The Photography Thread

[Padge]

ultimately it's all about the picture and the realisation of the idea of what the picture should look like. If you have a picture in your mind and you can make an image that looks like that, then how it's brought about doesn't matter

Exactly, I post on a photography forum and some people will give a poster a bit of stick over a photograph they have posted. Often the poster says "well I like it", my response usually is to ask "is the photograph what you you saw originally as your idea and does it represent your vision to you. Are you happy with the result. If the answer to that is yes, then you have a good photograph".

Some people like sugar in tea others don't like it it, that's taste.

[Millman]

I deleted your address by mistake. I hadn't forgotten about the yashica

pm it and I'll get it off at the weekend

Get thi sen to the Stoop. He should be easy to spot.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

[l'angelo mysterioso]

still struggling a bit

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[Millman]

still struggling a bit

Looks to me like you've got one of them there tiny cameras.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

you were saying?

Edited April 1, 2010 by l'angelo mysterioso

[l'angelo mysterioso]

broadcasting place leeds

one of my favourite buildings

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[l'angelo mysterioso]

impromptu blues doctors gig

[l'angelo mysterioso]

daughter eleanor riding Cisco in a cross country event

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[Padge]

daughter eleanor riding Cisco in a cross country event

Nicely captured shot.

Personaly I'd be tempted to do a bit of a rotation and a tighter crop and boost the saturation and contrast a bit on the background.

Finally I'd do a bit of selective sharpening and gaussian blur.

If you don't mind me messing about with your shot I'll give it a go and post what I'm talking about.

Edited April 1, 2010 by Padge

[l'angelo mysterioso]

Nicely captured shot.

Personaly I'd be tempted to do a bit of a rotation and a tighter crop and boost the saturation and contrast a bit on the background.

Finally I'd do a bit of selective sharpening and gaussian blur.

If you don't mind me messing about with your shot I'll give it a go and post what I'm talking about.

to be honest dave I didn't take it. I just thought as you say it was a good picture for folks to look at.

I'd be interested to see what you come up with though.

Eleanor's really going for the competition cross countrys big time this year.

The horse you see her riding is one that belonged to someone else. This year she's taken a horse she's known for a long time on a kind of leasehold. I'm fancying getting into the horse photography game. Cross country is very photogenic

[l'angelo mysterioso]

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[Padge]

Here you are Chris.

Forst I rotated the shot and then did a tighter crop.

Adjusted the Yellow and Green channels to boost the saturation of the grass and foliage.

Added some Gaussian Blur to the background and foreground and then sharpened horse and rider.

An overall adjustment of levels then to increase the contrast.

A little more sharpening of the horses eye and a final adjustment to tone down the front log and barrier.

[Millman]

Eleanor's really going for the competition cross countrys big time this year.

Brave. It's a tough sport that. High risk.

[l'angelo mysterioso]

Here you are Chris.

Forst I rotated the shot and then did a tighter crop.

Adjusted the Yellow and Green channels to boost the saturation of the grass and foliage.

Added some Gaussian Blur to the background and foreground and then sharpened horse and rider.

An overall adjustment of levels then to increase the contrast.

A little more sharpening of the horses eye and a final adjustment to tone down the front log and barrier.

superb mate

the pic looks much more dynamic and three dimensional.

At these events there's always a photographer and you can pic the prints/disc up pretty much straight away, so they don't do any tweaking with them

[Padge]

just like developing with different chemicals and dodging, burning along with using filters there is a lot of developing ot go on post picture take,

Ansel Adams didn't take a picture and send the negative to the chemist and then get a perfect print. Darkroom hours were spent getting right, now you work on a computer. It still needs skill, it still needs vision and it still takes time. The only difference is you don't work under a dim red light.

If people think its dead easy to do now then try and get one of your photographs accepted by a top pro stock photo site.

[ckn]

just like developing with different chemicals and dodging, burning along with using filters there is a lot of developing ot go on post picture take,

Ansel Adams didn't take a picture and send the negative to the chemist and then get a perfect print. Darkroom hours were spent getting right, now you work on a computer. It still needs skill, it still needs vision and it still takes time. The only difference is you don't work under a dim red light.

If people think its dead easy to do now then try and get one of your photographs accepted by a top pro stock photo site.

I was going to put this link on the random links thread but I thought it would be a good one to reply to your post with: Creative photo manipulations

[gingerjon]

It still needs skill, it still needs vision and it still takes time.

This is true.

I sometimes take upwards of 2-3 minutes in post-processing.

[Padge]

This is true.

I sometimes take upwards of 2-3 minutes in post-processing.

It shows.

[Padge]

Wigan St. Judes versus West Hull, very tense game Judes eventually won 28-26

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[Padge]

I was going to put this link on the random links thread but I thought it would be a good one to reply to your post with: Creative photo manipulations

They all have one thing in common, they start with one or more good photographs.

Excellant stuff.

[gingerjon]

It shows.

That was a gimme but you took it well! Good shots from the rugby.

Anyway, rather than pollute with some soccer shots, here are some men leaping on each other:

I did actually do some post-processing on this. I nudged the contrast along. The jpegs from the D90 are coming back really flat - I probably should read the manual.

Anyway, some match photos here ...

[Padge]

That was a gimme but you took it well! Good shots from the rugby.

Anyway, rather than pollute with some soccer shots, here are some men leaping on each other:

I did actually do some post-processing on this. I nudged the contrast along. The jpegs from the D90 are coming back really flat - I probably should read the manual.

Anyway, some match photos here ...

Did he get the blow job.

[gingerjon]

Did he get the blow job.

That's for a hat-trick.

[Padge]

That's for a hat-trick.

There is 3 of them he's going for.