Awesome shot! I remember reading ages ago about how you scout out your locations on Google maps with some sort of sun program?
Would you mind sharing how you find your locations again and how you know to look in certain areas as I am sure there must be somewhere around me that is interesting and I would be keen to try out some less people orientated photography.
Taken today for a photography assignment where we had to emulate another photographers work. I chose a picture from Candida Hofers "Library" book....
^^^Nice composition, Dale.
Sometimes you just gotta get groovy...
Out of interest what was the theme? "Textured" or something similar?
Very nice... and I like the solitary reader. Is the white balance a little too warm?
I've got a job to photograph this house, Blackwell, less than a mile away from my shack, which is one of the finest houses from the 'arts and crafts' period. Should be fun...
This is a very nice photo. Good work.
I used my light meter to check the light frequency initially, from quite a few places around the room and this was consistent. I have been using Phras' suggested method of white balance for a while now, UniWB tailored for my camera. For this shot I also took a shot of my white balance, grey white and black cards first also. After doing the batch change in camera raw using the UniWB settings, it was indeed correct. I didn't need to use the white cards as a proof setup.
Congrat's on the job! It's one of my favourite architectural styles, which didn't make it here in a big way, but I did get to work on a few homes of this style when I was consulting. It always amazed me what was covered up in the name of modernisation though! Which I always recommended exposing again.
Is there a green cast?
Taken today for a photography assignment where we had to emulate another photographers work. I chose a picture from Candida Hofers "Library" book. Only another three emulations to go! The difference in colour of the books above, back, centre is due to the huge skylights that actually run the entire length of the room.
I used my light meter to check the light frequency initially, from quite a few places around the room and this was consistent. I have been using Phras' suggested method of white balance for a while now, UniWB tailored for my camera. For this shot I also took a shot of my white balance, grey white and black cards first also. After doing the batch change in camera raw using the UniWB settings, it was indeed correct. I didn't need to use the white cards as a proof setup.
The room on these upper two storeys does have a warm orange glow from the light shades and the wood, I may have been a tad heavy with the saturation in pp at 18. It looked the best from 14-18.
Leaves in the river scene is brilliant. Brilliant.
...my shack, which is one of the finest houses from the 'arts and crafts' period...
I used my light meter to check the light frequency initially, from quite a few places around the room and this was consistent. I have been using Phras' suggested method of white balance for a while now, UniWB tailored for my camera. For this shot I also took a shot of my white balance, grey white and black cards first also. After doing the batch change in camera raw using the UniWB settings, it was indeed correct. I didn't need to use the white cards as a proof setup.
The room on these upper two storeys does have a warm orange glow from the light shades and the wood, I may have been a tad heavy with the saturation in pp at 18. It looked the best from 14-18.
That shot was taken with my 50mm prime, I'm going back with my kit 18-55mm for a wider view and to see if I can gain access to the third floor also, which is off limits to the public. Not today though, it's going to be a lovely day here, 39 degrees C (nearly a century F), dust storms followed by thunder storms!
A charming scene. I spend a lot of time in libraries, so this photo is particularly appealing to me. I see Doylem has already mentioned the solitary reader: if you waited for others to vacate the area, it was a good choice.
Lovely shot I must say as well. Impressive if this is one of your first attempts at photo manipulation. However, I must agree, to my eyes the saturation and white balance is a bit off. I hope I don't come off nosy or pedantic but I was intrigued by your photo so I brought it into photoshop. Turns out there's something up with the black level of your red channel as it was almost up to 20%. This might have been a white balance issue or something else. I think this is what was giving a red cast over the image. I also brought the saturation down a bit, it seems that HDR tends to over saturate things a bit. I then played around with the curves to get a bit more contrast and tone it a bit. Five minutes and two adjustement layers, here's what I managed off of your jpeg. Again, I hope I'm not coming across the wrong way, I really enjoyed your work and by no means do I want to belittle it.