tnf wrote:I found an old Hawaiian outfit of mine from 1976. My nephew sported it for the camera.
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Nice tnf, really nice. You caught a moment there.
I love the kitchen HDR shot above too
I think in my retirement, soon I hope, I going to follow your lead here and by me a new camera then (hopefully) take shots like you. They are simply great
I forgot to mention last week, but BBC Wildlife Magazine has posted its "MasterClasses" for taking nature photos. They cover everything from plant and animal portraits, underwater, close-up and B&W.
Tormentius I really like the street performer and the bench swing pictures!!!!
here's some form the St. Petersburg Rain Prix. We never got to do what we went there to do but it was still cool.. this was my first time going and i'm never missing the st. pete grand prix again
That last photo, without the sail boat, it would have been impossible to judge the scale of those "rocks" on the right. They look like little clods of dirt. Love your photos, Yeahso.
Yeah absolutely, Seremtan. That picture is a tiny crop of a larger coastline. I drove for three hours to some beach in South Wales, and the weather ended being a bit shit, and this tiny portion of a single image was the only thing I shot that looked any good. I threw the boat in there because there was no other way to judge scale. The portion of rock is actually about 2 meters long. It was tiny.
I re-did this old cathedral shot a few days ago using a dual-tone mapping technique - after completing the first tone-mapping of the HDR in Photomatix, you run the tone-mapper again. You need to bump the saturation way down (around 40-50% depending on the image) and then tweak the other settings, but it really increased the brightness and color of the blue stained glass window and the surrounding frame, which in the original HDR were a bit dark. Obviously this isn't mean to look unprocessed.
