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Photography thread - for Schoob
July 8, 2010 at
11:18 AM
Schoob asked for people to post their photography in a thread.
I'm not a pro, but I take some good photos and I have a sincere passion for photography. Soon, I hope to learn more and take some great photos.
Since Schoob wants to see a thread about photography, here are some good ones that I took of Luray Caverns last weekend.
As you can imagine, it's tough to get good photos in a cave, but this is my favorite view of Dream Lake inside the caverns:
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Here's the formation that I think looks like a little resting sherpa carrying his pack. Or, if you look at the back of the formation, it kind of looks like Vlad Dracul.
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This is my favorite picture that I took of the Wishing Well:
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Here's one of the ceiling of one of the caves:
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And one of some contrasting stone:
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I'm not a pro, but I take some good photos and I have a sincere passion for photography. Soon, I hope to learn more and take some great photos.
Since Schoob wants to see a thread about photography, here are some good ones that I took of Luray Caverns last weekend.
As you can imagine, it's tough to get good photos in a cave, but this is my favorite view of Dream Lake inside the caverns:
[imageshack.us]Here's the formation that I think looks like a little resting sherpa carrying his pack. Or, if you look at the back of the formation, it kind of looks like Vlad Dracul.
[imageshack.us] This is my favorite picture that I took of the Wishing Well:
[imageshack.us]Here's one of the ceiling of one of the caves:
[imageshack.us]And one of some contrasting stone:
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Btw, what kind of post-processing was done here?
What kind of lens do you shoot with?
Maybe an upgrade on the lens will satisfy you more than a new body would?
I do okay, especially considering I don't own/use a dSLR.
this thread also reminded me I needed to pay for another year of storage at flickr, I use them as a back up and to have access to all of my photos, instead of the latest 200 only, worth the $25 to me.
randomly from one of my sets on flickr:
one of my all time favs:
the rest of my stuff:
www.flickr.com/mrlaugh
I've been kind of a slacker lately, I have a bunch of things I need to upload.
Btw, what kind of post-processing was done here?
And thanks. Processing? A lot
3 shot HDR, bumped contrast in 2 separate layers for the sky and the ground (and the sky still has blown highlights), bumped saturation and played with levels/curves. Straightened horizon and o yeah, one of the trees was red and "didn't fit in", so I made it green (not perfectly, it still has some red leaves on it)
Though when it's saved on tinypic, it's compressed and looks a bit underexposed....
What kind of lens do you shoot with?
Maybe an upgrade on the lens will satisfy you more than a new body would?
I currently use the kit lens (not so often), 35mm 1.8, and 55-200VR which I'm OK with for now.
3 shot HDR, bumped contrast in 2 separate layers for the sky and the ground (and the sky still has blown highlights), bumped saturation and played with levels/curves. Straightened horizon and o yeah, one of the trees was red and "didn't fit in", so I made it green (not perfectly, it still has some red leaves on it)
Though when it's saved on tinypic, it's compressed and looks a bit underexposed....
I currently use the kit lens (not so often), 35mm 1.8, and 55-200VR which I'm OK with for now.
Most of the "clarity" and "color" come from postprocessing or changing the settings/shooting modes in-camera (if you shoot jpeg).
Just my 2c.
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Allegany State Park in the fall:
Max, right now I have a f1.8 50mm for my portrait shots. Do you recommend anything better?
Also, just for standard nature shots in general, do you have any recommendations?
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Very talented people in here. I'm 'trying' to save for a nice camera.
I really like (I think it's called color blocking?) anyway, the photo is in black and white with just one part in color. I'd love to learn how to do that.