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I grinned when i opened this NEF, hope you like it Highlights blown, but i guess a few hundred trillion x infinity candlepower sun cant really be tamed !









Some others (dont need critique, unless you feel like it.) ;



(we dont know the ppl in blue patrol, they were rather feral.)

Brad, the first one is a real catch, also wonder what the person is doing in the background on the last?

Glen : drunken girl from a bunch of randoms whom got bogged on the ridge behind us

Brad, it looks like she is praying to the sun gods, she catches ones attention in the background

glen : she was a complete tart ... we cringed when she staggered over speaking in trailerpark about how many beers and bongs she'd had (not that im impartial, but yeah, she was a hoe )

Brad good to see your usuall attack on the beach scene, all very good and yeh what can i say but i enjoy looking at your pics they make me jealouse at times on how slack i am for not getting to the beach more since i am only 20 mins away, but them out beaches are not like yours.
Cheers
John

Darb

If you don't mind, could you post what the exifs are for the photos?

Thanks

hey there

if you visit http://darb.net/pipidinny/

click on the image you want to view exif for, you will see EXIF stored below each image ...

Since when did we get weather like that on the weekend mate! haha

from about 2pm to sun down ... then it started p1ssing down again!

how good is it right now! hardcore raining

the first shot is incredible. . . . the rest makes me jealous of your beach habits like usual

can't say enough about the first shot . . . . . just WOW !!

you HAVE to promise if I ever make it down yoru way you'll pretend I fit in and take me with you. . . . I DO have a 4wd yota, so it could work

Great shots Darb. Especially the first one.
Car full of beer drinkers and a kid in the backseat with no seatbelt on...what a rare sight on 4WD beaches.

Glad I don't have to rinse all that salt water out of my chassis..!

Manta wrote:Great shots Darb. Especially the first one.
Car full of beer drinkers and a kid in the backseat with no seatbelt on...what a rare sight on 4WD beaches.

Glad I don't have to rinse all that salt water out of my chassis..!

nah there were no kids, just a dog (well, 3 of them if yuo include the girls they had, who werent far off it.) ... driver had a beer in hand, pretty irresponsible.

We usually take a few beers in the fridge / esky when we go ... but nothing beyond a few responsible brewskys.

yeah the first oen blew me away , i love it

Good pics all, darb. Yeah, the first one is very cool. Nicely done.

cheers ... i had it printed and framed with matte in a 16 x 20 inch frame, came out so nice and clean ... heres a pic .. note : any noise or uncleanness is the jpg of the frame, not the image itself !

http://darb.net/anonymous/DSC_8692?full=1

Jeez, that looks sensational darb! Great shot(s)!!!

The sky and the rays in the first one are awesome... Looks great printed out...

Fantastic Darb - what/where did you print it with?

awesome image darb !!!

Bloody awesome mate!

Darb

The first one is #$#%$ awesome. The joys of living in the west you get sunset over water. To get shots like that here I need to get out of bed early for sunrise

emailed a local lab (with nice high tech machines, fuji paper and chems.) ... gave them a download location to a TIFF i'd made ... purchased the matte border and frame, put it all together myself, framed it and up she goes!

The first is simple stunning! How did ya do it Brad, what's your secret? Many times I came across scenes like that in real life and wanted to capture it but it's never turned out quite so well as yours did.

darb wrote:emailed a local lab (with nice high tech machines, fuji paper and chems.) ... gave them a download location to a TIFF i'd made ... purchased the matte border and frame, put it all together myself, framed it and up she goes!

Brad - how big did the TIFF file end up being, and if you don't mind me asking, how much did u pay for this great photo to be printed?

print was i think $19 ... frame and matte took total to $50.

Tiff was 32mb ... ive had a few people say i could get away with sending a normal jpeg (with no compression.)

Onyx wrote:The first is simple stunning! How did ya do it Brad, what's your secret? Many times I came across scenes like that in real life and wanted to capture it but it's never turned out quite so well as yours did.

Nothing too special ... it'd been breaking thruogh and then hiding away all day, so i just kept my eye on it ... saw the shot, flicked to RAW, A-mode @ F8 handheld, matrix metering, off I went.

When i converted the NEF, i actually chose AUTO WB instead of as shot, because I think i had "cloudy' set as a WB and it was a bit too warm compared to the actual scene ... likewise the "auto" selection isnt quite exact to the scene either, but not far off, and i dont care, its impressive!

I pulled it into CS, boosted certain colour channels, increased contrast a little, raised shadows a smidge, and then sharpened ... oh and levelled / cropped.

Its really amazing the difference the WB change made ... it added colour ranges that didnt even appear to exist!

Bloody magnificent!

What a catch

anyone wanna see the NEF? You'll be surprised how different it looks. (it really looks too warm and didnt show the impact of how it actually looked.)

Im learning more and more that shooting RAW is essential if you really want to work on photos ! (but i shoot jpeg for unimportant shots, or shots where content is important.) and im continually amazed at how much actual information is stored in an image and how it can be modified / translated !

darb wrote:anyone wanna see the NEF? You'll be surprised how different it looks. (it really looks too warm and didnt show the impact of how it actually looked.)

Great shot Brad. I'd be very keen to see the NEF: I've got a bunch of recent sunrise shots in NEF but have yet to get as fabulous a final image out of them.

Where were you shooting, by the way?

Tim

pipidinny beach ... a 4wd'ing area we go to. In West Australia

http://darb.net/photos/stuff/nef/

there's the NEF

darb wrote:pipidinny beach ... a 4wd'ing area we go to. In West Australia

http://darb.net/photos/stuff/nef/

there's the NEF

Wow... thanks for posting that. You're right about the difference between the NEF and the final file. It gives me hope for mine! I'm looking forward to getting to work on them.

Cheers, Tim

I'm just in the process of downloading the NEF, but that print looks awesome.