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The Official TB Photography thread, second frame

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Thunderitter said:
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A bit of processing get's you this:

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Some of us who are old enough to have done their own developing and processing still get a buzz by how (relatively) easy it is to do this!
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That is AWESOME! Mind telling me exactly what you did? It looks like you sharpened it a bit and brightened it up a tad too but that's just my guess. For the time being I want to stay away from post processing just so I an get the hang of taking good pictures without a helping hand from my computer. Once I feel like I'm a half-decent photographer I'm diving in head first, lol! One of digital photography's greatest draws for me were HDR photos :).

Here are a few more that I like. I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it!

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ISO 2000 - 1/10s - F/5
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ISO 2000 - 1/4s - F/3.8
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LuvMusic said:
Thank you.....based on your pics, a great compliment!
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Haha, thank you :D!
 
#82
Kwesi said:
For the time being I want to stay away from post processing just so I an get the hang of taking good pictures without a helping hand from my computer.
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+1 but post processing can be your friend. It can make a well composed, but not so exposed picture work!


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The big thing about photography is what you see through the view finder is only half the story! The good news is that that is that harder part of the equation.
 
#83
Thunderitter said:
+1 but post processing can be your friend. It can make a well composed, but not so exposed picture work!


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The big thing about photography is what you see through the view finder is only half the story! The good news is that that is that harder part of the equation.
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On my iPhone this second one now shows way too much noise after the brightness has been brought up. If you're gonna do that then you need to denoise as well IMO.

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#84
DigMe said:
On my iPhone this second one now shows way too much noise after the brightness has been brought up. If you're gonna do that then you need to denoise as well IMO.

bc
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You need a retina display!

Believe it or not I have wound back the noise on that one.

What I was trying to show was the sort of distorted effect you can get with fiddling with the color and saturation.
 
#86
Here's a few shots of last Sunday's storm, featuring 15" of snow followed by 50mph winds.

Night of the storm.
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Snowed down tree.
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Next morning, before the wind started blowing.
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A barn a few miles away. After part of the roof went, wind got inside and ripped off most of the siding.
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Prettier side of the storm - snow carved by the wind
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Reminds me of an aerial view.
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Kwesi said:
That is AWESOME! Mind telling me exactly what you did? It looks like you sharpened it a bit and brightened it up a tad too but that's just my guess. For the time being I want to stay away from post processing just so I an get the hang of taking good pictures without a helping hand from my computer. Once I feel like I'm a half-decent photographer I'm diving in head first, lol! One of digital photography's greatest draws for me were HDR photos :).

Here are a few more that I like. I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it!

ISO 2000 - 1/15s - F/5
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ISO 2000 - 1/10s - F/5
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ISO 2000 - 1/4s - F/3.8
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That's quite clean for ISO 2000... makes me want the d7000 even more.

You might try a touch of exposure compensation if you want to see into some of those shadows, +0.3 or +0.7. If the 7000 is anything like my D90, it frequently underexposes by just a hair. On the other hand, you could try bumping the ISO some more.
 
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animal52 said:
That's quite clean for ISO 2000... makes me want the d7000 even more.

You might try a touch of exposure compensation if you want to see into some of those shadows, +0.3 or +0.7. If the 7000 is anything like my D90, it frequently underexposes by just a hair. On the other hand, you could try bumping the ISO some more.
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That last one I was really happy with as it was taken with nest to no light. I like how the two speakers kind fade into the darkness. Most of the shots I take are intentionally slightly under exposed to try and get a darker more epic look. I haven't messed any with the exposure compensation but it sounds like it could be just what I'm looking for to get better low-light shots.
 
#92
Yeah, Kwesi. That is awesome for that iso

Thunderitter said:
You need a retina display!

Believe it or not I have wound back the noise on that one.

What I was trying to show was the sort of distorted effect you can get with fiddling with the color and saturation.
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I have a retina display. Too much noise for my taste. That's one if the drawbacks of adjusting brightness in pp vs with exposure in-camera.

bc
 
#93
I mess around with my Nikon D40.

This is my portfolio set on Flickr. I think they're the better shots I've taken.
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Some examples:

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I dunno...I enjoy photography. Hopefully some of you enjoy these as well!
 
#95
Here are some pictures I've taken before that I thought turned out pretty well:

Interesting shot of our tree this year at night.

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Friend's cabin at night:

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I got REALLY lucky and took a shot of the night sky and actually got a tiny bit of lightning...this was pure luck but looks kind of cool:

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#98
Color shots... the time-lapse photo came out a little soft, but it was ~1 second exposure handheld
 

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#100
DigMe said:
I have a retina display. Too much noise for my taste. That's one if the drawbacks of adjusting brightness in pp vs with exposure in-camera.

bc
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I thought you might have! :D

I was doing this all quickly last night just to illustrate that you can affect a picture quite a lot in the post stage, but you hit the nail on the head about getting the correct exposure in-camera. What you can do in post production is limited by that. (I will add that that one has full de-noise! The initial under exposure and ISO speed are what bring that out when you lift the exposure and add a little saturation).

The nice thing about all of this is that it's all very much in the eye of the beholder. What works for some, doesn't for others.
 
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