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you might remember last year i posted some pictures from the top of champlain lookout in quebec.. they didn't turn out very well. lately i've been up there a lot, and i think i finally got the pictures i wanted from it. |
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I must ask, did you photoshop the sun in some of those? it looks sort of...out of place in a few |
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It looks really cruel in h.jpg. Bad intentions, I told you... Cool pics. |
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I'm just wondering out the sun got in front of those clouds? or is that a komeomeo blast sent by goku from dragon ball Z? |
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out=how |
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keep in mind these were shot with a digital camera, so the sun looks different than it would on film. however, they are real pictures taken with a real camera in real time. no sun was cut or paste.. :) |
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that compilation picture does not include h1280, which is the suspicious one...but I'll let it slide. This time. Also, I'm going to bed before I regret some dilusional posts |
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why is this place so interesting at 3:30 in the morning? |
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THE SUN IS ALREADY BEGINNING ITS UNHOLY INFLATION PREGNANT WITH RAGE THE CLOUDS NO LONGER CONTAIN IT |
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the samuel de champlin statue in ottawa? its pretty up there. and you always hear the rumble of cars going over that weird cattle-grid bridge just below. |
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the sun is not "in front" of the clouds. what you're seeing is the result of the jpeg's compressed dynamic range. by default, the canon 20d takes photos with 12 bits of brightness for each channel, which means you have room to adjust the exposure up or down in post.. but in the end, you lose 4 bits of brightness data when you make the conversion to jpeg. in order to make the very dark mountains visible, the very bright clouds in front of the sun are compressed to almost the same brightness. on a good monitor, you will be able to see the clouds are still there, but almost the same brightness as the sun. is the opposite effect with the exact same image. i have adjusted the exposure down, and now the dark range of the image has been compressed in order to give more bits to the high range. now you can see the difference in brightness between the clouds in front of the sun and sun itself, but the mountains are lost in the darkness. and that concludes today's lesson on digital photography. :) |
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sorry, but these really are spectacularly uninteresting. i can see cooler sunsets in my city. sorry man but this is just below average. do you actually believe you did something special here? i'd say go for frog macros but not in black&white of course, and try a fill flash. |
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they are pictures of a sunset in the mountains. nothing more, nothing less. if you like them, that's ok, if you don't, that's ok. |
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what if I like some of them and dont like some of them? |
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lovely stuff |
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Favorite sunset pictures are h1280.jpg and the one before it. Favorite picture overs all the frogs. Animals = Yes. Do you just sneak up, or do you ever use a telephoto lens? |
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the frog pictures were taken from a distance of about 5 feet with a telephoto. |
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your reply is very zen. very impressive. i could learn from this. |
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did you get to h jaroen? |
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I just got 5 rolls of film developed from my home-made filter shots. Once I get back home I'll post them, LOADS of beautiful stuff that surpasses anything I've done. |
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these are great. i haven't been to champlain since i was a little kid. |
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why not use HDR, chaos? |
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because i think hdr is lame :) hdr is the next "lens flare" of photoshop cliches.. |
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did you ever up those pics? |
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I like F. It would be perfectly complimented by high 60's or low 70s for temp and a nice cool breeze! I and J are great. The sky looks fantastic Thanks for sharing these! |
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Sunsets + Photogpraphy (Digital) x Canada = Oh Right |
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Nice pics. I've posted this before, but anyway |
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Not home yet. They'll be up Tuesday evening or Wednesday. |
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HDR is the next "lens flare" of images? dood, so you don't want a perfectly exposed image? you'd rather have blown highs and shit detail in the shadows? meh, ok |
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the thing is, they're not perfectly exposed. it uses to fake the exposure, and most of the time, it looks really cheap, imho.. photoshop's hdr effect is characterized by a flat, unnatural look that just screams 'overprocessed' to me. just look at the example in that article if you want to see what i mean. true hdr images (not the tone mapped photoshop plugin kind) can't even be displayed on a normal crt or lcd monitor. CRTs are limited to 8-bits per channel, and most LCDs only manage 6-bits with selective dithering.. you can buy true 12-bit LCDs, but they cost about ten thousand dollars and require a specialized graphics card. hopefully these will become common place in a few years, and we'll be able to enjoy real hdr images, without having to use plugins to squeeze 4092 levels of brightness into a medium that can only display 256. |
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lol |
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