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TRhoads wrote in post #19231514
Quick edits from the first shoot last night. A really chill little garden on a Victorian home that was renovated by an architect a couple years ago.

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Nice Travis. Good to see some paid work coming back.

TRhoads wrote in post #19231514
Quick edits from the first shoot last night. A really chill little garden on a Victorian home that was renovated by an architect a couple years ago.

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Nice! Are we going to see your images in Architectural Digest one of these days?

Eddie wrote in post #19231518
Nice shots Travis, what a cool garden area! Love that fire and the BBQ area

Thanks Eddie, it is a cool little garden. The clients are tech startup people that have made ungodly amounts of money, but work ungodly hours...so they wanted a little quiet place to chill when they are not working.

LeeRatters wrote in post #19231519
Nice Travis. Good to see some paid work coming back.

Thanks Lee, yeah, no doubt. It is nice to start getting some work in, and maybe, just maybe get back on track.

Timphoto wrote in post #19231522
Nice! Are we going to see your images in Architectural Digest one of these days?

Thanks, maybe one day, for now, I don't think my images are up to snuff for that...

TRhoads wrote in post #19231514
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Very nice space, quite the tasteful setup.

Love the post-processing you did on the photos.

TRhoads wrote in post #19231514
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These are quick initial edits, and they’re looking nice, so my comments aren’t meant as criticism…just expressing one of my views about architectural photography.

In architectural photography it’s a given the verticals [nearly] always need to be vertical, but I’m also very fussy about my horizontals with compositions like this that are almost a true one-point perspective. When I see horizontal lines (soffit, paving, etc.) skewing ever so slightly out of parallel from the frame I fix it. DXO Viewpoint 3 is an invaluable tool for this imo. Who cares, right? To me attention to all the details is just another level-of-care thing that expresses professionalism.

Your photography is beautiful Travis.

TRhoads wrote in post #19231514
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Look good, great photos.
Something I never thought of, you use the term Victorian in the US ?

Apricane wrote in post #19231539
Very nice space, quite the tasteful setup.

Love the post-processing you did on the photos.

Thanks, not much done to them really just yet, working from my laptop is not ideal.

David Arbogast wrote in post #19231543
These are quick initial edits, and they’re looking nice, so my comments aren’t meant as criticism…just expressing one of my views about architectural photography.

In architectural photography it’s a given the verticals [nearly] always need to be vertical, but I’m also very fussy about my horizontals with compositions like this that are almost a true one-point perspective. When I see horizontal lines (soffit, paving, etc.) skewing ever so slightly out of parallel from the frame I fix it. DXO Viewpoint 3 is an invaluable tool for this imo. Who cares, right? To me attention to all the details is just another level-of-care thing that expresses professionalism.

Your photography is beautiful Travis.

I always hesitate to post quick edits for this very reason...because I Agree with you 100%, rest assured, the finals will all be run through Viewpoint, for things just like you mention here. The final image will end up being a blended one for dynamic range, and I don't want to waste time doing that on my laptop. I am usually not a fan of true one point perspectives for this very reason, and in this case, it was doubly hard becuase things were just not quite perfect, it is SF with crazy elevations and earthquakes and old buildings.

Klystron wrote in post #19231548
Look good, great photos.
Something I never thought of, you use the term Victorian in the US ?

Thanks. Yes, SF is full of old Victorian homes, the fronts are required to remain if someone does a reno. They are considered historic.

TRhoads wrote in post #19231549
Thanks, not much done to them really just yet, working from my laptop is not ideal.

I always hesitate to post quick edits for this very reason...because I Agree with you 100%, rest assured, the finals will all be run through Viewpoint, for things just like you mention here. The final image will end up being a blended one for dynamic range, and I don't want to waste time doing that on my laptop. I am usually not a fan of true one point perspectives for this very reason, and in this case, it was doubly hard becuase things were just not quite perfect, it is SF with crazy elevations and earthquakes and old buildings.

Thanks. Yes, SF is full of old Victorian homes, the fronts are required to remain if someone does a reno. They are considered historic.

The finals are going to look absolutely smashing…I have zero doubts.

Klystron wrote in post #19231548
Look good, great photos.
Something I never thought of, you use the term Victorian in the US ?

I was wondering that too, I thought that was only a thing in the commonwealth

David Arbogast wrote in post #19231551
The finals are going to look absolutely smashing…I have zero doubts.

That makes one of us!

Eddie wrote in post #19231552
I was wondering that too, I thought that was only a thing in the commonwealth

Victorian style is very prevalent here in SF.

Eddie wrote in post #19231552
I was wondering that too, I thought that was only a thing in the commonwealth

It just sounds strange, in this context. I bet they don't use the term Georgian

TRhoads wrote in post #19231566
That makes one of us!

Victorian style is very prevalent here in SF.

Clearly they didnt watch full house in the 90s lol.

I’ve had a change of mind: my 14GM pre-order has been cancelled and the Sigma 14-24mm stays.

I’m not sure selling the Sigma 14-24mm, purchased just a couple months back, and buying the 14GM represents a good value trade-off for me. In the Sigma I already have a superb 14mm f2.8 lens - possibly the sharpest 14mm lens (including the 14GM according to Lenstip review) - that offers zooming convenience. The 14GM, otoh, provides a valuable extra 1 1/3 stop, superior AF, better distortion correction, and much less weight/bulk. What do I value more? To be 100% candid about it I’m not sure. So, I’ll stick with the Sigma 14-24mm until I get sure.

More brutal honesty here: Selling lenses is no fun and pain-avoidance is playing a role here as well.

David Arbogast wrote in post #19231635
I’ve had a change of mind: my 14GM pre-order has been cancelled and the Sigma 14-24mm stays.

I’m not sure selling the Sigma 14-24mm, purchased just a couple months back, and buying the 14GM represents a good value trade-off for me. In the Sigma I already have a superb 14mm f2.8 lens - possibly the sharpest 14mm lens (including the 14GM according to Lenstip review) - that offers zooming convenience. The 14GM, otoh, provides a valuable extra 1 1/3 stop, superior AF, better distortion correction, and much less weight/bulk. What do I value more? To be 100% candid about it I’m not sure. So, I’ll stick with the Sigma 14-24mm until I get sure.

More brutal honesty here: Selling lenses is no fun and pain-avoidance is playing a role here as well.

dont forget you cant use your haze and other filters on the 14gm :P

it's sad how much camera gears depreciates these days. it hurts to sell them.

TRhoads wrote in post #19231514
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is that a hot tub?? oh how much i want to leisure in it