Recent Photography

[Sam]

I've been trying more "manual" setups for these shots, I'm not really an expert in aperture/shutter speed and whatever, but I'm learning. Most of these were taken at:

 

 

 

f/5-7.1

 

1/325 sec shutter speed

 

200-400 ISO speed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hide=Wells Cathedral][/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=The Big Meet][/hide]

 

 

 

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[hide=Down The Plug][/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=A Perfect Circle][/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Before The Rain]

 

Bad vignetting :|[/hide]

 

 

 

 

 

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[Shiny]

There all fairly good. I'll just choose your worst and c/c it.

 

 

 

- Wells Cathedral.

 

 

 

That is a boring shot. There is a lack of composition. There is nothing interesting in it and it suffers from fringing.

 

 

 

The best?

 

 

 

-Down The Pluf

 

 

 

Interesting composition (quite good) the focus is lovely, looks great on your eyes and the shot is so detailed.

[Sam]

There all fairly good. I'll just choose your worst and c/c it.

 

 

 

- Wells Cathedral.

 

 

 

That is a boring shot. There is a lack of composition. There is nothing interesting in it and it suffers from fringing.

 

 

 

 

I agree with the comments on Wells Cathedral , it was more of some very quickly taken shots to stitch in Autopano Pro :P

[pryomancer]

Wells Cathedral- bad composition, it's just dumped in the middle. you could have stood closer to create a more low angled shot to make the building look taller and generally more awesome. Also the blue sky completely clashes with the building's colour.

 

 

 

The Big Meet- pretty nice, although I would have the two bigger blobs in the foreground in focus, not blurred.

 

 

 

3- semi-interesting, but the focus is way off on this one

 

 

 

Down The Plug- foreground needs to be in focus, there are two big 'walls' of blur on either side that are incredibly distracting

 

 

 

A Perfect Circle- i see the idea you were going for, but it doesn't really work too well

 

 

 

Before The Rain- under-saturated, and there's no vignette there ;) A vignette is a border which fades to a blur/colour

[Nadril]

Hope you don't mind but I tried my hand at some color correction for Before the Rain.

 

 

 

 

 

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Curves + Brightness/Contrast + Smart Sharpen.

 

 

 

 

 

My favorite of yours probably are Before the Rain and either A Perfect Circle or Down the Plug.

[remoteman]

Nice work, particularly on down the plug. It's very noisy though, what iso are you shooting at, you mentioned 200-400, any reason? If camera shake is a problem then you should probably be using a tripod, especially for macro work, because it enables you to use the best quality settings available to you. And yeah, what's with the hard-edged out of focus areas that pyromancer pointed out?

[Sam]

Nice work, particularly on down the plug. It's very noisy though, what iso are you shooting at, you mentioned 200-400, any reason? If camera shake is a problem then you should probably be using a tripod, especially for macro work, because it enables you to use the best quality settings available to you. And yeah, what's with the hard-edged out of focus areas that pyromancer pointed out?

 

 

 

 

 

It was a low ISO, I just sharpened the photo and couldn't be bothered with noise removal crated by sharpening :P

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks all :thumbup:

 

 

 

 

 

btw: my birthday today :P

[remoteman]

Nice work, particularly on down the plug. It's very noisy though, what iso are you shooting at, you mentioned 200-400, any reason? If camera shake is a problem then you should probably be using a tripod, especially for macro work, because it enables you to use the best quality settings available to you. And yeah, what's with the hard-edged out of focus areas that pyromancer pointed out?

 

 

 

 

 

It was a low ISO, I just sharpened the photo and couldn't be bothered with noise removal crated by sharpening :P

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks all :thumbup:

 

 

 

 

 

btw: my birthday today :P

 

 

 

Fair enough, and happy birthday!! Get anything photography-wise hah?

[Sam]

nothing at all :P hoping for a sony a200 or something like that for christmas though :mrgreen:

[Shiny]

nothing at all :P hoping for a sony a200 or something like that for christmas though :mrgreen:

 

 

 

Don't you have a 450d?

[Sam]

It's not mine, Shiny. I'm embarrassed to say, I use my mothers camera :roll:

[Shiny]

It's not mine, Shiny. I'm embarrassed to say, I use my mothers camera :roll:

 

 

 

Yeah, buts its a 450d. They are better. Keep using and get an Sony A200 then give it to your mum. You profit out of it

[ThruItAll]

that's a bit back-handed shiny.

[Shiny]

that's a bit back-handed shiny.

 

 

 

:thumbup:

[Sam]

It's not mine, Shiny. I'm embarrassed to say, I use my mothers camera :roll:

 

 

 

Yeah, buts its a 450d. They are better. Keep using and get an Sony A200 then give it to your mum. You profit out of it

 

 

 

that's a bit back-handed shiny.

 

 

 

 

 

We do it for the lulz.

[woopidoo2]

that's a bit back-handed shiny.

 

 

 

:thumbup:

 

 

 

:lol: