Kiwi - GKPE - General Ramblings (3)

I get it around 10:30 am your time (which is when the site runs one of its twice daily backups).

Wazza wrote in post #4508705
Love the guy/girl ones too Kirst

Thank you
Peter - excellent, you'll have endless fun with it

Warren and Sothen - Cool photos

I read back a little way now (I was behind about 10 days.....!)

(someone was talking about printing big images)
I had an A1 canvas printed by some clients of them - A1 is huge, and it came out amazingly good. I was quite impressed.
It only cost them about $400 from Art for Art sake. I want to do some of my own, but Bill keeps getting in the way, Telecom Bill, Power Bill.....you know the guy.

more from around the Coromandel:

sothen wrote in post #4510975
I read back a little way now (I was behind about 10 days.....!)

(someone was talking about printing big images)
I had an A1 canvas printed by some clients of them - A1 is huge, and it came out amazingly good. I was quite impressed.
It only cost them about $400 from Art for Art sake. I want to do some of my own, but Bill keeps getting in the way, Telecom Bill, Power Bill.....you know the guy.


I just don't get inspired by landscape photography.....

Shame you did a great job. You would think Bill would have a month off

A1 size what is is the best distance to view from. Whats the Image quality like?

Hey Cliff we should aim for Feb/March after all the people leave

hey not bad shots sothen but make em pop a little more: (hope its ok to post this edit)

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SS that looks worse, mind you its not the original you are dealing with.
Try blended layers there is to much blown out in the hills and sky

The image quality on the A! canvas was excellent. Just from the 5D camera.
I don't really know how to quantify it - it looked bloody good, no pixelation (if that applies to canvas images).
They had a big house and it was for a wall at the end of one of their living areas ....

Go for gold SS - I have no issues with people editing my images. I'm crap with photoshop, what you see is what I shoot minus some dust spots generally.

weka2000 wrote in post #4511047
SS that looks worse, mind you its not the original you are dealing with.
Try blended layers there is to much blown out in the hills and sky

yeah it did blow out, raw would have been ideal
but i was trying to make it less underexposed and more colourful, the original was too dull

here is my attempt. Oh hell I just got off my BUTT and did something ...now wheres my money
Mine looks a bit dark in the hills

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Interesting how people see things differently.

serious question, because I don't know the answer:
Do you guys often change your images in post to make them more 'colourful' or whatever even if the original scene wasn't/isn't?

I guess I'm asking how do you 'see' your images before you shoot? as they are or as they can be?

Get what I'm asking? - it's tough to articulate in writing.......

more random people from my travels:

Crazy Pom on Hotwater beach

Some cool new stuff here guys. Particularly like the new stuff from Sothen

sothen wrote in post #4511201
Interesting how people see things differently.

serious question, because I don't know the answer:
Do you guys often change your images in post to make them more 'colourful' or whatever even if the original scene wasn't/isn't?

I guess I'm asking how do you 'see' your images before you shoot? as they are or as they can be?

Get what I'm asking? - it's tough to articulate in writing.......

Yes I do a little.
I have my camera settings on Neutral, and in PP I boost the saturation a little.

Thanks Manipula,

I'm pretty green at this Peter so it's nice to know.

I was talking to a guy this weekend who was a film photographer and he was telling me that he used to imagine a concept and keep it locked away/written down with the aim of then finding the location to use it and then he'd process it in the way he had imagined.

So he 'saw' what he wanted to shoot, before he actually saw what he wanted to shoot a lot of the time.

I thought it was odd because I shoot what I see, but the more I thought about it the more I liked the concept.

It probably sounds dumb to you guys who have been doing this a while, the whole 'conceptualising' is nothing new, but I see how it works in post production now.

My post work is normally just slight exposure corrections and dust removal/horizon straightening, I have tried more extensive post work with colour shifts and saturation but I always go back and think 'that's not what I saw'.......

Well what a surprise...I just looked at the bottom of my camera bag and there was an extra velcro fastened pocket. Inside it was a rain cover for the bag!!!! Every day a new discovery.