The Photography Thread

[lm2k]

@pranav0091 ,@marvelousprashant , @a_medico and @rhitwick - thank you. i m trying this on some other flowers also . I ll post back the results.
@pranav0091 - Sorry to hear that about your camera. I hope it will get fixed soon.

 

[nac]

Pranav, I don't it would be a big deal. It sounds like a swab mark (like fingerprint). Probably they will clean it for you under warranty.

Lm2k, Good work But I was expecting about 2 or 3 minute long video

 

[game-freak]

plz critique
*farm6.staticflickr.com/5348/8937753199_932b3c0b04_c.jpg *www.flickr.com/photos/94910990@N04/8937753199/

*farm4.staticflickr.com/3799/8937747971_ae14c8f1f1_c.jpg

 

[nac]

^ Both are nice. Need to work little more on the second one. I think it's not the IQ one gets from DSLR, I guess you have cropped too much. Try it with your prime lens and try focus stacking for macros...

Check out toofan's flickr...

 

[lm2k]

@game-freak - both are nice , in the first one i would have liked to see more of the earth(mountains and trees) also you could have tried this image as HDR(3-5 images) second one is beautiful especially the eyes but as nac said u have cropped it too much, you can try sharpening it in photoshop.
@nac - i am working on it may be when i see a bud i will try it again with better lighting amd arrangements to avoid unwanted movements.

 

[pranav0091]

Got the camera fixed. They took one look at it and asked me if i had opened it and tried to do something. I said yes, that I tried to clean with a swab after seeing a mark. They just advised me not to try anything more than a blower on the internals and cleaned (replaced?) the focus screen and the sensor on the spot. I just had to wait for about 20 minutes in total. Very pleased with the service. Canon Level 4 service centre, Brigade road, Bangalore.

PS: Are cameras under warranty eligible for free servicing even if nothing is wrong with them?

 

[marvelousprashant]

@game-freak To tell the truth these shots are good if shot by a Point and Shoot camera. But disappointing quality for D5100. I dont know what is wrong with 1st shot. It is grainy. I checked the exif and it is just ISO 140. Maybe just bad luck

 

[Gen.Libeb]

@game-freak - I like the 2nd one, Could had been better if that blurry thing in the foreground wasn't there & if the background was a little less noisy.

Here's another one.
*farm4.staticflickr.com/3716/8940164334_62f7a1c725_b.jpg

 

[izzikio_rage]

Gen.Leibib, beautiful shot, have you post processed this somehow or is this the dynamic range that your camera normally gives?

Gamefreak: I thought that the second shot was brilliant, after all it's not always that a fly sits down in the perfect position and lighting and lets you shoot it. You could try reverse mounting your present lenses if you are interested in getting good macros.

 

[nac]

Gen, Nice attempt. Foreground ghosting, you can crop out some of the top and bottom ghosting. Is that a moon? If so, it would be good if we can see some of the moon details. I have seen people using double exposure to get BIG moon in the frame.

How is the PP in this picture

*img266.imageshack.us/img266/1149/img3473q.jpg

 

[thetechfreak]

A good photo I took long back. Might've posted here earlier. Arguably my best photo ever

*farm8.staticflickr.com/7448/8946341047_fd4842cdd0_o.jpg
Surise by Karan Raj Baruah, on Flickr



PS: Have not used Photoshop even a little

 

[nac]

^

Use a little to make it better.

 

[Gen.Libeb]

@thetechfreak - Thats a nice looking shot. I like that.

Gen.Leibib, beautiful shot, have you post processed this somehow or is this the dynamic range that your camera normally gives?

Don't know about DR but there is a quite a bit of PP in that shot. I know its not well done here though.

Gen, Nice attempt. Foreground ghosting, you can crop out some of the top and bottom ghosting.

Foreground ghosting?

Is that a moon? If so, it would be good if we can see some of the moon details. I have seen people using double exposure to get BIG moon in the frame.

Moon details .. Do you mean get 2 shots one exposed for the building and other for the moon & then blend them? Got any links to such shots?
I think your moon shot with details works well on a cloudless sky.

 

[CyberKID]

nice pics. liked the textures in the cut rocky caves , may be you post processed it this way.


some of my first attempts at timelapse
redrose


camera- Sony erricson ELM
application - lapse.jar to make the camera take a foto after every 5 mins
startrails.exe to make the video
one foto taken every 5 min for 2 days but ended up using the last 86 fotos from last 7 hours since there was too much movements along with some lighting and focus issues.

purple gazania

application - lapse.jar to make the camera take a foto after every 2 mins
startrails.exe to make the video
total time was around 3 hours.

Nice try!
I tried it but couldn't get the application lapse.jar to run on my S60 v5. Had to use LapseBasic with poor results.
Yours is a good time lapse video.

 

[nac]

Foreground ghosting?

I meant, blurred passer by (I think) at the bottom of the image.

Moon details .. Do you mean get 2 shots one exposed for the building and other for the moon & then blend them? Got any links to such shots?
I think your moon shot with details works well on a cloudless sky.

Here you can find some artistic double exposure shots (Some of this may be photoshoped). Google it, you can find many. I don't know your camera has this feature in-built. If not, you have to do it in photoshop.

I meant similar to this one.
*www.members.shaw.ca/ocl2/moon.jpg

Note: It's not mine. I just picked it from google search.

Yes, the one I posted is actually two shots blended in gimp.

You are good at photoshop, I guess you don't need a youtube or website link to "how you can do this in photoshop"

 

[sujoyp]

Some drops

*farm6.staticflickr.com/5338/8971581838_1a1bb7dba3.jpg
Golden Drop by sujoyp, on Flickr

*farm9.staticflickr.com/8549/8970390135_9997e9aa2a.jpg
Sparkling drops by sujoyp, on Flickr

*farm4.staticflickr.com/3782/8970390989_cabb29a5a8.jpg
Splash by sujoyp, on Flickr

*farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/8971584260_0f30e35c80.jpg
Close drop by sujoyp, on Flickr

 

[marvelousprashant]

@sujoy : Great drop shots. Like the third one

@nac I m not very fluent with terminology but your example is of blending not double exposure

@thetechfreak good. Empty space on the left doesn't look good. Without it, this will look more spooky

@nac : Lots of noise around the tomb

 

[Gen.Libeb]

@Sujoyp - Those are great. How did you get the water to splash like that in the 3rd one ?

@nac- Thanks for the link. Didn't knew of double exposure before. May be I'll try that kind of moon blending sometime if I get the right photo.

 

[nac]

Nice work Sujoy.

@nac I m not very fluent with terminology but your example is of blending not double exposure

Okie

@nac : Lots of noise around the tomb

Is it? Poor editing, I take. But I didn't see it. May be I need to borrow your glass...

 

[sujoyp]

@prashant & nac thanks

@gen. the splash like 3rd is a sheer chance...sorry there is no style to drop water

@nac in ur pic black is black but the grayish light around the taj is what he is talking about....it look like noise...u could have removed it in photoshop