Delhi to Ladakh rejoiced (H series)

[night86mare]

GND. but i will sometimes further control the vignette on post processing due to laziness with using only a two stop GND.

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i am not sure what you are saying here.. this series seems to be getting the top portion "gnd" effect, right at the top quite a lot. :dunno:

layering + multiply can help to correct a lot of psuedo-detail problems. i cannot think of anything at all in the pp workflow i am familiar with that might result in such an effect coming about.

 

[zoossh]

#59

(80613 leh to pangong tso / 78 chang la / format i)

buddhist beaded necklace one of the monk are holding when we met in chang la

 

[zoossh]

i have recently been experimenting with correction of distortion in UWA for people shots on the street, etc.. for the times when you cannot avoid. have you considered stretching the photograph simply by increasing height while keeping width constant? this should correct the weirdness here. any further problematic things can be easily rectified with careful liquification.

yah, but there is volume lost when stretching and cropping back to the same aspect ratio, or if the aspect ratio need not be kept, if there is any skewing, there are still parts that need to be cropped. that seems to mean that some spaces need to be left for cropping in mind, but my brain cannot visualise in that manner.

so for the fun shots, i left them in distortion. for the shots where it is important not to have that much distortion, i start to go back further and shoot in 20mm.

 

[zoossh]

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i am not sure what you are saying here.. this series seems to be getting the top portion "gnd" effect, right at the top quite a lot. :dunno:

layering + multiply can help to correct a lot of psuedo-detail problems. i cannot think of anything at all in the pp workflow i am familiar with that might result in such an effect coming about.

what i mean is the proper way for controlling and balancing exposure is to take discretion whether the scene requires a 1, 2 or 3 stop filter, and then to decide how much of area to be covered. but for simplicity, i only use a 2 stop. for adjustment, i post processed. that is what i mean...

i dun quite get what is meant by pseudo detail, but anyway for the above, if u refer to the issue that the darkening on the topmost part of the photos are too dark at times, think u r rite... i may need to curb on my bad habits.

 

[CYRN]

yes i did.....and that trip was :thumbsup: and the same goes for your trip i'm sure, from the pic i have been admiring from afar

else we could have met today if not for something i had to attend to last minute....

nasi lemak? hmmm.....smells something fishy :think:

there is a different variety in ladakh, but the snow portion seems much better on the eastern tibetan part and the skin of the kids are also nicer... cyrn have so much good shots and i think cs is missing out on that...

Dun say until like tat leh...you haven't see the much better pics from the others.

Ladakh charms have been beautifully captured by you guys too.

 

[velasco]

hmm stunning series!

i love how the colors are so rich. what camera do you use?
ooh i like your stamp too, the japanes / korean imprints?

love it! haha

 

[zoossh]

i love how the colors are so rich. what camera do you use?

nikon D50 bought in late 2005, about 2 years old, which is why D80 seems so new to me. CS2 to convert raw. elements to process levels and others.

ooh i like your stamp too, the japanes / korean imprints?

it is supposed to mean freedom of the sandalwood tree, the mastiff and the big island, symbolic to cover three east asian cultures - the altaic, the tibeto-burmese and the yueh-malayo-polynesian, respectively covering the three kind of terrain in the steppe/desert, the highlands and the jungles/coast. cultures are not things that u see get categorised by imperialists, colonists and ultranationalists who distort history. cultures go very deep into the terrain, the language and the physical traits of the people who lived there.

but as you can see, the signature is getting too long. so i added chinese and japanese characters to complete the picture of the east asian family, but of cos i dun see the imminent problem of lack of freedom in the latter two, which thus is of lower priority in the transforming signature i carry.

 

[zoossh]

#60

(80611 leh / 58 shanti gompa / format i)

The Namgyal Tsemo Gompa above the town of Leh, Ladakh. AReality has got a better shot, probably also taken from shanti gompa. i didn't envision well in a panaromic crop and zoom in according to my 1.50 aspect ratio (3:2). As felt perpetually tired, nobody thought of going up from leh palace further up to the gompa.

 

[maameemoomoo]

Zoosh, awesome series! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Ladakh is one of my choices for next destination apart from Bhutan and Mongolia. Gonna research more to see which place is more appropriate based on our budget and time

 

[zoossh]

Zoosh, awesome series! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Ladakh is one of my choices for next destination apart from Bhutan and Mongolia. Gonna research more to see which place is more appropriate based on our budget and time

bhutan is not a budget backpacker location. there is a yearly quota for tourists (which means only a certain number of foreigners can enter bhutan) with a daily tariff of US$150-250 per day depending on season and size of tour group. i guess tony leung may have got married in bhutan for this reason... to shake off the paparazzi... my guess.

had a friend who plan to go mongolia but later dropped it cos too expensive for him (not sure how expensive), but definitely cheaper than bhutan. check out the season and climate though...

for me, my next photographic destination... maybe jilin and border with north korea.

 

[zoossh]

#61

one of the many shots taken at a fountain near india's gate. i'm totally unable to envision any originality or let alone satisfied cliche of the structure. to much dismay, i turn to look for alternative (i'm specifically looking for water bodies with intention in mind; the same some heads for kids playing with water at bugis junction) and found a lot of kids swimming in the pool next to the fountain which i supposed is not really for this function... but since it is scorching summer in india, who cares...

 

[maameemoomoo]

bhutan is not a budget backpacker location. there is a yearly quota for tourists (which means only a certain number of foreigners can enter bhutan) with a daily tariff of US$150-250 per day depending on season and size of tour group. i guess tony leung may have got married in bhutan for this reason... to shake off the paparazzi... my guess.

had a friend who plan to go mongolia but later dropped it cos too expensive for him (not sure how expensive), but definitely cheaper than bhutan. check out the season and climate though...

for me, my next photographic destination... maybe jilin and border with north korea.

Yeah i know about the daily tariff.. still trying to fit that in into the budget.

As for Mongolia, borrowed a couple of books and am reading it now. Will compare the prices of these 3 places and most importantly, see which one i like better after reading up

 

[zoossh]

Yeah i know about the daily tariff.. still trying to fit that in into the budget.

trying? let's assume US$200 a day including your other expenses like purchases. 10 days. US$2000=S$3k+. plus flight 4k over.

it can be considered if budget didn't appear anywhere out of your description but for that money, i personally think it is more worthwhile going to the rest of the world, e.g. central asia or south america.

i think the current policy is targetted at the well-off. the same with the restaurants... two of them may offer similar food and taste, but one of them packaged much much more expensively. if u like a luxurious and exotic holiday, all the neighbouring states would be able to offer it at a lesser cost. for the less explored areas, you can always choose arunachal pradesh in india, though less accessible.

 

[maameemoomoo]

I said based on 'our budget'.

I didn't exactly give an amount. A budget for different individuals differ and hence my budget may not be your budget?

Why get so worked out? :think:

 

[zoossh]

i'm not worked up. sorry if u read it that way. i just feel that this is a location suitable for those where travelling costs is not among the considerations.

 

[zoossh]

anyway hope to see your next travel thread.

#62

monks talking behind the pillar during morning puja...

 

[Ramius75]

very nice photos zoosh !!

always love ur colors and attention to details !!

thanks for sharing

 

[dannysantos]

I'm in love with this shot... good eye, man. It's a great capture.

do you mind if I ask what lens you were using on this one?



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[maameemoomoo]

No worries. Probably i read it the wrong way..

 

[zoossh]

I'm in love with this shot... good eye, man. It's a great capture.

do you mind if I ask what lens you were using on this one?



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nikkor AF-D 50mm f/1.8

but most of my shots are taken from talking distance, so 50mm becomes too near. a nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 or sigma 30mm f/1.4 may be my next consideration.