Official Photography Thread

[Tick's wife]

Wow great shot, was this in the San Juan Islands?

No, it was in Alaska. I got the whole series of the whale coming up for air and then....

[The_Tick]

I miss Bandit...

[happyone]

No, it was in Alaska. I got the whole series of the whale coming up for air and then....

We went to Alaska a few years ago and got several of the whales surfacing also. Unfortunately, it was before I got my digital camera and I haven't got around to scanning them yet.

I think your pic is very good, but what do I know

[il Padrino Ute]

I went to a little park near my house and took this shot:



I used my prime 18-55 zoom and the aperture was 18. It's not so much a great photo, but I was fooling around with my software and converted it to b&w:



and then I converted it to sepia, which I think turned out to be the more interesting of the three:



Does anyone have some suggestions/tips in working with sepia? I'm not sure what it is about it that I like so much about it, but I'd like to be able to get better results when using it.

[happyone]

Here are a couple that are not from my trip to England and Normandy last year -opps 2008

Adams Canyon - Davis County



waterfall Adams Canyon



Lyman Lake - High Unitas ( Layton Stake Camp )



Sunset - Layton Utah

[Katy Lied]

I went to a little park near my house and took this shot:

I like the original color version the best. I know there's not much color in there anyway, so you're pretty close to a B&W or sepia version as it is. I think that the blue of the sky peeking through in the upper right quadrant gives hints to the viewer what they are looking at.

I know, its weird, and anyone looking at your photo knows what they are looking at, but IMHO, when the photo is really busy, like the brush in this photo, it helps the viewer if there are color hints to help the viewer decipher the picture. I also think that the deep blues in the background behind the bridge and at the foot of the trees depicts a depth that you dont get when looking at the sepia version.

[Katy Lied]

Here are a couple that are not from my trip to England and Normandy last year -opps 2008

I like your third photo best. Photographer Scott Kelby teaches that most great landscapes have a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. He says most amateurs get the middle ground and the background, but omit the foreground. You have a nice foreground here. I've taken the liberty of cropping out your foreground to show how much more effective it is the way you took it:

HappyOne Photos


The second photo is much more interesting. Earlier in this thread, BigPiney posted a picture with a very effective foreground. My only suggestion for this shot is, I see a canoe floating in the foreground to the right. I wonder what would it would have looked like if you crouched close to the canoe, and incorporated that into your foreground?



Dan Ransom, one of my favorite photographers (and not only because he took the famous "Harline is open" photo) makes the most beautiful images because he almost always includes an interesting foreground. He'll find a really gorgeous shot, one that I would be perfectly happy with, but then he'll incorporate something interesting in the foreground:









Even when he is hard pressed to come up with a foreground, like the shot directly above, he finds something. I bet in the shot above that he (or someone else) stood below the camera and splashed the water to form the bubbles in the foreground.

[wuapinmon]

I like your third photo best. Photographer Scott Kelby teaches that most great landscapes have a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. He says most amateurs get the middle ground and the background, but omit the foreground. You have a nice foreground here. I've taken the liberty of cropping out your foreground to show how much more effective it is the way you took it:

HappyOne Photos


The second photo is much more interesting. Earlier in this thread, BigPiney posted a picture with a very effective foreground. My only suggestion for this shot is, I see a canoe floating in the foreground to the right. I wonder what would it would have looked like if you crouched close to the canoe, and incorporated that into your foreground?



Dan Ransom, one of my favorite photographers (and not only because he took the famous "Harline is open" photo) makes the most beautiful images because he almost always includes an interesting foreground. He'll find a really gorgeous shot, one that I would be perfectly happy with, but then he'll incorporate something interesting in the foreground:









Even when he is hard pressed to come up with a foreground, like the shot directly above, he finds something. I bet in the shot above that he (or someone else) stood below the camera and splashed the water to form the bubbles in the foreground.

You seem like a natural teacher.

[happyone]

I like your third photo best. Photographer Scott Kelby teaches that most great landscapes have a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. He says most amateurs get the middle ground and the background, but omit the foreground. You have a nice foreground here. I've taken the liberty of cropping out your foreground to show how much more effective it is the way you took it:

HappyOne Photos


The second photo is much more interesting. Earlier in this thread, BigPiney posted a picture with a very effective foreground. My only suggestion for this shot is, I see a canoe floating in the foreground to the right. I wonder what would it would have looked like if you crouched close to the canoe, and incorporated that into your foreground?



Dan Ransom, one of my favorite photographers (and not only because he took the famous "Harline is open" photo) makes the most beautiful images because he almost always includes an interesting foreground. He'll find a really gorgeous shot, one that I would be perfectly happy with, but then he'll incorporate something interesting in the foreground:









Even when he is hard pressed to come up with a foreground, like the shot directly above, he finds something. I bet in the shot above that he (or someone else) stood below the camera and splashed the water to form the bubbles in the foreground.

thank you for the tips.

[wuapinmon]

SpaceGhost, be sure to check your boardmail before signing off.

[il Padrino Ute]

I like the original color version the best. I know there's not much color in there anyway, so you're pretty close to a B&W or sepia version as it is. I think that the blue of the sky peeking through in the upper right quadrant gives hints to the viewer what they are looking at.

I know, its weird, and anyone looking at your photo knows what they are looking at, but IMHO, when the photo is really busy, like the brush in this photo, it helps the viewer if there are color hints to help the viewer decipher the picture. I also think that the deep blues in the background behind the bridge and at the foot of the trees depicts a depth that you dont get when looking at the sepia version.

I appreciate your feedback. Looking at what you pointed out in the color photo really helps me to get what you're saying. I hadn't thought about the bit of blue sky helping the viewer to see what is there simply because the color of the sky stands out from everything else.

Thanks again. It's much appreciated.

[UtahDan]

I know nothing about photography. Nothing. But I was out walking a property about an hour ago and taking photographs of an old fence line (boundary line dispute) and though "hey, that is a cool looking old barn, I'll share it with the cuffers."

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[Katy Lied]

I know nothing about photography. Nothing. But I was out walking a property about an hour ago and taking photographs of an old fence line (boundary line dispute) and though "hey, that is a cool looking old barn, I'll share it with the cuffers."

Very nice. IMHO half of good picturetaking is looking up, and seeing some potential, and then then thinking to take a picture of the scene.

[Katy Lied]

I-80 to Wendover. Grantsville Exit. Believe it or not, I didn't change the saturation levels at all, just the midtone contrast.

[tooblue]

I know nothing about photography. Nothing. But I was out walking a property about an hour ago and taking photographs of an old fence line (boundary line dispute) and though "hey, that is a cool looking old barn, I'll share it with the cuffers."

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Very pretty shot.