The Photography Thread

[toofan]

Tour of Saat Taal. But I failed to capture the beauty of Nature there.
Comments and critiques welcome.

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[sujoyp]

@toofan ...great pics...I loved 3rd one...even if someone feels its overexposed a bit

Nagpur Sky today was red...a great chance
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Please advice which one is looking better...I just could not decide

BTW that frame around pics r looking nice...I will try too

 

[rhitwick]

@toofan, I loved the 5th one....
@Sujoy. IMO 2nd one...

 

[Cool G5]

@INS-ANI - Hmmm.. Still not a great pic.

@toofan - Nothing special in first two pics(except good composition). Third one looks nice inspite of heavy light. Last one is ok.

@sujoy - Second one is better than the first. Still a little cropping would help from top.

@all - My first attempt at selective desaturation. I know selective desaturation doesn't shows up when the subject is filling the frame but still I couldn't resist doing in on this sparkling yellow car. Please post your comments on the same.

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[sujoyp]

^^hey thats great ....how did u do it...using photoshop??

 

[INS-ANI]

@cool I know.. i was randomly editing to get an abstract.

I know i m supposed to be studying.. but power went down and i cldnt possible control myself in candle light... here are some unedited shots.

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[INS-ANI]

@cool .. the image looks stunning

 

[Deleted member 26636]

@all - My first attempt at selective desaturation. I know selective desaturation doesn't shows up when the subject is filling the frame but still I couldn't resist doing in on this sparkling yellow car. Please post your comments on the same.

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can you please explain your process?

 

[toofan]

thanks all for your feedback. Yup i failed to capture the natural beauty of that place may be my mind not working as i am suffering from cold that time. Nose full of nonsense material.

sujoyp: First one will look much better just process it to correctly.In second one you zoomed too much.
eg:
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Cool: now you are solving the mysteries of Processing. Car pops out from the frame. Nicely done.

Ins-ANI: Very nice series. Keep the good work up and forget about studies. Bas kutch hafte aour nahi pado phir to saal bhar masti hi masti hogi. (fail hone ke baad)
Most of them are very very good abstract.

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sujoyp: some compression flaws but these due to the low size of image.


Taken at Saat Tal. I dont know the name of the flower.
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Lake Nainital from Killbery road.
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[Krazzy Warrior]

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!

 

[sujoyp]

@toofan...Thanks for processing my image...its looking much better now
I didnt do any post processing this time...I didnt use any zoom in the pics..


@INS-ANI...some of ur images r great..good try on abstract photography

 

[Cool G5]

@sujoy & @himadri_sm - I don't use Photoshop, I use GIMP. First I selected the object which I want to retain color of using free hand selection tool. Then inverted the selection & applied desaturation so everything except the selected subject goes into monochrome. It was fairly easy than I thought. Some tutorials confused me with using brushes & duplicating layer but I tried doing it my own way & I succeeded. Thanks for the praise.

@INS-ANI - Nice. I liked the last image & the dof in the handwriting photographs. You used a tripod? How you took the images?

@toofan - I liked the flower. Nice effect around it. Your lake shots are as usual beautiful & perfectly composed. I've a dream of coming to Nainital someday & capture that lake. Also other scenic views of Nainital too. Thanks.

 

[INS-ANI]

Ins-ANI: Very nice series. Keep the good work up and forget about studies. Bas kutch hafte aour nahi pado phir to saal bhar masti hi masti hogi. (fail hone ke baad)
Most of them are very very good abstract.

yeah, and if i don't study now, then for next year i will be posting sad- abstracts..
I will do the needful anyway... would like to be called a graduate soon.

Beside, thanks for the appreciation.

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@cool
Glad you like them.. abt the last one.. i tried some combination with non-white background (am trying to replace white behind candle to reduce reflections). some results were stunning, but need more resources,more color tries. and it will need processing.
Will surely post them as i get there.

regarding dof shots (image 6,7,8) ,i just used steady hands . Its hard to recall, but some of these shots were taken while Camera was kept on table, but only the inclination varied manually.
Image 7 and 8 were taken in this manner, am not sure about image 6.

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This is the same image no 2, edited to reduce candle exposure.
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[sujoyp]

@Cool G5...thanks man for guiding me...the thig is soo simple using GIMP..never thought it would be soo easy
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@INS-ANI....cant u use a single candle while taking pics...It looks more appealing...anyway pics r great

 

[INS-ANI]

@sujoyp
single candle, less light... hard to study.. especially when the main motto was to study..
waise, will try when power goes down next time

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waise, nice work.. will try the same.. Later

 

[sujoyp]

^^ Thanks...Actually single candle will look like from some 18th century scene

like this....
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[INS-ANI]

yeah thinking on that line.. modified my lamp with reflecting film.. will post as soon power goes down..

 

[Cool G5]

@INS-ANI - Cut down the power purposely, we're quite eager to see your experiments.

@sujoy - You're welcome. The thing is selective desaturation works good when you have a repetitive pattern in the frame. Consider a bunch of similar flowers & just one flower is colored or a mountain of earthen pots with just one pot retaining its color. Hope you got the idea.

 

[INS-ANI]

I cldn't wait myself. Here are the (unedited) snaps

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Used clip and stapler as a prop.. liked the shadow in low light.

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This was an accident.. cldn't hold my camera still..
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compare it with below image.. and see the difference in light intensity


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The lamp was modified with cellotape layers on the inside walls for better reflection.
probably without this modification, brightness would have been even lower.

Also, comparing from old image, a single candle illuminates just half the book.
A perfect pic can be when i put the lamp at the end of wall with full view of unrestricted spread of light.

If i require to shoot a shadow,depending on size of object.. i will require more than one candle for better composition.

Will appreciate some analysis,improvement ideas from your end.

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@sujyop the kind of image link you posted... i guess it will require better (clean) setup.. will try them later

 

[rhitwick]

@INS-ANI, abe padh!!!
Sach mein fail karega kaya?