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This was shot with no lighting or reflectors of any kind. The lens flare is real. I was just using this shoot to try some new retouching ideas.
Straight out of camera JPEG.
It's so great to have a focal range of (24 to 364); having such a focal range is so useful, especially for traveling and just everyday documentation/shooting, this little Sony HX9v has become my favorite, all around, take-everywhere-with me camera.
I have used other highly rated point and shoot cameras like the Sigma DP2s, Ricoh GRD III, Leica DLux (4,5) and Panansonic LX (3,4). I'm not a technical reviewer, but I do shoot a lot and I personally find the SONY having an edge over the other cameras—compared to the other compacts I mentioned, a. Sony covers an extensive focal range, b. I love Sony's Panoramic mode, c. I like Sony's "background blur" effect that actually works quite well.
And, above all, somehow, Sony has the fastest focus. I can shoot my kids on a swing (daytime) all day long without getting a single blurry pic. This was quite hard to achieve with the other point and shoot. Again, I need to mention that one issue I have with Sony is how SLOW it takes to change modes. Otherwise, it would have been one of the most responsive compacts I have used.
Image quality wise, it's impressive (for a small sensor size, compact). It's sharp when shooting up close; it's seemingly sharp when shooting landscape shots but if you zoom in at 100% you will see the workings of the image processor—some areas look good but some areas look downright ugly and overprocessed. That said, the overall image quality for web posting and small-medium prints will be fine.
…more thoughts to come later.
You know, I haven't overprocessed the crap out of anything lately.
...ah, that's better.
So last night I learned how to make a Mariotte Siphon to make a nice, consistent, adjustable drip, and then deprived myself of sleep shooting around 400 frames of dripping water under my high-speed strobe. And now today I flip through them and.. eh. I can't figure out how to make any of them look good enough to be worth posting. I did figure out a couple interesting processing techniques in Photoshop, though.
What, me? Pretend I can be arty? NOOooo...
The image on the left looks over-processed and too unnatural to accept. Too much shadow has been removed and the image now appears flat.
The image on the right has more natural contrast, color, shadows and highlights.
Quick Tip:
Avoid overuse of Shadow/Highlight sliders in Photoshop and Lightroom — this can cause images to look flat and unnatural.
More about the Shadow/Highlight tool: adobe.ly/X9SIEJ
loft living project: "chateaux monroe" guest room designed for out-of-town guests & short-stay business people. nyc elements abound in this room design.
From the reclaimed n.y.p.d. police barricade-turned bench, to the rescued n.y.p.d. police locker & the manhattan cast metal window "protector" as a sculpture. Books in the mid-century modern case run the gambit, from Moma's design collection & Muji's "nyc in a bag", to Jon Ortner's Manhattan Dawn & Dusk, & various nyc eating/visiting guides , it's nyc in full tilt.
interior / prop / staging & photography: a. golden, eyewash design, NYC, April 2008
a product rewind:
1960's mid-century cabinet : everything goes, nyc - 2001
manhattan in a bag: a gift from Moma, 2008
for short-stays, stop by: www.myspace.com/nycloft
F.Y.I.: "New York City in a Bag", by: MUJI
"As irresistible to adults as it is to children, MUJI's New York in a Bag comes with eight wooden city structures and six wooden cars. Included are New York City icons such as MoMA's original 1939 building, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Statue of Liberty, and the Guggenheim Museum. The wood is from sustainable forests. Recommended for ages 6 and up."
MUJI BIO:
The MUJI philosophy has won them a worldwide following over the last 20 years, emphasizing earth-friendliness, the use of innovative materials, and efficient packaging for reduced cost. Since opening their first store in Japan in 1983, MUJI is not only an internationally renowned company, but for many people is a way of life. MUJI merchandise is based on three simple elements: materials, process, and packaging.
Inventive uses for materials that might otherwise have been discarded or ignored result in innovative product at the lowest cost. Equally important, MUJI infuses style and usefulness into everything produced, no matter what its provenance.
To keep MUJI offerings focused and flexible, heavy attention is paid to the consumer's use of the product, and the manufacturing process is determined on that basis. Superfluous finishes are rejected, overprocessing is eliminated, and lines and forms are clean and uncluttered for manufacturing ease.
MUJI carefully protects items for sale with packaging appropriate to their purpose. By using the same clear cellophane material to wrap most items, consumers see exactly what they are getting and don't pay extra for expensive packaging.
Their guiding principle is flexibility, providing the savvy customer with products that are beautiful, useful, and essential "objects for living."
"I've got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud" -boys like girls
hmm. been kinda out of it lately (hence the reason why i'm not looking at the camera..maybe that idea only made sense in my head) and i think it could possibly be from thinking about too many things...
but hey. it's the holiday season! so i'm perking up. i can't believe christmas is TOMORROW. it still blows my mind how fast this year has gone.
i'm not even too sure if i like this one. i was messing around with literally all forms of editing and i thought this was really cool :P not exactly how i wanted it to turn out, but whatever.
PS: not my jacket :) ... :p
PPS: i have long hair .. its just in a ponytail... hahha
I decided to take a break from posting to senior portraits, so here's an overprocessed shot of the sunset I made a timelapse of the other day. In other news I've got a senior shoot this week, a wedding this weekend, a corporate shoot in a few weeks, and another wedding in a month. Dig it
Canon 5D // Sigma 14mm F2.8+Canon Adapter
OK, so it was a near miss Tuesday. Only snapped two frames and they were both exceedingly dull. Enter Photoshop. Better overprocessed than dull.
See the entire 2011 set of One-Picture-A-Day here
Samsung ES15 - Septiembre 2010
Luminance HDR + Gimp
overprocessing with c2g (Gimp)
www.flickr.com/groups/gimpusers/discuss/72157619079536887/
Luminance HDR 2.0.0 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.9
Color Saturation: 0.8
Noise Reduction: 0.01
PreGamma: 1
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Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.201
Saturation Factor: 1.5
Detail Factor: 1
PreGamma: 1
...but that's not it's purpose.
Walking around the mock-up of a space shuttle at NASA's astronaut training facility really drives it home just how big and awesome those things are!
To the left in this frame between the giant blue hydraulic thingy and the giant US flag on the far wall are all the Space Station module mockups from the different nations collaborating in the ISS. You can only see the tops of them from this position. If you want a really good view, take the public tour! The tour goes to a viewing area that looks directly onto the modules down at that end of the building.
This was the only other panorama I was able to shoot in the time we had to walk around the facility floor. For some odd reason they wouldn't let me wander at random and poke around just anywhere I wanted for as long as I liked. Gaaahhh!
So it's not really the perfect shot, but it does give a sense of how big that place is, and help you visualize just how huge the International Space Station is too.
You have no idea how boring summer break can get.
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Yeah, I should have saved it for Slider Sunday...but it is a fence...and it's Friday. This is a fence that goes downhill and just stops...There was snow on the ground, so it really did look like it went nowhere...I helped it a little with some post-processing. HFF!
Thanks to Pixel Lounge for the Light Center (Cold) texture and to Clive Sax for the Into Blue texture.
For Sliders Sunday. My nephew Jake, future world rally champion in the making! Had a lot of fun messing around with this and slid lots of sliders that I'd never slud before. Yeah, I know "slud" isn't a real word, but it should be!
HSS!
overprocessing has its place.
i dunno, maybe this was it.
brent rose from afro-cuban jazz funk band otra laying it down at congo square
My brother weston, who has a career in modeling if music doesn't work out.
He didn't even pose for this shot, he just naturally looks good.
I'm not a religious person but I came across this image from my archives and Good Friday seemed like the right day to upload it. It's a tad overprocessed for my tastes but I liked it at the time.
Fort Worth Stockyards.
This brought me a 5.65 in the "Username" challenge at DPC this past week. Not too bad for something with an intentionally overprocessed treatment.
I got two slightly different shots/looks of this scenery. I can't decide which one I like more. What do you think?
I think this looks a tad overprocessed.
LuvBeat photoshoot in Tyler, Tx in a rundown warehouse.
Sis Stacy was the makeup gal, touchin' up
Jessie Rae Holiday's makeup.
i wish i had had my nikon when i took this, because its a sweet shot, but my finepix couldnt cut it really. still, it's pretty.
Maybe a little overprocessed...but it's Sunday, so give me a break. Revisiting the grape hyacinth at my Dad's house. Have a great Sunday. HSS!
what better way to start a 365 than with an over-processed cliche?! :P
i'll probably re-do it by tomorrow though :P
went out for breakfast and we drew these while we were waiting
the model is my friend :)
just made a SD 'U-boar' Faux fur wig following
the Araki/Shitateya wig pattern from their kits..
yes,she's still nekkid so only close-ups for now,lol.
I think this hair complexion sort of makes her look
too mature and sharpens her face up
looking overprocessed when she's much softer than this >__<;;;..
The trees surrounding our camp doesn't allow for that golden hour light. These are the last of rays before the sun hits the tops of the trees.
I just ~love~ cypress trees. I wasn't able to get any shots in spring when they're bright green. And now they're turning colors. It's so pretty to see a line of these along the shores with all the pines behind them. It's a shame we couldn't take the boat out and get some landscape shots.
I bumped up the contrast thinking it looked good large but now I'm wondering if it looks overprocessed. You think? I might put the original in comments and you can tell me.