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Post by EDM Entori on Dec 24, 2016 1:38:38 GMT -5
So.. I left frc for awhile and along the way, I picked up a new side career/hobby/outlook. I learned to try and see the magic in things, the little stuff, to see the world for the wide endless place it is.. and what is special about it. So here is D Lewis Photo's FRC PAGE (facebook, instagram and tweeter) like em, dislike em, are a steller photographer yourself, toss something up or toss in a tip, I love it. Anyways.. here we go. First three are sunset/panoramas locally where I'm from Their pretty LARGE, and well you need to use my google drive to see em. 25MB plus for those phone users! drive.google.com/file/d/0BxHZ-dyHDCaIb2RMU0dzVlRnSW8/view?usp=sharingdrive.google.com/open?id=0BxHZ-dyHDCaITTVTTkl4endWRGsdrive.google.com/open?id=0BxHZ-dyHDCaIQjZQY2FUcnd3XzQTrapped (soulgem) Through the glass Portal Lofty halls of circles and dives Cozy Selune Tangled Bliss Frozen Sunrise
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Post by Fenix on Dec 24, 2016 8:48:30 GMT -5
Bliss Id like to be paid for modeling pls -Fenix Vale
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Post by mysticalkas on Dec 26, 2016 23:47:48 GMT -5
All I got to say is wow, I really like the first one. It seems like a painted landscape, It is really incredible and so serene. Awesome job with it Ent, you did great with all of them. I think you should send that first one in to a magazine that offers tours and vacations, its what people look for when vacationing. Great job!
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Post by EDM Entori on Dec 31, 2016 6:22:43 GMT -5
Merry Cwistmas Happy New year folks and a local shot from warmer times to say bring on the new year!
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Post by EDM Entori on Jan 2, 2017 21:42:44 GMT -5
When you get snowshoes for christmas
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Post by EDM Entori on Jan 5, 2017 0:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by Munroe on Jan 7, 2017 1:32:17 GMT -5
I tried to search for you on Twitter (my preferred social network as I prefer my social networks somewhat impersonal) but could not find you with the information provided above.
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Post by EDM Entori on Feb 5, 2017 20:04:12 GMT -5
Icing Sugar View from Cabot Tower Forgotten Beach GANDALF!
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Post by Fluffy the Mad on Feb 5, 2017 22:02:56 GMT -5
Do you touch up/edit most of these, or are they just taken at good times/places? I've taken to photography as a hobby but it seems a rare day where I'm actually happy with more than maybe three percent of the shots I take.
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Post by EDM Entori on Feb 6, 2017 0:35:40 GMT -5
Do you touch up/edit most of these, or are they just taken at good times/places? I've taken to photography as a hobby but it seems a rare day where I'm actually happy with more than maybe three percent of the shots I take. Hey, Yeah I retouch, edit the photos you see here. Mainly for people shots, I adjust highlights, add a bit of contouring to the skin, whiten teeth and aid a bit of o POP to the eyes. As for the landscapes. often there a set of bracketed shots that I layer in photoshop on-top of each other, and then maybe adjust the colors a bit, to match. Keep in mind though, most of those choices are made by a camera that shoots in JPEG. I shoot in RAW with my DSLR, so what you get is actually a washed down, not chosen version of the picture, then you make the choices in ADOBE lightroom/photoshop/camera raw, etc. That said, Today it was minus 30C with the windchill, and I was waiting for sunset, finding the right spot, composing the shot in the space of twenty minutes, and I took over a hundred snaps, I got two. Which is pretty common. What you see here, is really the best moments of hundreds of pictures. so 3% is right on the money.
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Post by Fluffy the Mad on Feb 6, 2017 1:46:28 GMT -5
Fair. I try to avoid editing as much as I can, though I do have a copy of Photoshop and some basic know-how. I'll have to try some compositions sometime and see how they turn out. I don't do portraiture for people since I'm really not a fan of posing, so instead I try to catch good moments when no one's expecting it. My camera isn't a crazy one, but it's decent for the cost- Nikon D3300. The lenses are on the cheaper end, but I'll upgrade them if I decide to make photography more than a hobby.
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Post by Spirit of a Phoenix on Feb 6, 2017 4:47:52 GMT -5
Real cool, those all look great Ent! Wish I had that sort of skill.
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Post by EDM Entori on Feb 6, 2017 10:24:08 GMT -5
Fair. I try to avoid editing as much as I can, though I do have a copy of Photoshop and some basic know-how. I'll have to try some compositions sometime and see how they turn out. I don't do portraiture for people since I'm really not a fan of posing, so instead I try to catch good moments when no one's expecting it. My camera isn't a crazy one, but it's decent for the cost- Nikon D3300. The lenses are on the cheaper end, but I'll upgrade them if I decide to make photography more than a hobby. That Camera and kit lens should do you fine. IF you're not into editing well, there are a few options. I would recommend a inexpensive filter kit, polaroid makes them on Amazon. (careful to match your filters to your lens thread, it is not depicted on the front of your lens, you can look it up easy enough) and shoot in JPEG. I recommend a Circular polarizer and Variable ND. about 40 bucks CAD and you get kits too. moe expensive filters ensure no quality loss. but your learning so.. don't worry about it. Variable ND allows you to use slower shutter speeds in broad daylight. CPL will enhance greens and blues. Some very basic tips. F stop - if you have a kit lens, likely it will let you go up to f22, or more. f16 is the max I'd go to stop distortion. f2.8 or lower you're going to have a very narrow area of "focus" so you get that background blur. but you often end up with an eye or some other important feature. soft. f8 is usually the clearest and best quality, and 16 will give you the flare your looking for in the sunset, the starburst pattern is caused by the blades of the shutter closing. low fstop is called wide open, because the aperture is at its widest. but lets the most light in. iso - is your sensor sensitivity, in low light you can up your iso to raise your shutter speed. the more iso the more digital noise your going to get. so in recap high iso and high fstop (above 16) = more noise. shutter speed - to stop motion I use a rule of thumb of 1/125 or higher. if your steady hand, 1/80 may work depending if your subject is in motion or your just trying to get rid of camera shake. in low light and you're trying to capture a scene, like several of my landscape shots.. you must have a tripod. a tripd you can use with a variale neutral density filter, so you get that SMOOTH water effect. white balance - since your not editing, you'll have to set your white balance, cloudy, shade, night, flash, day all change the temperature of your shot. Auto may or may not do the job. Another solution is a grey card (10$ amazon) you shoot the grey card in your lighting condition, then you can set your camera to read that first image as its white balance. This sounds very complicated but its really just matter of watching a 5 minute tutorial on youtube, navigating the menu is the hardest part. bracket your shots! it means taking 5 exposures and a 1/3 stops below what is read as "Correct" that way you nail getting the exposure no matter what. Lightroom is really where you want to do work photo editing these days, greatly improved user friendly and designed for photographers. you can get a photoshop/lightroom bundle off adobe for 8$ a month. .. save a few coffees and it will help you greatly. I also recommend Chelsea Northup on youtube. Great tutorials, gear reviews. Glass is where you can spend the coin, if you have a HENRIES they sell great lenses used, they mark the used lenses ina scale 1-9 I have one 8+ that I saved 300$ off the new price, and it's just AWESOME. Just Wait to ICEBERG season here. I'll get some great shots for you. I'm not familiar with nikon but if you have specific questions.. fire away. (also if your a samsung/android user, lightroom is available in a basic form on tablets that will give you some basic editing that would at least get your feat wet)
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Post by EDM Entori on Feb 6, 2017 10:25:31 GMT -5
Fair. I try to avoid editing as much as I can, though I do have a copy of Photoshop and some basic know-how. I'll have to try some compositions sometime and see how they turn out. I don't do portraiture for people since I'm really not a fan of posing, so instead I try to catch good moments when no one's expecting it. My camera isn't a crazy one, but it's decent for the cost- Nikon D3300. The lenses are on the cheaper end, but I'll upgrade them if I decide to make photography more than a hobby. I read a lot of photographer interviews. Post processing now, is more or less looked on as a dark room. there are next to no-one shooting straight out of the camera. but there is a fine line in keeping it "natural" to "overprocessed" I like to think mine aren't overprocessed.. But I'm lying to myself.
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Post by Fluffy the Mad on Feb 6, 2017 11:50:43 GMT -5
I wasn't trying to knock on processing, I've just never gotten much into it. If that's the next stage I can try to learn. I picked up most of the basics in high school, so I guess I'd be in like... the low end of the intermediates. Most of my prior focus was in trying to get those 'right time, right place' shots. Sometimes it turns out great, but more often just mediocre. Examples might be the stuff posted around here or in some of the euro-trip shots I posted ages ago. The first here was taken later than the other two, and I was playing with some perspective stuff. On this second one I'd been taking a quick shot and hoping to get the bridge in focus, but the brackets nailed the tree. I think I got lucky that it still turned out interesting. As for the glass, one was the default Nikon 18-35mm and the other is a Tamron 70-300mm. I'll have to try setting up the good old tripod and doing some multiple shots to play with in PS, then look into finding a Lightroom copy.
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Post by EDM Entori on Mar 17, 2017 22:52:59 GMT -5
I wasn't trying to knock on processing, I've just never gotten much into it. If that's the next stage I can try to learn. I picked up most of the basics in high school, so I guess I'd be in like... the low end of the intermediates. Most of my prior focus was in trying to get those 'right time, right place' shots. Sometimes it turns out great, but more often just mediocre. Examples might be the stuff posted around here or in some of the euro-trip shots I posted ages ago. The first here was taken later than the other two, and I was playing with some perspective stuff. On this second one I'd been taking a quick shot and hoping to get the bridge in focus, but the brackets nailed the tree. I think I got lucky that it still turned out interesting. As for the glass, one was the default Nikon 18-35mm and the other is a Tamron 70-300mm. I'll have to try setting up the good old tripod and doing some multiple shots to play with in PS, then look into finding a Lightroom copy. 70-300 from tamrom is a great lens, I have a buddy who has it. lots of versatility I have a canon 70-300 and I find its too far out for me with the crop sensor, however I have used it a lot out here on the west coast last week
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Post by EDM Entori on Mar 17, 2017 22:56:47 GMT -5
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Post by Calliope on Mar 18, 2017 0:58:26 GMT -5
Oh hey! Is that the grand tetons?
I went to the grand tetons last year and I sat on a rocky shore looking at a forested island in the middle of a lake with snowy mountains in the back ground.. Tons of drift wood on the shore. It looks totally like the pictures you took there.
<3 -Calliope
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Post by EDM Entori on Mar 18, 2017 1:03:55 GMT -5
Oh hey! Is that the grand tetons? I went to the grand tetons last year and I sat on a rocky shore looking at a forested island in the middle of a lake with snowy mountains in the back ground.. Tons of drift wood on the shore. It looks totally like the pictures you took there. <3 -Calliope Its is N55 26.27 x 129 34.61W .. not sure if it is the grand tetons I would think not. top hieghts were around 7000 feet, picture was taken at about 200.
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Post by Animayhem on Mar 18, 2017 1:13:49 GMT -5
nicely done
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Post by EDM Entori on Dec 15, 2018 22:42:08 GMT -5
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Post by nemusator on Dec 16, 2018 8:45:37 GMT -5
So much life in the photos. Great work.
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