Photography Thread
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A mixed bag this evening. Cloud interrupted play (as usual 🤬) so time was spent with snowdrops in the diffused light, then patience paid off. 😎 Lack of foreground interest though.
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pblakeney said:
A mixed bag this evening. Cloud interrupted play (as usual 🤬) so time was spent with snowdrops in the diffused light, then patience paid off. 😎 Lack of foreground interest though.
I was hoping for a magnificent sunset as I set out from the friends' house where I was, but then a sodding great bank of cloud came along and turned all the lights out well before sunset, to the extent that I was glad I had a rear light on the bike.1 -
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Guessing at the religious aspect appealing to them.briantrumpet said:Hmm, the French contingent seem to like this one...
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...or it needs some meaningless drivelly motivational "thought for the day" words slapped on the clouds...pblakeney said:
Guessing at the religious aspect appealing to them.briantrumpet said:Hmm, the French contingent seem to like this one...
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1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Used my proper camera for some family snaps. Despite the progress in camera phones, the difference is clear even to an extreme amateur.1
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TheBigBean said:
Used my proper camera for some family snaps. Despite the progress in camera phones, the difference is clear even to an extreme amateur.
Yup, unless you spend quite a lot more on a phone that designed with photography in mind... but when I've looked at that, it's actually cheaper to get a decent cheapish camera (£200ish) that has something like 30x optical zoom and amazing image stabilisation that to upgrade a phone to a phone, which will still be compromised in comparison. It strikes me a bit like buying a washing machine that will also double up as a microwave: combining the two functions is neither the cheapest nor best option.
Don't get me wrong, it's useful to have a basic camera on the phone, but the physics of lenses and focal lengths means they will always lose, in direct comparison.0 -
Just for once, I got a photo which I think shows the effort and steepness of an ascent. And a bonus sunset from my house.
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^Nice work showing the gradient. ^
Telephoto end of things?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Yes.pblakeney said:^Nice work showing the gradient. ^
Telephoto end of things?0 -
Good to know for future reference. Funny how simply seeing something done right makes you realise where you've been going wrong. 😉briantrumpet said:
Yes.pblakeney said:^Nice work showing the gradient. ^
Telephoto end of things?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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I actually find my phone (iPhone 13) gives better results than my DSLR in some conditions, mainly high contrast situations. I'm hoping for a clear night as I want to see how well it copes with astrophotography using an app that allows proper long exposure shots.TheBigBean said:Used my proper camera for some family snaps. Despite the progress in camera phones, the difference is clear even to an extreme amateur.
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Photos from this morning's dog walk (on the iPhone). Perfect morning with the rising sun being diffused by clearing mist and the frosty ground.
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pblakeney said:
Good to know for future reference. Funny how simply seeing something done right makes you realise where you've been going wrong. 😉briantrumpet said:
Yes.pblakeney said:^Nice work showing the gradient. ^
Telephoto end of things?
Foreshortening can do wonders... but it's still often hard to show the real gradient (or at least how it felt).0 -
Pross said:
Photos from this morning's dog walk (on the iPhone). Perfect morning with the rising sun being diffused by clearing mist and the frosty ground.
Nice. Gotta admit that iPhones do a good job for this sort of thing.0 -
Side on with vertical features is the only way I've seen to really do it.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
Good to know for future reference. Funny how simply seeing something done right makes you realise where you've been going wrong. 😉briantrumpet said:
Yes.pblakeney said:^Nice work showing the gradient. ^
Telephoto end of things?
Foreshortening can do wonders... but it's still often hard to show the real gradient (or at least how it felt).0 -
Pross said:
Side on with vertical features is the only way I've seen to really do it.briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
Good to know for future reference. Funny how simply seeing something done right makes you realise where you've been going wrong. 😉briantrumpet said:
Yes.pblakeney said:^Nice work showing the gradient. ^
Telephoto end of things?
Foreshortening can do wonders... but it's still often hard to show the real gradient (or at least how it felt).
Looking at my photo again, I think the hedge helps... must remember that in future when I beat friends to the tops of climbs 😉0 -
The basic summary is that a phone does more inboard processing than a DSLR, unless you really tweak the settings. Post processing is usually required to get the best out of a DSLR.Pross said:
I actually find my phone (iPhone 13) gives better results than my DSLR in some conditions, mainly high contrast situations. I'm hoping for a clear night as I want to see how well it copes with astrophotography using an app that allows proper long exposure shots.TheBigBean said:Used my proper camera for some family snaps. Despite the progress in camera phones, the difference is clear even to an extreme amateur.
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Probably but that's where my skills are even more lacking!pblakeney said:
The basic summary is that a phone does more inboard processing than a DSLR, unless you really tweak the settings. Post processing is usually required to get the best out of a DSLR.Pross said:
I actually find my phone (iPhone 13) gives better results than my DSLR in some conditions, mainly high contrast situations. I'm hoping for a clear night as I want to see how well it copes with astrophotography using an app that allows proper long exposure shots.TheBigBean said:Used my proper camera for some family snaps. Despite the progress in camera phones, the difference is clear even to an extreme amateur.
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This group is really troubling me now. Apart from the amount of hugely over-saturated sunsets that have been getting posted there are also a load of 'landscapes' posted on there taken in portrait format. There's some beautiful photos amongst them and I understand why a lot of them have been taken in that format but for me a landscape photo should be in landscape format. Maybe I'm being too literal though.Pross said:I've started following a Welsh Landscape and Seascape group on Facebook, the range on there is incredible from superb professional quality work to not so good (being kind!). There's been some brilliant sunsets posted recently.
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Pross said:
This group is really troubling me now. Apart from the amount of hugely over-saturated sunsets that have been getting posted there are also a load of 'landscapes' posted on there taken in portrait format. There's some beautiful photos amongst them and I understand why a lot of them have been taken in that format but for me a landscape photo should be in landscape format. Maybe I'm being too literal though.Pross said:I've started following a Welsh Landscape and Seascape group on Facebook, the range on there is incredible from superb professional quality work to not so good (being kind!). There's been some brilliant sunsets posted recently.
I leave any groups where over-saturated becomes the way to garner 'likes', and no-one calls them out.0 -
This is far from the worst offender but you can see from the foreground how much it has been enhanced. If anyone does mention over-saturation they seem to get shouted down or the photographer claims it is 'straight from the camera'. It's frustrating as in most cases the picture would stand up without so much colour. There are some examples such as waterfalls where I think it does add something artistically though.
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I'm glad I didn't post the purposeful portrait aspect version of the one at the top of this page then. 😉 Although that was mostly due to the dog adding interest.Pross said:
This group is really troubling me now. Apart from the amount of hugely over-saturated sunsets that have been getting posted there are also a load of 'landscapes' posted on there taken in portrait format. There's some beautiful photos amongst them and I understand why a lot of them have been taken in that format but for me a landscape photo should be in landscape format. Maybe I'm being too literal though.Pross said:I've started following a Welsh Landscape and Seascape group on Facebook, the range on there is incredible from superb professional quality work to not so good (being kind!). There's been some brilliant sunsets posted recently.
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I don't have any objection to portrait format photos, just portrait style photos more calling them landscapes. As I said, I'm probably being a bit too literal in my interpretation.pblakeney said:
I'm glad I didn't post the purposeful portrait aspect version of the one at the top of this page then. 😉 Although that was mostly due to the dog adding interest.Pross said:
This group is really troubling me now. Apart from the amount of hugely over-saturated sunsets that have been getting posted there are also a load of 'landscapes' posted on there taken in portrait format. There's some beautiful photos amongst them and I understand why a lot of them have been taken in that format but for me a landscape photo should be in landscape format. Maybe I'm being too literal though.Pross said:I've started following a Welsh Landscape and Seascape group on Facebook, the range on there is incredible from superb professional quality work to not so good (being kind!). There's been some brilliant sunsets posted recently.
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Here's a landscape that I prepared earlier, just for you. 😉
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I caught the sun today - lucky timing, as the forecast was grey, grey, grey. It also cheered me up that it was a shorts day.
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Making good use of the HDR setting, on my second ride of the day, working off some of the calories from the breakfast ingested on the first ride.
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Pure cheese.
Was nice to get out in some unexpected sun, having had the news that a very old family friend (not unexpectedly) died on Thursday, a few days short of her 101st birthday. But it cheered me up that I got to see her not that long ago, and that her last days were comfortable with her family. Quite a thought that if her age was reflected back from her year of birth (1922), that'd take you back to 1821: it rather gives you a perspective on how long a life it was.
Anyway, springy cheese (and tiffin and coffee):
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