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lazarus219 · Aug 25, 2005

Hey everyone,
Haven't put in any effort lately to do any shooting, but today i bothered to, i only took about 5 frames, but i came up with this, its the same old effect- but im happy with it (my first time trying this)

Any comments, good or bad welcome!

DramaDork626 · Aug 25, 2005

That is interesting, but why does the water look so feathery? Did you smudge it in photoshop? It looks sort of unnatural. But I like the composition and the overall tone.

lazarus219 · Aug 25, 2005

Feathery?
I did try and get the milky effect, i guess the reason it is so thin was there wasnt much water running over the rocks, and maybe a little spray off from it hitting the rocks,
Other than resize, this is straight out of the camera

(15 seconds at F9, iso100, polarizer)

Vmann · Aug 25, 2005

I like it. Some dark spots in the shadows where I would like to see some more details but a good capture.

Did you get any shots without this tight of a crop? Just curious as to what it would look like from more of a distance.

lazarus219 · Aug 25, 2005

i did, but none i was happy with- ill have another gi in a few days and post those,
Thanks for the comments,

dmccarty10 · Aug 25, 2005

Nice shot. I like it as is.

tirediron · Aug 25, 2005

Yeah, I think it works well as is too... some experimenting with hue & saturation might be interesting.

lazarus219 · Aug 28, 2005

Thanks for the comments everyone,

I might have a play in PS, although ive been trying not to use photoshop much anymore lately,

craig · Aug 28, 2005

Good camera work! The shot seems to be heavy in the cyan. One way to approach that is in Photoshop; Covert to cmyk View channels Adjustment levels. Adjust each channel separately.

Since you have pshop why not use it?

lazarus219 · Aug 29, 2005

The tones of this image was one of the things i liked about it,

As to why i dont use photoshop- im one of the believers that photoshop (after a certain extent) kinda takes away from photography, i prefer to do thnigs right when i take the photo, and use photoshop as a little tool for slight corrections,

tmpadmin · Aug 29, 2005

Very dreamy, calming and relaxing impression. The only thing that "ruins" (takes away from) the feel is the harsh lighting on the left of the photo a continuous blueish overcast throughout would even out the feel.

craig · Aug 29, 2005

lazarus219 said:
The tones of this image was one of the things i liked about it,

As to why i dont use photoshop- im one of the believers that photoshop (after a certain extent) kinda takes away from photography, i prefer to do thnigs right when i take the photo, and use photoshop as a little tool for slight corrections,

Cool. I think everyone prefers to do things right when they take the photo. I think of pshop as a digital darkroom and I enjoy the control it gives me. Like most things in photography the pshop debate has no correct answer.

Tones are good, but I think you can improve on them. Fill us in on the details of the print and film etc.

lazarus219 · Aug 30, 2005

15 seconds at F9, iso64 w/ polarizer

Im using a fuji S5500. and my filmSLR is on the way! then its DSLR time,

craig · Aug 30, 2005

I am assuming you shot this on transparency film. Film's handling of shadow areas has always been tricky for me.

lazarus219 · Aug 30, 2005

No, digital camera for this one- im still waiting on my slr

and im getting impatient too,

I think digital might be even worse, it has a lower capturable dynamic range than film, if only slightly, but maybe some transperencies arent so good in terms of DR either,