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Proprietary.

Here are two recent ones that I took over the weekend. I'm nowhere near as good at this as many of you, but I am giving it a shot. Any and all constructive criticism is always welcome.

An Anglican Cathedral in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Needs more Tungsten filter.

FarmerTed1971 wrote in post #16606605
Needs more Tungsten filter.

If that was directed my way, I'll say no. It is renowned for having a golden glow to the interior of this particular church. The wooden panels in the choir stands, the leadlight panels and the lights are set up to create this warmth to sections of the interior.

If that's directed to someone else, maybe quote them, so it's clear who you intend it for.

I was kidding... hence the wink.

Beautiful work!

FarmerTed1971 wrote in post #16606629
I was kidding... hence the wink.

Beautiful work!

Thanks, FarmerTed. It was an experiment to see what I could achieve with NIK HDR Efex in Lightroom. I made the composite on neutral in HDR Efex, then finished it in Lightroom. The windows are the let down for me. I will know in future to export to Photoshop to get the best for them, if I use HDR again.

Here's an exterior I shot last night for an architect. All of the landscaping is dead this time of year up here in Maine, and I'll probably reshoot it in June. I'm pretty happy with this, but welcome feedback.

Love that you included the sky but the architect probably would prefer his creation... as they all do. LOL
Entire thing looks underexposed. Do you shoot in RAW and can you do some pp to touch up?

From a walkabout in DC today, enjoy!

I was just curious which method people here use for interiors, getting good light inside while capturing the outside skies, scenery, etc. Of course to get really good lighting on the interior, the light coming in from the Windows may be too much, and vice versa - great out the window shot, dark on the inside.

I've used HDR mostly and it works better in some shots than others, but I haven't played with a good external flash yet to help fill the room with light while still getting a good shot of the outside. Or maybe a combination of both…or maybe that was a really stupid suggestion.. I've never used a flash with HDR, that sounds kinda silly but I dunno.

Anyone have a preference or any other methods? Just curious as to some of the shots on here look great with a nice balance of lighting on the interior and exterior. Any input would be much appreciated, this thread is awesome, I am just now starting to browse it more and like what I'm seeing.

New Samyang tilt-shift lens (and a query)

I am a man on a mission to play this photography lark on a really tight budget, so I went and got a Samyang tilt-shift lens. It was a toss up between that and the original Canon TS-E 24mm, the independent tilt and shift of the Samyang and the extended warranty won me over. Image quality wise, they are on par with each other, the Samyang has a little more distortion, but PTLens cleans that up in post-production, no problems. If you are a bit rough with your gear, do not have excellent fine motor skills or have stubby fingers, it's not for you!

Anyways, here are my first attempts from yesterday, while the twin boys attended a teenage science day at the local university, I got to grips learning how to use this thing. All captured at f/8. I did have a play with using f/3.5 to achieve a plane of focus along the ground and along a wall, but I really need to be tethered to my laptop, to achieve good focus, using the rear screen in liveview is not good enough for that sort of thing, for me.

All of these are taken by shifting the lens to its maximum left or right, or up and down. So they are all three frame composites. I really wanted to push the lens and see the worst it had, which is written about with tilt-shifts so much and that you should never fully shift to 12mm, instead staying back a few millimetres to retain good imagery.

**** In the second image, you will notice it makes the panes of glass across the rear of the building get progressively wider. WTF? It hasn't done this anywhere else when I took three images in landscape orientation and shifted them left and right to the maximum. Is this some bizarre thing that occurs with certain curves of buildings and not being on an exactly square basis with the sensor and the wall? Something else? The first and second frames for this panorama are fine and correct in proportion, the third, shifted fully to the right, has gone all weird though. None of the other captures from yesterday exhibited this anomaly... ****

None of these images are anything exciting, I am just learning to use the beast.

None of these images have any image correction applied, when combined in Photoshop, I did them as image repositions, with no geometric corrections. I really wanted to see how bad this could be.

I did apply some other images in PTLens and used the 10 uses of its sample, to see how it's corrections went. It is well worth the $25 to buy and use on import, if you are a pixel peeper like me!

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