing it wrong. lately I prefer to use my 85mm on landscapes and my 20mm on portraits.
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Spedman posted:I especially like this one: Yeah I was leaving the local Post Office when I saw that and had to stop.
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General Gravedancer posted:It may sound silly, but your photo's have a fantastic mathematical "feel". Thanks. I am trying for a very arranged look in my landscapes.
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Reichstag posted:Dude, that is sick.
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Twenties Superstar posted:This would have been fly as hell if it wasn't all off kilter and unbalanced what happened I sort of liked it being just slightly off. You think it would work better if I cropped it to place the cones more centralized?
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Twenties Superstar posted:Well I think things being off centre is a problem (I think stepping to the left ever so slightly and maybe turning left a little bit would have done wonders to make the scene "lock in") but there is also that the whole scene seems to be tilted a little relative to the edges of the frame. I noticed that you were very careful to make sure the top of the building was level but that seems to be the only edge in the whole photo that has that property. I would have been more particular about getting the lines on the building to make the same angle with the edge of the frame as it's symmetrical double. These kinds of photos are candy for me I love to take them and love to see them but this one seems a little sloppy. Hhhmm. I was never really happy with that window on the right side. I think this is a scene I will have to revisit now that I have a longer lens for my 'blad.
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   Some new stuff. I have really fallen behind in my scanning.
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evil_bunnY posted:What kind of film is this? That is Portra NC 160.
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Bloviator posted:Excellent catch! It's so hard to find a wild copyright notice in it's natural environment. *insert lovely flashing flickr award here*
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Buy a Hasselblad, shoot square, gently caress bitches.
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Here's some new stuff from a couple of weeks ago. Before that ^^^^^ happened to the PNW.  
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That's an 80mm on 6x6 so a normal FOV. That second one is pretty rad by the way.
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^^^ That is pretty awesome. Looks a bit off level though, just a little bit high on the right side.
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Dread Head posted:This is rad.
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A couple of photos from my recent trip home to visit my family in central New York.  
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Thanks, that's an abandoned school that we used to take the dog to so he could play in the courtyard off leash. I plan to go back and shot more soonish.
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Rubber Slug posted:Is that Santa Cruz, California? Nope, somewhere in North Dakota along Interstate 94.
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Koivunen posted:All my photos on the last page are from North Dakota too. However I was in northeast ND where the land is completely flat for hundreds of miles. I lived there for five years... never again. Too boring. Yeah, it was cool to drive through but I couldn't live there.
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Tincans posted:If I eat your heart will I gain your powers? Buying a tripod and neutral density filter with be less messy.
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I finally shot a few landscapes on digital that I don't completely hate (still going back with medium format next week).  
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Spot your scans :argh XTimmy posted:So I've been shooting for almost a quarter of my life and have never ever done proper landscapes. Rectified that recently. Not overly happy with the results, they feel noisy and cluttered, without the sweeping epic nature of other landscapes. The last one is my favourite Be gentle. I don't care for the postprocessing done to these. There is a bit too much contrast in some of the tree trunks. White skies are pretty boring and should be avoided at all costs. Pay closer attention to your corners and edges the trees wandering in and out of the frame distract the eye. I think these scenes have potential good images buried in them, keep shooting until you get the hang of it.
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XTimmy posted:Thanks for a fair critique, I'm a fan of high contrast in my other work so that's carrying over a bit here. I was very mad about the white skies, it was perfectly clear for a week (still is) and in the hour drive up it became totally overcast. gently caress you god, gently caress you. I feel you man. I spend so much time waiting for interesting skies that my best friend recently asked me if I ever take any landscape photos, I threatened to beat him senseless with a giant pile of negatives.
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Kujaroth posted:Photoshop out the power lines. Don't do this.
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atomicthumbs posted:I live in west Marin County, in the Bay Area. I've got the Point Reyes National Seashore right nearby but not much opportunity to take good advantage of it because I don't have a car at the moment. :P
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xzzy posted:Basically, shoot at sunrise or sunset. Obviously there's more technique to it than that, but I can't think of anything that has a bigger effect on making a mediocre landscape into a great one. Composition? Content? I mean, I wouldn't say that light alone would make something a great photograph. There has to be something there in the first place. Dick Danger posted:I really hate sucking at things, so I want to make a goal of working towards the quality of landscape photography everyone else posting here seems to maintain. Are there any particularly good resources/theory for beginners? Look at a lot of photographs. Seriously, spend as much time as you can looking at images you like and think about why you like them. Landscape throws a lot of people because they have trouble with the concept of the scene it's self being the subject of the photo. It's easier to get away with sloppier composition when shooting something clearly defined that dominates the viewers attention, like portraits or sports. Remember that you aren't just trying to take a picture of a tree and a rock, you are trying to say something with those elements. I'm not saying that every photograph you take must be meticulously planned and thought out. Just that if you don't know why you are taking a photograph then you probably shouldn't take it. Here are a few Flickr groups with some strong work that I like to follow: http://www.flickr.com/groups/anthropogenics/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/neotopografia/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/americanelegy/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/democraticforest/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/landscapist/
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xzzy posted:My assumption is if they're posting here they already have some awareness of composition. Fair enough.
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Some new work I just finished scanning and spotting. 20120828-002-web by 8th-samurai, on Flickr  20120828-004-web by 8th-samurai, on Flickr  20120828-007-web by 8th-samurai, on Flickr  20120828-011-web by 8th-samurai, on Flickr  20120828-020-web by 8th-samurai, on Flickr
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