You've really captured the guy's character... and the twinkle in his eye. Looks like a Yorkshireman to me. A compelling portrait...
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You've really captured the guy's character... and the twinkle in his eye. Looks like a Yorkshireman to me. A compelling portrait...
Remember HDR Photography is for Seriously Challenging Light
Hey Dale, you're probably not going crazy - I had to change things up recently with my hosting. Server changes and DNS updates. Hopefully things show up normal again and Tumblr is stable it seems for now.
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I created, edited and posted this HDR image for a post related to some issues I've experience with HDR recently. No issues with HDR specifically, just when I like to use it. Check it out: HDR Photography is for Seriously Challenging Light
Hey Dale, you're probably not going crazy - I had to change things up recently with my hosting. Server changes and DNS updates. Hopefully things show up normal again and Tumblr is stable it seems for now.
I created, edited and posted this HDR image for a post related to some issues I've experience with HDR recently. No issues with HDR specifically, just when I like to use it. Check it out: HDR Photography is for Seriously Challenging Light
Using HDR in a sunlit scene looks, to me, like ducking the challenge... not accepting it.
That's exactly how I feel, I don't see the point of HDR, it's like a gimmick, it's fun to do once or twice, but I couldn't imagine to trying to fit all my photos under the HDR tool.
Once upon a time...
Harlech Castle... One of many pics from my trip to Wales on the weekend... what a fascinating place... it's like a land lost in time.
Harlech Castle... One of many pics from my trip to Wales on the weekend... what a fascinating place... it's like a land lost in time.
INCO slag pour. Sudbury ON.
Caught this a bunch of years ago with Sony DSC F717. These pours are now done out of the public eye.
Caught this a bunch of years ago with Sony DSC F717. These pours are now done out of the public eye.
Wow, speechless, you have so many elements here AND a rainbow!
Cool, now I see where the brick pavers slag I get comes from....
Very nice
Harlech Castle... One of many pics from my trip to Wales on the weekend... what a fascinating place... it's like a land lost in time.
Cool, now I see where the brick pavers slag I get comes from....
Caught this a bunch of years ago with Sony DSC F717. These pours are now done out of the public eye.
Very nice
Camera Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 400
Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZE
are you taking about the photograph that I posted in recards to the HDR and light post?
That scene was full of High Dynamic Range. Feel free to not accept it, but you're kidding yourself. Show me your flat photograph of the same scene sir.
HDR has a use Doylem. All your negativity does nothing to make it disappear. Please save your negativity for your wife, children, and others around you. It's not needed. Please get over the need for trolling HDR posts. Trust me, great photographers have stopped posting in these threads because of YOU specifically.
HDR done right produces some really nice images. It's the best way to bring out details that otherwise are not seen in scenes with widely varying light levels. A single image from the camera just can't capture it all properly.
My problem with HDR is when it gets overdone. It makes the scene look unnatural. Things start to look cartoony or like it was computer generated or something. Now, I have no experience taking and processing HDR photographs, so I have no idea what is involved other than reading some tutorials on it. I just know I've seen pictures that look good in HDR and ones that look overdone in HDR.
I keep posting pictures I made with my iPhone 4. I don't intend to always do that, but I keep finding pictures I like that I made with it. This one is from last night. I arrived at church for a meeting just at sunset and made this picture. This was with the HDR mode turned on. That's pretty much my only experience with HDR at this point.
Borrowed a T/S
I borrowed my friends 24mm T/S for a little while, had some fun at a pretty building yesterday.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II :: 24 mm :: f 3.5 :: 1/200 sec :: iso 100
I borrowed my friends 24mm T/S for a little while, had some fun at a pretty building yesterday.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II :: 24 mm :: f 3.5 :: 1/200 sec :: iso 100
I've just put the Colour Splash app on my iPod Touch, this is my first attempt at playing around with a photo I took last winter.
Photography is about creating. Period.
Man, there is some heated discussion going on about HDR here, again.
Photography is about creating art, there is no rulebook of accepted photos. HDR is a new type of photography, and to kick against it just childish and closed-minded. It's a complete given that cameras just cannot capture the range our eyes do, and HDR is just a method to try to do what cameras can't. Is there an acceptable level of HDR? Nope. Sure, some are completely done out of proportion - BUT WHO CARES? To the creator, the photo is art, and that's the bottom line.
Take my photo above with a Tilt/Shift lens; the scene is mostly out of focus, is that ducking the challenge of making a sharp photo, Doylem?
This thread is to celebrate photographers and their work regardless of the level they're at or the type they choose to shoot. We have an awesome range of bought-it-today newbies to years-experienced professionals.
Nuwomb, I actually really like your HDR's, personally. I think they maintain a great balance and show discipline in how much work you put into an image. Doylem, you are a master at capturing scenes in the best light, and have incredible patience waiting for it.
You both create awesome art.
The end.
Man, there is some heated discussion going on about HDR here, again.
Photography is about creating art, there is no rulebook of accepted photos. HDR is a new type of photography, and to kick against it just childish and closed-minded. It's a complete given that cameras just cannot capture the range our eyes do, and HDR is just a method to try to do what cameras can't. Is there an acceptable level of HDR? Nope. Sure, some are completely done out of proportion - BUT WHO CARES? To the creator, the photo is art, and that's the bottom line.
Take my photo above with a Tilt/Shift lens; the scene is mostly out of focus, is that ducking the challenge of making a sharp photo, Doylem?
This thread is to celebrate photographers and their work regardless of the level they're at or the type they choose to shoot. We have an awesome range of bought-it-today newbies to years-experienced professionals.
Nuwomb, I actually really like your HDR's, personally. I think they maintain a great balance and show discipline in how much work you put into an image. Doylem, you are a master at capturing scenes in the best light, and have incredible patience waiting for it.
You both create awesome art.
The end.
Agreed. But you meant to say: "And now you both shut up, go out and start photographing"
Doylem is a declared disliker of HDR (not the only one, BTW,) and he criticizes it by saying what a lot of folks won't, but I don't believe he ever makes personal attacks on anyone. In fact he's a great teacher from a certain point of view, a more traditional, patient perspective, as compared to computer enhanced images. Rather than get upset, maybe just consider the perspective, and understand why he says what he says. You don't have to agree, it's as simple as that. But, if we want to outlaw comments on work posted in this thread, then let's outlaw comments...or maybe just negative comments. Perhaps it would be better if we just posted our work, and never got any feedback at all, other than "Love it," or "awesome." We'd never learn anything, but we'd all feel good about ourselves.
Personally (my confession,) I'm not attracted to most HDR work I've seen. But, that's personal taste. I don't really like the "look" most people achieve with it. It tends to look all the same in tone, colors, edges... actually becomes repetitive and boring --- TO ME. I said "most." Not "all." But that's my own personal taste. But certainly HDR is as legit as any other form of photographic expression, just like black and white, super saturation, effects laden, high contrast, super-wide perspectives (fisheye) and those who like doing it, and like viewing it are certainly no different than anyone else. This isn't a political issue.
Nuwomb, you produce some very interesting and visually arresting images. In some cases the your methods (superwide urban perspectives/HDR) actually works really well for me, other times it doesn't. Personally, the extreme wide angle/fisheye perspectives more than the HDR can tend to make me feel dizzy, but that's nothing against your work at all. In fact to me the wide-angle perspectives you create are, to me, uniquely distinguish your style from many others doing HDR, and gives it interest and a 'signature' that says, Nuwomb. So, I like that you're pushing your envelope, but I still don't really care for HDR, sorry. Nothing personal intended, period! I'm sure you can easily say the same about my work, or Doylem's -- the things you don't like or that are boring. And it would be fair and valid. You have received a lot more positive comments over time than negative from what I've seen. But the one thing I've noticed more about folks using HDR, which surprises me, is how sensitive they get to any criticism of their work at all. That's largely why I don't bother to comment anymore on images, even constructively -- it turns into a personal, highly charged 'political' battle. "Oh no... Not this HDR war thing again..." I'm sure many talented photographers didn't leave this forum because of any negative comments, but because they preferred to associate with others doing their particular form of art, or simply got busy and had to tend to real life. To blame Doylem for that is really a bit silly, and for those of you who can't take criticism, get out of the art world. It's a fact of life, and if you can't handle a little negativity here in this forum, you're not going to be able to handle it in the real world.
When I first came here I got all kinds of constructive criticism and negativity... serious discussions about methods and techniques and some great feedback. I saw things in different ways through the eyes of others, and sometimes I had to admit I wasn't always objective about my own work - kind of a personal thing, if you know what I mean, until I realized I actually learned more from the dissenters than the admirers. I didn't always agree, but it made me think.
Questions is: is this forum going to head down the road where eventually it's a bunch of mediocre photos with only the occasional "wow, amazing" comments because good photographers or critics with solid perspective on the craft can't comment without hurting people's feelings? If so, it loses my interest, whether you consider me a decent photographer or not.
In the end, let's try to keep criticism here from turning into personal attacks, and let's also grow some thicker skin about our art. Otherwise posting anything you personally created on the internet (or anywhere out there in the world of media) is only going to get your feelings hurt one day...
With all the best intentions... -phil
Personally (my confession,) I'm not attracted to most HDR work I've seen. But, that's personal taste. I don't really like the "look" most people achieve with it. It tends to look all the same in tone, colors, edges... actually becomes repetitive and boring --- TO ME. I said "most." Not "all." But that's my own personal taste. But certainly HDR is as legit as any other form of photographic expression, just like black and white, super saturation, effects laden, high contrast, super-wide perspectives (fisheye) and those who like doing it, and like viewing it are certainly no different than anyone else. This isn't a political issue.
Nuwomb, you produce some very interesting and visually arresting images. In some cases the your methods (superwide urban perspectives/HDR) actually works really well for me, other times it doesn't. Personally, the extreme wide angle/fisheye perspectives more than the HDR can tend to make me feel dizzy, but that's nothing against your work at all. In fact to me the wide-angle perspectives you create are, to me, uniquely distinguish your style from many others doing HDR, and gives it interest and a 'signature' that says, Nuwomb. So, I like that you're pushing your envelope, but I still don't really care for HDR, sorry. Nothing personal intended, period! I'm sure you can easily say the same about my work, or Doylem's -- the things you don't like or that are boring. And it would be fair and valid. You have received a lot more positive comments over time than negative from what I've seen. But the one thing I've noticed more about folks using HDR, which surprises me, is how sensitive they get to any criticism of their work at all. That's largely why I don't bother to comment anymore on images, even constructively -- it turns into a personal, highly charged 'political' battle. "Oh no... Not this HDR war thing again..." I'm sure many talented photographers didn't leave this forum because of any negative comments, but because they preferred to associate with others doing their particular form of art, or simply got busy and had to tend to real life. To blame Doylem for that is really a bit silly, and for those of you who can't take criticism, get out of the art world. It's a fact of life, and if you can't handle a little negativity here in this forum, you're not going to be able to handle it in the real world.
When I first came here I got all kinds of constructive criticism and negativity... serious discussions about methods and techniques and some great feedback. I saw things in different ways through the eyes of others, and sometimes I had to admit I wasn't always objective about my own work - kind of a personal thing, if you know what I mean, until I realized I actually learned more from the dissenters than the admirers. I didn't always agree, but it made me think.
Questions is: is this forum going to head down the road where eventually it's a bunch of mediocre photos with only the occasional "wow, amazing" comments because good photographers or critics with solid perspective on the craft can't comment without hurting people's feelings? If so, it loses my interest, whether you consider me a decent photographer or not.
In the end, let's try to keep criticism here from turning into personal attacks, and let's also grow some thicker skin about our art. Otherwise posting anything you personally created on the internet (or anywhere out there in the world of media) is only going to get your feelings hurt one day...
With all the best intentions... -phil
Riders listen to instructions before the start of a race in Sunday's Cross Crusade cyclocross season opener at Alpenrose dairy, Portland, Oregon.
D300, 17-55f/2.8, 1/250, f/5.6, 48mm, ISO 640
That is an amazing shot. It's a time capturing shot that can be looked at 20 years from now and still provide the same amount of captive power. I think it's because it reminds me of B&W photos from the 1930s where a city street or a group of workers are captured and all the different facial expressions tell a different story.
