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Photo of the day: July 2011

adonisadonis said:
Hello Doylem. I've been following this thread for almost two years now and your photos and other members here produce stunning photos. I am new to photography and just started to learn. In this photo the tree was included in the foreground, was it something that you pre-planned as part of composition or was it the limitation of the lense you have used or something else? to make it short I want to know what made you took this very nice photo of yours
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Thanks. This was an old church, with limited space around it, so I moved back as far as I could, to lessen the extreme wide-angle effect you get when you shoot buildings close up. It was taken at the 70mm end of an 18-70mm lens. The sun was coming from the left, so gave shadows on the details of the door, bell-tower and right end of building. The tree was there, and it seemed to fit. The "limitations" weren't to do with the equipment, but just with the amount of space I had.
 
Raking Salt

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100mm, f/9.5, 1/90s, iso200
 
Nishi100 said:
For this did you use Photoshop to create the reflections - by masking and then using a variety of effects to achieve the lighting; or a 3D program, like 3DS Max, and make 3D box (for the table, for example) then set up lights, and change the properties of the 3D shape that you created. Either way, that's a awesome picture you've got there.
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mackmgg said:
It doesn't look like that was done in Photoshop. Most likely, it was just a long exposure photo and someone drawing with a flashlight or phone. That's the most common way to make a photo like that.
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Yeah Mackmgg is right. Light painting :)

englishman said:
Cool :)
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Thanks!
 
Doylem said:
Thanks. This was an old church, with limited space around it, so I moved back as far as I could, to lessen the extreme wide-angle effect you get when you shoot buildings close up. It was taken at the 70mm end of an 18-70mm lens. The sun was coming from the left, so gave shadows on the details of the door, bell-tower and right end of building. The tree was there, and it seemed to fit. The "limitations" weren't to do with the equipment, but just with the amount of space I had.
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Thank you very much for your reply, very much appreciated and I learned something new again. I might ask you again sometime for some insight about your photos if that's ok.

Keep posting stunning pictures! Thanks.
 
TheReef said:
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Very nice! Great light and excellent job on the composition. I really like how you included the foliage--there's just enough of it here to add interest to the photo without it getting in the way. The meditative figure really makes the shot.

adonisadonis said:
Thank you very much for your reply, very much appreciated and I learned something new again. I might ask you again sometime for some insight about your photos if that's ok.

Keep posting stunning pictures! Thanks.
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Somehow I don't think he'll mind. And nor will the rest of us who always enjoy hearing tales of what goes on behind any good photog's magic curtain.
 
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