The Photography thread

[overit]

Unfortunately it was a disgusting day when i photographed Big Ben and Windsor castle.

I thought you did a terrific job with those. Under those conditions it is very hard to get something worth while going. Love the sun ray effect on the stone henge pic.

 

[Aargh!]

good pick up on the dust!

I agree on HDR. HDR can look extremely artificial. But sometimes when there isn't the perfect light, and you dont have enough time, HDR can help - if you use it right. All my photos in the last few posts are HDR - i needed to use HDR so i can have multiple exposures - I basically use it as a substitute for grad ND filters.

They dont always have to look cartoonish.

Unfortunately it was a disgusting day when i photographed Big Ben and Windsor castle.

I agree, like your vineyard pics HDR used sparingly can look great. I haven't used it much but out of curiosity dabbled with it a few times. I've done it by pulling a stop or two out of RAW images and using it subtlety. I was relieved of some expensive equipment in Spain including my grad ND filter hence playing around with HDR.

What setup were you using for the pics (camera, lens etc)?

 

[Ashsaege]

I agree, like your vineyard pics HDR used sparingly can look great. I haven't used it much but out of curiosity dabbled with it a few times. I've done it by pulling a stop or two out of RAW images and using it subtlety. I was relieved of some expensive equipment in Spain including my grad ND filter hence playing around with HDR.

What setup were you using for the pics (camera, lens etc)?

Most of those photos were taken with a Nikon D90 and the Tokina 11-16mm lens. A couple were taken with the standard 18-55mm VR kit lens.
The Windsor castle photo is made up of about 5 or 6 photos stitched together using PTGui

Since your earlier post i have given my tokina wide angle lens a good clean!

 

[Ashsaege]

I thought you did a terrific job with those. Under those conditions it is very hard to get something worth while going. Love the sun ray effect on the stone henge pic.

thanks mate. Your photos are inspiring me to head to the Adelaide zoo! keep up the good work

 

[pixel]

Rottnest Island... what a great place!

Hi Overit,
Love your Zoo pics; love Perth as well.
If you don't mind, here's a couple of my own, taken recently.

and my favourite desktop, Lake Yanchep:

 

[gav]

thanks mate. Your photos are inspiring me to head to the Adelaide zoo! keep up the good work

Forgive my noob question, but what is HDR? Is it a setting on your camera, or do you edit the photo afterwards with a program like Photoshop?

 

[UBIQUITOUS]

Forgive my noob question, but what is HDR? Is it a setting on your camera, or do you edit the photo afterwards with a program like Photoshop?

Gav, it's best to look it up, but from my understanding it's merging (in PS) a few identical shots taken at different exposures.

 

[Aargh!]

Forgive my noob question, but what is HDR? Is it a setting on your camera, or do you edit the photo afterwards with a program like Photoshop?

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. Our eyes are incredibly great at getting detail from a scene where there are bright and dark areas as they can change their sensitivity to these regions.

A camera on the other hand is quite limited with it's 'dynamic' range. So HDR is taking the same photo at different sensitivity ranges to capture the detail in the bright and dark regions, then combining them afterwards in a software app.

 

[Ashsaege]

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. Our eyes are incredibly great at getting detail from a scene where there are bright and dark areas as they can change their sensitivity to these regions.

A camera on the other hand is quite limited with it's 'dynamic' range. So HDR is taking the same photo at different sensitivity ranges to capture the detail in the bright and dark regions, then combining them afterwards in a software app.

spot on!
I use photomatix for HDR work. I also use auto-bracketing on my camera - which takes a burst of 3 shots with +2 and -2 stops.

 

[overit]

Territorian day today here in Darwin. I have never seen anything like it. It sounds like a war zone here. All afternoon there has been fireworks going off. After the main fireworks the whole bay lit up with the amateurs lining the beach having their go. It is quite awesome. My suburb is still a light with bangs, cracks and flashes.

Had my first crack at fireworks pics. Some of them come out alright.

 

[nomore4s]

Territorian day today here in Darwin. I have never seen anything like it. It sounds like a war zone here. All afternoon there has been fireworks going off. After the main fireworks the whole bay lit up with the amateurs lining the beach having their go. It is quite awesome. My suburb is still a light with bangs, cracks and flashes.

Had my first crack at fireworks pics. Some of them come out alright.

Hahaha, it's certainly does sound like a war zone here on cracker night. I actually hate cracker night, my poor dog sh!ts himself all night and my 2yo wasn't overly impressed either.

Nice photos though.

 

[Ashsaege]

great work on the fireworks overit!

 

[pixel]

Some of them come out alright.

That's got to be the understatement of the decade! Like calling the Niagara Falls quite a pretty trickle.

Those forework photos are awesome, mate!
You're a bluddy genius!

 

[Tink]

These photos are beautiful

Thanks for sharing all, I am enjoying them : )

 

[overit]

Thanks for the kind words. I was just trying different things. I tried it in shutter mode but in the end just put it on manual focus, ISO200 and Aperture mode and kept clicking. The exposure lengths sorted themselves out doing this. On a tripod too of course. Looking forward to storm season here to try it out on the awesome lightning storms we get in darwin.

Heres a croc pic I was playing around with in photoshop.

 

[Julia]

Heres a croc pic I was playing around with in photoshop.

Oh wow, that absolutely captures the essence of a crocodile.
Just terrific, overit. Thank you.

 

[Aargh!]

The moon from a dusty and light polluted place in the Middle East...

 

[Aargh!]

Some from Spain. I got some spectacular pics at the bullfights but it isn't everyone's cup of tea

 

[overit]

I made a slide show with some of my pics from around Australia. Its sucks I couldnt put the tunes on it that I wanted to due to stupid copyright laws but here it is anyway.

Check it out. If I get enough interest in this I am doing some timelapse stuff that I will put up on youtube too.

 

[spooly74]

I made a slide show with some of my pics from around Australia.

Awesome

Love the croc out of water!