New lens

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

;3 on my deviantart page I guess~

Here's some more. I just took 19 panoramas that will take me another week to fully be done editing but yep. And they might not all turn out (I'll be surprised if half of them do, I'll do my best to make them so, though~ you can tell because they're usually over-edited in my attempts of repairing or blending mistakes...)

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/359/0/9/path_at_the_park_by_thespenner-d4k88rd.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/359/3/a/tired_by_thespenner-d4k84a5.jpg

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/359/d/6/the_watersport_gang_by_thespenner-d4k7wxh.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/359/6/a/nostalgic_walk_by_thespenner-d4k6y7l.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/356/0/2/subject_lacking_by_thespenner-d4jxmxu.jpg

The ones with the blur... meh, I'm not crazy on it. I regret ruining those photos

[Renevatia]

Re: New lens

;3 on my deviantart page I guess~

Here's some more. I just took 19 panoramas that will take me another week to fully be done editing but yep. And they might not all turn out (I'll be surprised if half of them do, I'll do my best to make them so, though~ you can tell because they're usually over-edited in my attempts of repairing or blending mistakes...)

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/359/0/9/path_at_the_park_by_thespenner-d4k88rd.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/359/3/a/tired_by_thespenner-d4k84a5.jpg

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/359/d/6/the_watersport_gang_by_thespenner-d4k7wxh.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/359/6/a/nostalgic_walk_by_thespenner-d4k6y7l.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/356/0/2/subject_lacking_by_thespenner-d4jxmxu.jpg

The ones with the blur... meh, I'm not crazy on it. I regret ruining those photos

Those are delicious shots, I love the postprocessing, you must teach me the ways ;o

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

I gotta tell you, I've worked out a formula for shots like that first one there that's very little involved.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/359/3/b/walking_by_thespenner-d4k8drb.jpg

I take all my shots in RAW and run them through an HDR program, even if there's no HDR effects, just to see what I can fine tune with the photos to amplify the details I want.

Then really all I do is, after I've stitched them/cleaned up the edges by healing/cloning, up the vibrance, lower the saturation, play with some curves and mask out towards the edges (I like when there's a focal point and the edges kind of trail off slightly), I use the high-pass filter sharpening technique (duplicate your working layer, high pass filter, look for the level where most of the details are crunchy looking, then make that layer blending mode Soft Light (or hard light) and then erase around the tips of trees or wherever it might clip).

Thar ya be. More to come. Many more.

[who_cares973]

Re: New lens

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/359/3/b/walking_by_thespenner-d4k8drb.jpg

i like this one the most

[midnghtraver]

Re: New lens

Wherever you live, It looks awesome.

EDIT: http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...er-d4jxmxu.jpg <3333

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/359/8/7/tree_of_life_by_thespenner-d4k8i09.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/361/8/e/old_place_by_thespenner-d4kfv9a.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/361/0/1/off_roading_by_thespenner-d4kfwqq.jpg

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/361/d/5/under_construction_by_thespenner-d4kg0wy.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/362/8/8/0utlet_by_thespenner-d4kjbrm.jpg

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/362/6/2/pipe_dream_by_thespenner-d4kjn7n.jpg

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

I guess I'll put these in the same thread. I found a wasp in my basement, it was still alive but barely.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/364/7/5/death_bed_by_thespenner-d4kqnu8.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/364/d/a/into_the_void_by_thespenner-d4kqwz1.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/364/7/1/bullet_bee_by_thespenner-d4kr18g.jpg

I had nothing else to do today ~_~

[darkshark]

Re: New lens

Poor bee. He's clinging on for dear life and all you're doing is posing his lifeless body in various objects for the artistic sake of photography.


Nice job. xD

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

I know, I'm so cruel :']

Here's some more, went on a long walk the other day to a place I hadn't been for about a decade. So nostalgic, and it's changed so much. I wanted to capture that feeling of "wow, this has changed a lot since I was a kid". Which maybe affects only me in this case, but I'm doing it to please ME :P

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/003/f/3/wooden_bridge_by_thespenner-d4l6k8b.jpg

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/003/5/6/cold_view_by_thespenner-d4l6m8w.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/004/d/4/corrosion_by_thespenner-d4la0l9.jpg

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/004/1/d/corrosion_ii_by_thespenner-d4la32u.jpg

The last one there is my favourite so far.

I've stopped using HDR as seen in the past two pics, it's just not useful to me anymore for the kind of mood I want to convey. It's handy for bringing out textures and contrast though, so I might dabble with it if a photo is lacking.

[darkshark]

Re: New lens

I don't care for the lens distortion in the first one, it detracts from the feel of what the photo could have held imo.

The second one is my favorite, really feels cold and alone. The last one is pretty cool seeing abandoned tracks like that, but it seems washed out, could definitely bring out the contrast of the tracks more and it would add so much more depth and possibly emotion to it.

Are all of these from a tripod or handheld?

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

Agreed. Mostly going for cold and alone type feelings, the last shot was just really a shot of nostalgia for me so I made it a bit of a more washed out style on purpose, but like I said, to please me :J

All of these were on tripods.

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

I guess I should post these.

[kmay]

Re: New lens

spenner is the source of all my desktop BGs

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

:3

I just got back from taking about 60 more photos.... they probably won't be edited for another little while. School has started again

[Spenner]

Re: New lens

Did I mention I got ANOTHER lens? I might as well just make this my new photography thread.

I have a 50mm f/1.4 lens now, so that's fun. I didn't get to use it for this experimental photoshoot I did yesterday...

Very simple rig: a blackboard on chair, mason jar full of water (I WISH I had something bigger) on a towel, tinfoil and my camera/flash.

Unfortunately I had to use my macro lens to shoot these, because the small jar wouldn't show much detail with the 50mm. Way harder to work with, 95% of the shots were too blurry or just out of focus/not in the shot. Here's some that were decent:











None are exactly mind blowing and I KNOW I could do a way better job with a bigger water tank. I might just go get something cheap, it's fun to play with this.

It also took me a long time to realize I had to change my flash mode to High Speed in the camera so that I could go past 1/200 shutter speed, hence why there's so much blur <__> after that they looked fairly sharp but none were very interesting.