Beginners Outing(Part 21)-Holland Village on the 7 August(Photos thread)

[skylover]

standing by for something funky!

lolx.. i'm waiting for the outcome.. :devil:

 

[Jonathan Ang]

Love your #4!



For #3 I feel it would have been better if you went/zoomed closer to what they were doing, the car and the street detracts from the image, or if you used a wider aperture and blurred the background somewhat.

#4, I would've taken it from where the doors were vs. where the wall was. But that's just me.

I quite like this picture.



I think the general idea for taking an architecture is there (not that I am an expert or anything). I guess timing and weather was lacking that day. Possible suggestions is to make it a high-key picture instead and overexpose the picture, thus bringing more details out from the buildings, especially the repeating pattern. Keep it up

This has my vote except the Oily feeling is it to be replaced by the watery feeling.. or is Oil that is dripping onto the table.. haha

I like this shot VERY much! :thumbsup:

Thanks for the likes guys! Will strive to improve haha

The rain and dull overcast skies that morning made it really tough for everyone to shoot, beginner or not. Good thing everyone persevered!

Time to go out and shoot NDP later. Anyone interested to join me can drop me an sms or call ..can get my number from cleonbus :bsmilie: (going solo, no friends free today :bheart

 

[wildcat]

Eh no lah... I just think, any picture can be salvaged. Just need to think about it, have a set of tools that you know you can use when you need to. Over the last couple of months, I have been fine tuning my Photoshop abilities, thus am able to control between layers, masking and the various Photoshop adjustments. These are my tools. You just need to keep trying, if you are to learn these tools and not give in to bad lighting, etc. That's how I learn also.

I came up with this :dunno:

What I did was
1. A layer of B&W R:59 Y:41 G:-80 C:85 B:2 M:96. The reason for this was getting rid of the distracting green. I applied this 80% to the layer, which leaves 20% of colour.
2. A layer with Vibrance -14 Saturation -56, masked onto the grass area because there is still too much green for my liking
3. Because #1, too much colour reduced from the Biopolis signage area. I added back Vibrance +26 Saturation +27 to just this area, excluding all the grass and trees.
4. S Curves. This darkened the grass area (you can see, I really dislike the grass)
5. Picture is too dark now so I have to compensate with Brightness, especially on the Biopolis signage area.
6. Finally a warming filter added on for the final Sepia-ish look.

C&C please. I always like criticism, as it makes me improve.

::edit:: notice two patches in grass not covered in #2 which I have corrected. This was pretty much just a quickie demo; if I were doing a full pic, I try to be more careful, plus I'd probably be doing a exposure blending to correct the sky properly.

 

[articulate]

Eh no lah... I just think, any picture can be salvaged. Just need to think about it, have a set of tools that you know you can use when you need to. Over the last couple of months, I have been fine tuning my Photoshop abilities, thus am able to control between layers, masking and the various Photoshop adjustments. These are my tools. You just need to keep trying, if you are to learn these tools and not give in to bad lighting, etc. That's how I learn also.

I came up with this :dunno:

What I did was
1. A layer of B&W R:59 Y:41 G:-80 C:85 B:2 M:96. The reason for this was getting rid of the distracting green. I applied this 80% to the layer, which leaves 20% of colour.
2. A layer with Vibrance -14 Saturation -56, masked onto the grass area because there is still too much green for my liking
3. Because #1, too much colour reduced from the Biopolis signage area. I added back Vibrance +26 Saturation +27 to just this area, excluding all the grass and trees.
4. S Curves. This darkened the grass area (you can see, I really dislike the grass)
5. Picture is too dark now so I have to compensate with Brightness, especially on the Biopolis signage area.
6. Finally a warming filter added on for the final Sepia-ish look.

C&C please. I always like criticism, as it makes me improve.

::edit:: notice two patches in grass not covered in #2 which I have corrected. This was pretty much just a quickie demo; if I were doing a full pic, I try to be more careful, plus I'd probably be doing a exposure blending to correct the sky properly.

I prefer the original with full colour, either there's colour or no colour.

Edit; But if it's B/W, I think the lightest yellow filter would work better than the rest of the colours.

 

[sujaymallesh]

Thanks for the comments Jonathan and iszan... Yes I really got to control my PP... Anyways it was fun... And for #1 I did replace the background with blue... light up the whole image by dodge and playing around with curves...

 

[sinned79]

just a suggestion. By changing the place where you stand and shoot (to the blue arrows as suggested) , this will change your composition and may improve the photo to make it better.

 

[wildcat]

I prefer the original with full colour, either there's colour or no colour.

Edit; But if it's B/W, I think the lightest yellow filter would work better than the rest of the colours.

Yep, there's no right or wrong, only personal preferences and my point is, having a set of tools on hand will allow one to have wider possibilities. I could, for example, also have done a selective exposure blending and just take out all the green colour... more difficult as individually masking the grass out may not be straightforward.

Thanks for the comments also

 

[articulate]

Yep, there's no right or wrong, only personal preferences and my point is, having a set of tools on hand will allow one to have wider possibilities. I could, for example, also have done a selective exposure blending and just take out all the green colour... more difficult as individually masking the grass out may not be straightforward.

Thanks for the comments also

Hey don't thank me, I have no idea what it is you just said with all this blending/masking/layers etc etc. When I said yellow filter for B/W, I really put on a yellow filter on my lens and take an exposure on my B/W film. ;p

But I think that is possible on all pp programs too? I know Picasa can.

 

[wildcat]

Hey don't thank me, I have no idea what it is you just said with all this blending/masking/layers etc etc. When I said yellow filter for B/W, I really put on a yellow filter on my lens and take an exposure on my B/W film. ;p

But I think that is possible on all pp programs too? I know Picasa can.

As I don't take film, probably can take my words with a pinch of salt, but my fav are those taken with velvia film, and I like the punch given by high ISO film also, which probably explains the direction my post processing generally head toward. Yep, I heard about the yellow filter for B&W films too. I'm a big fan of Ansel Adams. If I can, I try to emulate but I am far far away from anywhere even remotely like his pictures.

 

[trueno84]

Wow seems like cleonbus outing is so much fun ^^ good job buddy! Would join you guys soon!

 

[skylover]

just a suggestion. By changing the place where you stand and shoot (to the blue arrows as suggested) , this will change your composition and may improve the photo to make it better.

Thanks Sinned79. Will take note of that. Next time if I come across something similar will try a different angle.

Yep, there's no right or wrong, only personal preferences and my point is, having a set of tools on hand will allow one to have wider possibilities. I could, for example, also have done a selective exposure blending and just take out all the green colour... more difficult as individually masking the grass out may not be straightforward.

Thanks for the comments also

No doubt about that. PS has a lot of tools which I have not yet fully explore yet. There are still many things that can be done with PS just that I may not have discover all of them. I think its a possible area to look into. Worth trying after all. It does no harm learning/discovering something new.

Everybody has different preferences which is a good thing as I believe it gives more choices or solution to the person to choose from the next time he/she encounter something similar. No harm gathering all the feedback and see which one fits the person style or improve on oneself ability to do things. ^^ :devil:

 

[cleonbus]

Wow seems like cleonbus outing is so much fun ^^ good job buddy! Would join you guys soon!

But if you keep 'shooting' me then not fun liao

 

[articulate]

As I don't take film, probably can take my words with a pinch of salt, but my fav are those taken with velvia film, and I like the punch given by high ISO film also, which probably explains the direction my post processing generally head toward. Yep, I heard about the yellow filter for B&W films too. I'm a big fan of Ansel Adams. If I can, I try to emulate but I am far far away from anywhere even remotely like his pictures.

But Velvia is a very slow film. ISO 50 IIRC and it's also slide film, so naturally it's brilliant. I'm trying to find Velvia in Singapore to shoot, but impossible to find zz.

You can d/l Picasa and try the filters(just a suggestion, I don't use PP programs except Picasa to occasionally run a few photos through the Filtered B/W converter to see the result before I shoot), I usually use yellow, green or red and that also depends which set I use(my Nikon or Pentax), B/W filters hard to find now and so damned expensive, I only have a few here and there.

Ansel Adams is one of a kind, that is genius, everyone also far far away so don't worry ;p I even heard there were people who get scientists to predict the weather conditions shown in Ansel's photos and go to the exact same spot and take photos. Also not the same.

 

[Scoop]

Really encouraged to see that the group has been progressing good job guys!

 

[Jonathan Ang]

Part 2: Biopolis

#1 - Biopolis

#2 - Let's Walk Together

Okay...that's that. #2 was unfortunate, didnt expect them to come walking. Prefer the one with people rather than without, but ideally I would have given them space for walking - if anyone within earshot heard me talking about this. But then again...this twists the viewers mind of time and space, giving a peculiar sense of dimensions. Thus, pass for me :thumbsup:

 

[skylover]

Part 2: Biopolis

#1 - Biopolis

#2 - Let's Walk Together

Okay...that's that. #2 was unfortunate, didnt expect them to come walking. Prefer the one with people rather than without, but ideally I would have given them space for walking - if anyone within earshot heard me talking about this. But then again...this twists the viewers mind of time and space, giving a peculiar sense of dimensions. Thus, pass for me :thumbsup:

I like #01. The way you PP it was great. I believe it was burn and dodge method. Darken the four corner and brighten and adding more contrast to the words. Good one.

#02 it would be great if its an animal like bird, mouse or sth. since the yellow leading lines are leading the way up... human legs.. :think: kinda of weird, juz personal preference.

overall good job. Keep shooting and not forgetting to share.. ^^

 

[sinned79]

I like #01. The way you PP it was great. I believe it was burn and dodge method. Darken the four corner and brighten and adding more contrast to the words. Good one.

now u know why i suggest try shoot at a different angle instead of head on? ;p

usually signages, avoid head on shots... cos its boring and become like a snap shot.

 

[skylover]

now u know why i suggest try shoot at a different angle instead of head on? ;p

usually signages, avoid head on shots... cos its boring and become like a snap shot.

hahah.. yes yes.. shall not do that next time.. :embrass:

 

[Jonathan Ang]

I like #01. The way you PP it was great. I believe it was burn and dodge method. Darken the four corner and brighten and adding more contrast to the words. Good one.

#02 it would be great if its an animal like bird, mouse or sth. since the yellow leading lines are leading the way up... human legs.. :think: kinda of weird, juz personal preference.

overall good job. Keep shooting and not forgetting to share.. ^^

Thanks bro. #01 didn't use dodge and burn, simple S-curves and add vignetting, a little vibrance n saturation. Pull greens down slightly (wanted to pull more but decided not too).

haha, can't help #2, no time to wait for a bird to come :O, the shot with no human legs just not so interesting, so it probably goes to the bin

now u know why i suggest try shoot at a different angle instead of head on? ;p

usually signages, avoid head on shots... cos its boring and become like a snap shot.

Yeah, agree, it's seldom shot head on unless you want to shoot documentary style (meaning you have to shoot everything in context, including the background etc)

so my advice? shoot one subject in various angles, including head-on..

like i just came back from japan, not every shot is (to me lah) of photographic value or that it suits my style, but take anyway for e purpose of documenting the place esp for my family & friends:heart: and shots to poison people here to go japan :devil:

 

[trau-nuoc]

Hi All,

Here're 2 pic at Biopolis

#1



#2



Just make a crop in LR. Appreciate all comments. Thanks.