S-curve, deepen the blacks, clarity and vibrance boosts, pop out faces with adjustment brushes, gradient skies.
I've now got an Aperture 3 preset called 'Michael Jones', works a treat!
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not comfortable shooting strangers, how do others feel about it?
I pretty much only take pictures of strangers now and it doesn't get any easier!
great street pics though, you and chinavision! chinavision, were you going for a bruce gilden look?
― swagl (dayo), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Not really, although I kinda love the video of him walking around sticking his flash in people's faces. I just realized that I liked strong fill flash and was feeling a bit emboldened. Helps to have a tiny camera.I definitely still get kinda nervous taking photos of people on the street, and have occasionally had people get pretty pissed off. Many people really do seem to believe that you are breaking a law if you photograph them.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 12 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for dumping, i haven't had LR for a while
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/5147068969_82351c16be_z.jpgfriends by skowlyfield, on Flickr
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Friday, 12 November 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Donations to my PayPal account gladly accepted!
Funnily enough, I've never created a preset for what I (almost always) do in LR; I just react to each picture individually, but I end up doing more or less the same thing to each one (the areas of greatest variability are usually midtone brightness and the bottom end, especially if I'm shooting in low light and deliberately underexposing by 1 to 1 2/3 stops.)
Owe the thread some more pix but it's all been kids' parties and friends lately and I can't put those here. Will take the 40D out today. Otherwise, it's raiding the archives...
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 November 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i would love to take more photos of random people, always produces interesting pics. i just can't bring myself to be that confident though.
need to get out with cam this winter.
― F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Shot from the hip after my sisters dog chased them, not the sharpest of photo's, but not bad seeing as it was from the hip!http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1404/5183605455_2bbf8614ff.jpg
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Right, I'm three weeks behind, though I've little to show for it...
Duke Street St James's, Fiat 600, Fri Nov 12http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5172569545_06c746baff.jpg
An old poor-man's-macro (£6 extension tube and a 50/1.8), May 2008http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/2532417386_40efb7a085.jpg
Ferry Cross The Mersey, Sun Nov 7http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1088/5159828794_884efebf5b.jpg
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
love yr pic not_goodwin, and MJ that macro is coooool
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5193014859_9e2abf6baf_b.jpgP1000034.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
nice!
― caek, Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
thx, i like the shadow/reflection interplay
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Sunday, 21 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
good photos michael, not_goodwin and big muffin.
cityscape:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/80259710@N00/5194269964/" title="Cityscape by Laurent Jacquinot, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5194269964_5f16984e4f.jpg" width="500" height="109" alt="Cityscape" /></a>
― RR, Sunday, 21 November 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, try again:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5194269964_5f16984e4f.jpg
― RR, Sunday, 21 November 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5192614843_0de236cb41_z.jpgUntitled by Altair Nouveau, on Flickr
Lucky day!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 26 November 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/818963/lake.jpg
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 November 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
that's where you store the dead bodies, eh
― .\ /. (dayo), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
where is that?
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
What I saw walking out of the train station this morning:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5216911297_6151ec7c8c.jpgEdinburgh castle in snow by treefell, on Flickr
― treefell, Monday, 29 November 2010 09:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xp local lake, central co mayo.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 29 November 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lough conn?
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
very ~atmospheric~ innit
― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
boring old ross lake, i'm afraid. just a rain filed hole in a field most days
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the Ross Lake pic.
Huge icicles (now 15-20 inches long) hanging off our guttering outside the girls' bedroom window...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5281/5226848749_e5c37319dc.jpg
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
good icicles photo, michael.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5287/5227902822_53a472781d.jpg
― RR, Friday, 3 December 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dyao.tumblr.com/photo/1280/1685518527/1/tumblr_lcgupp7LJn1qbw37p
could also be crossposted in wdyll
― .\ /. (dayo), Friday, 3 December 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
nice pics btw, RR and MJ
boss
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Friday, 3 December 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice work Mr Jones and RR, Dayo, your shots really are something else!
Foggy day today.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5234813286_f29b6fb759.jpg
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 5 December 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks dayo and not_goodwin, and good photos both of you.
― RR, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5207/5236197457_5829d72020_z.jpg
― kanellos (gbx), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
nice photo gbx.where did you take it?
― RR, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
western wisconsin, on thanksgiving.
fact: it has long been a dream of a mine to write a picaresque novel that somehow tied into the tunguska event
― kanellos (gbx), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Another one to keep the thread ticking over...http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5041/5240951346_82c202b315.jpg
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, where's that??
― steendriver DUMB BIG, his HOOS got HOOS (dayo), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
daaaaaaaang
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
great photo not_goodwin.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5242057685_131c783df6_z.jpg
― RR, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks guys, it's a nice little place east of Manchester (UK) called Dovestone.
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
RR is that you upside down?
ha, only a certain kinda english person will describe a deserted reservoir in the hills in the coldest winter in decades as 'a nice little place'
nice photo tho
― a photo post about some black people on a park that had me in tears (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Please to describe, I'm intrigued :)
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
a very english english person!
― a photo post about some black people on a park that had me in tears (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I'm that then. Not the worst thing I've been called.
― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess a very northern english person
was the reservoir frozen?
― a photo post about some black people on a park that had me in tears (nakhchivan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
― RR, Thursday, 9 December 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post, tiny bit on the edges.
I'm sure the 22 hour wait for the answer was worth it :)
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 9 December 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Botswana
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54844770@N08/5075002156/in/set-72157625147567166/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54844770@N08/5075003136/in/set-72157625147567166/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54844770@N08/5074415357/in/set-72157625147567166/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54844770@N08/5075001422/in/set-72157625147567166/
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 December 2010 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck.
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 December 2010 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/5074415357_7dddd7b8e6.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5075003136_e46c7e9e7f.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/5075002156_96520ff036.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5075001422_53105b7523.jpg
― leo tldrstoy (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 December 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link