Search results for 'back focus' - page 2869
A couple of birds
Alan, they're both great! I don't usually like a complex background for this kind of shot, but in the first it works well, obviously becasue of the space needed for the reflection, and the framing is very good. 2 has got its narrow DOF which gives us the snippets of in focus grass at the front, ...
Posted by McGregNi on 28/03/2014 - 08:09
A couple of birds
Its certainly not a big deal - I feel guilty now for causing perhaps undue focus on what is a small technical point. When we are looking at high quality images it is often only very fine points of presentation that are left to be mentioned. I mention them though because I like to ensure everything i...
Posted by McGregNi on 28/03/2014 - 12:30
A couple of birds
There is no haloing or artefacts in Alan's image .....David No, this is only correct on one level - what you could state as fact is 'I don't see any haloing or artifacts, and I don't think it is of significance'. The really important point is not how we exactly label what is noticed, but the fact th...
Posted by McGregNi on 29/03/2014 - 14:47
A couple of birds
They can keep on coming! ..... I'll be back ....:D
Posted by McGregNi on 29/03/2014 - 15:28
A couple of birds
I always use Photoshops 'save for web' dialogue, and I select the options 'bicubic sharper'. So I'm assuming this applies some sharpeneing, but it appears to be an automatic amount, or at least I can't see a way to control it?. Would this approach give the type of sharpening you are thinking of Stev...
Posted by McGregNi on 31/03/2014 - 11:48
A couple of birds
For printing a degree of sharpening halo is desirable. For the web, bicubic sharpen is too unspecific; too uncontrollable. A while back Photoshop changed its defaults to sharpen on resize; I immediately turned this off, so I can apply my own local sharpening.
Posted by Darkmunk on 31/03/2014 - 13:42
Whipsnade Zoo, March 2014
We had Peococks at boarding school, one called Diamond (yes they had names) we did an experiement with (not sinister). We placed a mirror up in front of him in the garden, he stared at for a bit then pecked the reflection and then peered round the back of it with a confused look on his face. I thi...
Posted by AuraTodd on 29/03/2014 - 10:41
New Stranger Street Portaits
Back today with a few more street portraits. all with k-5 and the DA* 50 135
Posted by QuestionableCarrot on 28/03/2014 - 23:24
New Stranger Street Portaits
I've usually understood 'flat' to mean lacking contrast - ie needing a wider spread of tones on the histogram. How you get there depends on the software, but the traditional and most common approach would be auto levels in photoshop, plus some fine tuning. But these images do have a reasonable sp...
Posted by McGregNi on 29/03/2014 - 21:09
New Stranger Street Portaits
I don't like the tight cropping at all. The first lady looks so much better with that hat as on your FB page and even that is cropped too tightly for what I'd consider to be street shots of people. I think the project would be much better if you showed the people in the context of their...
Posted by Smeggypants on 30/03/2014 - 00:26
Power of the Mind
No claims for art on this, just a technical experiment. The eyes could be turned back to monochrome in Photoshop, but yes, Unicolour Bold keeps the bold dominant colour we select and turns everything else black and white. Another example using red:
Posted by johnriley on 29/03/2014 - 10:44
Power of the Mind
No claims for art on this, just a technical experiment. The eyes could be turned back to monochrome in Photoshop, but yes, Unicolour Bold keeps the bold dominant colour we select and turns everything else black and white. Another example using red: (image deleted so we don't have to look at ...
Posted by gwing on 29/03/2014 - 10:56
LNER Class B1, 61264 at North Blyth
I wondered if I'd bump into you or Stan. We were mainly at South Beach - coffee and later fish and chips in the café there. Saw a flock of photographers outside the Quayside chip shop at about 1230pm yesterday mainly Nikon cameras. Would that be some of your crowd David? :) It crtainly was Stan. Th...
Posted by davidtrout on 30/03/2014 - 12:46
YET MORE stranger street portraits
These are 'right' to me Alistair, I particularly like the off-centre one, but all are pretty good and the first is verging on a stunner. The only slight negative would be the last one where the point of focus is on the moustache and not the eyes, but of course this may be intentional so I'm not goi...
Posted by davidstorm on 29/03/2014 - 20:11
YET MORE stranger street portraits
Hi, Just my 2-cents worth, but I'm not too sure you have the 'cropping' just right, a lot of the faces seem very tight in the frame. No.4 seems the best to me, as she seems to have a little space. I don't have a problem with going in even tighter, but you would need something to highlight ...
Posted by Galoot on 29/03/2014 - 22:46
Armenia - Monasteries, Mountains...
So, took a fisheye lens, 20-40mm ltd and the 70mm ltd with a K5 to Armenia, and came back with a few photos On my previous travels I have always used the 31m as my main lens but decided that the 20-40mm would offer the flexibility I need, whilst still retaining plenty of quality. So, it did deliver...
Posted by chaude on 30/03/2014 - 18:10
Armenia - Monasteries, Mountains...
Thank you so much, never in my life was I expecting such positive words. The setting of most things were beautiful out there, and really no photo can do it justice. My personal favourite is actually the ones of Akhtala's frescoes, but mostly because I had the joy of walking a whole hour uphill with ...
Posted by chaude on 31/03/2014 - 07:09
Armenia - Monasteries, Mountains...
Thank you so much, never in my life was I expecting such positive words. The setting of most things were beautiful out there, and really no photo can do it justice. My personal favourite is actually the ones of Akhtala's frescoes, but mostly because I had the joy of walking a whole hour uphill with ...
Posted by gwing on 31/03/2014 - 10:31
Soft Light over Adlington
Having just purchased the SMC-F 35-70mm from MattyH today, I had to take a shot on the way back home. So as the light was getting quite nice, I stopped and took this.
Posted by Offertonhatter on 30/03/2014 - 19:16
A Couple More Birds
Lovely images Dr O, especially the second one which has a nice diffused background and of course the rusty bike! I wish I had more time to focus on wildlife photography, maybe when I retire :? Regards David
Posted by davidstorm on 31/03/2014 - 22:24
