Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Thank you but it is resolved now. Can use my original username again.
I watch clouds a lot but it’s rare for them to be this low and in such a good position. Most of my cloud photos have been pretty boring.
If they are first timers, rank amatures I have a standard speal I give them. The gist of it is ‘Starting out, it doesn’t matter”
Buy something used, cheap and learn to use it. You don’t have skill set to take advantage of a great camera so you don’t need one. A great kitchen doesn’t make you a great cook. So buy cheap, learn if you really like and are really serious. Learn as much as you can and when you outgrow your cheap camera you will have enough experience to know what you want and can make a educated choice on your first ‘good’ camera.
I am a big fan of Darktable. It has a couple of things that LR should have and of course LR has some things I wish Darktable had. But Darktable is free and I refuse to rent any software that I do absolutely have to have.
I like it so much I switched Linux just so I could get the latest versions.
OK, as I said I was never happy with the edit. Discovered a new module/tool today I had not previous used (Darktable, not LR). Removed all the edits and started over and now it looks much more like what I had in mind.
A little dark still but I have the full tonal range from underexposed blacks to blown out whites. And I lean a toward darker B&W images.
Figured out why I set the ISO to 11oo too. I had raised it shooting in a dark tower early in the day. Then headed to this spot and forgot to check. Latter on I lowered it when I moved to the next spot. Rookie mistake there.
Exactly, it was to do in-flight refueling of other planes. There is a boom tucked up against the plane with the two smaller winglets. That was lowered and attached to the planes to be refueled.
I love B&W and usually don’t have the issues I have had with these I took of the boat. I need to walk away for a week, rest it and start over.
That is a good question! Obviously was a mistake, best guess is I read it as 100?
Have to go back many years but I decided I ‘needed’ large format camera, film days. So I acquired a couple of Yashica TLR bodies and a full range of lenses. Being a SLR guy I found them hard to use and only shot 3-4 rolls of film on them. Ended up selling them all off a couple of years latter. That was a total waste of time and money.
That was a good lesson though and now I no longer have G.A.S. Much more careful about what I buy and make sure I really need it.
Thanks. As i was climbing these I was knew there was a photo here. Went back and spent some time looking to find it.
I found that if you align it to look right at the bottom, the top looks off. If you alight the top the bottom looks off. So I went with the top which is the only straight line.
I believe that online photo contests are viewed as a revenue stream and nothing more. They have very little to do with creativity, quality, or talent.
What Ken said. Read the rules closely. Many just want to the right to use your photo any way they please. I just don’t fool with those.
We had a local group and I participated in all those. No gimmicks, no money either but it was fun. You got a little local publicity and that was nice. There is one State wide outdoor contest I might enter this year but only if they are not going to ‘steal’ my images.
No one values photography anymore.
Always wanted to express myself but never had much more than minimal talent at any type of art.
I love writing but I struggle with spelling and grammar. My High School Creative Writing teacher basically told me it was a shame someone who liked to write so much wasn’t better at it. (She was one of my favorite teachers and I am sure she said it much more tactfully, but that is what she meant.)
I love going somewhere and finding compositions (photos) hiding in the plain site that no one else sees. Just this weekend I found two really nice ones in a old Fort. Scenes only a photographer would give a second look. A old painted wooden door and the sun shining on some stone spiral stairs. Taking the raw image and processing it into something worthy or hanging on the wall is just an awesome feeling.
I use polarizer, ND filters (grad and solid) probably at least once a month.
What I regret is
- Cheap tripod. We all know why.
- UV filters
- Colored gel filters
Yea, I am not a fan of the pencil effect either. I like the scene but the colored version doesn’t do much for me either.
Being a boat builder/woodworker I am intrigued by it from that perspective. Did you try a straight black and white version?
Let me try again. I wrote up a big long reply and it’s not here?
When I look at this, my eyes go straight to the water in the center of the frame, between the trees. Then I find I look left and right but I am drawn right back to that gap between the trees. So for me that focal point is that gap and I pretty sure that is not what you had in mind.
Willing to bet your eyes focus on the barn and would also bet that most people’s eyes do not gravitate to the barn either. Took me a long time to see the whole scene and not focus on what it was I wanted to see in the photo.
Assuming you want the barn to be the focal point I would crop that scene a good bit. I don’t usually edit someone else’s images but I played around for a minute or two and this is what I came up with. For me it draws my eye straight to the barn. If I left any of the tree on the right it pulled my attention away from the barn. The way the dominate freature, the one my eyes are drawn to first is the barn.
As others have said I think you were a little heavy handed with the processing so I will skip over that.
Like this scene and would love to photograph it myself.
LOL, I am heading to Middletown, DE. Not sure what it there (other than relatives) . judging by Google images I am going to be challenged! But I am sure I can find something.
LOL, I am heading to Middletown, DE. Not sure what it there (other than relatives) . judging by Google images I am going to be challanged! But I am sure I can find something.
I instantly though of the yellow light on the Stop lights (well in the US anyway).
With lighting while you do have to have some skill but mostly you need a lot more luck!
You never know where or when it will strike so you just have to keep the shutter open as much as you can and take your chances. I just guessed well this time. I walked away with two good shots and was tickled with that.
Most time I walk away with nothing special. We rarely have clear skies with small storms like this that are photogenic or safe to photograph. I always say ‘Right place, right time. But you have to get out and be there at the bad times too.
