The Photography Thread

[anirbandd]

These are its natural colours, so why fiddle around with the colour temps?

Superb panoramas, @Prashant. You've got good colours too in those.

as you wish.

 

[mastervk]

took some start trails at home :

1 : stacked 135 photos

ISO 400 50 mm f/4.0 30 sec

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8348/8216280278_b30ae947c2_c.jpg


2 :single exposure

ISO :100 50 mm f/5 2386 seconds

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8058/8215210595_29628a7d2a_c.jpg


Have taken some more but need to download and process them.

 

[anirbandd]

^ nice color on the 1st one.. but why are the trails like dots??

and too much pollution on 2nd. trails almost invisible.

 

[marvelousprashant]

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8479/8220210424_0a1fcd632a_z.jpg
jagannath temple.jpg by marvelprash, on Flickr

P mode, ISO 100
Post processing :
Topaz Denoise - Strong
Topaz InFocus - Common Preset (for sharpening)
Topaz Adjust - Film preset

 

[nac]

I was little busy for the last two weeks...

Anirband's Panorama,
Kjuvale's non-HDR castle and the shot taken from Eiffel tower
Fireworks shots from skr, lm2k

Very nice work guys...

Mastervk, I don't know why the star trail looks "dotted"... whether it's the method you tried or the software made it look like this... or it may be because of 30sec exposure. Camera takes long time to process the 30sec exposure, so the gaps (dotted) I guess... And try with widest possible focal length.

Prashant, I don't know why I am not OK with tilted shots... Need to crop some of the bottom.

 

[mastervk]

@nav,
I think its because of 30 sec exposure.
Next day i tried with 20 sec exposure at f4 and took about 200 photos.then realised that i forget to remove lens cap.

 

[nac]

@nav,
I think its because of 30 sec exposure.
Next day i tried with 20 sec exposure at f4 and took about 200 photos.then realised that i forget to remove lens cap.

Very funny But it's good that you get to see a nice and clear sky to try it out...

 

[marvelousprashant]

Just copy the star trails over itself as a layer in photoshop. Decrease opacity

 

[mastervk]

For which photo ? Single exposure or multiple exposure

 

[marvelousprashant]

^Multiple exposure. Just make two copies and paste them as layers. Them move one of them very slightly so that stars from one image fill the gap of other image

Need CC on this one regarding post processing (added bokeh artificially )
Original
*farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8221013716_7f12493105_c.jpg
IMG_2159.jpg by marvelprash, on Flickr

Processed
*farm9.staticflickr.com/8346/8221051558_ed912a6cdb_c.jpg
IMG_2159f.jpg by marvelprash, on Flickr

If the processing obvious when viewing in embeded size (800px)

 

[theserpent]

Nice one prashant, how did the 2nd pic come out like that?

 

[marvelousprashant]

I used topaz lens effects to add background blur

 

[marvelousprashant]

No comments? :'(

 

[CyberKID]

Spoiler

^Multiple exposure. Just make two copies and paste them as layers. Them move one of them very slightly so that stars from one image fill the gap of other image

Need CC on this one regarding post processing (added bokeh artificially )
Original
*farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8221013716_7f12493105_c.jpg
IMG_2159.jpg by marvelprash, on Flickr

Processed
*farm9.staticflickr.com/8346/8221051558_ed912a6cdb_c.jpg
IMG_2159f.jpg by marvelprash, on Flickr

If the processing obvious when viewing in embeded size (800px)

Liked the first image. IMO, there is no specific subject in this particular image, so adding a synthetic bokeh, isn't adding to the scene. The second one, IMO, is creating distraction. BTW, where do you get such amazing scenes?

 

[sujoyp]

@prashant original one is very good...as cyberkid said if u had some subject on the rocks then 2nd may look good...but just rocks dont make a nice subject....

 

[anirbandd]

and one from my collection..

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8066/8223365553_411a371570_b.jpg
winterbloom by Anirban Das Deb, on Flickr

PP only added border and watermark.

and one more...

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7630004178_c836dfecbd_b.jpg
Untitled by Anirban Das Deb, on Flickr

and another..
*farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/6966384863_991db5bcb2_b.jpg
Wrinkles.. by Anirban Das Deb, on Flickr

PP: tone change in Silver efx.

 

[CyberKID]

^ Superb detail and colour reproduction in winterbloom. Please do post the original one without the border. I'd like to put it as my desktop background if you permit.

 

[anirbandd]

can you give me your monitor res?? i'll optimize the image.

 

[CyberKID]

1080p

 

[mastervk]

Winter bloom is very good shot. Could you please posts lens you used