Photography Post Vol. 2

[laxlife1234]

Had a mini shoot today with a fellow co-worker who btw is a model.

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[TheCreativeD00m]

ran across this today..thank god it wasn't turned on

hiding in a backyard.

[koven]

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witnessed the most epic sunset driving home from the beach the other night. not the best photos but it shows exactly how it looked.. no bumped contrast or anything.

enjoyed smoking a blunt during this drive home thats for sure.

[TheCreativeD00m]

[party pooped]

[OkayOkay]

not my pic, stole from a friend of a friend's FB, but it was too cool to not swoop and post.

[cheapmuthafukr]

thought this turned out pretty cool

[ThinFinn]

bluntslides are always pretty cool fap,so you're right about it!

Last few pages were awesome!

Def.need to find more time to start shooting again or to edit some pics and upload...I hate not being able to do this.feck...

Keep'em coming y'all...

[laxlife1234]

[Solix]

Your shots seem quite grainy for an apparent 100 iso. PP sharpening?

[Becks23]

[laxlife1234]

Your shots seem quite grainy for an apparent 100 iso. PP sharpening?

Yup, I was experimenting with a tutorial in cs5 and it said to bump upturned sharpness... I guess I overdid it though. My computer screen resolution also sucks so it didn't look that bad when I saw it on Flickr.

[dani303]

what do you guys use to deal with noise? i shot some pics last night, had to use a really high iso. i'm trying to salvage them in lightroom, but they're not looking much better.

[laxlife1234]

I think you will wind up having to use a plug-in and if you edit them in CS5 you will have a ton more freedom.

Couple from today. Was homecoming I should have taken more photos of just the football game but it's kind of hard to when you only have 50mm of reach.

[TheCreativeD00m]

some bike porn. I haven't gotten around to taking off the brake..it's not really needed, I get mad old man skidzz with the coaster brake lol

[Japaslavian]

[ThinFinn]

just a few from the last month...didn`t had the right progr. to edit them so i had to work with picasa (nothing special, really!)...here are the outcomes.

opinions?

[tredd626]

good looking stuff finn^. I needa get out and shoot soon, havent done so for a month or two now =[

[Japaslavian]

Hey Thin Finn,

Might just be my personal opinion, but I'm not a fan of how much detail you seem to be losing due to the extreme contrast you have, the last two especially. If this was done is post, maybe scale it back just a little, otherwise (if it can be helped) shooting at a different time of day would help immensely.

The shot of the guys in the back of the truck is my favorite, though the woman on the far right staring right at the camera is a bit of a distraction. A square crop would nicely eliminate that and still retain the symmetrical composition, but that could just be my bias for square frames talking.

[hmbarger]

Navy Pier in Chicago.

[TheCreativeD00m]

Hey Thin Finn,

Might just be my personal opinion, but I'm not a fan of how much detail you seem to be losing due to the extreme contrast you have, the last two especially. If this was done is post, maybe scale it back just a little, otherwise (if it can be helped) shooting at a different time of day would help immensely.

The shot of the guys in the back of the truck is my favorite, though the woman on the far right staring right at the camera is a bit of a distraction. A square crop would nicely eliminate that and still retain the symmetrical composition, but that could just be my bias for square frames talking.

I agree about the last two..reminds me too much of hipstamatic or whatever it's called. I loved the ones of the two men talking just as you said but disagree on the square. Golden rectangle wins every time. It's more visually pleasing overall..square would come next though. (I think it would also create too much tension in the photo being it's closer to the edge.)

[dacrow]

I threw a paper crane into a fountain.

These are un-edited, the sepia tone is due to redscale (Lomo XR 50-200) film that was used. They're scans of 4 x 6 prints.

With ISO 50

With higher ISO (200)

With medium ISO (100-150):

One more; this one isn't redscale film. (Fujicolor ISO 200). I double exposed a blurry photo of my face with one of those public announcement RGB-diode light signs.

[Japaslavian]

I agree about the last two..reminds me too much of hipstamatic or whatever it's called. I loved the ones of the two men talking just as you said but disagree on the square. Golden rectangle wins every time. It's more visually pleasing overall..square would come next though. (I think it would also create too much tension in the photo being it's closer to the edge.)

Technically, his shot isn't quite the golden mean, but close enough.

You're probably right about the tightness of a square crop, but in the case of the shot in question, the wideness seems mostly unnecessary (or in my opinion, detrimental). Maybe a 4x5 crop would work. In either case, that woman on the right just pulls a lot of attention away from what is really, a lovely street photograph.

[ThinFinn]

^i`m with you on that, about the woman (damn, wtf that b... had to look directly into my cam, fuck!) and about framing the last shot, i wasn`t quite sure about it, since i thought it would have fucked up a big part of the actual pic.

it`s a great pic (if i have the right to say so?!) but with her looking directly into my cam, it really pisses me of. unfortunetly i saw it, as i already was back home again. otherwise i would have went for a 2nd try...

Hey Thin Finn,

Might just be my personal opinion, but I'm not a fan of how much detail you seem to be losing due to the extreme contrast you have, the last two especially. If this was done is post, maybe scale it back just a little, otherwise (if it can be helped) shooting at a different time of day would help immensely.

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well with the last shot i`m totally with you, but with the 2nd one from the bottom i really can`t do much about it, since you can see how the shadows are falling from the sun...all natural baby

and since i only can work with "picasa" atm, i do know that i can`t be d`accord with my pics to a 100%...

[akiragreat]

[ThinFinn]

^what happened to the leftside of your pics? are these scanned?

[akiragreat]

^what happened to the leftside of your pics? are these scanned?

Yea, scanned at costco.

LOL I didn't even notice that!, just uploaded them to photobucket and threw them up. Damn, i need to be more observant lol

Goddammit costco! Messed up 2 rolls from that trip!

[yuey]

Sold all my Canon gear and got a Oly E-P3... now left over with lots of $$$. Should I cop some MFT lenses or use all my money to buy a M mount adapter and get a leica m mount lens