Photo-a-day

[Bobster]

Probably a WAH-64 then, the UK version.

yup the WAH-64 MKI

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Greta pics bobby. i would love to go to one of these air shows

[Bobster]

airshow? that was no airshow, that was hours of trecking

when my 50 arrives i'm going to spend a day on the plains and see what i can get

[brammers]

Had the last of those Sony workshops I was talking about the other day - Alonso Diaz. He's a bit of a leg tbh - showed us some crazy techniques, moonlit landscapes and the like...

Here's my poor imitations of his style:





and here's a couple that are more my own style:

[kalniel]

I like the second 'imitation' - can see where you're going with that one. The first one I'm not so sure about, too much variation in sharpness for me I think.

[mmh]

Went to the Tatoo Convention in Manchester this weekend...

havent edited many photos as i havent had chance yet but heres a couple pretty much straight off camera:

[kushtibari]

I really like the tattoo pics. Not sure why.. Think its the colours and contrasts more than anything.

Another landscape type pic from me

[brammers]

Be careful with your processing kushtibari - your IQ has gone to pieces - halos, posterisation and noise everywhere, big blob of sensor dust top centre too. I like your composition and the light is nice, but you really can't push/pull that far in PP.

[Blastuk]

Be careful with your processing kushtibari - your IQ has gone to pieces - halos, posterisation and noise everywhere, big blob of sensor dust top centre too. I like your composition and the light is nice, but you really can't push/pull that far in PP.

Yep, it hurts my eyes to look at the rocks in the foreground :/

[rox0r]

Must agree, fantastic composition love the shot but way over saturated in PP. If you shot it in RAW then try some gentler curve tweaks perhaps.

[kushtibari]

Thanks - think that makes me feel 'slightly' better as I didn't do it. Someone else picked it up and tweaked it as it was quite muted. I honestly prefer my as untouched as possible but I quite liked the colours he produced. Feedback on here a bit back was that my pictures needed a bit more oomph.

Its not sensor dust though - wee icicles kept blowing into the lens and spray from the waterfall behind me.

This is the original - any thoughts as to what changes would be sensible. Bear in mind I've been doing this for about 4 weeks and I've not really mucked about with that much software. The Pentax came with Silkypix and I've got ACDSee but don't use it for a lot of tweaks. The person that tweaked it used Photoshop.



I just thought it could maybe do with a bit more colour myself.

[Zsev]

nice pics brammers , how much post processing went into the pics ?

[Blastuk]

Seems it has been severely underexposed to the point that (all) shadow detail has been lost..
Was it shot as a raw? If so, you might be able to salvage it still..

edit: I gave it a go

This is what photoshop would give you if you used auto curves


This is how I would have done it


Both have a weak unsharp mask.. 0.3 px, 100% I think it was and +1.09 exposure.
yes, I know there's banding.. it can't be helped..?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

[kalniel]

This is the original - any thoughts as to what changes would be sensible. Bear in mind I've been doing this for about 4 weeks and I've not really mucked about with that much software. The Pentax came with Silkypix and I've got ACDSee but don't use it for a lot of tweaks. The person that tweaked it used Photoshop.

The original already has artefacts - like it's been saved in a poor quality jpeg or the colour mode isn't right.

Both have a weak unsharp mask.. 0.3 px, 100% I think it was and +1.09 exposure.
yes, I know there's banding.. it can't be helped..?

Like your edit - the banding is in the original so it can't be helped, at this point you'd start colour picking and airbrushing the clouds to get rid of banding etc.

Really lovely.

[kushtibari]

Thanks BlastUK

I've been setting it to take RAW and JPEG but I was running out of room onthe card - need to get a bigger one as I'm using the old SD Card from my point and shoot Ixus.

When I saved the jpeg from the card - opened in ACDSee then saved again to the PC it seemed to compress it again so I've obviously done something else wrong.