Phates thread...travels, weddings, underwater/scuba and anything else...

Phate · 12 Jul 2014 at 21:53

So everyone else is doing it

Anyway will post as I go...in Dahab on holiday at the moment so posting will be sporadic. This week I'm mostly learning my new camera/setup.

It's a lot of fun...enjoy.

1. Peekaboo Nemo!

2. Sea cucumber

3. Sun ball...aiming to get a proper silhouette shot this week

4. Camo'd Lion Fish

5. Nudi branc...

6. As much as clown fish are portrayed as fun, nice fish...they are very aggressive! They won't hesitate to standing off against a human/diver!

7. Pretty coral

8. Another Nudi!

So this is just after my first day of the photo course, I have another tomorrow and then doing a separate course after that, but I'll be back to shooting on Wednesday

Hope you enjoy the thread, I have promises of NYC to come, weddings (one in Egypt) and plenty more!

Jake

Amp34 · 13 Jul 2014 at 11:50

Know what you mean about the clown fish. They get grumpy quickly. Not as bad as the little blue ones that bite though!

There is a lot of purple fringing on the clown fish shot, should be easy to get rid of in post?

King4aDay · 13 Jul 2014 at 18:20

Yeah make sure you've got automatic chromatic aberration removal checked in Lightroom - for some reason Olympus don't correct in camera, unlike Panasonic.

Not bad for first snaps

Phate · 14 Jul 2014 at 07:10

Cheers

Thanks for the CA tip. What's weird is the processing...seems obvious but its unlike pretty much anything I've done before. Its fun trying new things

Will have a few more to go up tonight

Phate · 18 Jul 2014 at 14:22

So I can't figure out how to auto remove CA...any ideas guys?

Few from today. Nothing special, still practicing

Working on my balls...

Took quite a few others but it wasn't a photo dive per say, more a dive where I took my camera along, so just snapped a few bits as I went

King4aDay · 18 Jul 2014 at 14:44

Erm, I think you have to (assuming LR here) go into the Develop module, tick the Remove CA box and any other settings that you want to have always happen, then hold ALT and the Reset button will change into a Set Default button which sets them to default, funnily enough.

Phate · 18 Jul 2014 at 14:51

Oh right, cool I'll take a look...will try again, haha! Thanks

Phate · 18 Jul 2014 at 15:17

Forgot to add this one, first time playing with a strobe! It's very difficult!

Phate · 22 Jul 2014 at 17:32

Been out with the camera again over the last few days.

Enjoy

jonneymendoza · 22 Jul 2014 at 21:58

what camera did u use?

Phate · 23 Jul 2014 at 07:44

Olympus E-PL5

Phate · 18 Jan 2015 at 11:16

Never did update this, so much has been going on, have been way too damn busy. But ah well! Such as life. Looking forward to 2015. Lots of diving, embracing photography again and traveling to tie in with all of it. Excellent stuff

Anyway, here are a selection of images from when I went to Ireland in November and to Richmond Park at the start of Jan. Also a Wedding in Egypt in September!

First up, the wedding.

It was an amazing wedding to say the least, what was also great is that it was in the same town where my friends were, so just 30 days after coming back from when the photos in the OP were taken, I was back there with my friends. Good times!

Next up, Ireland!

My sister lives in Athlone, which is pretty much bang smack in the middle of the country between Dublin and the coast.

This is the River Shannon running next to a famous area called Clonmacnoise.

Then we headed into Athlone itself.

We also visited the Guinness factory...

I also dived Portroe Quarry, which was great...it felt great to get back in the water again after a long break.

This was shot about 30m down, it was very creepy!

Finally, I went to Richmond Park at the start of January to jump back into Photography with both feet. I hadn't picked up the SLR properly since the Egypt wedding! Far too long a break!

It was like something out of a spooky film, the early morning fog, it was cold...I loved it.

And we found some Deer...

Hope you enjoy, full write ups are on my blog - http://www.jacobellwood.co.uk/blog

ote1 · 18 Jan 2015 at 14:11

Really like these photos, especially the ones in the park with the deer. My kind of photos. Was it the Olympus you used there? Saw mention of you starting to use a DSLR more but can't see anything about which one on the blog. If it is a DSLR what lens did you use with it?

Edit: Would quite like if in your blog posts you put the details of your camera/lens at the end. I'm learning, or trying to, about photography at the moment and I'm always interested to see what equipment has produced the pictures I'm looking at. Still haven't gone ahead and bought my DSLR.

Phate · 18 Jan 2015 at 17:23

ote1 said:
Really like these photos, especially the ones in the park with the deer. My kind of photos. Was it the Olympus you used there? Saw mention of you starting to use a DSLR more but can't see anything about which one on the blog. If it is a DSLR what lens did you use with it?

Edit: Would quite like if in your blog posts you put the details of your camera/lens at the end. I'm learning, or trying to, about photography at the moment and I'm always interested to see what equipment has produced the pictures I'm looking at. Still haven't gone ahead and bought my DSLR.

Thanks very much!

The Ireland & Underwater photos were taken on my Olympus E-PL5 Mirrorless camera. The rest are all taken on a 5DMkiii

Duly noted will add in equipment details at the end of the posts, thank you

ote1 · 18 Jan 2015 at 18:26

Phate said:
Thanks very much!

The Ireland & Underwater photos were taken on my Olympus E-PL5 Mirrorless camera. The rest are all taken on a 5DMkiii

Duly noted will add in equipment details at the end of the posts, thank you

You're welcome! That's a nice camera you've got there. What lens(es) did/do you use?

Phate · 18 Jan 2015 at 18:35

ote1 said:
You're welcome! That's a nice camera you've got there. What lens(es) did/do you use?

Chars.

The Olympus is on the kit 14-42mm lens but I'm looking at getting a 9-18mm lens for it.

For the Canon I have a 35L, 24-70L, Sigma 85mm 1.4, 135L. The Richmond Park shots were taken on my friends lenses, either a 70-200 2.8IS or the 100-400L

danoliver1 · 18 Jan 2015 at 21:18

Lovely pics mate, for them underwater shots you should really use a fisheye lens.

I'll get me coat. lol

Phate · 18 Jan 2015 at 22:14

danoliver1 said:
Lovely pics mate, for them underwater shots you should really use a fisheye lens. I'll get me coat. lol

Always one...

Richdog · 20 Jan 2015 at 06:23

Very nice shots Phate, love those underwater ones, but imo you need to apply some highlight reduction in Lightroom as some of the photos, especially those in Ireland, are a little too glaring and could really benefit from the extra detail.

Regarding the wedding photo of the bride and groom at night, did you use an off-camera flash for that one?

Phate · 21 Jan 2015 at 20:45

Richdog said:
Very nice shots Phate, love those underwater ones, but imo you need to apply some highlight reduction in Lightroom as some of the photos, especially those in Ireland, are a little too glaring and could really benefit from the extra detail.

Regarding the wedding photo of the bride and groom at night, did you use an off-camera flash for that one?

Thanks for the kind words.

I'll take a look, I quite like the flared lighting look, any images in particular?

And yeah that had an off camera flash, the wind off the beach flared the dress on that exact moment, handy really