giantcanopy
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# 129
Back to the cable car. station
Back to the cable car. station
Memories of Hokkaido
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giantcanopy
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#130
Shot through the thick tinted glass of the cable car.
Very good view of the surrounding valley
Shot through the thick tinted glass of the cable car.
Very good view of the surrounding valley
night86mare
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some very nice landscapes here, ryan.. still prefer them to the "selective focus" ts shots.. i guess it is possibly because you did not want to switch lens and miss the moment, but at some points a normal lens is probably better.. 
giantcanopy
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some very nice landscapes here, ryan.. still prefer them to the "selective focus" ts shots.. i guess it is possibly because you did not want to switch lens and miss the moment, but at some points a normal lens is probably better..
I agree on that. Some times I look back things could have definitely been done differently!
Ryan
emlee
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#128
Backposting a shot before the cable car ride up Bear farm
- The Oyu Numagawa stream - pretty hot water, but tourists will soon get used to this nice warm soak within this lovely forested path. BTW it is supposed to be medicinal.
The surrounding steam created a nice fogged effect. I did not bother to sharpen this shot.
Taken with a VariND, and a GND to hold back the top - but still blew the highlights on the top. ( The legs of my tripod of course having a nice soak as well ! ) The surrounding foliage created a strong green color cast over the water body that made correction a little tricky, but decided to leave abit of the hues as such.
... and a good choice indeed. The softness and the green cast makes this picture unique in it's own rights. :thumbsup:
giantcanopy
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Thx emlee for the thumbs up
:bsmilie: Zoossh is my original inspiration as well
Yes most of my panoramic landscape shots were taken with a tripod. I haven gone for a trip without one
Ryan
giantcanopy
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#131
The road that leads u to the chair lift
Probably one of the odd ball processing with a shady WB
The road that leads u to the chair lift
Probably one of the odd ball processing with a shady WB
giantcanopy
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#132
And yet another
And yet another
giantcanopy
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# 133
Genie In A Lightbox
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Ryan, the buildings in pic #131-133 looks like miniature models! How do you achieve that effect? Very interesting perspective!
Btw are your panoroma and stitch photos taken with PC lens or normal wide lens?
Btw are your panoroma and stitch photos taken with PC lens or normal wide lens?
giantcanopy
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Hi Genie In A Lightbox
#131-133 were taken with a PC lens, the tilt with a wide aperture created the mininaturisation. I took them when I was up on the cable car. but you can kind of do a close mimic of the effect with postprocessing on a normally taken photo actually
My panoramas are mostly taken with a PC lens and mostly with a tripod
Ryan
lightrules
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OKay
Thats it !
I am buying a Tilt shift lens
anyone wants to sell a 24mm TSE pls contact me
cant stand this anymore
Thanks Ryan ;D
You poisoned me
Thats it !
I am buying a Tilt shift lens
anyone wants to sell a 24mm TSE pls contact me
cant stand this anymore
Thanks Ryan ;D
You poisoned me
wishxtreme
Senior Member
You can use a gradient and lens blur effect in photoshop to create such miniature look.
giantcanopy
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Hi Tommy
Haha one evening of poisoning.
Thanks for sharing with me ur vast experience as well!
Will look forward to wat u will be coming up with for ur portraits and wedding shots man
Ryan
Yup . To really replicate the effect u probably need more than just that. I have seen some posted overseas that looked really like the real thing that on close scrutiny i cannot tell as well
Ryan
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Able to share the link? Been researching on this online but can't find any of really top top quality.
giantcanopy
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Hi Pokka. I have never done any processed T/S so I do not know how it is done, but from my observations it seems there is a little distortion ( like a sort of lateral stretching ) at the bokeh ends, and more pronounced blur at the ends. ( I feel ) Usually the bokeh is a little harsh unlike the PS blur that you typically get. It might not be as simple as applying lens blur effect.
Did not save the link though, was on one of the many flickr pics I browsed some time back
Ryan
Genie In A Lightbox
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Thanks for the tip, Ryan. You have a really useful lens in your collection.
Regarding the stitch and panos, what kind of challenges are there if we shoot with a 20 or 28mm lens instead of PC lens? I assume you chose PC lens to shoot those awesome pics for a reason right? :lovegrin:
giantcanopy
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# 134
Before we start seeing the ones that roam about the park, we had a look at the ones framed for display
There is a bear museum. Lots of stuffed teddy bears and also pictures of how previous tribes in japan hunt bears and skin them for food and fur!
Before we start seeing the ones that roam about the park, we had a look at the ones framed for display
There is a bear museum. Lots of stuffed teddy bears and also pictures of how previous tribes in japan hunt bears and skin them for food and fur!
giantcanopy
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I got the lenses mainly for the quirkey tilt / increasing DOF , and correcting *falling* buildings. The idea of stitching them using shift to take panoramas came shortly after.
With a wide angle prime be sure to take with plenty of overlaps. The panorama software that stitches pictures will probably have to de-distort the pictures with wide angle shots, and the resultant dedistorted pictures can have lots of blank spaces at the corners. Many ppl end up with having to crop a small strip in the centre. ( With non PC lenses usually I take abit extra but I still run into problems of short falls at times from poor estimation ) You can try to take a few shots of say ur room and try to stitch and see what I mean
Ryan
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