Photography Thread

pinno

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Smell is an unusual complaint about kids.

Try gong into a classroom of 30 of them at the end of an afternoon.

Is that what you do before meditation?

#Bhuddismrocks

briantrumpet

pinno said:

briantrumpet said:

TheBigBean said:

Smell is an unusual complaint about kids.

Try gong into a classroom of 30 of them at the end of an afternoon.

Is that what you do before meditation?

#Bhuddismrocks

I need medication afterwards.

masjer

Borrowed Ben's collage idea. All end grain from well weathered benches.

pinno

Except they look a little like rusty bullet holes... in grey.

masjer

pinno said:

Except they look a little like rusty bullet holes... in grey.

Cheeky. I thought they were surprisingly colourful, (grey, green, purple, brown) for lumps of wood.
They do reading glasses at the supermarkets now.

mrb123

briantrumpet

My house is somewhere in this lot. Now just the walk home...

briantrumpet

Keeping it local this morning, with my new bell to frighten the natives:

Pross

Weather cleared up just as I got to Tintern to walk the dog so managed to get a few snaps of the Wye Valley. Only the second time I've been up to the Devil's Pulpit and the first was on a trail race so didn't get to stop. Quite a view!

masjer

Windy blast down the beach.

Pross

masjer said:

Windy blast down the beach.

What beach is that?

masjer

Marloes Sands. There are some great rock formations/cliffs. The strata are near vertical.

pblakeney

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

Shows that the original detail was there in the original file. It's why I use HDR quite a bit, as it's better at capturing the stuff in the darkest and lightest bits of the photo: if it flattens them out too much, I can always up the contrast, but if it's not there at all, there's not much one can do.

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

Shows that the original detail was there in the original file. It's why I use HDR quite a bit, as it's better at capturing the stuff in the darkest and lightest bits of the photo: if it flattens them out too much, I can always up the contrast, but if it's not there at all, there's not much one can do.

Shooting RAW has distinct advantages as software and skills using it improve.
You got me thinking so I tried an HDR version. Too cartoonish for my taste.

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

Shows that the original detail was there in the original file. It's why I use HDR quite a bit, as it's better at capturing the stuff in the darkest and lightest bits of the photo: if it flattens them out too much, I can always up the contrast, but if it's not there at all, there's not much one can do.

Shooting RAW has distinct advantages as software and skills using it improve.
You got me thinking so I tried an HDR version. Too cartoonish for my taste.

Sometimes HDR is exactly that, but much depends on the processing. My cheap phone tries to do it with just one exposure, but predictably the results are sometimes laughable. The Sony HX60 is much more subtle, and helpfully also saves the middle of the three exposures as well, for comparison. I'll post a pair (of shots) in the next couple of days.

Pross

masjer said:

Marloes Sands. There are some great rock formations/cliffs. The strata are near vertical.

I spend a fair bit of time in Pembrokeshire as the in-laws have a caravan near Narbeth but never been to Marloes.

masjer

Pross said:

masjer said:

Marloes Sands. There are some great rock formations/cliffs. The strata are near vertical.

I spend a fair bit of time in Pembrokeshire as the in-laws have a caravan near Narbeth but never been to Marloes.

If you get a chance, go at low tide, otherwise the beach gets completely covered.

briantrumpet

The view from my garden this afternoon:

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

Shows that the original detail was there in the original file. It's why I use HDR quite a bit, as it's better at capturing the stuff in the darkest and lightest bits of the photo: if it flattens them out too much, I can always up the contrast, but if it's not there at all, there's not much one can do.

Shooting RAW has distinct advantages as software and skills using it improve.
You got me thinking so I tried an HDR version. Too cartoonish for my taste.

Sometimes HDR is exactly that, but much depends on the processing. My cheap phone tries to do it with just one exposure, but predictably the results are sometimes laughable. The Sony HX60 is much more subtle, and helpfully also saves the middle of the three exposures as well, for comparison. I'll post a pair (of shots) in the next couple of days.

Ah! I was just processing a single shot which explains it.
I think I'm too old school to merge multiple exposures. Dodging and burning is enough.

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

Shows that the original detail was there in the original file. It's why I use HDR quite a bit, as it's better at capturing the stuff in the darkest and lightest bits of the photo: if it flattens them out too much, I can always up the contrast, but if it's not there at all, there's not much one can do.

Shooting RAW has distinct advantages as software and skills using it improve.
You got me thinking so I tried an HDR version. Too cartoonish for my taste.

Sometimes HDR is exactly that, but much depends on the processing. My cheap phone tries to do it with just one exposure, but predictably the results are sometimes laughable. The Sony HX60 is much more subtle, and helpfully also saves the middle of the three exposures as well, for comparison. I'll post a pair (of shots) in the next couple of days.

Ah! I was just processing a single shot which explains it.
I think I'm too old school to merge multiple exposures. Dodging and burning is enough.

Ah yes, cartoon time, if done from a single exposure. The processing just tries to guess what was there. I'd not bother with faffing around with three shots, but am happy for the camera to do it for me. The Sony in-camera HDR software is quite good at doing the kind of processing that the human eye & brain does in the background, and retaining the sort of luminance that all too often photos don't quite capture, particularly in contrasty daylight/sunlight shots.

briantrumpet

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

briantrumpet said:

pblakeney said:

A little experiment tonight. The same photo processed in 2008 v 2022.
A bit lacking with the forum compression but you get the idea.

Shows that the original detail was there in the original file. It's why I use HDR quite a bit, as it's better at capturing the stuff in the darkest and lightest bits of the photo: if it flattens them out too much, I can always up the contrast, but if it's not there at all, there's not much one can do.

Shooting RAW has distinct advantages as software and skills using it improve.
You got me thinking so I tried an HDR version. Too cartoonish for my taste.

Sometimes HDR is exactly that, but much depends on the processing. My cheap phone tries to do it with just one exposure, but predictably the results are sometimes laughable. The Sony HX60 is much more subtle, and helpfully also saves the middle of the three exposures as well, for comparison. I'll post a pair (of shots) in the next couple of days.

Ah! I was just processing a single shot which explains it.
I think I'm too old school to merge multiple exposures. Dodging and burning is enough.

Right, here's an unprocessed comparison, single exposure, then onboard HDR (triple exposure):





Sometimes the colours come out a bit weird in HDR, but they tend to be closer to what my eye perceives at the time, and can be adjusted easily enough (I use the archaic Irfanview, as it's a tiny programme, and the shortcuts are good.)

pblakeney

That's more subtle than the HDR's I've seen. More like what I can pull from a single RAW file, I just need to do the work manually. 😉 I last used Irfanview @ 2006.

briantrumpet

I'm quite pleased with this one from this morning, even though I dislike cats.

pinno

Lovely cat - wassamatter with you BT?

The cat is looking at you as if you are a curious twit.

masjer

Just seen these from a local camera club (printed in a local paper). There seems to be something amiss.

pblakeney

These are as printed from a camera club? They need to learn more than a few basics.
In order to successfully break the rules you have to understand them first.

masjer

I'm not saying I'm any good myself, but that lighthouse. There are some very strong tides around that area, but not strong enough to do that!

pblakeney

masjer said:

I'm not saying I'm any good myself, but that lighthouse. There are some very strong tides around that area, but not strong enough to do that!

At a guess it is a cropped shot from a wide angle lens.
The lighthouse was tilted due to the lens angle which the photographer has corrected but forgot about the horizon. Wrong lens used for the shot and sloppy.

Ben6899

I hate being critical, but they really also should have cropped out their lunchbox bottom right.