Landscape Photography

[Lampwick]

View from the "office"

[fazersharp]

Dont get too caught up with "telling it like it is",  cause that aint wot is was like.-- Let me explain, as you look at the view your eyes are constantly adjusting to what you are looking at and you build the picture (memeroy of it) in your mind and its a view that wasnt there all in one go, so what you do later in photoshop is put back the view that your eyes saw and your camera couldnt capture ---- remember your camera is is only dealing in "0"s and "1"s and its up to you to put the feeling back.

[nick crisp]

Don't mind you playing with my shots at all Fazersharp, it's interesting to see what can be done. Actually, that one you did originally showed more of the sky, which graduated to a much deeper blue anyway, but I cropped it as it seemed to be too much sky, and I wanted it to be about the scene as well, so it was played with anyway! Not sure what I think of your results, feel free to play with some more tho! I'm especially interested to see what can be done (if anything) to enhance the detail that may have been picked up, especially in darker areas.

[fazersharp]

Heres how I see the other one

[nick crisp]

Ah, now that I do like. Except for the stupid idiot that took the shot so the trees exactly coincided with the summits on the hill!  :rolleyes  Compositional fail!  :lol
Yes, exactly what I mean about enhancing detail - well done Fazersharp!  :thumbup

What can you do with this one?:

[fazersharp]

I think it needs a bit of this -----------

[VNA]

With film, the camera is just a light tight box - the lens is king.

With digital, the lens is still very important, but no longer is the camera just a light tight box, the sensor counts too.  My 5D2 sensor is light years ahead of my G1 sensor, which doesn't even compete with my 5D1 sensor.  I need that GH3.

Nor does film or digital see what we see.  It just doesn't.  So treat it as data.

My favourite photography was b&w, I could spend 3 or 4 hrs in the darkroom trying to get one display print just so.  Paper flashing, split filter printing, dodging and burning and using toners to get the right result.  Expose and process for a flat boring neg, then work your magic in the darkroom.

Nor is it necessarily about what you saw, it's about how you felt, emotion, what you want others to see.

I stick to the old rule of never to add or take away anything that wasn't there when you took the snap (the odd bit of rubbish, or dust mark expected)

Final rule is, if somebody asks what darkroom or photoshop technique you used to get the result, well it makes you wonder........have I gone too far.  Has too look natural.  A bit like JJ Cale, lots of endless cleaver studio sound work to create the most wonderful natural sounding recordings.

Oh yeah I miss my old darkroom.  Oh to shoot b&w film again.

[midden]

The view down my street

Good to see someone complies with the rules.  this is sure to please Mr Crisp  :rollin

[red98]

Oi, no bikes!  :rolleyes

oppps.....still a good piccie 

[nick crisp]

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The view down my street

Good to see someone complies with the rules.  this is sure to please Mr Crisp  :rollin
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Actually midden, I've been trying to think what hills those might be in the background....don't know tho.

Fazersharp - B &W eh? Hadn't thought of that. Not bad, not bad.....

VNA, have you had any of your work published? Seems as good as some that I have seen in books, calendars etc. Or have you got a website you show/sell your work on?

[slimwilly]

Mendips!!!

[evesdad]

Nick the bit to the right that looks like a small volcano is Morlais Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlais_Castle) near Merthyr Tydfil. Anything on the left of the picture is just about in the brecon beacons national park.A view from my back garden

[fazersharp]

Fazersharp - B &W eh? Hadn't thought of that. Not bad, not bad.....

Its not just a straight B/W convert as each of those layers of landscape hills have had different amounts of contrast- lightening, darkening and then the sky has had a lot of work done in the clouds, as VNA said it should look good but the viewer should not necessarily see that anything has been done

[Kosmic Kartman]

River Thames from Greenwich.


DSC_0169 by Trackart Images Adrian Barnard, on Flickr

Sorento, Italy.

Minerva Hotel, Sorrento, Italy by Trackart Images Adrian Barnard, on Flickr


Back Garden by Trackart Images Adrian Barnard, on Flickr

[mr self destruct]

I do love a good sunset me. 


These were taken on holiday with my iphone or a little compact I have, so no advanced settings/editing here, just the right shot at the right time.


Shell Island:









On a boat on the Norfolk Broads:





And like I said, it's all about the timing. 

[CRH]

....what a ..crack..er :b

[unfazed]

It's a bummer :lol

[unfazed]

Here is a rarity, a Road Viaduct, Rail Viaduct and Aquaduct in line. The only one in Ireland and England as far as I am aware. It is in Monsterevin Co.Kildare crossing the river Barrow.

[ChrisJH]

walking the dog in the park one morning took this on the phone

[Tori]

Unfazed's two bikes in the snow is my favourite, although a little too blue I feel


Some nice shots here, though some could benefit from filters (ie, bring out that beautiful sky, but still ahve interest in your foreground, rather than darkness)


One from mondays storm, just as the light was fading.





Hdr, composite of 5 images.



This is using a half grad filter.



One with an ND Grad



A few more of my landscapes here: [size=78%]https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...322&type=3[/size] amongst lots of other things