Various landscape photos

[wildcat]

#141


Bedok Reservoir, Ghaz1 outing
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[wildcat]

#142


Bedok Reservoir, Ghaz1 outing
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[takengo2003]

#141


Bedok Reservoir, Ghaz1 outing
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i like this shoots, very well compose, what is the setting? with tripod?
Where was the focusing point?

 

[mimik07]

#142


Bedok Reservoir, Ghaz1 outing
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Nice leading line to the sunrise :thumbsup:
Sky was really nice that day wasn't it?

 

[wildcat]

i like this shoots, very well compose, what is the setting? with tripod?
Where was the focusing point?

Yep, tripod

EXIF data as follows:
Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D5000
Image Date: 2010-09-12
Focal Length: 10mm (35mm equivalent: 15mm)
Aperture: f/9.0
Exposure Time: 30.000 s
ISO equiv: 200
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Center Weight
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Manual
Flash Fired: No

Thanks for liking the pic... I took quite a lot of different angles and distance to the chair/lamp and this was also the one I liked best, despite the bright lighted up area on the right of the pic.

White balance was more of a consideration when doing post processing, as I had to choose between original camera auto (very bluish), flourescent (gives a nice magenta sky and everything else), or daylight (warm orange) and all of them could work. In the end I went with something between original blue and slight magenta.

 

[takengo2003]

Yep, tripod

EXIF data as follows:
Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model: NIKON D5000
Image Date: 2010-09-12
Focal Length: 10mm (35mm equivalent: 15mm)
Aperture: f/9.0
Exposure Time: 30.000 s
ISO equiv: 200
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Center Weight
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Manual
Flash Fired: No

Thanks for liking the pic... I took quite a lot of different angles and distance to the chair/lamp and this was also the one I liked best, despite the bright lighted up area on the right of the pic.

White balance was more of a consideration when doing post processing, as I had to choose between original camera auto (very bluish), flourescent (gives a nice magenta sky and everything else), or daylight (warm orange) and all of them could work. In the end I went with something between original blue and slight magenta.

thanks for the setting, was the focusing point on the lamp post for this picture?

 

[wildcat]

thanks for the setting, was the focusing point on the lamp post for this picture?

Err, no. I haven't mastered the complex stuffs like hyperfocal distance, etc. so for landscape shots, I just focus 1/3 into the distance, then off auto-focus and that's my estimate for small aperture landscape shots.

For these, I think I set to small aperture f/9 and manual set focus distance to infinity (minus a teeny weeny bit) without auto-focus help.

 

[takengo2003]

Err, no. I haven't mastered the complex stuffs like hyperfocal distance, etc. so for landscape shots, I just focus 1/3 into the distance, then off auto-focus and that's my estimate for small aperture landscape shots.

For these, I think I set to small aperture f/9 and manual set focus distance to infinity (minus a teeny weeny bit) without auto-focus help.

i see, hope to see more.

 

[wildcat]

Nice leading line to the sunrise :thumbsup:
Sky was really nice that day wasn't it?

Oops, just saw this.
Yep, nice hor. Did you get anything that day?

 

[mimik07]

Oops, just saw this.
Yep, nice hor. Did you get anything that day?

Nope..cos I wasn't at Ghaz's outing :bsmilie:

 

[wildcat]

Nope..cos I wasn't at Ghaz's outing :bsmilie:

I think those clouds were over most of the eastern area

 

[wildcat]

#143



Haven't done a globe in a while...

Bedok Reservoir Pano/Globe. C&C welcomed.
XL version
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[mimik07]

#143



Haven't done a globe in a while...

Bedok Reservoir Pano/Globe. C&C welcomed.
XL version
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Did you do this the other way round on purpose? I was expecting the trees and reflections to be on the 'outside' of the globe :think:

Anyway, need some tips from you tomorrow regarding this globe stuff. :sweat:

 

[wildcat]

Did you do this the other way round on purpose? I was expecting the trees and reflections to be on the 'outside' of the globe :think:

Anyway, need some tips from you tomorrow regarding this globe stuff. :sweat:

Yes I did. I tried several ways of "globing" it and I liked this the best. If done on the other side, it will provide a very sky-blue image, while in my opinion, this gives a more dramatic image (albeit quite a bit of dark area). The sun's reflection was near same as the actual so it didn't matter which way but it did matter that I was using the building reflections as the globe's surface, which makes it a bit blur, but I thought that could be acceptable, given that I could use the light pole and jetty platform in a better way.

The decision to "globe" this pic was (sadly) mainly due to the stitching problems I faced; no matter how, there were errors and this was the best I could do. Gave up after a lot of tries, putting as many connect points as I could but still wouldn't stitch so I take it that my stitching skills are still at best, mediocre.

There isn't much to "globing" an image - basically a pano shot, make both sides equal (which normally means making the shorter side as long as the longer), then PS filter->distort->polar coordinate. Before applying the filter, just flip or rotate as required.

Surprises I had was with the light pole, which is very straight (yes I took pains to straighten it with liquefy but didn't expect it to turn out like this when globed), and yet another reason why I chose an inner globe.

 

[mimik07]

There isn't much to "globing" an image - basically a pano shot, make both sides equal (which normally means making the shorter side as long as the longer), then PS filter->distort->polar coordinate. Before applying the filter, just flip or rotate as required.

Thanks for the detailed clarifications bro

Making both sides equal? How do you do that? Sorry if I'm asking a dumb question, my PP skills also cannot make it :sweat:

 

[wildcat]

Thanks for the detailed clarifications bro

Making both sides equal? How do you do that? Sorry if I'm asking a dumb question, my PP skills also cannot make it :sweat:

Change the image size, e.g. if it was 5000x1000 then make it 5000x5000 (or you can also do 1000x1000 by reducing size). It will then be a square. I think there was a detailed writeup somewhere in CS but my searching skills has been degrading over these few weeks. No prob... I think we all started somewhere.

 

[Numnumball]

#143



Haven't done a globe in a while...

Bedok Reservoir Pano/Globe. C&C welcomed.
XL version
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i been wanting to do a photosphere for a while.. :lovegrin:

 

[wildcat]

i been wanting to do a photosphere for a while.. :lovegrin:

Heh, ok lah. Looks cool but once you know the workflow, it's more like to hide defective pano shots :bsmilie:

And since I've been nitpicking on mimik07's pano, decided to post the original pic and have spot-the-errors session too

 

[wildcat]

#144



Taken with a 50mm while walkabout
around Bedok Reservoir
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[mimik07]

Change the image size, e.g. if it was 5000x1000 then make it 5000x5000 (or you can also do 1000x1000 by reducing size). It will then be a square. I think there was a detailed writeup somewhere in CS but my searching skills has been degrading over these few weeks. No prob... I think we all started somewhere.

Ah...cool...will give it a shot these couple of days... thanks for the guidance bro