[MGohzxc] APWP - Singapore is Beautiful
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MGohzxc
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Hi Manita,
#80 works for me. Great.
If I have not mistaken, it's taken @ labrador park? If so, you have done a good job cleaning up the horizon.
Hi chiangkxv, thanks and glad this work for you. Yes is at Labrador park. Quite difficult to compose the shot there and too many things in the background and wanted to go down but tide was too high. Here is another one. Thanks again.
#83
*stormbringer*
PS: Could not think of a title for this.. So my brother came up with this one. he said is a rock song by "Deep Purple".. enjoy...
#84
*centigrade*
Your brother must have suggested "Smoke on the water" & "Fire in the sky" respectively.
edutilos-
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Manita, there is too much play with color balance - I think you are just whacking the magenta/blue tones really too hard - good light can provide a strong cast, that is right - but that's really too overdone for me.
Also, don't get too carried away with just photoshopping a picture up to perfection. The picture's crux always, always lies in the composition - perhaps some self-critique of the 2 very colorful pictures, whether the placement of your key elements, inclusion, perspective, etc are optimal would be good to identify the issues here.
Also, don't get too carried away with just photoshopping a picture up to perfection. The picture's crux always, always lies in the composition - perhaps some self-critique of the 2 very colorful pictures, whether the placement of your key elements, inclusion, perspective, etc are optimal would be good to identify the issues here.
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MGohzxc
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Hi Edutilos, thanks for dropping by and thanks for the C&C. Just got back from school after supplementary classes. As always, I will read a few times before replying.
I always like your C&C because they are truthful and meant a lot to me to improve myself. As for photoshopping, yes, sometimes I get carried away up to the point of say near perfection and I know is not good. It is also because at the same time I am learning poster design and in forums with such group in the USA and photoshop is important for such poster designing. So I maybe influenced by that but not so much for the two pictures "fury" and "centigrade" that is shown here.
On that sunset day, the sky changes the light too many times and are shown in my raw files. I was very careful not to over do this two photos and if I remember what I did was just to de-noise, correct lens distortion,saturate and add vibrance slightly, add a GND for the sky to balance the whole photos, shadow and highlight, apply different sharpening and finally crop. Maybe a few more things I cannot remember.
I honestly tell you that self critique is so difficult for me and sometimes I feel so disappointed with myself. The number one thing on my mind is composition, subject and perspective. When I don't really get all this, my keyboard and mouse start to move so fast in photoshop. For this two colorful photos, the elements or subject is not quite there but honestly don't fit into perspective and angles and leading lines are not quite right and not to my liking too. The only thing was really the sky that was amazing and I don't really know how to explain the colors before I even start to process.
By now, I have been in photography about one year now and I am able to identify some issues a little more.. I think so. I really love landscape and seascape photography because of the wonderful of colors and perspective that is so amazing and breathtaking. I want to explain more in my heart but I don't know how to put it in words. I am always so excited every time I get to go out and shoot sunset or sunrise and also get carried away taking too many shots like in Punggol, so many rocks and some of them are so beautiful.
For this 2 pictures, I want to send you the files to take a look and maybe you can help me with this.
Thanks so much....
I always like your C&C because they are truthful and meant a lot to me to improve myself. As for photoshopping, yes, sometimes I get carried away up to the point of say near perfection and I know is not good. It is also because at the same time I am learning poster design and in forums with such group in the USA and photoshop is important for such poster designing. So I maybe influenced by that but not so much for the two pictures "fury" and "centigrade" that is shown here.
On that sunset day, the sky changes the light too many times and are shown in my raw files. I was very careful not to over do this two photos and if I remember what I did was just to de-noise, correct lens distortion,saturate and add vibrance slightly, add a GND for the sky to balance the whole photos, shadow and highlight, apply different sharpening and finally crop. Maybe a few more things I cannot remember.
I honestly tell you that self critique is so difficult for me and sometimes I feel so disappointed with myself. The number one thing on my mind is composition, subject and perspective. When I don't really get all this, my keyboard and mouse start to move so fast in photoshop. For this two colorful photos, the elements or subject is not quite there but honestly don't fit into perspective and angles and leading lines are not quite right and not to my liking too. The only thing was really the sky that was amazing and I don't really know how to explain the colors before I even start to process.
By now, I have been in photography about one year now and I am able to identify some issues a little more.. I think so. I really love landscape and seascape photography because of the wonderful of colors and perspective that is so amazing and breathtaking. I want to explain more in my heart but I don't know how to put it in words. I am always so excited every time I get to go out and shoot sunset or sunrise and also get carried away taking too many shots like in Punggol, so many rocks and some of them are so beautiful.
For this 2 pictures, I want to send you the files to take a look and maybe you can help me with this.
Thanks so much....
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Dear Manita, I've been following this thread for sometime but have never commented... but here goes nothing! you're obviously very well versed in photoshop as shown by your many B&W pictures here.. but i think you overdid it abit in #81. i maybe wrong but is the bright patch just above the horizon a result of cloning out elements in the background (i know labrador park has a pretty cluttered background)? for me it kind of spoils the nice tonal "spread" (dunno what's the proper way of saying this) of the rest of the photo (too abrupt).
I've to agree with edutilos with regards to #82 & #84 (can't see #83 for some reason) - i feel you may have overdone the saturation/vibrance adjustments, the bluish clouds are rather disturbing to me. Did you use a cokin/Tianya GND/ND filter for these shots? that maybe part of the reason for the strong magenta cast in the pictures. have been struggling with this myself :cry: i can see what you trying to achieve with this shot... the sky is indeed spectacular, but IMHO the foreground didn't work too well.
overall i think you're a tremendously talented photographer to be producing pictures of such quality at your tender age... i wish i only had a fraction of your talent & obvious dedication to improve! kudos & keep shooting! :thumbsup:
disclaimer: I'm not expert... only just picked up photography abt a year ago to take pictures of my naughty puppy! pls take all my hopefully constructive critique with a huge pinch of salt! cheers
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MGohzxc
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Hi Stuck, thanks for the C&C and definitely appreciated. I can only learn and improve with such critiques.
For #81, yes is in Labrador and actually is one of my favorite. This one is a digital manipulation or digital art and is a process I am still learning to improve more. The motion of the clouds and water helps to isolate the subject. The gradual white patch is actually natural sunlight and therefore creating this silhouette of the subject or buoy giving a minimalist process. Without it, the subject will be too dark and too blend with the rest of the tones. I can be 100% sure that you will never see the cloning even if zoom in.
For #82 and #84, I am only using the ND filters and the LEE GND always no stock. I am also very confuse now and really did not push anything hard in processing or maybe there is something gone wrong during shooting. Yes i agree is not a good foreground and I realize using the amazing sky for such composition does not work as well. Silly of me.
I have seen your thread before and not bad at all.
Thanks so much....
For #81, yes is in Labrador and actually is one of my favorite. This one is a digital manipulation or digital art and is a process I am still learning to improve more. The motion of the clouds and water helps to isolate the subject. The gradual white patch is actually natural sunlight and therefore creating this silhouette of the subject or buoy giving a minimalist process. Without it, the subject will be too dark and too blend with the rest of the tones. I can be 100% sure that you will never see the cloning even if zoom in.
For #82 and #84, I am only using the ND filters and the LEE GND always no stock. I am also very confuse now and really did not push anything hard in processing or maybe there is something gone wrong during shooting. Yes i agree is not a good foreground and I realize using the amazing sky for such composition does not work as well. Silly of me.
I have seen your thread before and not bad at all.
Thanks so much....
ovaltinemilo
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#81
This is sooo peaceful.....Very beautiful...
#82, #84 seems to be too strong on colours for me...
MGohzxc
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Hi Ortega, thanks for visiting. Yes I learn the word conceptualize and understand it when I started to learn poster designing and agree that photoshop is just a tool but a very important tool. Thanks again.
MGohzxc
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