Israel - Summer 2008 - CC welcome

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With these photos I know the post-processing is a bit off etc. I am looking for CC more in the area of, composition and other areas that are from a behind-the-camera perspective of a photographer's worth, besides the fact that Photobucket messes with the colors already there I think, or else Photoshop's just color-calibrated wrong (oy...) Hey, it looks better on my screen :S Point is these were shot on a D80 and 18-135 kit lens and you guys know the D80 outputs better than that.

The first photo is from Rosh Hanikra, on the Lebanon border:

The second one is from Jaffa (old Tel Aviv). Here I was trying to create an effect of having the sun where the (for lack of a better word) head of the palm tree is for an interesting effect (yes the highlights are blown, etc... not the CC I'm looking for here).

Feel free to mess around with these as you like for CC purposes.

 

[chrisburke]

i really like # 1.. i would have slowed down the shutter speed some though to get a nice effect on the water

as for #2 its always hard shooting into the sun... not bad though, I see what you were going for

 

[wchua24]

nice photos you got there. pretty inspiring to take photos like this to. i am planing for a vacation tour but still not decided on which country. an i am gonna bring my camera with me.

 

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man I thought I posted a reply to this... guess not. Anyways, the thing about the water in #1 is that it seems like the protip for water is to *always* slow the shutter down in order to get the soft effect, unless you're trying to photograph water droplets with macro glass or it's sports, where you'd be using a quick shutter speed anyways but it's cool to see sweat flying around. Here though I wanted to water to look pretty frothy in order to say something about the warmth of the photo (which actually shows on my monitor, the rocks actually look like orange-y sand or something rather than dull parchment, and the water is this aquatic cerulean), as well as commentary on the darker part of the tonal range for the photograph - the bottom of the rock formations. But yeah, it probably could have been slowed down a touch and still have the intended effect - I didn't have a tripod with me in Israel and that most probably affected my work a bit.

wchua: if you can afford it, go to Israel There's a lot of potential for urban photography that, although it might not offer the classical-ness of Europe, offers up what Israel truly is - a mixing bowl, a blend between modern Western-style culture and traditional Eastern culture. It works rather well, and then of course there's a good deal of nature photography in the North - forests, mountains, and the like - a lot of beautiful scenery.