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Culturegasm: The Photography Thread (SUMMER 2011)
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- CommentAuthorshannon.gilly.3
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2011
graffiti:
with manners, no less:
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CommentAuthorVornaskotti
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2011
thewaltonsare:
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i'm getting down to the last of my treeplanting photos; i'll be back to sweet sweet inanimate objects soon. yippee! -
Alchemical Mosaic, Granada, Spain
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@allana I wish you could travel around and photograph all of the Whitechapelers like you did the treeplanters. We'd all look so cool. I've really enjoyed those photos.
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CommentAuthorCaratheWalton
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
@Vornaskotti -Thanks -
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- CommentAuthorshannon.gilly.3
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
The moon setting along an empty stretch of US 90, somewhere west of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi:
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I see your moon and raise you bridge
@shannon.gilly, I like the black and white treatment. It's moody, almost menacing -
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CommentAuthorphotomagex
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
@ allana - I love all your photos but I've really enjoyed all your informal portraits. You seem to be catching a glimpse into their personalities or touch of silliness that is difficult to get from a subject, when there's a camera around, unless they really know and trust you. Great work! -
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CommentAuthorWilliam George
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
It's all very saturated...
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- CommentAuthorshannon.gilly.3
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
@Bankara it was the only way to salvage a shot that in color is maddeningly noisy. apparently 40 second exposures and my camera's sensor don't get along so well at 200 iso. -
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CommentAuthorAlan Tyson
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011 edited
Oh, Bankara... so, I have an intense fascination with bridges, and your latest just scratched that itch in the best possible way. Beautiful...
@William George: I want to live in that bar. -
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BankerBankara, that is some serious bridge. Amazing shot.
Thanks, camyluna and photomagex! I will continue to profess to having extremely good luck.
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- CommentAuthorDavidLejeune
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
Decided to get in on the long exposure nightscapes action last night:
I really like Boney Mountain. I hate that I haven't spent much time out there for as long as I've lived here, and next week I won't live here anymore :(
I cannot find a way to change the black point on the sky so it's not so washed out without it making the landscape too dark to see using GIMP (I could cut the landscape out, adjust the sky, and then paste the landscape back, but it would look so obviously fake that I'd hate myself). Might go out again tonight and crank the aperture up and see what happens. -
@shannon.gilly, NICE! This is what I am talking about, you edit based on necessity and it creates the look that best suits the shot. No one ever need know you wanted color, it works fabulously without it.
@Alanna, nice as your inanimate work is I would say keep going with live subjects. That work is really good and you capture some great moments and expressions. It feels like you have a connection to all the folks you are shooting, they trust you and you do right by them with your pics cuz the folks look awesome and happy and natural. That is a tough thing to pull off and you seem to be doing damn near effortlessly so I would say keep doing that(!) because you are clearly good at it.
@Devid LeJeune, you will never be able to get the sky dark and the foreground readable in the same shot if you are shooting at night. If you want both, go out around dusk when there is still some light in the sky. There won't be as many stars but they should read and your foreground will still be lgible and not merely black shapes. Just wait til after sunset, blue hour is your perfect time.
Thanks about my own shot, I rented a tilt / shift lens for an interior shoot and since I billed it to the client I figured I may as well get the full measure of use out of it and lugged a tripod, cable release, camera, and lens downtown on my bike after shooting a concert. I must have took this around 1:30 AM pissed as a fart and drunkenly riding around lower manhattan with 5000 dollars worth of camera gear in my courier pack. Thankfully no one thinks I am worth mugging because I look scary and/or broke.
This is what I originally went downtown to shoot:
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@David LeJeune, curves and masks are your friends for fixing up night shots in post. Use the pen or brush to mask off the sky or the earth and then adjust them individually using curves until you achieve the look you wanted.
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CommentAuthorphotomagex
- CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
@ DavidLejeune - you could always take a couple pix at different settings then combine the sky you want with the landscape you want. I don't think digital gives us the latitude that film used to. As far as people who consider this somehow cheating, it's no different than the burning and dodging that used to happen in the dark room.
That is what I did with this photo. There was no way to get the fence lit up without the sunrise washing out or a nice sunrise without a very dark fence, therefore I combined the best of two shots.
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CommentAuthorWilliam George
- CommentTimeJul 21st 2011
I cannot find a way to change the black point on the sky so it's not so washed out without it making the landscape too dark
Crazy long exposure and a flashlight. -
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- CommentAuthorshannon.gilly.3
- CommentTimeJul 21st 2011
Second William's comment about the crazy exposure/flashlight bit. the only reason the road's visible in my moonset image is because my truck is just outside the frame with its headlights on. getting the lighting right on night shots is always a nightmare, and half the time it seems like just dumb luck when something comes out right. like forgetting to turn off your headlights when you get out to take a picture.
Raised bridge:
Superdome, with the moon for good measure:
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- CommentAuthorChevalierDéguisé
- CommentTimeJul 22nd 2011
Prescott Hillclimb - i was quite chuffed with the detail in this one.
