The Burning Of Charleston

[ginger_55]

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Note the church steeple on the right. I believe there is one about where the center of the fire is, too. We are known as the Holy City. Our whole skyline used to be churches.

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Night is coming on

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[Tim Kirkwood]

Night is coming on

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I really like this one Ginger. Well done :thumb

[ginger_55]

I do need comments, here, or want them anyway. Say the nice stuff, like good sky color, then whammy me on the dark areas. I have never let them go so dark before.

Shooting film, I was taught that there had to be detail in the dark areas. I tried to leave some, but I don't see any here, it is the darkest I have let them go, I wanted the drama in the sky.

Can someone speak to that. I know there might be shake in the last shot of the church, the one with lights. Darn me and ISO.......can't remember for nothing. So I know that.

Whatever else is wrong, I don't know. I tried to, and did, separate the shades of "grey" in the city from the very dark vegetation, they looked the same in RAW. I wanted to show distance, etc.

Comments WELCOME!

ginger

[GREAPER]

I read that all the time on here. More detail in the shadows. I for one love a nice clean BLACK sillouette.

Great color in the sky and a clean sillouette make a nice shot just as well in my opinion.

[ginger_55]

Thanks Greaper. I was one who used to say more detail in the shadows. I still say it when the shadow is 3/4th of the photo, but I was looking at photography books of digital photographs at barnes and noble the other day.

It seemed that the old rule of always show detail in those shadows no longer applied when the area was not a dominent part of the photograph. So I tried it here. I thought it worked, but I don't know.........it is subjective, isn't it, but I want to know what the majority opinion is, how things would fare in challenges, contests, etc.

ginger

[rainforest1155]

I really like this one Ginger. Well done :thumbI agree with Tim, this is the best one for me. Especially the fact that you found a great foreground, thats often a problem for me. :thumb

[davev]

Note the church steeple on the right. I believe there is one about where the center of the fire is, too. We are known as the Holy City. Our whole skyline used to be churches.



Night is coming on

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Hi Ginger.

I think the pics are composed Ok, but they don't have any real pop.
When I thenk of "pop" I think contrast. The pics are just a little dull looking.
I think the boat pic is the best of the bunch.
My 2 cents worth.

dave.

I think it should look like this. I hope you don't mind.
Just a little more contrast, and I got rid of 2 small clouds from the mid-right
of the pic.

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[fish]

ginger, i love the colors in the shots. seems like you've got a bit of flare going in the first one...also looks a bit grainy (high ISO?). The shot with the boats is much sharper/cleaner. Like greaper, I like to see sillouettes go black. The only thing I'd change in that image would be to capture the entire masts of the right most boat. I look at the shot and wonder if there's a pelican (or andy eating ribs) up there.

how'd i do? :1drink

[ginger_55]

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Ahh, Fish, I would love to give you the top of the boats, but that is full frame. Nothing was up there, though I can see how you might think so.

The ISO never changed, from afternoon til I went home, from 200 ISO. Wish it had. I doubt there is grain in there. I did try to give that one more pop, so I will be posting it again. Also, that is probably full frame, if not it is almost. I had enough to pick and choose, most of my horizons were straight off the camera. In fact I did very little to them.

When I was trying to add more pop, I had no idea how without darkening the dark parts more. I picked G blur and vivid light (at about 10). Otherwise it was really too much, IMO. I am confused now. The more I know, the less I know.


I have been working on pop. I am now obsessed by pop and wonder if my birds need it, too.

I would love to see Andy holding onto the top of the fish boat. With the sunset and the ribs, gee maybe I could make KPOTD then.

ginger

[ginger_55]

Davey, I just compared ours, you went darker on the back of the boats to get the contrast.

How did you do it?

I am going to do another thread, just the same photos "Popped". Well, one more photo.

ginger (I framed them with captions, might use them instead? I need to know how to get this right.)

[davev]

Davey, I just compared ours, you went darker on the back of the boats to get the contrast.

How did you do it?

I am going to do another thread, just the same photos "Popped". Well, one more photo.

ginger (I framed them with captions, might use them instead? I need to know how to get this right.)
Sorry Ginger, I got side tracked and didn't check back.
I used curves in photoshop, you make kind of an S shaped curve that
blackens the dark areas, and adds contrast.

dave v.