The Photography Thread

[marvelousprashant]

Sunrise is good. Like the blue sky.

You seem to be using default/monochrome preset in Photomatrix... it creates a halo around the temple. The latest Photomatrix comes with a Natural preset which looks less HDRish and does the job well. I have used it in my panorama pics

 

[CyberKID]

Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis
*i.imgur.com/NT7bJl.jpg

*i.imgur.com/WUg2ql.jpg

Did an experiment with the Brightness and Light Sensitivity.
*i.imgur.com/h3zqml.jpg

 

[sujoyp]

@medico....nice shot...but didnt u covered too much ground and just cropped up the sky...I would have liked 1inch more sky at the top

@nac ....sunrise is good with nice blue sky and perfectly exposed..
but very poor processing in temple pic soo much halo around the temple...use gimp or photoshop to remove it manually

 

[nac]

Thank you Prashant and Sujoy.

Yeah, that was a preset "monochrome 2". I thought that "halo" was kinda of an effect.

 

[a_medico]

nac - temple photo is awesome

prashant - the pink flower needs pp. it will enhance it more.

@medico....nice shot...but didnt u covered too much ground and just cropped up the sky...I would have liked 1inch more sky at the top

Thats what I wanted to do. To cover most of the ground with the UWA, using the distortion. Infact I think I should have sat down to cover more of it. Sky was dull that day.

Here's a colored version of the same:

*img191.imageshack.us/img191/4459/img17255.jpg

 

[sujoyp]

@cyberkid....while taking shot of any living things like animal, flower compose is a way that u dont cut any parts of the flower or animal....like in every pic u have cut the flower from top or side

@medico sepia is looking much better

 

[CyberKID]

@ Sujoyp: Actually the idea was to capture the flower's stamen. My main aim was to capture the red velvety look of the flower's anther, that's why I didn't bother capturing the whole flower.

 

[Cool Buddy]

@CyberKID, Sujoyp is right, a macro shot should cover the subject completely. Also, the colours seem to a bit lacking. The third one fairs better in that department. Judging by that I would say the first 2 shots are a bit overexposed.
If you are into post processing, increase the saturation slightly and blur everything outside the flower

*imageshack.us/a/img824/3676/flower2g.jpg

 

[CyberKID]

@ Cool Buddy: I too agree with you and sujoyp, but here, the subject was altogether different. I think you too will agree that too much can't be expected from a Cellphone camera @ 5MP as we all know that most of them don't let you tweak the settings too much. Moreover with reference to my previous post, all I wanted to capture is the flower's stamen and the anther part, which, without the help of Optical Zoom, becomes a bit tricky.
Here is the link to some of my pics I've posted in the thread *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/cameras-c...t-shoot-camera-photography-4.html#post1684705

As far as the post processing is concerned, I don't try doing it on my pics.

 

[Cool Buddy]

Oh, I didn't know it was from a cellphone cam. Keeping that in mind, it's a decent capture.

Here are a couple of examples (Just for reference, not to say that these can be taken with a cellphone)

*farm4.static.flickr.com/3422/3383157870_4206c8827b.jpg

*farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/2068183622_d42fff2847.jpg

 

[sujoyp]

@cyberkid ...its ok for a cellphone cam ...but if u post process ur pic a little by cropping a bit more,increase the sharpness and saturation/contrast it will look better

@coolbuddy ur right by ur examples

I shot this after I bought my DSLR last year jan
*lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LFYv_GZUmP8/TTvLgl9jOVI/AAAAAAAAFqk/WqCInDxlBt0/s640/DSC_0405.JPG

This one I shot after I got my macro lens in oct last year

*lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hf9NaUU2AjM/TqUBWgtHfSI/AAAAAAAAGzU/5qAtTVVYs0Y/s640/DSC_9374.JPG

 

[CyberKID]

@ Cool Buddy: Saw your pics, I was trying to do something like that only.

@ Sujoyp: Superb shots

 

[Cool Buddy]

Those weren't my shots, just a few examples from Flikr.

@Sujoyp, those shots are nice. The second one does look a bit blurred around the edges though. If that was intentional, then good

 

[nac]

Sujoy, Both of 'em are beautiful esp. the second one.

 

[sujoyp]

Thanks guys for liking the pics...these r just old pics I thought of sharing

@coolbuddy I think thats due to use of f2.8 at this magnification....very little area got under focus and reaming all got blurred

 

[marvelousprashant]

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/8035126874_850f92c35f.jpg
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis by marvelprash, on Flickr

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/8035131205_d329b15830.jpg
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis by marvelprash, on Flickr

 

[coolwebmaster]

can any one suggest me the best & cheep cam for best quality photograph *couponsindia.net/imgs/signature_coupon.jpg

 

[sujoyp]

@coolwebmaster i would suggest you to open a new thread ...and specify ur budget and preferences like which company,how much zoom , small or large etc.

Nice one prashant...I too have a similar shot.

Link to the pic -> *picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4qk7X4FWvNekTEvEPAUMe9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

 

[marvelousprashant]

@sujoy Nice one.. never seen a hibiscus with a white style... Adds contrast to your pic

 

[sujoyp]

@prashant we have 2 colors of hibiscus , white and red (one u posted)....and the pink i posted is the result of natural mixing of both colors