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GAF Photography Thread of 2016

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Koriandrr

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supernormal said:
There's a lot of great things coming together in this shot that are not jut Bokeh. So don't feel bad.
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Yeah absolutely, but reading that article made me really conscious about it, I think we've all been at this point, at least I know I have been at a point where I just wanna blur the shit out of everything because it looks so cool lol

Balance in everything is key :p
 
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JadedWriter

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snaffles said:
I think your post processing has improved a bunch on the last few sets of street shots you posted.
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The miracles of youtube lol. I learned what half those other sliders in LightRoom control. It might take an extra minute dialing down the vignetting, toning down the noise, boosting contrast, clarity, vibrance and what not, but it improves the picture so damn much.
 
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vern

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Enjoyed a week long GAF ban and spent it crashing mopeds into ditches and wandering around Western China. It was really great to get back to more familiar territory after a month in Nepal. Some random shots from Yunnan Province:

Lijiang, Yunnan, China by Eric, on Flickr

Lijiang, Yunnan, China by Eric, on Flickr

Dali, Yunnan, China by Eric, on Flickr

Dali, Yunnan, China by Eric, on Flickr

Lijiang, Yunnan, China by Eric, on Flickr

Lijiang, Yunnan, China by Eric, on Flickr

Still have a lot more photos to get through from Nepal and the past few days in China... it never ends :( But it's so fun :D
 
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supernormal

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Koriandrr said:
Yeah absolutely, but reading that article made me really conscious about it, I think we've all been at this point, at least I know I have been at a point where I just wanna blur the shit out of everything because it looks so cool lol

Balance in everything is key :p
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I quickly gave up on it once I started getting paid for photography and noticed how vastly inefficient shooting stuff really shallow was when you have to deliver and half your shots are out of focus. You really can't trust autofocus with that when you're shooting 1.8 or below.
 
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Koriandrr

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supernormal said:
I quickly gave up on it once I started getting paid for photography and noticed how vastly inefficient shooting stuff really shallow was when you have to deliver and half your shots are out of focus. You really can't trust autofocus with that when you're shooting 1.8 or below.
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This is kind of why I love my Olympus. If autofocus is failing me, just tap the viewscreen where you want it focused. Could be the edge of the shot, it'll focus there. It's fantastic. :D
 
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supernormal

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Koriandrr said:
This is kind of why I love my Olympus. If autofocus is failing me, just tap the viewscreen where you want it focused. Could be the edge of the shot, it'll focus there. It's fantastic. :D
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The type of focus inconsistencies I'm talking about don't have to do with the camera. It's a problem with working with shallow focus in general. Like the example in your article, the difference between focusing on an eye and an eyelash at 1.4 is pretty noticeable when viewing full size. The thing is when you're done shooting a client and you pick out photos looking at the back of your camera everything looks great, but when you go to work on them at full size you notice a lot of them will be slightly off, simply because you focused on an eyelash or they moved 1cm in between the time when you half-pressed the shutter to focus and fully pressed it to take the pic.

So for jobs you work with much safer apertures just to not deal with that. There's a reason Hollywood films rarely go below 4F for performances. You wouldn't want to risk the moment all the tough things that had to happen in front of the camera, to get the scene, actually come together because of a "blurrier" background.
 
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JadedWriter

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vern said:
Hahaha...You get a lot of MK "cosplay" out here :p
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Make sure you have your camera when Shao Khan shows up.
supernormal said:
The type of focus inconsistencies I'm talking about don't have to do with the camera. It's a problem with working with shallow focus in general. Like the example in your article, the difference between focusing on an eye and an eyelash at 1.4 is pretty noticeable when viewing full size. The thing is when you're done shooting a client and you pick out photos looking at the back of your camera everything looks great, but when you go to work on them at full size you notice a lot of them will be slightly off, simply because you focused on an eyelash or they moved 1cm in between the time when you half-pressed the shutter to focus and fully pressed it to take the pic.

So for jobs you work with much safer apertures just to not deal with that. There's a reason Hollywood films rarely go below 4F for performances. You wouldn't want to risk the moment all the tough things that had to happen in front of the camera, to get the scene, actually come together because of a "blurrier" background.
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Yeah working with aperture lower than F4 can be a hassle. I've had several good missed shots because I'm at 2.8 or lower depending on lens. And yeah the back of the camera will definitely lie to you. It can get really god damn annoying.
 
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vern

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Has anyone tried pixsy.com ? It's a reverse image search that you can link your flickr, instagram, personal website, etc. to for free, then see where your images are being used across the web. They also will file takedown requests and that sort of thing and split any commissions with you when you get settlements.

A photography group I'm part of here in China recommended it and apparently they've got some pretty good results and decent payouts. I signed up the other day and just got my invite tonight. I found lots of uses of my images in all kinds of weird places, from message boards to weird instagram hashtag aggregators to personal blogs and so on. I filed two takedown requests, one was a major travel site in china using one of my images and another was some company on LinkedIn. If I get any kind of response at all or money out of it I'll update the thread, but just wanted to share that link as it might potentially be a pretty useful tool for people in here.

Also @dhlt I really like that last one you posted, I like the triangle formed with the sky/clouds and the line from the beach.

@mook dope as usual, first and third ones especially.
 
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JadedWriter

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vern said:
Has anyone tried pixsy.com ? It's a reverse image search that you can link your flickr, instagram, personal website, etc. to for free, then see where your images are being used across the web. They also will file takedown requests and that sort of thing and split any commissions with you when you get settlements.

A photography group I'm part of here in China recommended it and apparently they've got some pretty good results and decent payouts. I signed up the other day and just got my invite tonight. I found lots of uses of my images in all kinds of weird places, from message boards to weird instagram hashtag aggregators to personal blogs and so on. I filed two takedown requests, one was a major travel site in china using one of my images and another was some company on LinkedIn. If I get any kind of response at all or money out of it I'll update the thread, but just wanted to share that link as it might potentially be a pretty useful tool for people in here.

Also @dhlt I really like that last one you posted, I like the triangle formed with the sky/clouds and the line from the beach.

@mook dope as usual, first and third ones especially.
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Wait that can really happen? I always just assumed my stuff wasn't worth stealing so didn't really care about that sort of thing.
 
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vern

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JadedWriter said:
Wait that can really happen? I always just assumed my stuff wasn't worth stealing so didn't really care about that sort of thing.
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Yeah people steal stuff all the time, not any different with photographs. I don't think in most cases it really would be worth it to pursue money or a takedown request, but if a company is using it (like in my case above, qunar.com is a huge company, basically a Chinese version of expedia, and they are using my image) then it is probably worth chasing them down and trying to get some money out of them.
 
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JadedWriter

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vern said:
Yeah people steal stuff all the time, not any different with photographs. I don't think in most cases it really would be worth it to pursue money or a takedown request, but if a company is using it (like in my case above, qunar.com is a huge company, basically a Chinese version of expedia, and they are using my image) then it is probably worth chasing them down and trying to get some money out of them.
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So I should sign up to this just in case then? Yeah if they're using your stuff without your permission then yeah take action. That's why I at least copy write tag my stuff now.
 
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jongkookie

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The folks at TheDarkroom.com scanned my roll of film today. They're low quality because this is from the shoot where I dropped my Nikon N8008 and subsequently broke my Tokina AT-X lens, and since I didn't know whether the camera was broken or not, I decided to go for LQ scans just in case the camera was broken. But as you can see, it's not broken at all so I'm really regretting getting LQ scans right now because the rest of the set is really good.

But anyway, here's 4 from the roll... I'd upload the rest but they're company stuff so I'll upload them whenever I can.




 
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Lys Skygge

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Photo series I shot on film. Top photo is taken on Ilford FP4 4x5 film. The others are shot on Ilford HP5 35mm film.

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Flickr . Blog

The first photo is slightly out of focus...having the camera so low to the ground, and the lighting being so dim along with dry ice fogging up the lens made focusing a bitch.
 
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VisceralBowl

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Koriandrr said:
Yeah absolutely, but reading that article made me really conscious about it, I think we've all been at this point, at least I know I have been at a point where I just wanna blur the shit out of everything because it looks so cool lol

Balance in everything is key :p
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I've definitely been there. I used to use the lowest aperture possible no matter what. Then I stuck to f8-16 almost exclusively. Only recently have I started to use a mix of everything.

I really like deep focus but I haven't dedicated much time to work on stuff like that recently.
JadedWriter said:
The miracles of youtube lol. I learned what half those other sliders in LightRoom control. It might take an extra minute dialing down the vignetting, toning down the noise, boosting contrast, clarity, vibrance and what not, but it improves the picture so damn much.
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Lightroom is super powerful and can change looks dramatically.
jongkookie said:
The folks at TheDarkroom.com scanned my roll of film today. They're low quality because this is from the shoot where I dropped my Nikon N8008 and subsequently broke my Tokina AT-X lens, and since I didn't know whether the camera was broken or not, I decided to go for LQ scans just in case the camera was broken. But as you can see, it's not broken at all so I'm really regretting getting LQ scans right now because the rest of the set is really good.

But anyway, here's 4 from the roll... I'd upload the rest but they're company stuff so I'll upload them whenever I can.




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I like these.
SaitoH said:
Few pics from this weekend:

DSC_4316 by Jkreutz, on Flickr
DSC_3767-Edit by Jkreutz, on Flickr
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I love the colors on these.
Lys Skygge said:
Photo series I shot on film. Top photo is taken on Ilford FP4 4x5 film. The others are shot on Ilford HP5 35mm film.
The first photo is slightly out of focus...having the camera so low to the ground, and the lighting being so dim along with dry ice fogging up the lens made focusing a bitch.
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These look really cool!
 
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Anarion07

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Hey guys, I just launched an iOS app (location-based photo-sharing with competetive elements) .. so I think this is the right thread to ask...
I'm not allowed to do any self-marketing of course, but if anyone is interested in trying it or making an OT about it (a mod told me other people are allowed to make an OT), send me a message :)
 
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JadedWriter

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VisceralBowl said:
I've definitely been there. I used to use the lowest aperture possible no matter what. Then I stuck to f8-16 almost exclusively. Only recently have I started to use a mix of everything.

I really like deep focus but I haven't dedicated much time to work on stuff like that recently.

Lightroom is super powerful and can change looks dramatically.
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I used to always shoot wide open all the time as well, but I stopped doing that a few months ago myself. I very rarely have the light available for F8 though, wow.
 
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brerwolfe

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JadedWriter said:
You get some of the best landscape shots. Out of camera or post processed?
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Processed. And the second image has some Lightroom Split Toning added to it.

I shoot my aerial stuff with a flat picture profile to make color correction a little easier in video post production, and I just leave it that way for the photos.
 
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JadedWriter

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brerwolfe said:
Processed. And the second image has some Lightroom Split Toning added to it.

I shoot my aerial stuff with a flat picture profile to make color correction a little easier in video post production, and I just leave it that way for the photos.
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Damn, post processing really is half the battle then.
 
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StopMakingSense

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Lys Skygge said:
Photo series I shot on film. Top photo is taken on Ilford FP4 4x5 film. The others are shot on Ilford HP5 35mm film.

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Flickr . Blog

The first photo is slightly out of focus...having the camera so low to the ground, and the lighting being so dim along with dry ice fogging up the lens made focusing a bitch.
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Your Flickr is really wonderful.
 
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StopMakingSense

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JadedWriter said:
Here I was thinking that it was just me and cause of camera related issues that I had to post process stuff to really make the colors pop. Looks like it's everybody that does this.
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Think about it like this, what you are seeing with an image just out of the camera is just a default interpretation of the image you shot. It's an abstraction of the data you recorded, a default abstraction you had no hand in selecting. So, experiment to your hearts content with PP and don't feel bad about it at all. If you shoot JPG, its whatever the camera is set to bake into the image. If you shoot RAW, it's whatever the RAW processor you uses for the default profile.

This isn't even getting into the amount of photoshopping and compositing happening in the photos you see in the top of 500px/etc. That's where it goes off the deep end.
 
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captive

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JadedWriter said:
Here I was thinking that it was just me and cause of camera related issues that I had to post process stuff to really make the colors pop. Looks like it's everybody that does this.
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If you shoot raw, then yes your photos are going to cone through lifeless and flat. Post process much to some peoples chagrin is absolutely necessary. Looking at you "did you Photoshop this" people, your damn right I did.
 
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JadedWriter

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StopMakingSense said:
Think about it like this, what you are seeing with an image just out of the camera is just a default interpretation of the image you shot. It's an abstraction of the data you recorded, a default abstraction you had no hand in selecting. So, experiment to your hearts content with PP and don't feel bad about it at all. If you shoot JPG, its whatever the camera is set to bake into the image. If you shoot RAW, it's whatever the RAW processor you uses for the default profile.

This isn't even getting into the amount of photoshopping and compositing happening in the photos you see in the top of 500px/etc. That's where it goes off the deep end.
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I'm actually on 500px and I'm like "how much shit did you do to that picture?" Considering I was recently in that thread with that photographer that went off the rails and insulted people digitally inserted his own sunsets there's no telling what was and wasn't originally in that picture. Where is the "insert god rays" tab in photoshop or lightroom any way?
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If you shoot raw, then yes your photos are going to cone through lifeless and flat. Post process much to some peoples chagrin is absolutely necessary. Looking at you "did you Photoshop this" people, your damn right I did.
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I will admit that I do have fun in post tweaking and watching an image take shape.
 
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jongkookie

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Just don't composite like this guy did on the r/Dallas subreddit:

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If you enlarge the image and look to the bottom left, you can see the highway "merge" with the water.

Btw, that same highway that merges with the water is about a mile away from where I shot those pics I just posted... so going by this doofus' composite, those shots I took are supposed to be underwater lolol.
 
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brerwolfe

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My process is generally the same every time.

-Bring down Highlights
-Raise Shadows
-Hold "Alt" key and raise Whites until you see specs of color
-Hold "Alt" key and lower blacks until you see general shape
-Bump Clarity to +15 or +20
-Adjust Curves
-Adjust Color Luminance
-Adjust Noise Reduction
-Done

And in the case of this specific photo I played with the Split Toning panel a bit. It might sound like a lot, but I just work my way down the right panel in Lightroom and I'm done. If I spend 5 minutes on a photo then, personally, I'm taking too long.
 
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JadedWriter

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brerwolfe said:
My process is generally the same every time.

-Bring down Highlights
-Raise Shadows
-Hold "Alt" key and raise Whites until you see specs of color
-Hold "Alt" key and lower blacks until you see general shape
-Bump Clarity to +15 or +20
-Adjust Curves
-Adjust Color Luminance
-Adjust Noise Reduction
-Done

And in the case of this specific photo I played with the Split Toning panel a bit. It might sound like a lot, but I just work my way down the right panel in Lightroom and I'm done. If I spend 5 minutes on a photo then, personally, I'm taking too long.
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At some point I'm going to fuck around with curve adjusting.
 
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