The "Post your pictures here" thread.

Mint_Sauce · 17 Oct 2010 at 13:02

A few shots from a wedding we did recently in Wales. Beautiful venue and the couple were up for a few posed shots too, so we took them to a nice location and played around with some ideas.

Mr Jones · 17 Oct 2010 at 13:27

Very nice shot Mint_Sauce, very very nice!

JKD · 17 Oct 2010 at 15:16

Here's mine from today. Having a real problem taking pics in woods when it's sunny. Seem to get a load of blown highlights that I'm not sure how to avoid. Got bored of trying and just wandered out the woods.

86JR · 17 Oct 2010 at 16:05

Put your white balance on the SUN icon

SQUEEZO · 17 Oct 2010 at 17:36

A few from a day out at Castlewellan Forest Park

1.

Seagull Splash by ○○ SPQ PHOTOGRAPHY ○○, on Flickr

2.

Jackdaw on One Leg by ○○ SPQ PHOTOGRAPHY ○○, on Flickr

3. (handheld HDR)

Castlewellan Pony Trekking 002 HDR by ○○ SPQ PHOTOGRAPHY ○○, on Flickr

4.

Castlewellan Pony Trekking 001 by ○○ SPQ PHOTOGRAPHY ○○, on Flickr

RedDanDoc · 17 Oct 2010 at 17:54

I think that I overdid it with the Spider when post processing it. I think I over did the brightness.

Derek W · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:02

twoblacklines said:
Put your white balance on the SUN icon

Trick · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:12

I like that first one Mud.

mrk · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:20

JKD said:
Here's mine from today. Having a real problem taking pics in woods when it's sunny. Seem to get a load of blown highlights that I'm not sure how to avoid. Got bored of trying and just wandered out the woods.

What camera are you using?

If Nikon then Active D-Lighting will solve that on the most part, shoot in JPEG and set D-Lighting to HIGH so that it can be used, use Lightroom for importing later, can be tweaked and fine tuned after

If Canon then enable Highlight Tone Priority in the CF settings menu, this will keep some highlight detail so recovery is easier in processing if required.

Might be worth playing with!

Wedge · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:47

twoblacklines said:
Put your white balance on the SUN icon

lol just lol..........

DB_SamX · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:52

Thegoon84 said:
Also this is a bad pic but this monkey was brake dancing haha.... i then threw a bukcet of water of it:

Mint_Sauce said:
A few shots from a wedding we did recently in Wales. Beautiful venue and the couple were up for a few posed shots too, so we took them to a nice location and played around with some ideas.

Great shots. I want to try photographing a wedding soon, not professionally, just to see what it's like. Probably need to wait for a couple of years I reckon till one of my friends do.

Mud · 17 Oct 2010 at 19:18

Trick said:
I like that first one Mud.

Ta, I got better compositions, but was fighting the manual focus. The degree of tilt varies as you rack the focus! :eek:

mrk · 17 Oct 2010 at 20:32

A portrait of a mate at today's re-visit of Graylingwell Asylum, exposed for the highlight while the 430EX kicked some bounced light off a white wall behind me. Spot meter on face.

Perfect

Can't wait to employ this on other portaits but as with most things it has to be done at the right time of day!

BG is not straight by intention

slothmeister · 17 Oct 2010 at 20:34

Sunset this evening over Lepe Beach in New Forest

Lepe Sunset by Adam Bolwell, on Flickr

JKD · 17 Oct 2010 at 21:11

Khaaan! said:
What camera are you using?

If Nikon then Active D-Lighting will solve that on the most part, shoot in JPEG and set D-Lighting to HIGH so that it can be used, use Lightroom for importing later, can be tweaked and fine tuned after

If Canon then enable Highlight Tone Priority in the CF settings menu, this will keep some highlight detail so recovery is easier in processing if required.

Might be worth playing with!

Nikon D90. Thing is, I've only just this evening sussed out how to get the AE-Lock button to actually lock rather than having to hold it down. I thought I was exposing for the highlights by hitting the AE lock button once - seems by default you have to hold it down. I've now set it to lock on first button press, and only release AE lock when you press the button again.

Shame it's now dark as I need to test this out again - knowing my luck it'll be weeks before we get another lovely sunny day!

Zogger · 17 Oct 2010 at 22:36

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Mint_Sauce · 17 Oct 2010 at 22:57

DB_SamX said:
Great shots. I want to try photographing a wedding soon, not professionally, just to see what it's like. Probably need to wait for a couple of years I reckon till one of my friends do.

Photographing weddings is fun but can be very stressful. I think most wedding togs start out doing a friends although I actually did someone elses but it was a freebie so although it was stressful they weren't expecting much thankfully!

I still feel stressed before weddings and especially for the first few hours then I ease up a bit, although I never feel completely relaxed. Hopefully it will come with time.

DB_SamX · 17 Oct 2010 at 22:57

Why did Khaaan get suspended?

Mint_Sauce · 17 Oct 2010 at 23:01

Mud said:
Hopefully subtle use of my new bargainous tilty-shifty

Both cool shots, it doesn't look like you've push or pulled the exposure much in post. I like silhouette shots.

Mud · 17 Oct 2010 at 23:11

Mint_Sauce said:
Both cool shots, it doesn't look like you've push or pulled the exposure much in post. I like silhouette shots.

Thanks, you're right; I didn't do much to these at all, just played with which colour converted to black and white best. The sun was really low in the sky and I exposed for the brickwork. I must go back and try again, though the weather looks increasingly grotty