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 10/13/2005 10:36:38 PM · #1
Mine are always blown out - stupid overcast sky!!
 10/13/2005 10:37:16 PM · #2
see! grr!!
10/13/2005 10:40:31 PM · #3
shot with a polarizer CPL



Is this enough sky? :D

This seems to be my only blown one :(


Message edited by author 2005-10-13 22:44:49.
 10/13/2005 10:44:39 PM · #4

Them's perty! I got ONE (it's always cloudy here).
 10/13/2005 10:46:31 PM · #5
even the one you consider blown isn't! i'm so jealous!
 10/13/2005 10:46:33 PM · #6


Circular polarizer.
 10/13/2005 10:49:53 PM · #7
that one's neat too
:)
 10/13/2005 10:52:13 PM · #8
and the mother of 'em all...

10/13/2005 10:52:50 PM · #9

circular polarizer, curves, contrast
 10/13/2005 10:53:13 PM · #10
MAN - i need to move - where you from? I could use a few blue-sky days!!
 10/13/2005 10:54:07 PM · #11
florida has the best skys ever

florida!!!@#!@#$!@#$!#
 10/13/2005 10:55:34 PM · #12
All the skies I posted except for the last one (Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth) are straight from the camera. No adjustments. Slight USM but that's about it.

To get the best skies using a polarizer, you have to be at the right angle to the sun :)
 10/13/2005 10:56:18 PM · #13
Originally posted by Noggin:
MAN - i need to move - where you from? I could use a few blue-sky days!!


California... the Bay Area where we get no clouds :( well hardly :)
 10/13/2005 10:57:05 PM · #14
<--guess I just need some blue-sky days. I live I live in The Cloudy Belt!
 10/13/2005 11:01:20 PM · #15
Would a polarizer help any in my last one?
 10/13/2005 11:02:37 PM · #16
nope
 10/13/2005 11:03:32 PM · #17
No filter used on any of these sky shots. I mostly expose on the sky because I find it easier to bring out the darks than fix the blown out highlights.






Message edited by author 2005-10-13 23:09:58.
 10/13/2005 11:05:40 PM · #18
Originally posted by Noggin:
Would a polarizer help any in my last one?


A circular polarizer only helps if the sky is blue and even better if it has clouds.

A graduated nd filter may add a little color depending on which one you put onto the camera.
 10/13/2005 11:11:07 PM · #19
great sky scott!
 10/13/2005 11:13:57 PM · #20
My DPC Clouds and Skies gallery

More clouds at DPC

Clouds and Sunsets gallery at pBase.

I think my most successful shots are made with exposure compensation set at -1/3 or -2/3, and then I meter off the brightest part of the clouds, sky or sun.

But if the foreground is dark, only a graduated ND filter (or multiple image post-processing) will allow buth a dark FG and a bright sky to have "proper" exposure -- no film or sensor has enough dynamic range to capture it all.

Message edited by author 2005-10-13 23:16:54.
 10/13/2005 11:15:51 PM · #21

some dodging and burning,and hue and saturation
 10/13/2005 11:24:48 PM · #22

One of my favorites. No filter, just small apeture & longer exposure.

Message edited by author 2005-10-13 23:27:27.
 10/13/2005 11:27:24 PM · #23
Originally posted by pekesty:

One of my favorites.


heres a clickable one:
10/13/2005 11:30:37 PM · #24
I used a circular polarizer on all of these. Some I may have added a gradient overlay as well.
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Message edited by author 2005-10-13 23:32:45.
 10/13/2005 11:33:18 PM · #25
Can't post this one directly, it's too darn big, and it just does not translate to small size well at all.
This was taken on 09/30/2005 with the Canon 5D and canon 24/1.4L at f/2.8. it is nearly the full frame, but is cropped slightly to get rid of some coma on the far corners. It is a 360-second exposure, using a tracking mount, in this case an EQ-5 equatorial mount.

CAUTION, this image is over 1MB

//kirbic.smugmug.com/photos/39922927-O.jpg

Message edited by author 2005-10-13 23:33:37.
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