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I tried a few in-camera HDRs as the dynamic range of the scene was so great. They're not perfect, but can be a life saver in situations where otherwise the sky would blow out and still leave a silhouetted skyline. I only use this technique to return the scene to what I saw, it must be said. Too many HDR images are too overprocessed (even here, I'd prefer it if it didn't leave haloes around high contrast areas).
In-camera 3-shot HDR (handheld).
Canon EOS 5D mark III, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.
50mm, f/10, 1/4000-1/500-1/60, ISO 800.
Another reworked shot after I decided to review some of my early experimentation with HDR.
It just too easy to over process the shots and I have slowly learned less is more, particularly with post processing.
This can be seen with these two different processed shots.
Nondescript building and blue overprocessed sky.
Processed with Photomatix, Dfine 2, Color Efex Pro 4, and CS6.
OK...just installed LR5. Yes, I'm dipping my toes in the turbulent & murky waters of the post-production dark side. Another learning curve which I hope will not dominate but complement and enhance my photography.
Whenever I look at someone's pictures and the first thing I see is PS or similar, I've lost interest straight away. I prefer content to wrapping.
So if I err I hope it's on the conservative side. I'd hate to kill a photo with overprocessing, as I saw in a book of old rural buildings here in Oz. Horrendous Diabolical Result.
Here's hoping my vessel is strong enough to survive the mountainous seas of the digital darkside (sorry...darkroom) ;-)
Another try at something a bit unusual. Let me know what you think. Go ahead - be brutal, I can take it :)
Chris took this picture - I just put some finishing touches on it.
On the way to work the other morning we had a bit of fog and when going by the lake we couldn't resist stopping to "catch the moment". Just a little bit of sliding on this just to emphasize the fog.
Not only they are tiny but extremely fast as well + the wind was horrible on that day. I am done with these guys! This is my closest shot of barn swallows and it is slightly cropped. The photo might seem overprocessed, it is not!
Barn Swallow, Bolsa Chica(CA)
Settings: 1/1000 --- ƒ/7.1 ---- ISO 400 @ 400mm
Unfortunate mistake. Farmers' Market Ogden Utah Aug 27, 2022. I shot thison a great day - Kodacolor 400 from 1983. I shot it at EI 200 and then, mistakenly, thought I should adjust again in development and added 20 seconds ... ? The roll was extremely overdeveloped which was extremely disappointing because of the great shots. The negatives were impenetrable. Since I did bleach bypass I went back and washed the film, bleached with potassium ferricyanide for 8 minutes and then fixed again for 8 minutes. The negative came out much clearer, but as you can see with MUCH loss of detail and extremely flat. If my life was at stake, I guess we could say it worked, but most of the interesting stuff is gone.
However after seeing these results and some others, both mine and other folks' I think I'm arriving at with expired color film - adjust the light and compensate for age, etc. And then develop normally. We'll see what I do next.
I was lucky enough to find this on my way to work a couple of days ago. A few minutes later, one of the managers walked by and saw me lying on the ground, S700 in tow. She probably thought I was crazy, wounded, or a combination of both, until I showed her my viewfinder.
It's somewhat overprocessed, but I really like the richness of the green.
Images 1-3 are varying exposures of the same scene, taken on a tripod.
HDR Image was prepared using the Photoshop CS2: automate -> merge to HDR. White point was set, then the conversion to HDR was done by the Exposure/Gamma method.
HDR image was then perspective corrected (to correct for wideangle lens distortion, especially evident on the closest vertical pillar) using the PTLens plugin and profile for the Olympus Zuiko 14-45 lens.
I'm sure this could still be much improved, but in comparison to all of the overprocessed, trendy, fake looking HDR I've seen lately I think I've used the process as it is intended.
The HDR image can be seen here LARGE.
Photo Preservation Society - April - Water
Shot in Blengdale Forest in the Lake District. Beautiful flowing water caught in the evening sunlight.
Overprocessed? Would be interested in your thoughts. Thanks. Steve
Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC OS
Processing: Adobe Lightroom 4
Explore Stats: Highest #413
P.S. Not sure how or why this one got Explored - wasn't even highly viewed, but nice all the same :)
254/365
Letdown is defined as a slackening of effort, or A decrease, decline, or relaxation, as of effort or energy. It happens often in sports when the underdog defeats a better team, or you win a rivalry game, there tends to be a slackening of effort in the next game. When I look back on my project I have seen this as well, Often when I have what I consider a great image, one that is important to me personally or is a moving tribute, it is followed by a not so good image. I feel like that about this one, My last 2 self portrait have made at least one person cry, how do I follow up images that are that meaningful? I had no idea what I wanted to do today and very little time. When I got this image home I found myself unhappy with it and began processing, more processing, overprocessing, then processing some more. To give you an idea I converted the raw file in photomatix, I then enhanced it with the topaz plugin in photoshop, still not happy with it I applied an aged newspaper filter, then cross processed it and added a vignette. After all that I still have no idea what this picture represents or why it looks like i am about to jump off the bridge into the water
Fujifilm X100 / Nik Collection
Taken in Shinkuku, Tokyo. Just a very quick tryout of Nik Analog Efex Pro. As usual, the standard presets give a very overprocessed look; the real strength seems to be in the toolset which allows you to make individual adjustments. In addition to the usual control points, there seem to be effect areas (similar to Lightroom adjustments).
All in all a great update, for the stunning price of $0.00
新宿にて撮影。Nik Efexにアナログのプラグインが加わったので早速遊んでみた。
プリセットは相変わらず加工味が強いので微調整がおすすめかな…。プリセットよりも、ツールセットから使いたい効果を選び、慎重に加工しつつ、という流れがこのソフトの本当に力を引き出せるのではないかという気がします。
無料アップデートでこれだけ機能が増えるのは嬉しいですね。
A late afternoon view of my favorite tree, over processed with Topaz Adjust and a sepia overlay technique.
Ode to 6x7. Just when I begin to appreaciate and hopefully understand photography, I also begin to find out what a sad fate film has had and I wish I could rewind the clock 10 years or so and buy enough new equipment to set myself up for this day. 2nd hand junk no one wants from ebay just doesn't cut it. This image has been overprocessed in Lightroom and Photoshop back and forth and is completely unsatisfying to me. This is I guess the sort of "look" I would like from a camera but with zero processsing and without all that horrible sharpening to an image from one of sharpest lenses of the canon lineup. Hopefully they will develop good sensors and lenses within 20 years so I can enjoy digital one day. The Nikon D750 looks promising but I'm heavily invested in Canon. In the meantime, thanks for reading and best wishes :).
This is a first attempt at HDR working with the program Photomatix, a self portrait, and I think it came out O.K. What do you think. Maybe I over cooked it, but it looks kind of all right, mmmmmmm again maybe a comment or two from the folks here on Flickr.
Perhaps a bit overprocessed in Google's Nik Collection, but I like the result - in an artsy fartsy surreal kinda way.
To bring the story up to date. In 1953 a ballroom was added and the “Arcadia” (sometimes pronounced “Arcadja”) became one of the great venues for showbands. The advent of the “Troubles” and the disco resulted in its closure in the mid-70’s. It lay vacant for many years quickly becoming an eyesore. There were several schemes for the building including replacement by student accommodation but none materialised. The ballroom was demolished (as, I recall, a dangerous structure).
Its now a toilet.
I accept I have overprocessed here but it is an iconic white building that protrudes into the sea and quite visual??
This bird with an attitude was just begging to be over processed...
Hope everyone is having a great Sliders Sunday. :)
Unfortunate mistake. Farmers' Market Ogden Utah Aug 27, 2022. I shot thison a great day - Kodacolor 400 from 1983. I shot it at EI 200 and then, mistakenly, thought I should adjust again in development and added 20 seconds ... ? The roll was extremely overdeveloped which was extremely disappointing because of the great shots. The negatives were impenetrable. Since I did bleach bypass I went back and washed the film, bleached with potassium ferricyanide for 8 minutes and then fixed again for 8 minutes. The negative came out much clearer, but as you can see with MUCH loss of detail and extremely flat. If my life was at stake, I guess we could say it worked, but most of the interesting stuff is gone.
However after seeing these results and some others, both mine and other folks' I think I'm arriving at with expired color film - adjust the light and compensate for age, etc. And then develop normally. We'll see what I do next.
It's like an addiction, processing. If I don't stop, I'll have eliminated the detail from Bea's skin altogether. Oh wait....
The Peony bush in our backyard is in full bloom. White flowers are typically hard to get many details but Luminar2018 allowed me to bring them all out without looking overprocessed.
...hat mit Fotografie langsam nix mehr zu tun, mein Gespiele mit SilverEfex. Spaß machts trotzdem, jedenfalls mehr als Sensor-putzen ;-)
We have rain! And I'm having fun! Hope you enjoy this abstract, my Flickr friends!
I've processed this one for Sliders Sunday! HSS!
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2014 All Rights Reserved.
My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
Please!! NO Glittery Awards or Large Graphics...Buddy Icons are OK. Thank You!
Before a coaster shuts down, the ride cycles its trains without anyone on it too get everyone off the ride before it's closed. When I took this photo, the ride broke down, but was still able to get all the riders off without evacuating them off in different areas of the ride. I had my shot all planned and everything, took the shot, looked in the LCD screen to see the shot and it had no people on it... I thought I was seeing things, but the ride just happened to break down.
Oh, and yeah, I overprocess sometimes, it's just too funnn. haha. (:
Chamonix 45N-2
Schneider Super Angulon 90mm f8
~3min exposure, f22
Shanghai GP3 pan 100, 4x5 sheets
Ilford Ilfotec LC29, 1-29 dillution 11min @ 20º, rice vinegar stop bath, Ilford Rapid Fixer
AP Paterson style tank in taco method
scanned on Epson V500
One of my first test shots with my new large format camera. Very nice to handle, not completely easy thought ,got to get used to it. Also one of the first negatives I processed myself. I might have overprocessed with 11min, since I found contradicting info talking about 7 min. The massive development chart says for the 1-29 dilution it should be 11min, though not for this format - not sure if that makes a big difference.
I abused the film quite a bit, gave it a lot of agitation during development since I was afraid it might not be covered too well in the Paterson tank with just 600 ml developer but turned out okay.
During scannin with the V500 (which gave me some trouble, still trying to figure pretty much everything about scanning) it got too much sharpening from the auto settings, got some gross details when enlarged. Scanned another sheet which looked better (without sharpening ) but still satisfying. I put the sheet right on the glass since there are no holders for the V500 and I have to do two scans to get the whole sheet and stitch then.
I'll go for some test shots with colour film, probably Ektar 100 since I got good results with it it in the light on the streets of Shanghai. I'm a bit hesitant though since there is no reliable lab to get stuff processed. For the test shots I figured I could at least screw it up myself, at least it didn't show any major leaks or flaws in the results.
More to come.
WARP (Web Alliance of Radical Photographers)
Round-up Redux 4: Music Band/Group Photoshoot
Nikon Team 5 (aka Creme of Fungus)
Fungi/Bandmates:
*Overprocessed / Gritty Effect
Location: Barzan Towers