Day 30: October 2010 PAD

[rick55]

Living near Peter as we do - it has indeed rained non stop all day, so I tried my hand at another indoor project.....

Very nice, Kay. I really like what you've been doing with shadows and deep background. I hope it won't sound unbearably pretentious to mention chiarascuro. You're really doing dramatic effects, and it brings art to mind, in a good way.

Cheers,
Rick

[rick55]

Canon 50D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM @ 200mm, f/4, 1/45s, ISO 200, on a monopod. Full EXIF, PAD slideshow.

I was out to shoot birds at the feeder, and a couple of chipmunks were running around, so I was able to get this shot. I've always liked chipmunks since we used to go for summers up to northern Minnesota, and would see them around my grandparents' cabin.

C&C are always welcome.

Cheers,
Rick

[Oldphotobuff]

Officially, Haweolleen is tomorrow, but beggars night (or trick or treat) is held tonight - never on Sunday! I made a shot of what is probably the most elaborate Hawolleen display in town. It was built by a family as a project. Father, wife, teenage son. and pre-teen daughter worked on the building and all participated in the display. It was a bit difficult to catch a time when there were not overly many viewers crowding about. I shot with my E-520 and 14-54mm Zuiko using a triplet of AE shots from -1 to +1 and at a variety of ISO. The ISO 400 looked the most realistic and my only editing was a little sharpening in Photoshop. It is very red since they used red lights for almost everything. I hope you enjoy seeing this.


I just call it "Pirate Ship".

OldPhotoBuff

[wilgk]

I hope it won't sound unbearably pretentious to mention chiarascuro.

Cheers,
Rick

Not at all Rick - thankyou for the encouragement & excuse me for showing my ignorance of the term/technique - but after I've had a wee search via mr google I understand a bit more what you mean.

[wilgk]

Nah! That sound like a lot of work to set up - far too exhausten!

I don't know I think I'd be abbey to have a try

[Dave Humphries]

Officially, Haweolleen is tomorrow, but beggars night (or trick or treat) is held tonight - never on Sunday! I made a shot of what is probably the most elaborate Hawolleen display in town. It was built by a family as a project. Father, wife, teenage son. and pre-teen daughter worked on the building and all participated in the display. It was a bit difficult to catch a time when there were not overly many viewers crowding about. I shot with my E-520 and 14-54mm Zuiko using a triplet of AE shots from -1 to +1 and at a variety of ISO. The ISO 400 looked the most realistic and my only editing was a little sharpening in Photoshop. It is very red since they used red lights for almost everything. I hope you enjoy seeing this.


I just call it "Pirate Ship".

OldPhotoBuff

Hi Stan,

An interesting shot (and I wish I'd been that good/successful a parent).

It still looks a bit soft in places, possibly because of the red light and that got me thinking - oh dear.

I wondered if a copy and monochromed version on a new top layer, with more contrast and sharpening applied could be then re-coloured with a red tint (sepia gone mad?), then erase little holes for any distinctive other colours like the orange bollards. The aim being to end up with something that looks like this, but is sharper still.

In the process, I think I'd try to lose the light from the open garage though.

Or it could just be the sharpening was applied with a high-ish threshold, so a more conventional process, as you have done, but with an early noise reduction pass (e.g. Neat Image) to allow lower threshold on sharpening would do the trick.

A good picture though, glad you persevered with the shooting.

Cheers,

[melikarish]

Nice shot Mel. I think it could be a bit stronger if you cropped of the top at the tree top level.

Thanks Peter, did you mean like this?

[Katy Noelle]

I started working on pears and all of a sudden Raylee and Rob did pears and it kind of stole the wind from my idea. Getting punchy with a busy weekend, however.....

(The strip light above our chopping block is situated too far back for this shot. Oh, well! Back to the window!)

[carregwen]

get a friend for it and they can have a conference together. I like this shot. The radiating lines give centrality and emphasis to the pear.

[Peter Ryan]

Thanks Peter, did you mean like this?

Sorry Mel I have been distracted for a day or so and have not been back to this thread. Yes. The tree line now acts as a visual backstop and keeps your eye focused on the tecture and rows of hops.

Does this work for you?