This is Photography

[mrsleeve]

had a good day for water features and got to play with my new filter a little bit

[87e30]

Got the right idea with the shutter speed there.

Looking good!

[thearkitekt]

Took some shots around my shop today


Lugnuts by drifterpenguin, on Flickr

This one seems a little dark to me, not sure if it doesnt need more ps time

ITBs by drifterpenguin, on Flickr

[T Verdier]

[Mike325]

Just got this today. Sigma 28mm f/1.8.



Can't wait to get it outside.

[T Verdier]

had a good day for water features and got to play with my new filter a little bit

what kind of lens are you using? and are you shooting all the way closed down?

[5Toes]

Please critique the hell out of it

[mrsleeve]

what kind of lens are you using? and are you shooting all the way closed down?

1&3 were shot with a 28-135mm Canon with a CPL very early in the am, on very over cast day before the sun was up over the mountain. Low ISO and fairly wide aperture Less than a F/10 I think closer to F/5.6 IIRC Shutter times were about 2.5 sec.

2&4 were shot with a 100-300mm canon on the same morning earlier, and closed up pretty tight with low ISO, shutter time was about 2.5 sec.

[T Verdier]

i feel that 3 should be a lot sharper the 28-135 is super soft zoomed in but its alright at 28-70ish. maybe turn is off, use mirror lock up, and set a timer so no shale happens.number 1 is cool, id like to see more of whats going on below the frame. nice shots overall.

[T Verdier]

Please critique the hell out of it

nice exposure, if the car was more interesting then the picture would also be. but its a DD with lots of rock chips and crooked kidneys lol, no offense. for me cars are rarely interesting photography subjects i dont know why, i love cars, but it just doesn't do it for me.

[Mike325]

Please critique the hell out of it

I wish the sky was not blown out. Other than that I think that it looks ok.

[Mike325]

Hey, hope you don't mind, but I did a few fixes for you/ Hope you like them.

[5Toes]

Mike, I like the idea.

Did you just make a layer mask on a cyan blue color layer? I dont know if it is your image host, or what... but the picture loos super sharp now

Yeah sky was blown out, I had REALLY bad light, I want to go back on a sunny day around 10AM... that pump is about .5 blocks west of the shoreline

[Mike325]

What I did was make a new layer and put in a picture of some nice clouds that I have saved onto my comp to help fix a blown out sky. I blended it in and lowered the opacity of it.

I also added a high pass filter to the picture, that is why it is sharper now.

[mrsleeve]

T:

I agree #3 is a little soft, and that could be from 2 or 3 things,

#1 your right the IS trying to fix something thats not really there.

#2 Mirror slap, as I cant remember if I shot this one in live mode or not I took 300ish shots that morning

#3 Shitty ass tripod, and I am waiting on a better head to show up. Or a combo of 2&3


Over all I do like the shot a lot, I agree it would have been a little better if it was not so soft, but the softness kinda gives it a little more arty kinda feel to it in my opinion.