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Just a few from this weekends walk in Ku Ring Gai Chase NP...

Walking into the sunset


America Bay (Stacked ND4 and ND8 Grads and C-Pol)


America Bay (Stacked ND4 and ND8 Grads and C-Pol)


HDR

all nice
but i love that first one, it has a very bittersweet memory feel
who is that?

That first one is premo...i reckon it would be perfect if you had taken just two steps back to get her in the whole frame!

Love the #1 Cameron. I just wish you had shot using a 10mm etc so that the whole person can be included. Also more oft he road. Looks more like a wendell....

wendellt wrote:all nice
but i love that first one, it has a very bittersweet memory feel
who is that?

Thanks Wendell! It was really a spur of the moment shot that I pictured, I had to warm the image to get the effect in my mind but I am very happy with it. Who is it? Just a friend of a friend....kinda wish I could offer something more interesting.

biggerry wrote:That first one is premo...i reckon it would be perfect if you had taken just two steps back to get her in the whole frame!

surenj wrote:Love the #1 Cameron. I just wish you had shot using a 10mm etc so that the whole person can be included. Also more oft he road. Looks more like a wendell....

Thanks guys. I had a good look at the few I did snap...and nothing that is crop worthy...they simply dont have the same light spill. She is a rather small girl so I would have had to shoot from a lower position to get the same light spill whilst getting her all in. Next time I guess.

Hey Dude! =D

Love the shots!!!! colors are great mate pleasing the eye very much so! ^^

Only thing I'll critique is the last image, in the top corners. They kind of scream to me "clone me out," I guess they come with filter stacking haha great shots buddy!

I like the first one best too.

#1 for me. I love the blown sky and the low contrast look, I also love that we can't see the subjects face but instead get drawn down the road that she is walking. The way your eyes star with her and get drawn to around the corner leave you wondering what is there, why she is going that way, who she is. It's a great story teller even if it only tells half a story. Captivating!

Thanks for the comments. I really liked the first myself...and opportunistic shot that I snapped knowing that I would need to warm it up with a golden glow, but it worked well.

As for stacked filter effect, yes I should clone those corners out...I dont know how I forgot to do so

The first one is tops; the second two are choice; the HDR isn't as good - it seems to lack contrast.

Hi Cameron,
Number one for me as well for all the reasons mentioned above and I really like #2 as well, the colours, saturation, composition, all nice to me.

Reschsmooth wrote:The first one is tops; the second two are choice; the HDR isn't as good - it seems to lack contrast.

Thanks...I didnt quite get the HDR to work as well as I hoped...next time I guess

glamy wrote:Hi Cameron,
Number one for me as well for all the reasons mentioned above and I really like #2 as well, the colours, saturation, composition, all nice to me.

It is a bit late to cry about it now, but do you think the image would have been better if there wasnt filter glare?

It is a bit late to cry about it now, but do you think the image would have been better if there wasnt filter glare?

Possibly not because it has a wonderful simplicity and realism to it and that's what caught my eyes. It is as if I were looking at the scene myself instead of the photographer. That’s how I would have seen it with the naked eye; and this is my humble opinion.

aim54x wrote:It is a bit late to cry about it now, but do you think the image would have been better if there wasnt filter glare?

Not sure but Zafra makes an interesting point!

If you are bothered by it, you can still salvage it by carefully cloning and increasing contrast on that area.

Now that I look at this from my home monitor, #3 appears a little dark. Looking at the exif though, it was probably a pretty bright scene as you have removed about 7 stops of light from it!

zafra52 wrote:

It is a bit late to cry about it now, but do you think the image would have been better if there wasnt filter glare?

Possibly not because it has a wonderful simplicity and realism to it and that's what caught my eyes. It is as if I were looking at the scene myself instead of the photographer. That’s how I would have seen it with the naked eye; and this is my humble opinion.

I am pretty undecided about the filter glare, but you have raised a very valid point, that sun did make me squint a bit.

surenj wrote:If you are bothered by it, you can still salvage it by carefully cloning and increasing contrast on that area.

Now that I look at this from my home monitor, #3 appears a little dark. Looking at the exif though, it was probably a pretty bright scene as you have removed about 7 stops of light from it!

That sounds like too much work for me.... but thanks for the suggestion.

What are you reading the exif with (I cant find anywhere in exiftool that reads -7 stops of light removed)?? I know that I didnt do anything like that in post, it was *working from memory* curve manipulation then some colour tempreture/contrast/saturation adjustment. There simply was nothing in those shadows worth pulling out....dark the image is, but I liked the overall look (maybe my monitors dont show it as dark as yours does)

aim54x wrote:What are you reading the exif with (I cant find anywhere in exiftool that reads -7 stops of light removed)?? I know that I didnt do anything like that in post, it was *working from memory* curve manipulation then some colour tempreture/contrast/saturation adjustment. There simply was nothing in those shadows worth pulling out....dark the image is, but I liked the overall look (maybe my monitors dont show it as dark as yours does)

I just added your ND 4+ 8+ CPL to get the 7 stops give or take....

surenj wrote:

aim54x wrote:What are you reading the exif with (I cant find anywhere in exiftool that reads -7 stops of light removed)?? I know that I didnt do anything like that in post, it was *working from memory* curve manipulation then some colour tempreture/contrast/saturation adjustment. There simply was nothing in those shadows worth pulling out....dark the image is, but I liked the overall look (maybe my monitors dont show it as dark as yours does)

I just added your ND 4+ 8+ CPL to get the 7 stops give or take....

LOls....that is about 6 stops (or is it 5...I have heard a few interpretations) but when you add the C-pol then you will get to approx 7 stops...but the ND's are both grads...so i was only knocking back the sky...

I like it - the HDR works very well. Not too outrageous it's believable...

Nice images Cam!

This may be a silly question but is there any particular way of capturing a shot like #1 or is it just a matter or catching the right light/angle etc?

eric_r wrote:This may be a silly question but is there any particular way of capturing a shot like #1 or is it just a matter or catching the right light/angle etc?

there really isnt that much of a trick to it...just timing, light and angle. I warmed it up a bit in post process to match what I saw, but if I had been bothered to shift my white balance whilst i was shooting i wouldnt have had to.

That first image is very retro, very 1970s. It has the Jenny Agutter feel about it, like in the movie 'Walkabout.' Made me feel 30 years younger.

Killakoala wrote:That first image is very retro, very 1970s. It has the Jenny Agutter feel about it, like in the movie 'Walkabout.' Made me feel 30 years younger.

that reference went right over my head.....

Love the set but the first is a beautifully conceptualised image.
cheers
marco