Sarajevo to South Dalmatia rejoiced (H series)
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zoossh
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#68
expression says it all. war gallery at dubrovnik depicts the siege by serb-
backed montegrins in 1991. there is hardly anyone in this gallery at the
top of the hill and the quietness really suits the atmosphere and dignity
it should have. rest of dubrovnik is really quite touristy.
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zoossh
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#71
we found two glass bottles and a glass at the top of the hill of the Kovači
Martyrs' memorial cemetery at sarajevo. unsure if this is similar to the
chinese practice of offerings to the deceased. the light is great, and i got
plenty of variations of exposure and a slight variety of composition, before
selecting one.
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zoossh
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#73
a boy on the boat on krka river, near skradinski buk. i crop the top to achieve a better
composition as removal of the top of the hair and the space above will help to partition
the frame into 3 parts. nonetheless maybe i should have crop the right too. i made eye
contact with the boy and his father, distance maybe about 3-4m or so. i'm on the right
side of the small ferry while he is at the edge of the boat on the left, half the face
bathed in sunlight.
due to the movement of the ferry, i made the aperture at f/2.8, caught a smile and eye
contact but one of the eye is not in focus. had 3 shots and picked this one if not for
the bad focusing of the other. the contrasty tone across the face was post processed
to reduce the harsh differences.
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asterixsg
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zoossh,
i haven't been active in 2009 and now i am going through all the travel threads of 2009...
sorry that it took me a while to go through your entire thread and comment.
i dunno why you feel that this was not a productive trip. each location is different, so your output is also going to be different.
let me boost your ego a bit. you are a master of composition and post processing. you bring ordinary subjects of daily life and put them on a throne. you have a hawk's eye and you see what most people don't. the colors in your photos are so vibrant, the post processing is so subtle, that i know the photos have been PP'd thoroughly (they are definitely not straight out of the camera in most cases), yet makes me fall in love with it. it feels so natural, that i could almost reach out and touch the subject.
when i was going through the photos, i was making mental notes of the photo #s that were my favourites. finally, i gave up. there were too many of them.
thoroughly enjoyed this series, and i know you are not yet done. keep them coming. :thumbsup:
i haven't been active in 2009 and now i am going through all the travel threads of 2009...
sorry that it took me a while to go through your entire thread and comment.
i dunno why you feel that this was not a productive trip. each location is different, so your output is also going to be different.
let me boost your ego a bit. you are a master of composition and post processing. you bring ordinary subjects of daily life and put them on a throne. you have a hawk's eye and you see what most people don't. the colors in your photos are so vibrant, the post processing is so subtle, that i know the photos have been PP'd thoroughly (they are definitely not straight out of the camera in most cases), yet makes me fall in love with it. it feels so natural, that i could almost reach out and touch the subject.
when i was going through the photos, i was making mental notes of the photo #s that were my favourites. finally, i gave up. there were too many of them.
thoroughly enjoyed this series, and i know you are not yet done. keep them coming. :thumbsup:
zoossh
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#75
port of Šibenik. this is enroute to krka national park and the stopover here is becos
we need to change bus here and also meant to shoot the magnificient exterior of
st james cathedral, whose sheer size bewitches me. that said, i've not been to italy
and elsewhere which i might see grander churches. however due to tight itinerary,
expensive accom (cheapest 100euro per double) and the intial thought that there is
no leave luggage service, we have plan little for sibenik and have to rush for limited
bus trip to skradin. otherwise sibenik is not bad.
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zoossh
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sadly, i only got a single trip in 2009.
think i have set the standard of my first trip in india as the mid-high output, and as such, that is so far my best in terms of consistency of fresh and good takes, and of cos plenty of happy portraits. my subsequent trips start to form fixed patterns which i can't help. and the weather in north india in jan is probably so good that is why i kept shooting. whereas for my other trips, i wasted a lot of time not shooting either due to mountain sickness or hot weather. i have confidence in the places i picked, just that the weather is too hot (u dun explore, u dun get refreshing shots)..... and of cos, portraits in the west is not as easy as it is in the east.
they can be reached out becos they are often shot at very close distances, whether wide angle or not. the colors takes on a different look not just becos of pp, but becos i used GND so frequently, that i managed to preserve the hue for some pictures (tonal and color latitude). of cos, if i can, i would want both colors and details, something that bryan definitely does it far better and i wish i can shoot like him (far more natural).
and thanks for your compliments, but dun worry, i'm neither humble or lack of confidence, but i set a higher (achievable) target for myself. well, i do like ppl to tell me what they like or what they do not like about each of the pictures (i dun have to agree but would like to know), which is why i prefer a forum thread, not a gallery, and not a flickr (dunno why every one in flickr only praises and seldom criticise.
i saved images i like. and would like to introduce this guy (sounds russian) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nygus/. i find a lot of similarities the way we frame, shoot, and process. we probably did most of the things the same way, only that he shoots better and the places he goes, wow, so many...
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asterixsg
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zoossh,
Thanks for sharing your views. I like all your travel threads.
And I thoroughly admire what you see and shoot, because even if I would be at the same place as you, I wouldn't see the same thing and would never be able to compose the way you do. I love your photos, just like I adore nuts, hosea and a few others' work in this forum.
And the other thing is that I don't have a PP workflow, because I don't know where to start and where to end. The only thing I do is a bit of levels correction if the photo is underexposed and get rid of easy to remove dust spots. That's about it. I don't even fix a slight tilt in the horizon, because its too much work. If the tilt is bad, I junk the image. If its less than say 1 degree, I just live with that imperfection. This has brought some amount of discipline when I shoot. I bought a bunch of Photoshop books, but I simply don't get it. Reminds me of a famous quotation by a friend of mine - "I have no talent. That's why I have to work hard" :bsmilie:
Please do post more. I will be coming back to this thread again and again.
zoossh
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likewise, i will never shoot the passage of ecllipse like what you described last time and achieved on combined efforts in the other thread. but it sounds like a big ambition to do a series of that over famous landmarks all over the world... it probably will take a whole lifetime, but who knows, if u do that, u may become world famous photographer...
it's ok. but just rem to do that for your eclipse shot. they are precious.
asterixsg
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ha ha ha. its my friend Jiahao1986 who will be the world famous photographer. He comes up with these dream locations to shoot the eclipse (we talked about the Jan '10 eclipse in Aug '08 on our way back from China). He is my inspiration, and now I've started giving him ideas for the next few eclipses. :bsmilie:
That reminds me. I still have photos from my Aug '08 eclipse trip which I haven't processed because I don't know how to
Night !
zoossh
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That reminds me. I still have photos from my Aug '08 eclipse trip which I haven't processed because I don't know how to
Night !
will also wait for your aug trip eclipse pics
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