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[Mesoam]

man i love fall, going to have to get out for some new shots sometime

[NChoy]

This is fun... a chance to show off some non-car photography skillz...

Just another day at the office:


From my 2004 trip to Bulgaria:




From my 2007 trip to D.C.:




Downtown Portland, 2008:






What I do on drill weekends (no I don't fly them, I "shoot" them):


See how close we are?


At Ed McMahon's house in 2007:


At the Obama rally in 2008:

[SaffC70]

heres a random one for ya

[Zaitz]

narancs (hun), on 13 October 2009 - 10:08 PM, said:

..still love your PP.
Amazing colors.
What kind of plugins do you use?

Thank you. I don't use any plug-ins usually. I do a lot of color and curves adjustments but not to the whole image. I like to work on a particular area because I generally don't like the overall change to a photo. I work on a localized portion and apply different setting to different areas. Like in my car ones the settings I use for the background I don't generally like on the car and vice-versa. Masking helps a lot with that. Blend modes I also use a lot but usually not on 100%. I'll make a copy of all my layers combined and use that to blend in at whatever I think looks good. With fall colors I like to use selective color and the channel mixer to bring out certain colors or tone down others. It works great to change the overall tone of a photo too. Curves adjustments working in each channel is great to give a nice tone to the photo also.

I try to be careful not to crush the black or blow out highlights. Shadow/highlight gets overused I think so I stay away from it except for very small adjustments. Toning seems to bring out the images the most though, at least to me. Not too much unlike film in that respect.

[DelawareT5M]

http://i39.photobuck.../DSC_1871_1.jpg

http://i39.photobuck...life_1933_1.jpg

[nari]

Zaitz, on 14 October 2009 - 10:56 PM, said:

Thank you. I don't use any plug-ins usually. I do a lot of color and curves adjustments but not to the whole image. I like to work on a particular area because I generally don't like the overall change to a photo. I work on a localized portion and apply different setting to different areas. Like in my car ones the settings I use for the background I don't generally like on the car and vice-versa. Masking helps a lot with that. Blend modes I also use a lot but usually not on 100%. I'll make a copy of all my layers combined and use that to blend in at whatever I think looks good. With fall colors I like to use selective color and the channel mixer to bring out certain colors or tone down others. It works great to change the overall tone of a photo too. Curves adjustments working in each channel is great to give a nice tone to the photo also.

I try to be careful not to crush the black or blow out highlights. Shadow/highlight gets overused I think so I stay away from it except for very small adjustments. Toning seems to bring out the images the most though, at least to me. Not too much unlike film in that respect.

channel mixer si a fun tool indeed, and masking is sooo much fun. I should shoot sime fall pictures, but know its freezing and raining outside..

how do you like B&W pictures? I found the Nik Silver Efex plugin, it's aweseom, a lot better than PS inbuild b&w converter.

[Zaitz]

narancs (hun), on 15 October 2009 - 03:38 PM, said:

channel mixer si a fun tool indeed, and masking is sooo much fun. I should shoot sime fall pictures, but know its freezing and raining outside..

how do you like B&W pictures? I found the Nik Silver Efex plugin, it's aweseom, a lot better than PS inbuild b&w converter.

I love good B&W. I had an F100 for a time and really liked it. The Silver Efex plugin is pretty neat. I haven't used it in a while though. One B&W plugin I had allowed you to choose from many different types of film to replicate the look.

http://www.alienskin...sure/index.aspx edit: looks like their site is down.

[Zaitz]

[nari]

Zaitz, on 18 October 2009 - 07:36 AM, said:

http://i75.photobuck...z/treescopy.jpg

since I finished the photo school, it bugs me when the main subject is right in the middle
Again, I love the colors

[Zaitz]

Yes usually I feel that way as well. Was going for this kind of effect from Ansel Adams although the trees aren't laid out in the same pattern and proximity so it didn't turn out nearly as well, among other reasons. I tried a few different crops one with the front tree on a rule of thirds line but did not like it so I stuck with it in the middle. I don't like going by rules, just what looks right to me. Can't and shouldn't use the rule of thirds for everything, not saying you are stating that but it's what people always recommend when they mention composition. I agree, though, it isn't very dynamic.

[nari]

Zaitz, on 18 October 2009 - 05:28 PM, said:

...Can't and shouldn't use the rule of thirds for everything, not saying you are stating that but it's what people always recommend when they mention composition. I agree, though, it isn't very dynamic.

so true. You can't imagine how many times I argued with my teachers on that

[Mesoam]

brought my stuff up to portsmouth NH this weekend and took a few shots here and there...

let me know if you guys see some of these as somewhat under exposed, they looked fine on one computer on a much bigger monitor but on my laptop some appear dark

[Zaitz]

They are a tad dark but not too dark. Depends on what you are going for I guess.

[nari]

Mesoam, on 18 October 2009 - 10:26 PM, said:

brought my stuff up to portsmouth NH this weekend and took a few shots here and there...

let me know if you guys see some of these as somewhat under exposed, they looked fine on one computer on a much bigger monitor but on my laptop some appear dark

I like this one the best!

But yes most of them looks dark. I guess these are fixable with shadow&highlight in photoshop.

[Mesoam]

totally fixable i actually ended up darkening most of them then noticed the change on the different computer

[Gage]

Found this Little bugger outside the garage today, Anyone know what kind of spider this is ?

[Mesoam]

its the kind you fucking squish dead....thats what kind

[Gage]

Mesoam, on 23 October 2009 - 03:37 AM, said:

its the kind you fucking squish dead....thats what kind

[Zaitz]

Hope it's ok to post this here. New auto photography website that needs more members. There are contests every month. First months winner gets a 50mm f1.8 O_O. Sign up and start posting.

http://www.autophotog.com/forums/

[ErikS]

My friend Brendan and his landscape photography.

http://bdore.com/