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GAF Photography Q3 2015

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Number45

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sarcastor said:
took some photos of my friend at the beach during sunset

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Love this first one.
 
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dhlt25

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I've just bought a u4/3 camera recently because the DSLRs are too bulky to carry around and have been having a lot of fun with it. I treat it like a pns and just rely on the jpeg engine instead of shooting raw. Also got the body cap lens which is now my favorite, it's so light and compact and shooting with it bring back memories of lomography but with actual usable image quality. The first four were shot with the body cap lens and the last two the kit lens that came with my u4/3 camera.

_9060089 by thai tran, on Flickr

_9060049 by thai tran, on Flickr

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captive

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Hey Lucky, congrats on the new camera, glad to see you still around and posting.
 
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dr3upmushroom

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Damaged said:
the haze is possibly from the scanning stage I think. if you are using the Epson software dont use the auto crop / thumbnail feature as I find it can mess up easily.

Do your preview scan, do a rough highlight of the frames you want to scan then use the zoom button on each individual shot to crop it right. Make sure you dont get any frame edges in the crop as this seems to mess up the auto exposure software and can give you those hazy shots. Hope that helps, if not let me know and I'll go into my scan settings and see if there is anything there I have changed from default.
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Thanks, I'll keep on eye on that. Also the ANR glass I got started giving me Newton rings!... ha.















 
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Surfheart

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For some time I've been falling out of love with gaming. The seemingly endless rehashes, sequels and remasters just ground me down I guess.
My lovely wife bought me my first camera(that wasn't an iPhone) back in April and since then I've been kinda obsessed with photography.

Instead of game reviews I'm looking at camera gear reviews. Instead of the bombcast I'm listening to Street focus and the Candid Frame. Instead of GAF I'm surfing photography forums.


Feels weird.

Flickr links seemed to butcher the quality of my images under anything approaching an offensive size for the forum so I've quoted them. Anyone have any advice on that?

















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brentech

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Been a couple years since I posted in this thread. Going to start uploading to Flickr again, but was curious if you guys scale your originals before doing so or just go with the full res.
 
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Surfheart

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brentech said:
Been a couple years since I posted in this thread. Going to start uploading to Flickr again, but was curious if you guys scale your originals before doing so or just go with the full res.
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I think mine go up full res. I send them via the photos app on OS X.
 
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brentech

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Surfheart said:
For some time I've been falling out of love with gaming. The seemingly endless rehashes, sequels and remasters just ground me down I guess.
My lovely wife bought me my first camera(that wasn't an iPhone) back in April and since then I've been kinda obsessed with photography.

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This picture reminds me of the cover of that movie Big Fish

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Lender

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Recently bought the Indra500 strobe so I could get into (outdoor) portraiture a bit. Since I know practically nothing about external lighting, I did wanna practice a bit on some people. Asked around, and the daughter of one of my colleagues wanted to volunteer, together with some of her friends. So tonight we met, and went into a small park and had some fun. It was a very educational experience, not just working with a strobe, but also working with models (although these girls were anything but models, they still had fun.), something I've also never done before. Quite happy with some of the results. Learning a lot and still have a lot to learn, but for a first time I'm quite pleased.


3A0A4094edit by Bram Van Der Stichelen, on Flickr


3A0A4076edit by Bram Van Der Stichelen, on Flickr


3A0A4030-3 by Bram Van Der Stichelen, on Flickr


3A0A4053 by Bram Van Der Stichelen, on Flickr

(Ive also had this as an alternative for the last one which I also like. Couldn't really decide which one to post.

Special shout out to my Zeiss 135mm. The lens just blows my other 2 lenses I used out of the water. So so good.
 
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Astral/H3X

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Rubmifer, I'm not exactly a portrait photographer, but one thing that it feels like to me is you used a little too much strobe, and a tad too little natural light. Their faces look a bit over exposed and a bit like harsh lighting. That second shot looks great though. Maybe try lowering the power on the strobe or pull it further back?
 
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Lender

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H3XAntiStyle said:
Rubmifer, I'm not exactly a portrait photographer, but one thing that it feels like to me is you used a little too much strobe, and a tad too little natural light. Their faces look a bit over exposed and a bit like harsh lighting. That second shot looks great though. Maybe try lowering the power on the strobe or pull it further back?
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Could be, like I said, still getting the hang of it. :) This was my very first outing with a strobe, so perfection was not expected. Some of them were very overexposed, some were underexposed. I'm still learning to calculate the situation as best as possible and to adjust the strobe in an according fashion. It's all about experience. (and the feedback and tips I get).
 
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brentech

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Like I said, I haven't even been in this thread for a couple years now, will mix a couple old shots with ones taken in the last weeks.
Had a Canon 50D from 2009-2014 and actually downgraded to a Canon SX50HS. I'm sure I'll miss it, but I don't miss carrying around 3 lenses.

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I've been spending a lot of time at the parks recently trying to do some birding. Will help when more leaves start to fall and I can actually get pictures in the trees. I've found birds to be really hard to get quality pictures of because they are super twitchy and you just need a lot of light.
There is a handful of other shots in my photostream as well - already feel like I over posted.
 
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Astral/H3X

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Rubmifer said:
Could be, like I said, still getting the hang of it. :) This was my very first outing with a strobe, so perfection was not expected. Some of them were very overexposed, some were underexposed. I'm still learning to calculate the situation as best as possible and to adjust the strobe in an according fashion. It's all about experience. (and the feedback and tips I get).
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Yeah, definitely not bad, but the key idea (AFAIK, again, not exactly a people person with my camera :D) is that the strobe needs to supplement, not replace.

At any rate, I decided to do the impossible and order some prints of some of my photos! Ordered from Bay photos, and am very happy with the results! Especially with the black and white photos, they are so beautiful. &_& Also, having photos on a 5x7 size helps mask a lot of missing sharpness in a few of my photos, so I'm happier with them on print than I am on screen. Here are the photos that I had sent in to get printed:

20150818-_DSC8114.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150818-_DSC7981.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150804-_DSC7310.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150713-_DSC6333.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150628-_DSC6169.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150628-_DSC6179.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150628-_DSC6115.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150628-_DSC6113.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150605-_DSC5440.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150321-DSC02414-Edit.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150214-DSC01250.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
20150115-DSC00452-Edit.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr

Also, most of these are, more or less, my best photos (or at least the ones that I felt would be best getting printed). I'd love any feed back on them.
 
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BronzeWolf

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brentech said:
Like I said, I haven't even been in this thread for a couple years now, will mix a couple old shots with ones taken in the last weeks.
Had a Canon 50D from 2009-2014 and actually downgraded to a Canon SX50HS. I'm sure I'll miss it, but I don't miss carrying around 3 lenses.
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That's Cancun :p
 
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BronzeWolf

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H3XAntiStyle said:
20150628-_DSC6115.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
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I don't know if you could fix the rotation a little bit on this one. It seems crooked to me.

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20150628-_DSC6113.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
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Here I think you could benefit from applying lens correction. It seems you have some Barrel distortion.

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20150321-DSC02414-Edit.jpg by Hunter Mauro, on Flickr
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I think you can do a much better masking job here :)

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Also, most of these are, more or less, my best photos (or at least the ones that I felt would be best getting printed). I'd love any feed back on them.
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Very nice shots! Congratulations ;)
 
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Astral/H3X

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If you're referring to the random splotches of non-color on the rose, there were actually weird grey spots on the flower itself. There are a few tiny tendrils of red that made it out, but this was actually my first time loading up a photo in photoshop, and they are hard enough to see that I'm not too bothered by them. Also, I don't have the original file any more at this point. :(

re: distortion, I really couldn't even tell until I clicked the profile corrections off and on a few times, but I still don't see how you could tell without doing it side by side like that. I still can't even tell.

re: crooked, It's weird, because you can't straighten it out, because then some things will be crooked, but others won't be. If you straighten the pole to their right, then the buildings are crooked. If you straighten the buildings, the people are still crooked. So I said fuggit.
 
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BronzeWolf

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H3XAntiStyle said:
If you're referring to the random splotches of non-color on the rose, there were actually weird grey spots on the flower itself. There are a few tiny tendrils of red that made it out, but this was actually my first time loading up a photo in photoshop, and they are hard enough to see that I'm not too bothered by them. Also, I don't have the original file any more at this point. :(
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Hey man don't worry. Masking can be an infuriating job

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re: distortion, I really couldn't even tell until I clicked the profile corrections off and on a few times, but I still don't see how you could tell without doing it side by side like that. I still can't even tell.
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You can tell by looking at lines that should be straight, like the corner in the building near the horizon and the pedestrian overpass. I guess after a while you can learn how to spot those small things. I always turn corrections on, it doesn't hurt and it's automatic once you calibrate your lens or you get the calibration files.


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re: crooked, It's weird, because you can't straighten it out, because then some things will be crooked, but others won't be. If you straighten the pole to their right, then the buildings are crooked. If you straighten the buildings, the people are still crooked. So I said fuggit.
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When in doubt, straighten the horizon ;)
You could also play a little bit with the keystone (vertical rotation of the picture plane), but for me, the horizon is the one that gives you the sense of orientation the most.
 
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Laieon

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mrklaw said:
These three shot with 'crappy' kit lenses are gorgeous. Really shows that basic kit can do great things when used well.

How do you process these? They have a very high contrast look to them that I've seen before but always find it difficult to apply to my own photos.
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I use Lightroom. Shooting in RAW obviously helps, so I'm going to assume you're already doing that. Here's the before and after of the Hong Kong skyline, and the settings I used (it was pretty smoggy when I was up there, I actually thought it was going to be a bust as far as shooting went. Pretty happy with what I was able to actually recover/see in post though).

http://i.imgur.com/OTXadoR.jpg

The actual save settings are pretty useful too. I know my photos are going to be viewed on a screen 99% of the time, so "sharpen for screen" is really helpful.
 
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Ryuelli said:
I use Lightroom. Shooting in RAW obviously helps, so I'm going to assume you're already doing that. Here's the before and after of the Hong Kong skyline, and the settings I used (it was pretty smoggy when I was up there, I actually thought it was going to be a bust as far as shooting went. Pretty happy with what I was able to actually recover/see in post though).

http://i.imgur.com/OTXadoR.jpg

The actual save settings are pretty useful too. I know my photos are going to be viewed on a screen 99% of the time, so "sharpen for screen" is really helpful.
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do you use bracketing at all, or just rely on the raw to adjust the levels?
 
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thespot84

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Jaunt to southewest colorado to see 800 year old some cliff dwellings

2015-09-07 20.49.04-54.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-297.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-312.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-333.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-386.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-405-HDR.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-503-HDR.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-525-HDR.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-552-HDR.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-565-HDR.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
2015-09-07 20.49.04-711-HDR-Pano.jpg by adamwolach, on Flickr
 
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dhlt25

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Rubmifer said:
Special shout out to my Zeiss 135mm. The lens just blows my other 2 lenses I used out of the water. So so good.
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damn so nice, I've been drooling over that lens for more than a year. It will be mine after my first pay check after grad school next month. Can't wait
 
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ChronotriggerJM

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Greetings Photography GAF, I had posted not too long ago about picking up a camera. Is the Sony A6000 still a good pick or is there some better cost to performance units out there that I should know about?

I really like Sony (for reasons I really don't understand), so it would be neat to get some more updated insight :p
 
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geomon

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ChronotriggerJM said:
Greetings Photography GAF, I had posted not too long ago about picking up a camera. Is the Sony A6000 still a good pick or is there some better cost to performance units out there that I should know about?

I really like Sony (for reasons I really don't understand), so it would be neat to get some more updated insight :p
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Considering they just dropped the price on the a6000, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal.
 
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Lender

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dhlt25 said:
damn so nice, I've been drooling over that lens for more than a year. It will be mine after my first pay check after grad school next month. Can't wait
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It's heaven. Bring your tripod along though for portraits. It's a Lethal combination for portraits. Put it on the tripod, pose the model, use LV magnification to focus and fire away. The sharpness, colors and bokeh still blow me away.
 
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jchap

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Was a pretty night last night but not a lot of interesting targets. I tried to get the veil nebula again with a bit longer exposure. Some of the stars are a bit blown out. I probably should have mixed in some shorter exposures to expand the dynamic range. I also got some new andromeda and deer lick galaxy cluster shots but I'll process them later.

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am_dragon

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Alliance Air Show in Fort Worth Texas, this is about 2 miles from my house. Sorry for the big post, I've been sick all summer and this is the first good photo outing I've had in a while. I took pictures at practice the last 2 days and attended the air show today.

Blue Angels




David Martin


Gotta love that Raptor, it was amazing to watch.



F-22 and P-51



MiG-17


Breitling Jet Team


And a jet truck
 
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theepicoftyler

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jchap said:
Was a pretty night last night but not a lot of interesting targets. I tried to get the veil nebula again with a bit longer exposure. Some of the stars are a bit blown out. I probably should have mixed in some shorter exposures to expand the dynamic range. I also got some new andromeda and deer lick galaxy cluster shots but I'll process them later.

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Great image. Would love to hear what your setup is. I love to hear about the gear and technique involved in astrophotography.
 
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Lucky Forward

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am-dragon, nice airshow photos! I'll be heading to an airshow next Saturday at Andrews AFB near DC where the Thunderbirds will be performing.
 
jchap

jchap

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theepicoftyler said:
Great image. Would love to hear what your setup is. I love to hear about the gear and technique involved in astrophotography.
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Nice star trails!

Telescope: Edge 1100 HD, 2800 fl, SCT f/10
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Camera: Canon 6D with cut filters removed
Guide camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
Guide scope: off axis guider or ED80T
Reducer: Hyperstar f/1.8 (these shots used this)
I also use a homemade flat box.

Here is the Andromeda shot from yesterday. I think it turned out well. Its 20 4 min exposures and 20 30 s exposures. 8 flats, about 10 darks per exposure time, and a few bias samples. The only post processing was a conservative level stretch, some high pass filtering on the dust trails and a slight saturation boost.



Still need to process the deerlick shots
 
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