Photos

Post by **jtbo** » 17 Jul 2008 03:28 pm

Chris_C wrote:Awesome pic dude! I've got some very similar from my trip from France to come, but I still havn't converted them from raw!

Thx

Original was not so great, imo. I just checked, there was 7 lamp posts (one being at middle of picture) that I removed from picture and one powerline. Sunset was spectacular at that evening though

I was surprised how easily one can alter pics as this was my first real try on photoshop, my students were also very excited as I teached them how to do it as they asked, didn't know that I can teach photoshop stuff until I found myself teaching it

Post by **jtbo** » 17 Jul 2008 06:56 pm

This time no photoshop, just resized images for more convient uploading with mobile internet.

Shop of God?

Here in Finland, we have these things called lions (he was not hungry type)

Maybe lion escaped from this house?

There is something with this Ixus75, I can't really gasp what it is, but I feel images do lack of something, maybe clarity or maybe colours are always bit off, one thing is that sky often burns white. With Nikon I get more pics that I had in mind.
Should try something else than auto mode sometime, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Post by **jtbo** » 23 Jul 2008 04:12 pm

I found new buttom from my Ixus 75 now

Comments, even negative are welcome

Post by **Chris_C** » 23 Jul 2008 05:08 pm

I love the bottom one, all the exposures match perfectly! Awesome shot mate.

Post by **jtbo** » 23 Jul 2008 05:32 pm

Chris_C wrote:I love the bottom one, all the exposures match perfectly! Awesome shot mate.

Thx, it worked out surprisingly well indeed, I did set manual white balance and used camera's panorama function, I believe that handles exposures also.

If any of you like to try making your own panoramas, this little program called AutoStich is really helpful, makes process perhaps bit too easy

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Naturally it is free to use.

Post by **SteveP** » 23 Jul 2008 11:12 pm

Like the panoramic shot too, the Photoshop CS3 batch stitch works surprisingly well too in my experience, although I could've probably exposed the shots better

Post by **redline** » 24 Jul 2008 09:21 am

I am nowhere near as good as you guys and only have a cannon digital camera but heres a few of my favourites

Post by **jtbo** » 24 Jul 2008 04:07 pm

redline wrote:

I love this one

Post by **Ronnie** » 24 Jul 2008 05:45 pm

My contributions...

View of Cabot Tower from my old flat in Clifton:

Fire over Easton:

Kite Flying in Pembrokshire

Sunset in Greece

View from Nissyros

You can even find paradise on Kos if you have a Jeep and you try hard enough:

Winter in Dalwhinnie

Steaming East up Loch Hourn

Leaving the house I grew up in:

Post by **Chris_C** » 24 Jul 2008 06:29 pm

Ronnie, Fire, Kite flying and sunset are grand, I really really like them.

Mick, your second kite one I also really like

Kite photos rock.

Now all you need to do is let both your nippers near some bigger kites

Pics from my cam, but not me obviously, couple of mates were playing when I went flying earlier in the year.

Post by **redline** » 24 Jul 2008 10:22 pm

I wouldent mind doing that , didnt know you had to wear a truss though

fun kites are ftw

we have a dragon one now as well , but I think i will be buying something better this year

Post by **Chris_C** » 25 Jul 2008 12:46 am

I was hugely into kites a few years ago, still play when I get the chance. Used to do mainly trick and 4 line stuff, now mainly landboarding and a bit of kitesurfing. Trick kiting is awesome, must make some time to get playing again!

Mick, try and get to a kite festival nearby if you can, they'll be loads of traders, and you'll get a hefty discount off shop price. Nearest one to you would have been Dunstable, but that was last weekend I believe

Post by **jtbo** » 26 Jul 2008 11:11 pm

Post by **d3k4y0** » 27 Jul 2008 11:03 am

Moving on to Panoramas I see?

Click for big versions

View from Montmartre

Banjo Pier (Looe)

Post by **jtbo** » 27 Jul 2008 05:40 pm

That last scenery is very nice, it looks like it would be just one photo as there is no distortions, upper one seem to get bit curved, but of course there is larger angle.

Very nice photos

Panoramas do add lot to many situations, but there are lot of things where one can't really take panorama, like close ups for example.

I post here new photo bit later today, currently having break from electric work, must still do few things today for it.