CEBU & DAVAO: Landscapes, Seascapes, my Second Home


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gregie27 said:
SHORE ON MONO
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did you blur the water in PP?
 

HTCahHTC said:
did you blur the water in PP?
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no sir this is done using long exposure stacked nd400, cpl and .3 nd grad se.
manual m
exp - 60"
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gregie27 said:
no sir this is done using long exposure stacked nd400, cpl and .3 nd grad se.
manual m
exp - 60"
f22 @ 14mm
iso 50
time 11:30 am
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haha. okay okay. it looked abit 'suspicious' (wondering if it's long exposure or PP), hence the question. hoped you dont mind!
 

I Like the pics you have posted.. I'd have processed it to have less colour saturation but thats just me. Strong saturations are ok but not too much though. =)

With that being said.. Nice work.
 

HTCahHTC said:
haha. okay okay. it looked abit 'suspicious' (wondering if it's long exposure or PP), hence the question. hoped you dont mind!
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no wories sir:)

@draken4130 yeah im looking at the set at bogo will try to redo all of them. thanks again sir:)
 

gregie27 said:
ow so 2 weeks? then i assume your just fairly new to this hobby and your making strong judgments already:) by the way i saw your "humble works" and they are nice i also rest my case, kindly research on "rule of thirds" that's a good read:thumbsup:
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my experience with DSLR is 2 weeks.

but my experience with cams is definitely more then that. :)

and yeah i know about the rule of thirds but sometimes i dun wish to be restricted by rules. :)
 

Nice overall but HDR seems a little over..

Just my 2 cents worth :)
 

sinned79 said:
my experience with DSLR is 2 weeks.

but my experience with cams is definitely more then that. :)

and yeah i know about the rule of thirds but sometimes i dun wish to be restricted by rules. :)
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whatever you say bud and good for you:)
 

gregie27 said:
SAMAL TAXI
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thanks for looking:)
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i love this very much! Its better then the first few. :thumbsup: makes me feel like going onboard the boat haha.

by the way when u take this pictures, is the weather not so good? Cloudy?

A bit off topic, u stay there or u go there for leisure (if so how much is the costs)? Cos i planning to go cebu one of these days. :D
 

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@gregie27 i like most of your shots and i agree with you that it depends on a photographer what he wants to portray. im also from cebu :) though im not good as you. still learning this art. it is really nice you shared your photos. i have some shots found here. you are free to cc. happy shooting
 

thinkspace said:
@gregie27 i like most of your shots and i agree with you that it depends on a photographer what he wants to portray. im also from cebu :) though im not good as you. still learning this art. it is really nice you shared your photos. i have some shots found here. you are free to cc. happy shooting
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saw your portfolio bro, and i like them specially the kawasan falls, moalboal and the hut! are they hdrs? for me i have nothing against them i like hdrs,lucis art but as they say too much is not that good to look at. but who are we to judge hey..:) just some cc the saturation on the blues is a bit strong you might want to tone it down a little.:thumbsup:

recently i received some advice to tone down on the curves, selective saturation, and the vibrance blending sliders, i wanted less blues on the horizon. i think they are right on this one. we are all learning here's what i did. thanks for looking.:)

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thanks bro, ill take your advice. btw, great photo!

gregie27 said:
saw your portfolio bro, and i like them specially the kawasan falls, moalboal and the hut! are they hdrs? for me i have nothing against them i like hdrs,lucis art but as they say too much is not that good to look at. but who are we to judge hey..:) just some cc the saturation on the blues is a bit strong you might want to tone it down a little.:thumbsup:

recently i received some advice to tone down on the curves, selective saturation, and the vibrance blending sliders, i wanted less blues on the horizon. i think they are right on this one. we are all learning here's what i did. thanks for looking.:)

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gregie27 said:
thanks for the comments sir. i do believe we have our own way and means of expressing art. Be it HDR, lucis art, purists etc...that's the art i know. :) This is HDR and i used 3 diff exposures using photomatix pro and enhanced further using PScs4.

with regards to that "creepiness" that you feel. That is actually one of the feelings i want to portray to the viewers of this pic. Thanks for confirming to that.:)

I would love to learn from you and see your portfolio sir. We are all students will be on the look out.:)
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that is such a weak defense, because in that case, to be crude to put my point across, a bird with diarrhoea can be an artist, if you catch my drift. not just a bird in fact, anything with diarrhoea can produce art. a stepped on earthworm is art too.

these are in no way aesthetic, half the time i cannot see what is going on, it is horribly overdone.

i came in hoping to see nice pictures, because cebu has always produced very nice outputs from the photographers i had viewed previously.

sure, you are entitled to your "this is art" piece, but in the end if you are the sole man standing with maybe 1 or 2 people who also want to be ultimate bohemians, then perhaps it is time to rethink what it is that you are doing wrong in terms of general appeal. if you still find it appealing, then maybe it is best not to post it up and agitate yourself because you aren't going to get good comments from many. after all, people have always been given an automatic license to comment on art.

this is overdone hdr, oversharpened, overcontrasted, oversaturated. it is what i abhor. you are more than welcome to view my gallery in my signature. do you really mean what you say? a true open mind takes all opinions into considerations, with the given that intentions are good. have you done that?

other than oversharpening and overcontrasting and oversaturation, overdone hdr tends to suffer from problematic hierarchy of light, there are too many here to give detailed comments (another thing overdone hdr people usually do, it seems to come hand in hand).. what i mean is that your scene suffers from stray alien light that spotlights random elements in the wrong order, not what the eye sees.

let's just look at "peeking" in detail - the foreground rocks are brighter than the sky. was there a gigantic spotlight on these rocks at that time?

if you want to see nicely done surrealism in this style, the best i can think of is dave hill photography. you can google to see what i mean. that is art, it has direction, there is purpose. there is previsualisation with an end result in mind, and the artist knows clearly what he is doing, what he sought out to attain and he has done it. the key difference is thought.
 

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wow sir, i didn't say any bad comments here. why are you acting like that?! with the way your talking its as if your already great when you started out in photography.:) im not having a fight with anyone here:) im just sharing my pictures just like you. with that in mind i salute your greatness:)

and the way you give your comments, its just very helpful and i can see what type of person you are. this thread can be filled with your negativity or ill just post what i learn and still what i want to learn.:) thanks you sir.
 

gregie27 said:
and the way you give your comments, its just very helpful and i can see what type of person you are. this thread can be filled with your negativity or ill just post what i learn and still what i want to learn.:) thanks you sir.
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it's alright, you have an open mind.

:) i have no intentions of putting anyone down, but the ones who claim to be producing art, usually have a problem with my bluntness. the overdefensiveness here is killing me, i need no part of that, i'm not even sure why i bother commenting at all sometimes.

have a nice day, and cheers.
 

night86mare said:
that is such a weak defense, because in that case, to be crude to put my point across, a bird with diarrhoea can be an artist, if you catch my drift. not just a bird in fact, anything with diarrhoea can produce art. a stepped on earthworm is art too.

these are in no way aesthetic, half the time i cannot see what is going on, it is horribly overdone.

i came in hoping to see nice pictures, because cebu has always produced very nice outputs from the photographers i had viewed previously.

sure, you are entitled to your "this is art" piece, but in the end if you are the sole man standing with maybe 1 or 2 people who also want to be ultimate bohemians, then perhaps it is time to rethink what it is that you are doing wrong in terms of general appeal. if you still find it appealing, then maybe it is best not to post it up and agitate yourself because you aren't going to get good comments from many. after all, people have always been given an automatic license to comment on art.

this is overdone hdr, oversharpened, overcontrasted, oversaturated. it is what i abhor. you are more than welcome to view my gallery in my signature. do you really mean what you say? a true open mind takes all opinions into considerations, with the given that intentions are good. have you done that?

other than oversharpening and overcontrasting and oversaturation, overdone hdr tends to suffer from problematic hierarchy of light, there are too many here to give detailed comments (another thing overdone hdr people usually do, it seems to come hand in hand).. what i mean is that your scene suffers from stray alien light that spotlights random elements in the wrong order, not what the eye sees.

let's just look at "peeking" in detail - the foreground rocks are brighter than the sky. was there a gigantic spotlight on these rocks at that time?

if you want to see nicely done surrealism in this style, the best i can think of is dave hill photography. you can google to see what i mean. that is art, it has direction, there is purpose. there is previsualisation with an end result in mind, and the artist knows clearly what he is doing, what he sought out to attain and he has done it. the key difference is thought.
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sometimes sir it helps if we look back to how we started in this hobby. :) im no professional like you but i'm proud and willing to share what i've done so far. your talent is far greater than mine i admit that, but being pompous in giving your comments instead of giving constructive criticisms is i think everyone, how do you say it? yeah.. abhors:)
 

gregie27 said:
sometimes sir it helps if we look back to how we started in this hobby. :) im no professional like you but i'm proud and willing to share what i've done so far. your talent is far greater than mine i admit that, but being pompous in giving your comments instead of giving constructive criticisms is i think everyone, how do you say it? yeah.. abhors:)
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night86mare said:
a true open mind takes all opinions into considerations, with the given that intentions are good. have you done that?

other than oversharpening and overcontrasting and oversaturation, overdone hdr tends to suffer from problematic hierarchy of light, there are too many here to give detailed comments (another thing overdone hdr people usually do, it seems to come hand in hand).. what i mean is that your scene suffers from stray alien light that spotlights random elements in the wrong order, not what the eye sees.

let's just look at "peeking" in detail - the foreground rocks are brighter than the sky. was there a gigantic spotlight on these rocks at that time?

if you want to see nicely done surrealism in this style, the best i can think of is dave hill photography. you can google to see what i mean. that is art, it has direction, there is purpose. there is previsualisation with an end result in mind, and the artist knows clearly what he is doing, what he sought out to attain and he has done it. the key difference is thought.
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:nono:

you quote the post, but you didn't read it. all that is stuck in your head is abhors. :)

how did i start out? i started out full of myself. someone told me off here, and i became more anal about what i did. and i hope to pass it on. the world is full of great photographers, i would not consider myself even mediocre. these are the real professionals:

adam burton
jay patel
lee frost
marc adamus
patrick di frusica
david clapp

btw, marc adamus has gotten his works slammed on fredmiranda (an international forum) before, he took it in stride because the comments were not invalid. if even he can accept negative comments on his photos.. then i think anyone here should and can take any opinion into consideration, because the person has bothered to give an exchange of ideas.

do i respect you as a person? i would like to think that i do, because i took the time to type out a post which is more than just "good", "thumbs up" or "horrible", "ugly".. but you can just choose to see "abhors".. but in time, ask yourself whether i do seem like i gain anything out of putting anyone else down.
 

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