ginger_55
Jun-23-2005, 09:07 PM
She moved to rural Florida for 10 yrs, I am trying to depict the movie about her time there, with the birds, swamps, etc. So I had to pick one out of 4 shots for here........aaggghhh. I left a frame off. OK.
EXIF: ISO 400, F8, 17mm, 1/400thsec No EC.......
Worked up in photoshop: the usual, curves, saturation, USM, then maybe some more stuff. Or more curves, or.......... One thing that helped me over some other photos was changing the WB in RAW to cloudy. It helped bring out the sunset colors. I learned that if I forget to do that, I can't really make up for it in PS, have to start over in RAW......no matching that setting. Filters won't do it, not like RAW.
That is all the info I have rt now, except that I would like to have put up two photos.............was going nuts choosing. Oh, I don't usually go so bright and contrasty, but I have noticed others doing that in a sensational manner lately, am trying to find out what they do by trial and error. I also used Rutt's longer sharpening method, in layers, with lab, rgb, the whole bit.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/25933798-L.jpg
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/gallery/604806/8/25933798
This photo is on one of the last pages of that gallery. The original can be had there.
I just realized I talked about PS rather than composition and the "taking" of the photo. This is to me a gimme shot. Looks good, look through the meter, it was the time of night, the type of shooting for a wide lens, I wanted to record the solstice, high tides, etc, in our creeks. So I went somewhere, had 15 minutes, staked out my usual place, no birds not there, what is there, Yup, that is there, to the rt, the left, up, down, etc.
In this particular one, it is framed by bushes on each side. The interest to me were the the clouds. Looked kind of like a storm, they were changing, a lot can happen in 15 minutes.
As I said, I had on the 17-40, framed the photo with bushes, I knew I wanted the clouds, took these every which way, framing with bushes usually, have one with a house and reflections, my second/or third choice. Exposure was a consideration. I could not stick with a minus EC as in shooting birds, usually, so I brought it up. a Plus was too much, I settled on 0. This was slightly underexposed. What I do, I shoot, look, then take the reading off of whatever area might correct the exposure problem. I take a straight shot, composed like I want, then I look, I usually take one of the sky, if the foreground looks impossibly dark, I then take a reading from something neutral like grass, take another photo and look. Unless they are way off I leave them on the card to make sure I made the correct decision, later. The nice thing about shooting later is that I can see the LCD thingy. In bright light I can't do that.
Here, I made sure the little house thing was to the left of center, not centered, I was very interested in the little reflections in the water so I crouched to get them in. Crouching is kind of precarious, so I will take several shots when I do that. It shoots in bursts, was trying to refrain from doing that, had very little memory left.
Enjoy....................can't hurt me with a landscape. I didn't raise them like I did the birds. So have at it.
ginger
EXIF: ISO 400, F8, 17mm, 1/400thsec No EC.......
Worked up in photoshop: the usual, curves, saturation, USM, then maybe some more stuff. Or more curves, or.......... One thing that helped me over some other photos was changing the WB in RAW to cloudy. It helped bring out the sunset colors. I learned that if I forget to do that, I can't really make up for it in PS, have to start over in RAW......no matching that setting. Filters won't do it, not like RAW.
That is all the info I have rt now, except that I would like to have put up two photos.............was going nuts choosing. Oh, I don't usually go so bright and contrasty, but I have noticed others doing that in a sensational manner lately, am trying to find out what they do by trial and error. I also used Rutt's longer sharpening method, in layers, with lab, rgb, the whole bit.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/25933798-L.jpg
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/gallery/604806/8/25933798
This photo is on one of the last pages of that gallery. The original can be had there.
I just realized I talked about PS rather than composition and the "taking" of the photo. This is to me a gimme shot. Looks good, look through the meter, it was the time of night, the type of shooting for a wide lens, I wanted to record the solstice, high tides, etc, in our creeks. So I went somewhere, had 15 minutes, staked out my usual place, no birds not there, what is there, Yup, that is there, to the rt, the left, up, down, etc.
In this particular one, it is framed by bushes on each side. The interest to me were the the clouds. Looked kind of like a storm, they were changing, a lot can happen in 15 minutes.
As I said, I had on the 17-40, framed the photo with bushes, I knew I wanted the clouds, took these every which way, framing with bushes usually, have one with a house and reflections, my second/or third choice. Exposure was a consideration. I could not stick with a minus EC as in shooting birds, usually, so I brought it up. a Plus was too much, I settled on 0. This was slightly underexposed. What I do, I shoot, look, then take the reading off of whatever area might correct the exposure problem. I take a straight shot, composed like I want, then I look, I usually take one of the sky, if the foreground looks impossibly dark, I then take a reading from something neutral like grass, take another photo and look. Unless they are way off I leave them on the card to make sure I made the correct decision, later. The nice thing about shooting later is that I can see the LCD thingy. In bright light I can't do that.
Here, I made sure the little house thing was to the left of center, not centered, I was very interested in the little reflections in the water so I crouched to get them in. Crouching is kind of precarious, so I will take several shots when I do that. It shoots in bursts, was trying to refrain from doing that, had very little memory left.
Enjoy....................can't hurt me with a landscape. I didn't raise them like I did the birds. So have at it.
ginger