Photo of the Day April 2017

[v0lume4]

IMG_6087-2 by Seth Meece, on Flickr

Another one from beautiful Greenville, SC. Critiques welcome! I'm very inexperienced at night time/long exposure shots and the post-processing involved with such shots, so if any of you have some pro tips and tricks I'd really appreciate hearing them.

My workflow for these types of shots typically goes like this (using Lightroom CC):

• Increase exposure to get a good baseline
• Adjust white balance
• Raise shadows to bring back detail
• Raise blacks to bring back the sky + additional detail
• Raise or lower highlights to taste
• Lower whites to eliminate clipping
• Add a little clarity, vibrance, and saturation
• Adjust hues/saturation/luminance to taste; Also bring back some detail with luminance sliders
• Split tone (warm highlights/cool shadows)

 

[Joe King]

Derrycunihy Cascade by Joe, on Flickr

 

[Apple fanboy]

https://flic.kr/p/TVjRnR

Another one from beautiful Greenville, SC. Critiques welcome! I'm very inexperienced at night time/long exposure shots and the post-processing involved with such shots, so if any of you have some pro tips and tricks I'd really appreciate hearing them.

My workflow for these types of shots typically goes like this (using Lightroom CC):

• Increase exposure to get a good baseline
• Adjust white balance
• Raise shadows to bring back detail
• Raise blacks to bring back the sky + additional detail
• Raise or lower highlights to taste
• Lower whites to eliminate clipping
• Add a little clarity, vibrance, and saturation
• Adjust hues/saturation/luminance to taste; Also bring back some detail with luminance sliders
• Split tone (warm highlights/cool shadows)

EDIT -- I am having a difficult time trying to embed pictures on here from Flickr. The links keep displaying as broken. Would someone chime in and tell me the process for embedding them?

Just copy and paste the BB code.

 

[kenoh]

I suppose you have to do something whilst you wait for your M10 to be delivered!
He does have some beautiful pictures. Looking forward to seeing the results.

He seems to get the level of sharpness and the look and feel I am searching for so fingers crossed it works out because I am living on pot noodles for the next month at least after my spree this month!

 

[oblomow]

ooft! thats cruel...

No. It's pure envy. Of you, Mark0, anotherscotsman, reality4711 and others. The highest mountains that I can visit here are 300 metres. There is a reason I visited the UK 30+ times.

 

[Hughmac]

https://flic.kr/p/TVjRnR

Another one from beautiful Greenville, SC. Critiques welcome! I'm very inexperienced at night time/long exposure shots and the post-processing involved with such shots, so if any of you have some pro tips and tricks I'd really appreciate hearing them.

My workflow for these types of shots typically goes like this (using Lightroom CC):

• Increase exposure to get a good baseline
• Adjust white balance
• Raise shadows to bring back detail
• Raise blacks to bring back the sky + additional detail
• Raise or lower highlights to taste
• Lower whites to eliminate clipping
• Add a little clarity, vibrance, and saturation
• Adjust hues/saturation/luminance to taste; Also bring back some detail with luminance sliders
• Split tone (warm highlights/cool shadows)

EDIT -- I am having a difficult time trying to embed pictures on here from Flickr. The links keep displaying as broken. Would someone chime in and tell me the process for embedding them?

Is this the photo?
IMG_6087-2 by Seth Meece, on Flickr


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He seems to get the level of sharpness and the look and feel I am searching for so fingers crossed it works out because I am living on pot noodles for the next month at least after my spree this month!

Sounds like to need someone to carry your bags for you ... please

Cheers

Hugh

 

[Apple fanboy]

He seems to get the level of sharpness and the look and feel I am searching for so fingers crossed it works out because I am living on pot noodles for the next month at least after my spree this month!

Pot noodles and iron bru!

When you're a bit more flush you can go back to your usual diet of deep fried mars bars!

 

[kenoh]

Is this the photo?
IMG_6087-2 by Seth Meece, on Flickr


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Sounds like to need someone to carry your bags for you ... please

Cheers

Hugh

My god man, you got over there and back quick to get a picture!

Ha ha ha.... I will be sure to share whatever nuggets of gold I learn on the course... and yes it will be beyond "guys you need an m10.".. promise... though I am giddy with the protential of getting a M10 and Noctilux to play with ...

 

[v0lume4]

Just copy and paste the BB code.

OH! That's all you do? Thanks so much!

Is this the photo?
IMG_6087-2 by Seth Meece, on Flickr

Hugh

Yes, that's it! Thanks to @Apple fanboy now I know to just copy and paste the BBCode. Woops!

 

[Susurs]

Springtime sunset, countryside, Latvia

iPhone 7 plus, unedited.

 

[zagato27]

Wow I'd say it's expensive, but I forgot money is no object for you Leica boys!

I think I'll sign up to @Doylem's landscape courses. He looks like he knows what he's doing!

Not to knock Doylem but if it were me and I had the money and just a smidge of talent, I'd be knocking on Joe King's door. His night shots are just the business and now he's doing landscapes. Oh to be so lucky, or maybe good. Cheers

 

[oblomow]

The peephole of the conductor. To have a look at the audience before he/she enters the concert halll

 

[Hughmac]

Snoozing by Hugh Russell, on Flickr

Cheers

Hugh

 

[Apple fanboy]

Not to knock Doylem but if it were me and I had the money and just a smidge of talent, I'd be knocking on Joe King's door. His night shots are just the business and now he's doing landscapes. Oh to be so lucky, or maybe good. Cheers

To be fair I chose him because he posted the next shot. I could have chosen many of our members as we are blessed with a lot of talent on MR.
I know @Phrasikleia does workshops, and looking at her work I'd have plenty to learn!
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Snoozing by Hugh Russell, on Flickr

Cheers

Hugh

Looks like it was a busy day!

 

[kallisti]

 

[lizardofwoz]

That is the benefit of being a photographer by trade. They get to choose when they go to places. We have to align planetary systems in order to get the timing to capture a shot.

But that torture we put ourselves through is why we enjoy it right? lol...

I rather think that the opposite is true.

Professional photographers can usually neither choose the location or the timing. They work to the client's schedule and seldom get the chance to repeat an assignment. One chance and that is it.

I have encountered the work of amateurs in camera clubs that would outperform many pros because they can choose their subject and go back to it many times until they get it right. In addition they are not working to a schedule, and time is usually not a consideration.

That is not to lessen the skills of the pros, just that the constraints are different.

 

[kenoh]

I rather think that the opposite is true.

Professional photographers can usually neither choose the location or the timing. They work to the client's schedule and seldom get the chance to repeat an assignment. One chance and that is it.

I have encountered the work of amateurs in camera clubs that would outperform many pros because they can choose their subject and go back to it many times until they get it right. In addition they are not working to a schedule, and time is usually not a consideration.

That is not to lessen the skills of the pros, just that the constraints are different.

I agree to a point but a pro who wants a sunset picture will say no we go at 4pm tomorrow as opposed to us who say "woohoo Saturday afternoon I have two hours before I pick the kids up, where can I go shoot"

 

[Apple fanboy]

I agree to a point but a pro who wants a sunset picture will say no we go at 4pm tomorrow as opposed to us who say "woohoo Saturday afternoon I have two hours before I pick the kids up, where can I go shoot"

You get two hours? How come you get double?
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I rather think that the opposite is true.

Professional photographers can usually neither choose the location or the timing. They work to the client's schedule and seldom get the chance to repeat an assignment. One chance and that is it.

I have encountered the work of amateurs in camera clubs that would outperform many pros because they can choose their subject and go back to it many times until they get it right. In addition they are not working to a schedule, and time is usually not a consideration.

That is not to lessen the skills of the pros, just that the constraints are different.

I think it depends on your definition of a professional photographer. Someone who shoots landscapes etc is unlikely to be shooting for clients.
I think the point Ken is making is when you have a full time job and family you get very little time to shoot. If that coincides with good lighting then you're lucky.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Similar to yesterday's bluebells.

_DSC3023 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr

Comments always welcome.

 

[Doylem]

Norfolk Broads...

 

[kenoh]

Similar to yesterday's bluebells.

_DSC3023 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr

Comments always welcome.

Really liking these shots mate...
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You get two hours? How come you get double?
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I think it depends on your definition of a professional photographer. Someone who shoots landscapes etc is unlikely to be shooting for clients.
I think the point Ken is making is when you have a full time job and family you get very little time to shoot. If that coincides with good lighting then you're lucky.

I get let out on good behaviour mate. I do school runs, I tidy up, I do DiY when I am told... to earn maximum brownie points that I then exchange for kitchen passes. If I time it right, Mrs Kenoh offers good deal on the kitchen passes so they buy me more time... ha ha ha ha....

Yes the pro photographer thing is a shades of grey situation. When I say pro, my frame of reference is my brother in law and our two family friends. They shoot for the likes of Hugo Boss, Harrods, L'Oreal etc. So they get set a budget and a brief, they then have full reign to do what they need to so they call the shots and go where and when they want to - obviously within deadlines and I think they prefer to be called creative directors now oops. Someone at the other end of the pro spectrum would not have the freedom, you are right. I mean David our friend rocks up with a crew of 20 folks when he shoots so a bit different to a bloke with a pair of Canon 5Ds and a tripod.

These guys are the reason I am so insecure about my pictures BTW. I mean they are just on a whole different level but he does fashion photography so not something I will get involved in anytime soon.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Really liking these shots mate...
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I get let out on good behaviour mate. I do school runs, I tidy up, I do DiY when I am told... to earn maximum brownie points that I then exchange for kitchen passes. If I time it right, Mrs Kenoh offers good deal on the kitchen passes so they buy me more time... ha ha ha ha....

Yes the pro photographer thing is a shades of grey situation. When I say pro, my frame of reference is my brother in law and our two family friends. They shoot for the likes of Hugo Boss, Harrods, L'Oreal etc. So they get set a budget and a brief, they then have full reign to do what they need to so they call the shots and go where and when they want to - obviously within deadlines and I think they prefer to be called creative directors now oops. Someone at the other end of the pro spectrum would not have the freedom, you are right. I mean David our friend rocks up with a crew of 20 folks when he shoots so a bit different to a bloke with a pair of Canon 5Ds and a tripod.

These guys are the reason I am so insecure about my pictures BTW. I mean they are just on a whole different level but he does fashion photography so not something I will get involved in anytime soon.

No I've see your picture mate, fashion doesn't look like a field you know much about!

I can get out when I like, but our situation is a little different. Mrs AFB doesn't work so I have guilt disappearing for hours at a time given what we have had to put up with over the last 16 months.

Today she is happy doing some crafting so I could go out. However its just grey damp skies out there. So instead I'm catching up on some work and doing a bit of web browsing.

Thanks for the kind words on the bluebells btw. It's nice when the lighting and short time out coincide.

On the Landscape front do you watch any of Thomas Heaton stuff? He has some lovely shots from the UK and beyond.

 

[stillcrazyman]

Early morning on the shore...

 

[Reality4711]

The peephole of the conductor. To have a look at the audience before he/she enters the concert halll

Engaging shot. Well observed and executed.
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Similar to yesterday's bluebells.

_DSC3023 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr

Comments always welcome.

Me; I would have left the bluebells out. Damned happiness - Pah!
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Norfolk Broads...

Is the old watermill still there?
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Really liking these shots mate...
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I get let out on good behaviour mate. I do school runs, I tidy up, I do DiY when I am told... to earn maximum brownie points that I then exchange for kitchen passes. If I time it right, Mrs Kenoh offers good deal on the kitchen passes so they buy me more time... ha ha ha ha....

Yes the pro photographer thing is a shades of grey situation. When I say pro, my frame of reference is my brother in law and our two family friends. They shoot for the likes of Hugo Boss, Harrods, L'Oreal etc. So they get set a budget and a brief, they then have full reign to do what they need to so they call the shots and go where and when they want to - obviously within deadlines and I think they prefer to be called creative directors now oops. Someone at the other end of the pro spectrum would not have the freedom, you are right. I mean David our friend rocks up with a crew of 20 folks when he shoots so a bit different to a bloke with a pair of Canon 5Ds and a tripod.

These guys are the reason I am so insecure about my pictures BTW. I mean they are just on a whole different level but he does fashion photography so not something I will get involved in anytime soon.

The insecurity thing works both ways ya'know.

I felt it regularly on public shoots. Obsessive camera heavy enthusiasts clicking away behind my head, under my elbow even on the floor at my feet. Asking 'those' questions while I try to compose the masterpiece I am being paid to get (or no pay).

Going home tired and stressed, desperate for a beer/wine and reviewing in my head the day it was always the comments, questions and hoards of better kit swimming in front of my efforts to see the effort, talent and determination that I had expended to produce an income.

Reviewing published results certainly lifted the doubts but a single off the cuff dismissal by a stranger soon puts the doubt back.

The point is, I do not think I was much different to even the most, thick-skinned of my fellow "pros" so try not to be too doubtful about your skills (does not help - I know).

Regards Sharkey

 

[Mark0]

Erm... It's a group Tuition workshop thing with a guy called Colin Prior.

He is one of the reasons I started taking pictures more seriously when I was 14. One of his prints was up in my art class wall and it blew me away. I then got into photography more after seeing that. He was a big influence for me.

Colin Prior is one of the best landscape photographers there is and one of my very favourites. I have all of his books apart from his most recent one.

Enjoy the course, I'd love to be able to go on one Let us know how it goes!