heres my first attempts

handsomejackuk · Jan 28, 2013

bear in mine some of these are old pics taken from a Fuji J27 compact, and i have taken some more with a Fuji f600 exr.. just getting used to bracketting on the f600 exr...

please feel free to comment....

this was taken on a fuji j27 compact single exposure

library pic taken years ago out side my house...

taken two days ago using fuji f600 exr. hand held with aeb mode + - 1 ev step

local pond taken again with fuji J27 single exposure

the six bells guardian fuj f600 exr first time i have used it...

Bryn Back Park Tredegar fuji f600 exr

same as above with fuji f600 exr

one of my motorbikes taken at same pond as first couple of pics taken with fuji J27 compact

Red_John · Jan 28, 2013

In my opinion the most part of the pictures have too much halos. I would also like to say that the third picture is nice, but a little bit flat, so I would recommend you to do some sharpening and reupload the result, because I think it would become very nice. Try to open that image, duplicate it, and than go to filter - sharpen - unsharp mask, and keep the threshold at 0 at play with the other sliders. Cause I guess it will make the image pop, but that's just a guess.

But in general I think the best picture is number 7

cgipson1 · Jan 28, 2013

A little (maybe a lot) overcooked! IMO, of course!

handsomejackuk · Jan 29, 2013

cgipson1 said:
A little (maybe a lot) overcooked! IMO, of course!

thanks for the comments.. some of the pics were just run through photomatix without any major altering.. i will have a play about with them more but beginning to get back in to photography... having done normal slr shooting and developing in black and white many years ago... will need to get a better camera though eventually...

finding the hdr side of it very interesting though.

vipgraphx · Jan 29, 2013

practice practice practice,,these are really bad.

Forkie · Jan 29, 2013

The composition in most of these is great. You definitely have the right idea when it comes to seeing the shot, but your processing is waaaaaayyyyy over done! Part of the skill of post-processing is learning when to stop!

I sometimes look back at some of my old photos and can't believe I thought some of them looked good!

Mully · Jan 29, 2013

The images for the most part are fine it is the processing that is bad....the train for example is a nice subject and composition but the effect killed it.. I hope you did not edit the originals and can rethink them

Designer · Jan 29, 2013

I love the motorcycle shots, although I think the backgrounds are too busy.

handsomejackuk · Jan 29, 2013

Designer said:
I love the motorcycle shots, although I think the backgrounds are too busy.

aww thanx everyone you are all real nice... i dont mind negative and positive thats what its all about;... yeah i have all the originals... the train one is a real low quality pic any way... its an old shot that someone sent me... looking forward to taking loads of motorbike shots when the weather gets better. i have 3 different bikes, so plenty for me to practise on.. as for the hdr ... it probably is the case everyone goes a bit mad at first then clams it down and uses it to enhance the overall pics...

i will keep on practising... hope you can all help me...

handsomejackuk · Feb 3, 2013

heres a few more i took yesterday... shame about the litter on the one shot.. but there we are.. at least they are the original.. and not edited out...

zhoak · Feb 7, 2013

This last photo is so cool. But please remove the blue bottle of the floor.

handsomejackuk · Feb 8, 2013

not being any sort of expert at photography, what is the opinion of shadows in a photo should they be there or not... ??

as the last shot has some shadows of the rear / front wheel... i did try to edit them out at one stage, but it looked as though the rear wheel was in the air...