The photography thread

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[Ashgarth]

Nice shot!

 

[arvoitus]

Did a selfportrait in a urbex location the last time:

 

[exoslime]

absolute stunning arvoitus!!!

 

[arvoitus]

absolute stunning arvoitus!!!

Thanks man!

 

[Nebulous]

Nice shots!

 

[Melb_shredder]

Best photo I could ever achieve... iPhone 5/ on a plane... like a baws??? (Honestly you guys just make me jelly with how pretty your photos are haha)

 

[bryan_kilco]

Plendakor, what is that first shot of?

And the fly one is awesome! All of them are awesome!

 

[Mago]

Been a while since I've been out and done something like this, but wanted to go out in the fall again.

Fucking hate that I forgot my stand at home though. Didn't really get the sharpness up that much.

Especially in the first one, but I really liked the colors so I left it to try again sometime. Tried to sharpen it in PP, but yeah...shit in shit out

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(last one looks like it's sucking a dick. duhuhuhu)

 

[DominikJW]

Had to use longer exposure because the noise on higher ISO was unbearable (APS-C sensor), so the stars are a little blurry. Oh well.

 

[scorpio01169]

Took this two days ago in San Antonio

 

[rapucore]

Minimalistic black&white action from the woods of Jyväskylä.

 

[jamvanman]

I am a total beginner with this stuff. Mago's photo of the owl or hawk or whatever it is has inspired me - would love to photograph things like that, as well as some close ups of various stuff.

What would be a good set up for a beginner bearing in mind I have a strong preference for something reasonably compact. I just use my iPhone 6 atm and I'm guessing that is just not up to the job!

Any advice much appreciated.

 

[jamvanman]

Thanks, Plendakor. Really like your stuff and reading a bit the Nikon D3200 (D3300) seems a great option to start out. And would leave a bit of cash for another lense down the track.

Was out in the bush the other weekend and I just couldn't do the scenery and wildlife justice with the iPhone. And then seeing this thread has kind of inspired me!

 

[arvoitus]

Is it just me, or does the new template add a huge amount of sharpening on pictures?

 

[RiF]

I haven't anticipated to find a photography thread on this forum. Cool.
Here are some landscape shots I did on a weekend trip just recently. The place is called "Devil's Swamp"...
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[arvoitus]

Why no more HDR ?
Love your HDRs, you're the one who inspired me to try it with your previous photos in this thread a few months back.

Well, i stopped using HDR because of two reasons:

1: I used 32bit hdr, and with my old laptop it took me around 10 or 20 minutes processing for one single picture. This was way too time consuming.
2: Most HDR photos are not great to look at, and I was trying to make my HDR shots to look as natural as possible. For example, this photo is a 32bit HDR shot:

This photo took me 30 or 45 minutes to complete (because of my old laptop), but these days i can easily achieve the same look with a single raw file in less then a minute.

This is the most recent series i shot:








These pictures have highlights (some with even clipped/unrecoverable highlights) and shadows, but everything whats important in the shot is still visible. HDR wouldn't give me any advantage, because a single raw file can deliver the above.

I still have to edit photos of a small mansion with a horrible lighting situation, and i might use HDR for that because i can't stretch a raw file that far to get what i want.