Go Lions!!!!

JRE313 · Oct 5, 2012

Im Just testing out my new Nikon D7000. Yes, This photo might be overcooked but I thought it would fit the image.
Hope you Enjoy!!

Go Lions signed (7 of 1) by JRE313, on Flickr

Parker219 · Oct 5, 2012

Not bad. Clone out the telephone wires and poles and even the half a goal post and I think it would be better.

CaboWabo · Oct 5, 2012

I dont understand why the need to clone out things , those wires poles and such are there in real life , I personally dont want a perfect photo I want to see real life things in the way , I really like the photo

TonysTouch · Oct 5, 2012

They are very distracting.

SCraig · Oct 5, 2012

TonysTouch said:
They are very distracting.

Not as distracting as that enormous, wordy watermark, but I do agree.

CaboWabo said:
I dont understand why the need to clone out things , those wires poles and such are there in real life , I personally dont want a perfect photo I want to see real life things in the way , I really like the photo

Make sure you never use depth of field to blur a background then. It wasn't blurred in real life. Also make sure your white balance is dead on the money, no warming things up to make them look better. And never use any kind of strobe or additional lighting. After all, that extra light wasn't there in real life. Same for any kind of filter. Can't be changing the appearance in any way or it wouldn't be true-to-life.

1hdr4u · Oct 6, 2012

CaboWabo said:
I dont understand why the need to clone out things , those wires poles and such are there in real life , I personally dont want a perfect photo I want to see real life things in the way , I really like the photo

I'll have to agree with you Cabo. I've got a lot of shots where I had telephone wires and such in my shot but still considered them to be great shots. If that's the way he wanted to portray his shot then I think it looks great. How many shots did you use to make this photo JRE313?

JRE313 · Oct 6, 2012

1hdr4u said:
CaboWabo said:

I dont understand why the need to clone out things , those wires poles and such are there in real life , I personally dont want a perfect photo I want to see real life things in the way , I really like the photo

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I'll have to agree with you Cabo. I've got a lot of shots where I had telephone wires and such in my shot but still considered them to be great shots. If that's the way he wanted to portray his shot then I think it looks great. How many shots did you use to make this photo JRE313?

Only 3

zombiemann · Oct 6, 2012

I don't really get the "OHMYGERD PHONE LINES.... MUST CLONE" attitude either.

vipgraphx · Oct 6, 2012

This one is way better than the first one you did. Processing looks great!!

As far as the phone wires,,,, this is my thought.....IF the picture is going to be hung and displayed and even trying to sell a print than yeah go the extra mile to make the photo look as attractive as possible, BUT if its just for fun and or practice then why waist the time cloning out things like that??

There are pictures of highways with beautiful sky's and the phone poles and wires look awesome and help draw the eye into the vanishing point.

Keep in mind that "PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE THE BIGGEST CRITIQUES" !!!! normal people look past all that little stuff.

JRE, surprise you did not go with the D600

one last thing I agree with SCaig that your water mark is way to big and it is really distracting. Keep it small and simple!

JRE313 · Oct 7, 2012

vipgraphx said:
This one is way better than the first one you did. Processing looks great!!

As far as the phone wires,,,, this is my thought.....IF the picture is going to be hung and displayed and even trying to sell a print than yeah go the extra mile to make the photo look as attractive as possible, BUT if its just for fun and or practice then why waist the time cloning out things like that??

There are pictures of highways with beautiful sky's and the phone poles and wires look awesome and help draw the eye into the vanishing point.

Keep in mind that "PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE THE BIGGEST CRITIQUES" !!!! normal people look past all that little stuff.

JRE, surprise you did not go with the D600

one last thing I agree with SCaig that your water mark is way to big and it is really distracting. Keep it small and simple!

Whats so great about the D600?

vipgraphx · Oct 8, 2012

ITs a FULL FRAME :mrgreen: basically a D7000 on steroids and the dynamic range is supposed to be really better!

Just saying, I assume you bought new so just a little more $$ gets you the D600 but, then you have to invest in FF lenses.

D7000 is still an awesome camera!

Steve5D · Oct 9, 2012

CaboWabo said:
...I want to see real life things...

If that were true, you wouldn't be doing HDR processing to your images.

I get what you're saying. I, too, have no problem leaving things in which some may find distracting. After all, it's what was in the scene at the time But, if I'm going to take the time to do something like HDR processing to them, why not take the time to remove those things which are distracting?

After all, once you start going down the HDR route, you're moving away from what you actually saw through your viewfinder...

robertandrewphoto · Oct 9, 2012

Steve5D said:
CaboWabo said:

...I want to see real life things...

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If that were true, you wouldn't be doing HDR processing to your images.

I get what you're saying. I, too, have no problem leaving things in which some may find distracting. After all, it's what was in the scene at the time But, if I'm going to take the time to do something like HDR processing to them, why not take the time to remove those things which are distracting?

After all, once you start going down the HDR route, you're moving away from what you actually saw through your viewfinder...

I'll have to disagree with you entirely on that. The point of HDR is capture all ranges of light to recreate the scene as it can be viewed by human eyes. Most photographers deviate from that idea and then go crazy because the colors can be so "cool"....much like how this image is. If the car featured in this photo was a bit darker then it would change the whole dynamic of the photo and be a lot more realistic, but alas.

A few more exposures on the low end would probably prove to be very helpful in this photo. Get rid of that horrendous watermark and accompany that with a little more depth in the darks and then we might have a pretty damn good picture.