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I am a huge proponent of black and white for forest work. Removing the colour layer gets rid of a lot of muddiness.
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Brown is just dingy yellow and everyone goes nuts for yellow trees because the contrast against cool tones is appealing. So if you convert to/shoot b&w you get the contrast but not the gross browns. Unless you want those gross browns. That's cool too.
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Megabound posted:I am a huge proponent of black and white for forest work. Removing the colour layer gets rid of a lot of muddiness. Been trying a little of that but the beautiful greens and browns that catch my eye often end up very similar greys and it doesn't work. I'll try and focus more on form and shadow, with the longer days and harsher sun of summer maybe I'll spot more scenes, been weeks of mostly overcast recently.
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This isn't in the snow, and my recent snow shots I converted to b&w, but whatever Love some good browns
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Love the forest shots. Especially these two.Mega Comrade posted:I live next to a forest now, so that's all I take pictures of. That and birds. The local forests are my first choice when I just want to take some photos and chill out. There's always something unique to find.   
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:This isn't in the snow, and my recent snow shots I converted to b&w, but whatever Agreed but the greens are the star of this show, holy moly
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:This isn't in the snow, and my recent snow shots I converted to b&w, but whatever Lovely, thanks for sharing. QuasiQuack posted:Love the forest shots. Especially these two. Love a good branch. And yes. I'm taking my camera with me every day with the dog, 99% of what I take gets chucked but it's very zen. On weekends I'm trying to go out with the tripod and put in a little more effort and slow down a little. How did this look in B&W? Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Mega Comrade posted:How did this look in B&W? I feel it loses something tbh. The colors are weird and unappealing, but that was part of what made it interesting to me. 
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A few from the last month or so, I kinda like them and kinda don't. The advantage is I can get to this spot and back for sunrise before work starts so I can keep returning until the conditions really hit. Or I find a composition that works.   Last one is probably my favorite, if I can get glassy water on a orange sunrise I think I'd love it.
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QuasiQuack posted:I feel it loses something tbh. The colors are weird and unappealing, but that was part of what made it interesting to me. The other thing you need to make black and white really work for a forest scene is dappled lighting   
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How about a green filter for b&w forest shots? I’ve heard those help
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A green filter will lighten foliage in comparison to the brown/red background. So yeah, suitable if that's the separation you're chasing.
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 Went pretty well! Longer lens would've been nicer but I'm not going to complain.
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Did you vary your exposure length at that focal length and take a bunch of images? Because you might have enough data to do one of those corona shots, the full corona is massive and you probably had a good focal length to capture all of it. eg, https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/7e3fkh/i_combined_12_exposures_to_capture_the_suns/ still manages to clip the edges.
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I set it to -1/0/1 exposure bracketing and left it on auto shutter so I didn't have to futz with the camera while watching. That's a good idea though, might play with stacking and see if I got anything fun hiding in there.
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Drove a cumulative ~14 hours from Chicagoland to rural IL to stare at the sun. Would recommend. Got some wild shots - was not expecting to be able to see solar flares.   I may end up diving full bore into astrophotography now. 
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Good luck with that in Chicagoland! As someone that struggled with it for years, a list of my favorite dark spots within driving distance of the city, sorted by quality of the skies: Nachusa Grasslands (1 hour) Weinberg-King State Fish and Wildlife Area (4 hours) Hogback Prairie SNA, Wisconsin (4 hours) Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota (8 hours) Nebraska Natioanal Forest at Halsey (11 hours) Note that the importance of darkness depends on the angle of your shooting. If you want the horizon in frame, light domes from cities can be annoying. But if you know what direction you're shooting you can work around it, like lots of places on the north shore of the Michigan's upper peninsula are extremely dark if you're shooting north. If you're shooting straight up you can get away with more light pollution. Start planning for the perseids because it's going to be a decent year for it, the moon will be below horizon during the peak.
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xzzy posted:Good luck with that in Chicagoland! As someone that struggled with it for years, a list of my favorite dark spots within driving distance of the city, sorted by quality of the skies: Yeah, it's not ideal but I am willing to do some driving to get to some cool spots. I've spent a fair bit of time in the Nebraska Sandhills and it is dark there like you mention. Might poke around northern WI or the UP as I have been meaning to explore that area more. Time to start looking at star trackers again....
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charliebravo77 posted:Might poke around northern WI or the UP as I have been meaning to explore that area more. Time to start looking at star trackers again.... Check out Pine Lake and Lake Lenawee near Moquah Barrens SNA when the fall color hits. Glorious weather that time of year, the barrens give a clear view of the skies and the lakes have miles of second growth forest to explore. I never did astro there but I assume it'd work great. There's just no foregrounds to play with. I went up there every fall for several years and never had a bad time.
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2 for 110 squash edit: and some cubed radish kimchi in 35mm 
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Ihmemies posted:From today again. I love this composition
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Thanks! I only wish I stopped down the aperture in certain situations, like that… 
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Father O'Blivion posted:edit: and some cubed radish kimchi in 35mm very cool. I'd love to take/see more food photography in general but I don't wanna be the guy that pulls put a huge camera before eating lol Your stuff is always great but I especially like this one. Nice contrast of hard lines vs a big crowd spilling out field balm fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Love the student overalls patches thing, cool tradition. Unrelated, I live in Revachol. 
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There is zero reason that the markings in the sprocket area of Fuji 800 need to go this drat hard
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