Lunchtime photos

[PiroStitch]

Finally brought my camera to work today to get some quick photo time The results are below. Normal PP (ie. USM + level adjustment and a touch of saturation). Not sure why but I still feel dirty touching that saturation button during PP *sigh*









All taken with kit lens and no CPL.

[Geoff]

Great shots there Pirostitch - I really like the first one and your shallow depth of field..

[flipfrog]

nice stuff, like the first and last ones the most, kool DOF

[SoCal Steve]

I really like all four of them, Piro. (I'm kind of partial to leaves, so it doesn't take much to get me going in that direction.)

It's great what you can find sometimes when take out your camera and start looking around. I guess we should get in the habit having our cameras with us whenever we can.

[Greg B]

Nice work Piro. What suburb do you work in?

Don't worry about hitting that saturation button. Easy gratification
has had a lot of bad press over the years, unfairly in my view. I
use the equalizer in KPT6 for the same purpose,
and I am not ashamed.

[yeocsa]

I like the First one.

cheers,

Arthur

[MHD]

Last one here... great idea!!

[SteveGriffin]

Nice work!

[PiroStitch]

Nice work Piro. What suburb do you work in?

Greg,

I work in Camberwell just opposite the palace and camberwell station. Those photos were taken around the Centrelink/Vicroads area.

Thanks for the comments everyone. It's greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Wayne

[Alex]

Hi Wayne,

Nice. I like the first and the last the most. What exactly do you do in 'levels'. Do you just shift the sliders until you like what you see? Or do you check black and white point values and adjust accordingly and then change the mid-tones to suit your likes?

Thanks
Alex

[PiroStitch]

Alex,

I do most of my PP in Nikon Capture and only transfer it to P/shop if I need to. By levels, I mean adjusting the curves in Nikon Capture. I adjust it until I get the correct darkness or brightness of the photo

Cheers,

Wayne

[mic]

Wayne, I like the last one

I would crop right to the end of the further most bricks, so you see only brinks in the shots & nothing else turn it into B&W and call it

" In The Gutter "

Just a thought, but thats just me seeing I've spent a lot of time
" In The Gutter "

Cheers,

Mic.

[MCWB]

Just a thought, but thats just me seeing I've spent a lot of time
" In The Gutter "

How unladylike! 3 is a beautiful shot, love the reflection, and the blue sky is tops, I'll never tire of seeing it. Honourable mentions to 1 and 3 as well; as mic says, 3 maybe needs a bit more cropped from the right. Nice work.

[PiroStitch]

Wayne, I like the last one

I would crop right to the end of the further most bricks, so you see only brinks in the shots & nothing else turn it into B&W and call it

" In The Gutter "

Just a thought, but thats just me seeing I've spent a lot of time
" In The Gutter "

Cheers,

Mic.

thanks Mic I was thinking of calling it Guttertalk or Guttermind actually but the latter implies too much

MCWB, thanks for the compliments. I was pretty happy with the reflections as well in that photo.

Will create a cropped version of the gutter photo and repost it.

Cheers,

Wayne

[beetleboy]

LOVE the last one..conjurs up sayings like "kicked to the kerb", even though there isn't anything in particular to focus on I find my eye enjoys wandering around the scene between the cigarette butts and grafitti.

Nice one!

Oh, and the others were bloody good also!

Liam =]

[sirhc55]

Piro - #1 does it for me - simplistic, sharp and it’s a flower

[mudder]

Wow, the sharp focus and short deoth of field in the first makes the flower really jump out at me...

Really like the last one too, as mentioned I'd try cropping the right hand side so the gutter goes all the way through the frame...