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Sep 11, 2021 10:17:28   #
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Sep 8, 2021 12:22:00   #
R.G. wrote:
After dark shots are definitely about atmosphere. The chances are the lighting will be subdued (i.e. not contrasty, which in turn usually means not dramatic) and the colouring will typically be soft and often with a limited pallet. If you want a shot which abounds in vividness (but not a sunrise or sunset), wait till proper daylight.
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This is likely true for many landscapes, but street photography at night can be quite vivid and bold.

I love your image but am wondering about the horizontal white line. At first, I thought it was some kind of a structure, but it seems to fade away on the left side.
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Sep 7, 2021 09:12:10   #
Nice scene. Thanks for sharing.


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Sep 6, 2021 07:18:40   #
Lurking in the shrubbery.


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Aug 17, 2021 08:45:28   #
Quite a nice scene. Many thanks for letting us work on it.


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Aug 16, 2021 09:43:05   #
BigDaddy wrote:
That's pretty funny, no matter who says it.


“Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.” – Ansel Adams
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Aug 15, 2021 07:35:48   #
GerryER wrote:
Not what some of us consider "photography is all about," photographic art, maybe, which many seem to indulge in, but really just "photographic-post-processing." The idea is to get the best shot first, and hopefully no PP.


Why no PP?

Is this a moral judgment? Aesthetic?

Is this a test of one's abilities of some sort? Are you saying that if you can't get a perfect exposure, then forget it? If so, you seem to be siding with the vilified teacher of this long, long thread.
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Aug 13, 2021 06:30:51   #
GerryER wrote:
Sorry, can't agree. A photograph should "capture" a moment in time as close as possible to the actual scene; realism. Once you start playing with effects, whether in camera or through post processing, you have entered surrealism. Nothing wrong with that, just not "real."


When you frame your image you have just left the realm of reality since you're eliminating all the real stuff outside the frame.
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Aug 12, 2021 06:50:55   #
A simple maxim -- if you don't know how to use Lightroom's cataloging system, don't use Lightroom.

If you take the trouble to learn the cataloging system, you'll probably like it. If you don't learn it, you will hate it.
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Aug 10, 2021 07:12:36   #
Great image to practice with. I'm learning DXO Photo Lab 4, so that was my main software, but I also did just a tad in Viveza (NIK collection) because I couldn't figure out how to make the Photo Lab local adjustments work right. Then to lightroom for cataloging.


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Aug 8, 2021 10:25:48   #
All of the people here who are telling the op to dump her teacher or to disregard what he has to say and then pat her on the head for creating some nice but not "award-winning" photos are not doing the op any favors. She is obviously keen to improve her technique and is willing to devote some serious resources to doing so; these courses cost big money and take up lots of time. She's already said more than once that she likes her teacher and respects his skills, to the point of considering spending some more money and time with him.

He, in return, has done what he was paid to do by taking her efforts seriously and giving some cogent critique.

Reminds me of when I was taking piano lessons. My teacher rarely wasted her eloquence on praising what I had done well. We both knew what that was. Instead, she relentlessly insisted that I improve what needed improving. Frustrating for me at lesson time, yes; but it was exactly what I was paying for. Everyone else just told me how "nice" I played, and could hardly have cared less if I ever got any better.

And if someone had told me that I shouldn't pay any attention to my football coaches when they ran me ragged and put me through another grueling drill, that would have been a quick trip to the bench for me if I had followed that advice.
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Aug 8, 2021 07:37:22   #
Photolady2014 wrote:
I guess that is what I was trying to say. I was not upset with what he said about my photos at all. I needed and wanted to hear what needed to be improved. I was simply asking if after I now knowing what I know, is it bad to still want to take a mid day photo that does not have all the qualities of an award winning photo.


I would say go ahead and shoot to your heart's content. But now you are in a better position to evaluate conditions that might pose a challenge. The key is not to refuse to take a shot (or multiple shots), but to do what you can to mitigate potential problems and enhance the quality of your captures. You always have choices. Instead of saying to yourself "this won't work because it's mid-day sun", think of it more like "hmm, mid-day sun, that's a challenge, isn't it -- what can I do to surmount it?" Your solution may not win an award, but it's very likely you'll get a better capture than if you hadn't tried to work it out to the best of your ability.
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Aug 7, 2021 08:10:19   #
minniev wrote:
Rusted old vehicles and decaying houses persuade me to process more harshly and more creatively than I would ever process a landscape. I have seen others do the same. Any theories about why that is so? Are you prone to these kinds of creative interventions with decaying things?


My experience with theories is that they are like Rorschach tests, often telling us more about ourselves than about anything in external reality.

That being said; my theory is that people have a certain fascination with the decay or deterioration of human-made objects, kind of like in the poem Ozymandias, where the long-gone ruler's great works have been obliterated into the desert sands. So it's not surprising that we might be inclined to help the process along. It's like when I was a kid doing target practice. I was much more interested in shooting up tin cans or old cars than in firing at a rock or something like that.

This impulse does not hold for God-made things, like the natural world or human beings. Witnessing the decay of such things is painful, and, if anything, calls for us to ameliorate the ravages.

That's just a theory though.
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Aug 6, 2021 08:07:33   #
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Aug 3, 2021 08:05:04   #
ebrunner wrote:


Topic Of The Month , August 2021: "Less Than Pristine "

Theme 1 How do you approach this topic Mechanical decay, industrial, urban decay, or rural buildings falling apart? What do you look for?

Theme 2 Processing: When do you say "too much"? Do you visualize post processing, or let it come to you?




Has anyone else ever wondered how a blackboard feels after the school day is over and the troublemaking kid who was forced to erase it as punishment duty did a poor job (probably just for spite)?

I typically title my photos and this one is called "Blackboard Singing in the Dead of Night".

As to post-processing, I rarely say "too much". When your subject is a dirty blackboard, it needs all the help it can get.


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