Official Photography Thread

[swampfrog]

Very nice.

[tooblue]

Been getting out on hikes despite the rain and cold, but it looks like spring will arrive after all as today I was hiking in shorts. The trilliums were just about to bloom, and I played with depth of field and my lens focus. Also, my dog and I happened upon a little friend on our path:

[swampfrog]

Some from the tulip farm

[swampfrog]

[mtnbiker]

Man, those colors really pop. Did you do your triple exposure merge on all of those?

Do you use any color filters on the camera or in processing? I have a Nikon dslr that takes pretty good pictures, but I'm not terribly fond of the color cast it gives. I suppose each image sensor tends to reproduce colors differently.

[swampfrog]

Man, those colors really pop. Did you do your triple exposure merge on all of those?

Most of them, but not all. Really depends on the tonal range of the scene. If there is direct light, or very strong shadows (or both), multi-exposure is necessary to produce detail in the shadows. Each generation of sensors improves on this, but tech hasn't caught up with the dynamic range of the human eye yet...

Do you use any color filters on the camera or in processing? I have a Nikon dslr that takes pretty good pictures, but I'm not terribly fond of the color cast it gives. I suppose each image sensor tends to reproduce colors differently.

I set the white balance manually in LR, LR also will allow you to select what should be a neutral gray and use that as a guide. If you don't like the color cast, it's likely the white balance is what you don't like. I leave my camera set for auto, and then change it in post if needed or wanted. If it's color intensity/vibrancy/saturation then adding those is simple enough, but easily can be overdone. Every single photo I work on includes some increased saturation and contrast.

[swampfrog]

Man, those colors really pop. Did you do your triple exposure merge on all of those?

Do you use any color filters on the camera or in processing? I have a Nikon dslr that takes pretty good pictures, but I'm not terribly fond of the color cast it gives. I suppose each image sensor tends to reproduce colors differently.

I also forgot to note that all of them are taken with a circular polarizer. Makes a large difference in saturation by eliminating some part of light reflections.

[Northwestcoug]

I also forgot to note that all of them are taken with a circular polarizer. Makes a large difference in saturation by eliminating some part of light reflections.

The digital editing world has largely moved past me. But I can attest, a circular polarizer does wonders for saturation.

[tooblue]

Out on another hike, but sadly without my dog. She picked up a nasty tick sometime on the weekend. I took her to the vet yesterday morning to have it removed because it was so engorged having fed on her for several days. I wanted to take a photo but just couldn't because it was too disgusting.

On my own this afternoon and sticking to the path I happened upon this ominous scene:



Crazy thing is I happened upon a similar scene a while ago in nearly the same spot of this trail.

[swampfrog]

The digital editing world has largely moved past me.

Youtube can fix that...pretty quickly

[mtnbiker]

Out on another hike, but sadly without my dog. She picked up a nasty tick sometime on the weekend. I took her to the vet yesterday morning to have it removed because it was so engorged having fed on her for several days. I wanted to take a photo but just couldn't because it was too disgusting.

On my own this afternoon and sticking to the path I happened upon this ominous scene:



Crazy thing is I happened upon a similar scene a while ago in nearly the same spot of this trail.

Is that your bootprint? Just don't go eating the kidneys raw and die of bubonic plague like the mensas in Mongolia did. https://www.newsweek.com/bubonic-pla...ngolia-1418885

[tooblue]

Is that your bootprint? Just don't go eating the kidneys raw and die of bubonic plague like the mensas in Mongolia did. https://www.newsweek.com/bubonic-pla...ngolia-1418885

Damn marmots!

That is not my boot print. It is someone else's who obviously walked right past the little critter. I have keen eyes and tend see things others don't. The other day, my dog ran right over the snake I photographed and never noticed it. Even after I stopped the dog sat down on the path and watched me as I got down on the ground to take photos wondering what the heck I was doing.

[swampfrog]

Taking a break from the politics threads and finally getting around to processing some more Yellowstone images from dropping SF3 off for spring semester at BYU-I.



















More to come...

[tooblue]

Taking a break from the politics threads and finally getting around to processing some more Yellowstone images from dropping SF3 off for spring semester at BYU-I.



More to come...

Lovely ... that first Buffalo scene is awesome—what did that guy on the bike do?

[swampfrog]

Lovely ... that first Buffalo scene is awesome—what did that guy on the bike do?

Waited, like everyone else. Eventually a ranger showed up. They use some kind of clicking noise that get the bison to move along. Often the road is the easiest route to get from point A to point B. You can get stuck for hours sometimes.