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Big thanks to everyone who helped me with exposure. Think i got this dialed in well, atleast I have on my monitor and the Dells at uni...
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This one was on purpose as to me it looks like a dove coming down from heaven lol...
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Variation
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Gone for kodachrome look...
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Arty...
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A thrush, sadly some chromatic abberation
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Hide and seek...
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Critique welcome. Lens is only a 70-300mm 4-5.6G but does the job. Need to upgrade to a 2.8G next i think!
 
Next lesson... Focus ans composition!

Glad you're feeling better about it, hold off the upgrades and get used to what you have.

All these photos could do with some processing.
 
Some of them have been post processed very slightly, but I didnt want to mess them up untill monitors are calibrated!
 
Lol, i shot all of them out of the car window using passenger seat as a tripod, way too cold to be outside!
 
A few are cropped, dont know the %. None have been enlarged, just cropped, and some are straight off the camera.

I dont know if anyone has noticed but in lightroom3, when you import images and click on them, they look really good then go all dull as if lr3 makes them dull for some reason ? So all of them have had to be tweaked afterwards to bring out the saturation again.

I noticed the noise but dont know whats causing it ? Most people can get sharp 100% crops, not me. Is it a lens issue ?
 
twoblacklines said:
I dont know if anyone has noticed but in lightroom3, when you import images and click on them, they look really good then go all dull as if lr3 makes them dull for some reason ? So all of them have had to be tweaked afterwards to bring out the saturation again.
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Are you shooting RAW? If so, then you are seeing the jpg preview loaded into LR first, then once the RAW loads it shows you what the image looks like without the in camera settings (As RAW disregards in camera picture settings). Easiest way to get around this is to shoot a scene with lots of different colours and tones in both jpg and raw, then put the 2 images side by side in LR, and adjust the RAW until it looks like the jpg. Save these changes as a preset, then set the preset to apply on import. Job done.
 
Are you saying you are applying 100% crops to all of these buddy?
If so that will explain the noise / grain.

Cropping that close is akin to using digital zoom on cheap compacts and will serve no purpose what so ever in terms of usabe images.

If you aren't close enough to your subject or the subject is really small then use your legs to do the zooming for ya.

An chance you could post up some of the un-cropped pics fella?
 
Most are cropped around 40%. Hard to walk closer to a seagull, it just flies off. Same with goats.
 
Messiah Khan said:
Are you shooting RAW? If so, then you are seeing the jpg preview loaded into LR first, then once the RAW loads it shows you what the image looks like without the in camera settings (As RAW disregards in camera picture settings). Easiest way to get around this is to shoot a scene with lots of different colours and tones in both jpg and raw, then put the 2 images side by side in LR, and adjust the RAW until it looks like the jpg. Save these changes as a preset, then set the preset to apply on import. Job done.
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Ive always wondered this as well. I'll give that a try tomorrow.
 
Something isn't right here.

Looking at the sheep you have put in the competition, it seems that the contrast is very, very high.

The picture below shows red where the white is "burnt". Where it is maximum whiteness - no detail is left. It might be handy in a Persil advert, but not otherwise.

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The next picture shows blue where the black is absolutely solid black. Again, all the detail is gone.

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Using ISO 800 won't be helping but I wonder if you have put your coffee cup down on the "contrast" button.

Andrew
 
Gaffer said:
Something isn't right here.

Looking at the sheep you have put in the competition, it seems that the contrast is very, very high.

The picture below shows red where the white is "burnt". Where it is maximum whiteness - no detail is left. It might be handy in a Persil advert, but not otherwise.

sheep-burnt.jpg


The next picture shows blue where the black is absolutely solid black. Again, all the detail is gone.

sheep-black.jpg


Using ISO 800 won't be helping but I wonder if you have put your coffee cup down on the "contrast" button.

Andrew
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The one in the competition is edited in PS CS2 using contrast and levels... as the original didnt look very good ?
 
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