The Photo Thread (Post yours here)

Post by **lynt** » Sun May 11, 2008 11:47 am

He's got a mad eye! There's some lovely post production going on there, colours are dope!

nic · Post by **nic** » Sun May 11, 2008 3:05 pm

the one with the cat!!!!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Sun May 11, 2008 3:12 pm

totally awesome work.... almost film-like grain, doesn't look like digital at all in some shots

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Sun May 11, 2008 3:18 pm

oh yeah, and this one is mad imo

Post by **lynt** » Sun May 11, 2008 4:09 pm

deviant wrote:totally awesome work.... almost film-like grain, doesn't look like digital at all in some shots

That's the super high ISO running on the 5D probably, that, and sharpening in Photoshop.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Sun May 11, 2008 4:30 pm

s'like 3200 innit?

Post by **system** » Sun May 11, 2008 6:09 pm

great photos, all!

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:36 am

yeah good eye for sure. nice shots

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:25 pm

mecka, cool photo!

those USA shots are nice.

Sunday afternoon messing around with a 1Ds MkII

Post by **lynt** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:29 pm

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:42 pm

and another, shot on a D70.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:53 pm

dang, cool shots Nick!

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Wed May 14, 2008 7:26 pm

Yeah awesome nhd!

A couplah from having some time to kill after work:

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:28 am

Post by **lynt** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:35 am

Second shot is icey, rad. Love the colours.

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:44 am

niice second shot ^ definately icey

what kind of postwork do you do on your pics?

Post by **huge** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:48 am

yer that 2nd shot is kick ass

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu May 15, 2008 1:01 am

nic wrote:what kind of postwork do you do on your pics?

lightroom... in this case changed the white balance and reduced down the saturation. boosted blues and reds a little.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:53 am

awesome shots all round

mecka, u take some crackers!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:49 am

mecka wrote:lightroom....

wordizzle

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:52 am

word that second shot is killer mecka

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:42 pm

mecka, can you post the same image before it was altered? (the 2nd one)

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu May 15, 2008 12:53 pm

Glenn>> problem is is that he probably shot it in RAW meaning you can't really view it un-altered..... no matter which settings (even a default) it is still being changed.

If you take low-light shots on auto white balance you end up with really warm (high colour temp) shots.... bright scenes usually turn out colder, but that's not necessarily right, if that makes any sense

lol

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Thu May 15, 2008 1:32 pm

deviant,

the RAW file with default settings will be the OG shot, straight from camera.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:53 pm

yeah, I was referring to the OG shot from teh camera

surely you would have the file that was d/loaded to the PC before it was edited in Lightroom?

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:57 pm

mecka wrote:

Nice one Mecka!!! That ANZ site is my (soon to be) ex works site!

BTW can you come to this place on the docks, right on the edge under the bolte, awesome place to photograph, want one of my (and a mates) bike under there in the night but neither of us have a good camera. I can pay!!!
You will probably find some pretty sweet angles there too

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:14 pm

breaksRbest wrote:yeah, I was referring to the OG shot from teh camera

surely you would have the file that was d/loaded to the PC before it was edited in Lightroom?

yeah, but the original file would be in .cr2 (raw) format making it unreadable by a browser....

nhd: which default? there are a few different ones that would give pretty different results.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:20 pm

man i am confused by what you have said Dan. you pull the photos off your camera the same way (usb camera to computer yeah?), then put them through lightroom of photoshop or whatever and do post production work

what are you doing again?

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:23 pm

he just likes to sound like he knows what he's talking about

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:24 pm

I'm not doing anything????

What I'm saying is, that without a program like lightroom or photoshop etc etc RAW files are unusable.

you can't just not do anything to them, even if you open the file and save as jpg the program is aplying "default" adjustments to the image.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:29 pm

deviant wrote: even if you open the file and save as jpg the program is aplying "default" adjustments to the image.

yeah, but it won't have all the post processing, which is what I'm interested in (what teh shot looked like before he messed with it)

mecka wrote:in this case changed the white balance and reduced down the saturation. boosted blues and reds a little.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:31 pm

deviant wrote:I'm not doing anything????

What I'm saying is, that without a program like lightroom or photoshop etc etc RAW files are unusable.

you can't just not do anything to them, even if you open the file and save as jpg the program is aplying "default" adjustments to the image.

That's wrong. A raw file opened in photoshop is the original image.

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:34 pm

stray is correct (i am correct)

the default setting on a raw file are your camera settings the photo was taken with..

anyway, less chat more photos!

Post by **huge** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:03 pm

lol you guys.

(i know what you mean dan)

Post by **lynt** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:51 pm

Shoot film.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:59 pm

Original shot with some jpeg compression artifacts.

Generally I pull all my pics from my CF card into Lightroom, sort them, bin.com any i don't like/too soft, 5 star the ones I will edit.

Then I go through each image and crop/straighten, clone/heal to kill spots/flare (i do this in photoshop if there's a lot of work that needs doing).

Change colour temp (dan is right - most images taken on AWB in-camera come out quite warm).

Adjust shadows/highlights so they aren't crap.

Adjust colours if I think the shot needs it. Some do some don't. Most do.

Reduce noise a little bit, although with all my night shots I try to keep my ISO at 100-400.

Sharpen a little bit in Lightroom. When I go to export for web I use Smart Sharpen in Photoshop for that little bit of extra kick.

Export as a TIFF file if I need to edit in PS. Export as a 1920x1200 PNG file so i can use it as desktop wallpaper and a 800x533 jpeg for display on web.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu May 15, 2008 7:24 pm

Cheers for the explanation, exactly what I was after

[edit: off to check out Lightroom]

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:22 pm

mecka, in the first two photos you posted
theres massive jpeg artifacing, whats that from ?

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:42 pm

mrmm probably 80% quality from exporting thru "save for web" from PS.

i shouldn't have used that much compression but i do it for slow internet users everywhere.

Post by **lynt** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:30 pm

5D w/ Vivitar 28mm f/2.8

350D shot with 5D & 28mm

Post by **lynt** » Fri May 16, 2008 9:57 am

Fun with bike lights. 4" exp.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri May 16, 2008 2:43 pm

awesome shots Oli. inspiring!

Lol Lynt, ya raver

bassfreak · Post by **bassfreak** » Sun May 18, 2008 2:00 am

Here a few snaps I took on a 5 day whirlwind trip of Tassie in March. I love Tassie. Definately gonna head back there again for holiday soon.

More here: www.flickr.com/photos/leithel/sets/72157605100828488/

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:11 am

dude.... totally sick

bassfreak · Post by **bassfreak** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:32 am

deviant wrote:dude.... totally sick

Thanks man
Just Got myself an Epson R2400 A3 Inkjet printer, so am gonna start getting some of my work printed and framed for sale. This beast can do some amazing prints.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Sun May 18, 2008 6:54 pm

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:22 pm

Awesome shots bassfreak!
Cool as DBoy!

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Mon May 19, 2008 10:29 am

dope colours dboy!

nice aussie landscapes too

Last sunday morning, fishing in the bay

lots of sensor marks in this photo!

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon May 19, 2008 2:54 pm

nice shots bassfreak, i love the plant ones, great colours!

cool colours Dboy

Nice one nhd! what are sensor spots? from the scanner or something?

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon May 19, 2008 3:04 pm

dust on the actual camera sensor... something that DSLRs are prone to due to the ability to take the lense off.