Picture Thread

[Aharami]

St. Martini. Taken on my honeymoon in St. Martin. wish I'd removed the coaster before taking the pic.

 

[randay]

 

[jpeyton]

 

[Aharami]

Lotus Temple @ sunset. New Delhi, India

 

[JimKiler]

Yosemite National Park

on my flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/soaptrail/600325099/

 

[deanx0r]

Note to moderators: we need a "picture" button.
Yes, some of us are that lazy to type [img] tags

Not my best work, I am just rusty after a long hiatus.

 

[BeauJangles]

Nice pictures, i spend so much time on places like fredmiranda.com looking at photos for inspiration.

 

[Aquila76]

Took this over the summer. Little guy ate a TON of different pests: mosquitoes, earwigs, beetles, etc. Kept the hostas nice and full this year.

 

[jpeyton]

 

[angry hampster]

Went for a rather icy drive this morning.

 

[BeauJangles]

 

[996GT2]

From the Blizzard that blanketed most of the east coast earlier this week.

Flickr Link

 

[Aharami]

996, is that HDR?

 

[996GT2]

996, is that HDR?

Not really, just shot one RAW and did some work in PP

 

[angry hampster]

Not really, just shot one RAW and did some work in PP

Looks nice..great definition in the snow.

 

[ProfJohn]

The first photos I took with my Alien Bee flashes.

Very exciting! If I can get shots this great out of the box imagine what I can get when I learn how to use the damn things

 

[shocksyde]

Some Blizz pics from Baltimore, MD after the double-blizzard:

More in flickr link in my sig

 

[ProfJohn]

^ HDR?

and it looks cold... bleh

 

[996GT2]

Some Blizz pics from Baltimore, MD after the double-blizzard:

More in flickr link in my sig

You might want to go easy on the HDR next time. The sky's starting to look fake/post apocalyptic in these (esp the second one). #1 could benefit from some perspective distortion correction.

Also, if you look closely you can see the halos around the trees, rooftop, etc, which are trademark signs of overly done HDRs. It helps to do a little more work in PP to get rid of those.

Otherwise they're pretty decent pics tho

 

[shocksyde]

You might want to go easy on the HDR next time. The sky's starting to look fake/post apocalyptic in these (esp the second one). #1 could benefit from some perspective distortion correction.

Also, if you look closely you can see the halos around the trees, rooftop, etc, which are trademark signs of overly done HDRs. It helps to do a little more work in PP to get rid of those.

Otherwise they're pretty decent pics tho

"Apocalyptic" HDR is exactly what I was going for. If I was attempting to represent my neighborhood more realistically, then I'd agree with everything you said. I'm certainly not trying to pass these off as straight-out-of-the-camera photos.

 

[angry hampster]

The first photos I took with my Alien Bee flashes.

Very exciting! If I can get shots this great out of the box imagine what I can get when I learn how to use the damn things

All look very underexposed to me.

 

[ProfJohn]

All look very underexposed to me.

As in?? Explain please

I would say they are a little overly bright because her features are a little washed out and lack color. Although I can most likely fix that with some work on the computer.

 

[angry hampster]

OK, the images at least lack contrast, but I would say that the subject in all three of them looks underexposed. I'd do a quick edit of one, but I don't have PS installed yet..just reformatted last night.

 

[ProfJohn]

Are you sure you got the terminology right??

Underexposed would imply that the pic is too dark and that certainly does not seem to be a problem.

If anything there is TOO much light in these pics and the lack of contrast is because she is overly lit.

I probably need to tone down the lighting and aim for a look more like this:

 

[angry hampster]

No, your images are underexposed. They are too dark. There are *barely* highlights in any of those three, except for the backlit one obviously. Whites should not appear grey. There's no need to question my technical knowledge of the art.

edit: just installed PS to prove a point. I couldn't bump the whites on this much without making this image look like hell...but just a little processing can go a long way.