October Photo Thread

[FST513]

Just use a layer mask and crank up the blacks to see if there is any detail there. If there is any detail in the sky, just do a single HDR of the sky and mask it in.

Or you could use a gradient. Up to you lol.

I like both photos, i think the 2nd photo a CPL could of really helped. Or an ND even and a longer exposure. Keep it up mate, all about practice!

P.S. Matt - I do have steady hands but thats not the reason i turn it off

[MaTBoY]

No worry John, they're good shots, they show something different to what people see when they stroll around and thats good. you've got an eye for a shot, that's the hard bit. now you just need to do the easy (but long) part, practice, and learn as much as you can about ur gear and shots. Learning will give you more options and help open your eyes to some the possibilitiles that a shot could form.

Keep posting! Welcome to the team

If you don't take multiple exposures but your shooting raw you can open the file, increase or decrease the exposure, re save it as e.g. file0001_LOW or file0001_High.You can merge these multiples later. This will only work well if what you're trying to capture isn't to far off your shot i.e. way to dark, way to bright.

zenNon, I was explaining bracketing. Where've you been hiding anyway?

[FST513]

No worry John, they're good shots, they show something different to what people see when they stroll around and thats good. you've got an eye for a shot, that's the hard bit. now you just need to do the easy (but long) part, practice, and learn as much as you can about ur gear and shots. Learning will give you more options and help open your eyes to some the possibilitiles that a shot could form.

Keep posting! Welcome to the team

If you don't take multiple exposures but your shooting raw you can open the file, increase or decrease the exposure, re save it as e.g. file0001_LOW or file0001_High.You can merge these multiples later. This will only work well if what you're trying to capture isn't to far off your shot i.e. way to dark, way to bright.

zenNon, I was explaining bracketing. Where've you been hiding anyway?

Obviously in the ocean! Didn't you see his toddler pic snorkelling

[ZENNON]

yeah in the ocean! (and at work )

[FST513]

I think this is a record monthly photo thread. Good work!

[ZENNON]

Here is some more (all from Moreton)

[NA_Goodness]

Wow! You certainly get around, Zennon! Some great shots there man.

How old is that wreck?

[MaikuL]

Awesome!

[MaTBoY]

Where is that wreck?

At forster there was seriously 100 of those dead birds st the beach and more just in random spots. Anyone know what's going on there?k?????

[Jay019]

:'(

[MaikuL]

When boredom strikes, pan shit.

[Falco1992]

Soho NYC

hole in the clouds!

taxi

[FST513]

Sneaky Peakie from Yesterday. This was so under-exposed, i'm extremely happy with the 7D after this shot! Was around 1.5 stops under because somehow i flicked to my C1 setting lol.

[MaikuL]

Mmmm GTR.

I saw a book by some guy who went out to prove its the vision not the tool, he got an old phone and took some of the most awesome shots on it. I'll try to find link tomorrow.

Any luck finding that link?

[Pezhead]

Kory - WOW. That looks amazing!

I had a quick play with a few of the photos when we stuck the gopro in auto on the side of Nick's car. Had a little play with cropping and some color adjustments. Obviously no substitute for the kind of stuff you & Matt are doing, but not a bad result from a $300 rig.

[FST513]

Thanks Eric Matt got some sweeeet shots as well, i donno when he will post up, but check the shot on his flickr. I'd link it, but that would be copyright, right? Haha.

I reckon that is sweet, from a dedicated video camera, especially a go-pro. Did you sort through the audio? Haha. Looking forward to the BTS video if you create one

Oh and Falcon - So jealous of NY. Would love to go there one day, i could spend years taking photos there!

Edited October 31, 2010 by FST513

[MaTBoY]

Sorry Maikul, I've been to busy of late to look for you. I'll have squiz through the week when I can.

Sexy shot Kory, I think the Gopro beats it down though I wonder if Pez has run through the audio yet?

Here's my teaser from yesterday.

I was really happy at how the day ran and the results. It's a shame that a couple missed out on the paint session.

[Pezhead]

Hehe, yeah boys I went through the audio although it is a bit hard to hear over Nick's exhaust note. I know I'm a pain and always get in the shot - lol!

I wish you could set the exposure a bit more on the GoPro. It always tries to just shoot as fast as it can so it misses out on all that lovely motion blur unless you're going pretty fast.

[FST513]

Pr0n shot Matty!

Hahahaha. Funny. Crank it up really really loud

What about if you grabbed a frame from the video not the actual photo it takes every 2 seconds? That would have the wheels spinning etc... wouldn't it?

And yep - The Go pro definitely smokes my results. I wasted all my money on photography gear, i coulda just bought a gopro!

Edited October 31, 2010 by FST513

[MaTBoY]

This shot should keep a random member quite happy. You could turn this into a poster from a magazine easy

I'm hanging to see a few more of the motion shots dude.