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08/14/2004 03:02:33 PM · #26 |
| He was a brave man. I just read your "how'd they do it". Pretty simple but had a lot of thought put into it. Looking at the original, what do you use to sharpen with? Sorry about this, but the original looks very blurry at the size it is in in the tutorial and the submitted picture looks really sharp without the usual large halo around it. Good post procesing. |
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08/14/2004 03:05:10 PM · #27 |
| All of these as I don't have the varied setting to play with. |
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08/14/2004 03:22:58 PM · #28 |
Coup de Grace  was based on the technique outlined in this How-To article, but without the advantage of having a long exposure (my camera maxes out at 1/2 second) to work with. I set the timer on the camera, and then tried to pull the stick just as the shutter went off.
Nuclear Nightmare  involved similar timing issues, only with liquids.
Center of Attention  was hard to get the lighting/positioning right, as I had to aim the camera and set the timer, then move around into position before the shutter tripped. |
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08/14/2004 03:42:28 PM · #29 |
Just used unsharp mask in photoshop :)
Originally posted by pcody:
He was a brave man. I just read your "how'd they do it". Pretty simple but had a lot of thought put into it. Looking at the original, what do you use to sharpen with? Sorry about this, but the original looks very blurry at the size it is in in the tutorial and the submitted picture looks really sharp without the usual large halo around it. Good post procesing. |
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08/14/2004 04:25:39 PM · #30 |
This was just so deceptively difficult! Once I had the idea (for the Flight challenge) I felt I just had to get this right. I wanted to get the seeds in focus and with some feeling of motion. I didn't achieve it for the challenge as I ran out of time and had poor weather, so I shot some afterwards (around 80 shots!) until I finally got what I was after.
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08/14/2004 04:27:38 PM · #31 |
I think this was the most difficult shot I have done so far.
It was hard getting the lighting just right, the black/white background positioned just right and then spraying/misting the berries with water to catch the full drop of water.
On top of all that I had the 105mm macro lens right up tight to the berries :)
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08/14/2004 04:36:24 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by RHoldenSr:
I think this was the most difficult shot I have done so far.
It was hard getting the lighting just right, the black/white background positioned just right and then spraying/misting the berries with water to catch the full drop of water.
On top of all that I had the 105mm macro lens right up tight to the berries :) |
did you change your username?
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08/14/2004 04:42:26 PM · #33 |
Yes the old name was something I think only I knew what it stood for (Altolamprologus Calvus" which is an African Cichlid (Aquarium Fish) I like really well.
Originally posted by hsteg:
did you change your username? |
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08/14/2004 05:18:42 PM · #34 |
I'd have to say this was my most difficult shot. Getting the capture just as the milk hit the surface with the right splatter took many attempts and alot of clean ups! |
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08/14/2004 05:25:15 PM · #35 |
I also had a very difficult time with this one trying to eliminate glare and getting the symetry as close as possible. |
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08/14/2004 05:43:58 PM · #36 |
By far, this was my hardest. Wild Quail lined up in protective mode. To set up my spotting scope, lining up my Coolpix eye piece to lens, zooming enough to get no lens roundness, and getting every thing in focus, coloration, movement, etc. done before the birds move. All in about 30 seconds...And only one take, since they moved just after my first shot... Mostly luck.
Message edited by author 2004-08-14 17:45:14. |
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08/14/2004 06:32:08 PM · #37 |
Vineyard Viper is probalby my most difficult shot to date. It was so difficult with the tools I had at my disposal that I never did get the result I really wanted with it.
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08/14/2004 06:35:57 PM · #38 |
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08/14/2004 07:01:42 PM · #39 |
This is my most technically difficult shot. The superimposed image is lighted separately from the coffepot and the two images combined through a cube beamsplitter.
The tricky part is to get both images aligned, focused, and correctly exposed.
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08/14/2004 07:49:30 PM · #40 |
What's a cube beamsplitter? Sounds interesting and scientific and like something I'd never want to use.
John that is an awesome shot. Did you take it with a different camera? Have you tried it with your 10D? Or were you talking about the lights and lens? The color is really rich. |
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08/14/2004 10:57:47 PM · #41 |
I think this one was my most difficault
It was hard to get the timing of the halogen lamp right and the zoom at the right time just as the lamp got turned off and try to get her face not too blurred cause of the zoom, but it was fun :)
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08/14/2004 11:57:34 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by pcody:
What's a cube beamsplitter? Sounds interesting and scientific and like something I'd never want to use.
John that is an awesome shot. Did you take it with a different camera? Have you tried it with your 10D? Or were you talking about the lights and lens? The color is really rich. |
I took it with my Sony 707. The camera isn't where I was lacking. It was the lighting setup that kept me from getting what I wanted.
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08/15/2004 09:41:36 AM · #43 |
| I was just called silly in another thread, so I might as well continue. If you had wanted to light the rim, you might try a small light right in front angled up 60 degrees with a flag blocking off any stray light from hitting below the rim and messing with your other lights. Maybe snoot the light with foil to make a small spotlight. You're really good so you might have tried this already. |
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08/15/2004 10:34:25 AM · #44 |
This one, without a doubt.
I was driving around and saw the waterfall and remebered the water challenge. I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt so I still can't understand what it was that got me out of the car. For this shot the tripod was to high so I had to lay down in the snow to get it. After half an hour by that waterfall I ended up with some great shots and not so great cold and was sick for few days. |
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08/15/2004 01:11:47 PM · #45 |
My most difficult right now is a simple sunset. :(
The 3765 doesn't have much in the way of manual settings so I'm experimenting with some of the techniques that I've read about on this site. I've gone from a totally washed out skyline to actually having some color! :)
I'm making progress but I still have a ways to go yet.
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08/15/2004 01:23:16 PM · #46 |
I have a lot of war stories about waiting hours for just the right light and falling down several times on the ice and road and losing my cell phone in a raging creek, but one of my most difficult was this shot because I wanted to get the flow of the water without over exposing the sunlit flowers. I ended up using a ND filter in addition a graduated gray filter and as luck would have it, it turned out. |
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08/15/2004 01:31:08 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by pcody:
I was just called silly in another thread, so I might as well continue. If you had wanted to light the rim, you might try a small light right in front angled up 60 degrees with a flag blocking off any stray light from hitting below the rim and messing with your other lights. Maybe snoot the light with foil to make a small spotlight. You're really good so you might have tried this already. |
I think what I needed was a light source directly above the glass. Any light in front of the glass produces reflections that I did not want.
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08/15/2004 01:37:35 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by ggbudge:
My most difficult right now is a simple sunset. :(
The 3765 doesn't have much in the way of manual settings so I'm experimenting with some of the techniques that I've read about on this site. I've gone from a totally washed out skyline to actually having some color! :)
I'm making progress but I still have a ways to go yet. |
There's hope! -- this was shot with a point-and-shoot on auto settings (f 2.8, ISO 100, 1/400 sec):
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08/15/2004 01:41:18 PM · #49 |
This was hard to set up - to get the incense smoke to come out of all the holes, to get the light to highlight the smoke but not the background - I used tin foil to focus the light. And I could have done a lot better because the light on the flute really washed out the detail on the bottom of the flute.
This image was for a challenge back when there was only basic editing allowed. - might have been easier with advanced editing... but I wouldn't have learned as much.
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08/15/2004 02:15:14 PM · #50 |
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