Its nice to see some photo posts again. I'd like to see more of what people are shooting in our area. I like the monthly themes, but more individual photos would be fun to look at - unless everyone else is like me and have not had a chance to take photos in the last 2 months.
On that note, here is a photo from Arches I took a couple of months ago (yup, that was the last photo outing).
It's definitely not close to my fav of the trip, but I wanted to see what others thought of it. I know I'm getting compression in the sky with the boxed look. Marc's sharpening technique generally works well, but I bypassed any additional shapening and I'm still only able to save a jpg at a level of 5.
Oh yeah - Pentax 67ii, 45mm, polarizer, Velvia 100 and scanned in with a Nikon 9000 ED and processed with PS Elements 3. (I just got the Adobe Design Suite loaded tonight, so now I finally have PS CS3 extended to play with!) Comments welcome!
I agree, Steve, im dying for more critiques of my shots! bring it on!!
I love the colors and textures in this shot. It's a very tough subject to make work, since the hoodoo tends to 'blend in' with the background, but i think you've done as good a job as you could with it. A few clouds might have helped, but i can't fault you on that
I think with a little more sky cropped off the rise of the hoodoo gets accentuated. The curvature of the horizon has me a little "off." You could try just burning the BG to "highlight" the hoodoo. Dunno, neat rock tho.
I think with a little more sky cropped off the rise of the hoodoo gets accentuated. The curvature of the horizon has me a little "off." You could try just burning the BG to "highlight" the hoodoo. Dunno, neat rock tho.
Thanks gents. Laurent, I'll check the horizon again. I know from being there that there is a natural, very pronounced decrease in elevation, so that's accounding for the curvature as I know this lens does not have that problem and I didn't do anything like that post.
I agree with Laurent - the hoodoo looks fantastic; minimizing the sky would do it for me, too. I personally wouldn't do much with the horizon, mostly becuase rotating to level the horizon would have the hoodoo listing to starboard pretty heavily.
This is obviously a matter of personal tastes, but I long ago gave up on Velvia for mid-day (post-sunrise, pre-sunset) photography - it just pushes an already contrasty scene to the edge. This turned out pretty darn good, I'd say; but the shadows are right at or just past the limit of capturing detail.
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5 repliesOn that note, here is a photo from Arches I took a couple of months ago (yup, that was the last photo outing).
It's definitely not close to my fav of the trip, but I wanted to see what others thought of it. I know I'm getting compression in the sky with the boxed look. Marc's sharpening technique generally works well, but I bypassed any additional shapening and I'm still only able to save a jpg at a level of 5.
Oh yeah - Pentax 67ii, 45mm, polarizer, Velvia 100 and scanned in with a Nikon 9000 ED and processed with PS Elements 3. (I just got the Adobe Design Suite loaded tonight, so now I finally have PS CS3 extended to play with!) Comments welcome!
I love the colors and textures in this shot. It's a very tough subject to make work, since the hoodoo tends to 'blend in' with the background, but i think you've done as good a job as you could with it. A few clouds might have helped, but i can't fault you on that
This is obviously a matter of personal tastes, but I long ago gave up on Velvia for mid-day (post-sunrise, pre-sunset) photography - it just pushes an already contrasty scene to the edge. This turned out pretty darn good, I'd say; but the shadows are right at or just past the limit of capturing detail.