Random Photos XXV - DO NOT QUOTE PHOTOS 800PIX LONGEST SIDE

Jim

Love the photo Adrian. Is there a slight HDR effect on it?

Adrian.Sadlier

Thanks Jim - more than a "slight" HDR effect. Photomatix Pro 3 from 3 exposures +/- 2 stops, handhel. Taken this morning on my way to work - I had to pull in and take a shot!

Jim

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

Thanks Jim - more than a "slight" HDR effect. Photomatix Pro 3 from 3 exposures +/- 2 stops, handhel. Taken this morning on my way to work - I had to pull in and take a shot!

I'm not usually into HDR stuff but that is probably the best one I've seen. Usually it's way overcooked. gj

Adrian.Sadlier

I'm usually guilty of the overcooking but the morning light helped me on this occasion. Glad you liked it

niamh86

cazmcco

sprinkles

djd80

Schull last Saturday night at about 2am...This is a bit of a drunken attempt..should have went outside sooner!

5uspect

This reminds me of Blade Runner...

homer simpson

I've a feeling its going to one of these love or hate photos (dam raindrop bottom right) ....



Took a few more shots today link on the off chance anyones interested Clicky

Coles

Hawthorn Berries and ice crystals.

Sir Gallagher

Borderfox

PopeBuckfastXVI

greeneyedspirit

Lovin' the snow... this was this morning on the way to work, taken out of the car (I wasn't driving )

Saint_Mel

kelly1

pixbyjohn

ISO 25600 by pixbyjohn, on Flickr

fakearms123

frozen cross

Lagnagoushee

spooky donkey

mirror

4sb

Taken on Sunday morning, at about 8am, in Coliemore, Dalkey. The only other sinner there - another photographer. We discussed whether the sign at the end of the pier should be photoshopped out. As you can see, it isn't here.

Coffee and warm croissants never tasted so good, albeit two hours later.


My Flickr

My Brand New Website

mahamageehad

xshayx

DaireQuinlan

Autumn colours



Helios 44-2 | Tri-x | Diafine

magicbastarder

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Helios 44-2 | Tri-x | Diafine

you develop your film in painkillers?

spooky donkey

some more autmn colours from early autmn

LizT

First time posting a picture here, be nice!!

Taken in Monument Valley, June 2010

DaireQuinlan

magicbastarder wrote: »

you develop your film in painkillers?

you take diafine for headaches ? :eek:

Cook my sock

Playing with the zoom on a 2 second exposure

*eadaoin

spinandscribble

Kbeg3

Kintarō Hattori

*eadaoin wrote: »

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I don't know if it's been asked before and if you're not willing to spill the beans that's no problem but how on earth do you capture and process your images? You seem to have a habit of making what would be a mundane photo for the rest of us look fantastic. The 'bokeh' below is just lovely:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/55570095/the-end-of-love-is-a-haunting-5-x-7-matt

one2one

Tallaght Stadium.



The Square S.C. / N81 Tallaght Bypass with a snow storm coming in from the distance.

*eadaoin

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

I don't know if it's been asked before and if you're not willing to spill the beans that's no problem but how on earth do you capture and process your images? You seem to have a habit of making what would be a mundane photo for the rest of us look fantastic. The 'bokeh' below is just lovely:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/55570095/the-end-of-love-is-a-haunting-5-x-7-matt

Thanks Kintaro

The bokeh on that Etsy listing is actually a texture layered on with Photoshop. However I don't really use bokeh textures very much anymore, unless I want a specific effect, so most of the bokeh you'll see these days are SOOC.

I do a lot of work with curves which is where the tones come from, mainly on the red and blue curves. I also play around with coloured gradients, saturation, black & white layers, and different coloured fill layers or coloured textures to get the effect I'd like.

At this stage I've saved a 'recipe' in Canon's Digital Photo Professional (like an action in Photoshop) that I particularly like and use it on most photos then tweak it to suit the shot. It's been a long process of experimenting, lots of fun, I really just like to play with colour a lot.

As regards to capturing the images in camera I usually shoot at wide open apertures for lots of bokeh and use mainly my Canon 50mm f1.8 or Lensbaby Composer. And I always shoot in RAW.

With the two shots above it was a matter of waiting for the right moment and having the sunlight in the right place. The snow was falling from the leaves in little sparkling drifts, so I played around with manual focus and shot of lots of frames to get the glittering effect I wanted

Kintarō Hattori

Thanks *eadaoin, very insightful, I appreciate (and so do others it seems) your taking the time out to give us a little insight as to what you do!

stabo

mehfesto

Fight Like Apes' MayKay being the most sexy woman in music that I know.

Disaster of a gig though - changed my settings from Raw to Jpeg basic without noticing. Teeny tiny pictures with no tone in them at all. This is the best of a bad bunch.

NooSixty

Adriatic

okmqaz42

15/365 by okmqaz42, on Flickr

pete4130

Holga 120, Fuji 400 Pro H

stabo

chisel

bernard0368

*eadaoin

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Thanks *eadaoin, very insightful, I appreciate (and so do others it seems) your taking the time out to give us a little insight as to what you do!

I forgot to mention my camera is a Canon 450d, that would probably have helped!! I don't think you can see my Exif data for some reason.

I posted one or two shots recently with a Nikon D3 and Zeiss 100mm f2 which were on loan from a friend, now that was an incredible experience, it's hard to go back to the 450d and nifty fifty after that!

mehfesto

One more from the other night. Not my usual 'shopping technique, but I *think* I got away with it.

chisel

im...LOST

An afternoon in Dublin!

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