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Love that shot of Thames St man, awesome perspective.



There's something from today. Drove three hours to some hell hole in Wales. Awful, awful place.

Yeahso wrote:Love that shot of Thames St man, awesome perspective.



There's something from today. Drove three hours to some hell hole in Wales. Awful, awful place.

Is that taken with that ND filter? Looks like the surface of another planet.

i don't think so. looks like a long exp and photoshop work.

ND110, tnf. No photoshop work really, just a tonal adjustment and some high passes on the middle rock

really? i've never used them.

Yeah man, they're really awesome. Quite limited, but when you find the right time for one, you get some cool effects.

I have an ND3.0 by B+W. I can't work out if the lens coating is also polarising or not, though, it seems to have some kind of treatment, as the colours on an untouched picture are almost completely different to what was actually shot. Not just white balance, everything seems to have a kind of red-ish-brown tint to it.

But yeah, they're really good fun. You can close up the aperture and do some 4 minute+ exposures in broad daylight if you really want to.

Some new(er) stuff. Some HDR, some not.

These are a couple candid shots I did for someone awhile back - I'm finding customers like the idea of just snapping shots of their kids while they play around so they can get candids that really capture their personalities. It usually turns out much better than the traditional setup of studio lights and muslin backdrops, but I've been doing a fair amount of that too.





Me shooting a tree - you can't see the moon very well, but it was right behind the tree and gave a cool shot through the tree.


An old truck on my wife's grandfather's farm:





Down the road in the middle of BFE (where I spent the holiday):



Something random enough to stop and take a picture of:



The only store in the area - closed Sunday mornings for church.



And immature bald eagle, definitely can see the changes beginning.

nice work!

@ subie pic: you got that in at least a 1680x1050 rez? would make an awesome background for me anyways

tnf wrote:

Very nice expressive shot.

Really nice portraits, tnf. I really like them.

Only criticism I have is that there's too much tilt going on. Makes it disorientating, for me at least. But maybe the customers like that?





Also, olo hitler baby.

tnf wrote:

That one's pretty good, would probably be even better if you replaced the car with a nice vintage Harley.

yeah tnf could pose with his dynaglide and his hells angels cut like a total badass

tnf wrote:Some new(er) stuff. Some HDR, some not.

These are a couple candid shots I did for someone awhile back - I'm finding customers like the idea of just snapping shots of their kids while they play around so they can get candids that really capture their personalities. It usually turns out much better than the traditional setup of studio lights and muslin backdrops, but I've been doing a fair amount of that too.

This would make an awesome album cover. You really like this HDR shit, don't you?

Thanks for the compliments. I do like HDR - I like the fact that you can use it to make images that range for very surreal looking to almost completely natural. I know that HDR is a somewhat controversial technique amongst photographers - and some argue that anyone can throw an HDR shot together in a few minutes and get some cheap oohs and ahhs from people. That's probably true - but I don't know that the process is as easy or skill-less as many think.

Most of the HDR shots I do are actually composites of up to 6 or more HDR files, each with a particular aspect I like (texture of the sky, color of the leaves, etc.) These are all then merged into one file using photoshop and layer masks. I do several other adjustments there too - curves, dodging and burning, etc.

chopov wrote:Last weekend I was at one of the strangest and most impressive places I've been in the last years. A sanatorium ..........


...Ravenholm? Silent Hill?

Nice work chopov.

I don't visit this topic enough Making amends

tnf wrote:Some new(er) stuff. Some HDR, some not.....

Really nice hdr stuff too tnf


Err, to all contributors here, thanks

Blue eyes. I love the Canon 24-70F2.8L - very sharp for portraits.

that looks great tnf - do you mind explaining how you got that lighting? was it natural, like a flourescent ceiling light? looks like a heavily diffused external flash from above the babies head? good stuff!

Lighting was from a bracket mounted flash with an attached softbox directly above the camera. I just got the attachment - it gives you great soft light.

tnf

Just a hobby for you?

Professional perhaps

It's been just under 1 year since I first touched a DSLR, so I'm not nearly a professional yet.

I appreciate the compliments and I am doing paid work on the side, though, and have started my own small business. I'm keeping fairly busy with that and its really nice right now because I'm basically busy whenever I want to be - which at the moment is not very often.

hey tnf, you had occasion to clean your sensor yet? (not that i'm saying i can see dust on your pics...) i've just given mine the once over with a rocket blower with zero results, which means it's time to move on to something more hardcore. there's no way i want to send it off to nikon and pay fuck know's how much. any tips would be appreciated

blowing won't remove pollen

seremtan wrote:hey tnf, you had occasion to clean your sensor yet? (not that i'm saying i can see dust on your pics...) i've just given mine the once over with a rocket blower with zero results, which means it's time to move on to something more hardcore. there's no way i want to send it off to nikon and pay fuck know's how much. any tips would be appreciated

I've been told not to use blowers by the Canon tech that cleaned my camera at a shop in town. There are do-it-yourself wet cleaning kits for sensors, but I'm always a bit nervous about doing that myself. The shop I took it to charged me $75 for a complete cleaning, mirrors, sensors, everything. So I'd look for a local place that has a good reputation to get it cleaned at if you don't want to wipe down the sensor yourself.