[Scintt] Random landscapes of Singapore

[Scintillation]

lovely streak of light and excellent ICM execution...

am seeing the light in SG are glorious...

well done mate..

Thanks ya! The sunset that day was really something to behold.

 

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62. Golden Crests

Golden Crests by Scintt, on Flickr

Sunset over Pandan Reservoir.​

 

[Rockyboy]

62. Golden Crests

Golden Crests by Scintt, on Flickr

Sunset over Pandan Reservoir.​

Beauty

 

[JulianCesc]

Very nice shots there, but one quick question! What is HDR? I see this acronym strewn all over the first page and am now thoroughly confused.

 

[Scintillation]

Very nice shots there, but one quick question! What is HDR? I see this acronym strewn all over the first page and am now thoroughly confused.

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It involves combining multiple shots of the same scene at varying exposure values (e.g. from -3ev to +3ev) in order to achieve a single scene with the greatest dynamic range (i.e. a scene where everything is properly exposed, from the highlights to the shadows).

Beauty

Thank you!

 

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63. Stadium Bridge

Stadium Bridge by Scintt, on Flickr​

 

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64. Gateway

Gateway by Scintt, on Flickr​

 

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65. Lambda

Lambda by Scintt, on Flickr​

 

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66. Eccentricity

Eccentricity by Scintt, on Flickr​

 

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67. Reach

Reach by Scintt, on Flickr​

 

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68. Flanked

Flanked by Scintt, on Flickr​

 

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69. Sway

Sway by Scintt, on Flickr

Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80/2.8​

 

[edutilos-]

62. Golden Crests

Golden Crests by Scintt, on Flickr

Sunset over Pandan Reservoir.​

Great sky. There is a need to control your use of HDR - the brightest point in the picture is the boardwalk. Given that yes, the sun seems to be obscured by clouds, but I guarantee you that the boardwalk is not the brightest point present in this scene. This gives rise to some amount of discomfort when examining the picture, since what I term the hierachy of light (where brightest is brightest, and darkest should remain as darkest) is disrupted.

Besides that, my feel about the composition is that the balance may seem a little right heavy at first, the sky helps this out somewhat. More importantly though, some amount of "space" should be given to the boardwalk area at the bottom right - shoving key elements in corners is almost always detrimental.

 

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63. Stadium Bridge

Stadium Bridge by Scintt, on Flickr​

I am thinking that there is use of GND here. The abrupt darkening of the bridge structure beyond the pathway can be quite disconcerting. I can see why you wish to retain more details in the sky, but perhaps simply exposing for the highlights and recovering some amount of shadow here would have been a better path.

I'm thinking that some amount of HDR is applied here already, looking at the characteristic "haloing" around the supporting lines of the bridge, but I could be wrong. It's hard to tell at this size. As a rule of thumb, it's not very advisable to use HDR for structures with distinct lines against the sky. You can just try it out on a backlit tree full of branches to get what I mean.

Perhaps panoramic technique could be employed to overcome the limitations of having to tilt your camera upwards to put everything you want into a single frame. Sicne you aren't using a long exposure here, cloud movement won't really be a problem - and you avoid the converging verticals present here.

Other than that, I like the idea of the leading line here, though perhaps something more "side on", just a tad gentler (moving to the left from where you were, slightly) would help to differentiate the two bridge supports along the way to the Indoor Stadium.

 

[Scintillation]

Great sky. There is a need to control your use of HDR - the brightest point in the picture is the boardwalk. Given that yes, the sun seems to be obscured by clouds, but I guarantee you that the boardwalk is not the brightest point present in this scene. This gives rise to some amount of discomfort when examining the picture, since what I term the hierachy of light (where brightest is brightest, and darkest should remain as darkest) is disrupted.

Besides that, my feel about the composition is that the balance may seem a little right heavy at first, the sky helps this out somewhat. More importantly though, some amount of "space" should be given to the boardwalk area at the bottom right - shoving key elements in corners is almost always detrimental.

Hi, first of all, thanks for the very detailed constructive feedback. I really appreciate it. I'm still experimenting with HDR, and am trying to achieve a natural result instead of a overly surrealistic picture. Still have much to explore in this area. Perhaps I should have included more of the buildings instead of concentrating on the sky too much.

I am thinking that there is use of GND here. The abrupt darkening of the bridge structure beyond the pathway can be quite disconcerting. I can see why you wish to retain more details in the sky, but perhaps simply exposing for the highlights and recovering some amount of shadow here would have been a better path.

I'm thinking that some amount of HDR is applied here already, looking at the characteristic "haloing" around the supporting lines of the bridge, but I could be wrong. It's hard to tell at this size. As a rule of thumb, it's not very advisable to use HDR for structures with distinct lines against the sky. You can just try it out on a backlit tree full of branches to get what I mean.

Perhaps panoramic technique could be employed to overcome the limitations of having to tilt your camera upwards to put everything you want into a single frame. Sicne you aren't using a long exposure here, cloud movement won't really be a problem - and you avoid the converging verticals present here.

Other than that, I like the idea of the leading line here, though perhaps something more "side on", just a tad gentler (moving to the left from where you were, slightly) would help to differentiate the two bridge supports along the way to the Indoor Stadium.

Ah, thanks for the suggestion of using a panoramic technique to overcome the problem of converging verticals. Upon closer inspection, maybe I shouldn't have gone for a HDR approach for this one. Kinda looks a little too artificial to me now. The GND effect is done in post-processing by the way.

As a sidenote, I really didn't expect you to take notice of my thread, haha. But I'm really grateful that you did drop by to take time to comment on my works.

 

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70. Gaze

Gaze by Scintt, on Flickr

Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80/2.8​

 

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71. Gaze

Gaze by Scintt, on Flickr

Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80/2.8​

 

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72. Gaze

Gaze by Scintt, on Flickr

Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80/2.8​

 

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73. Be on your way

Be on your way by Scintt, on Flickr
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74. Arbol (In Colour)

Arbol by Scintt, on Flickr
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