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Old 09-30-2012, 01:43 AM
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Beautiful.

Questions on your "twin Falls" pic you have in your Flicker account: What time of day did you take that pic? Didi you have to use a ND filter? What was your shutter speed?

Love that pic!

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Old 09-30-2012, 02:20 PM
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Beautiful.

Questions on your "twin Falls" pic you have in your Flicker account: What time of day did you take that pic? Didi you have to use a ND filter? What was your shutter speed?

Love that pic!

Thanks so much!
Wow I thought I didn't do so well on that waterfall pic. It was my first attempt at long exposure waterfall and it was really hard. It didn't turn out to be what I wanted because it wasn't misty enough.

I think it was about 10-11am that I took that pic. I did not use an ND filter. Exposure was 1.6 sec at f/32 at 85mm. Oh and it was shot in brackets (HDR)

I've recently looked into ND filters and will be getting them since they really give waterfall pictures the smooth flow of water.
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Wow I thought I didn't do so well on that waterfall pic. It was my first attempt at long exposure waterfall and it was really hard. It didn't turn out to be what I wanted because it wasn't misty enough.

I think it was about 10-11am that I took that pic. I did not use an ND filter. Exposure was 1.6 sec at f/32 at 85mm. Oh and it was shot in brackets (HDR)

I've recently looked into ND filters and will be getting them since they really give waterfall pictures the smooth flow of water.
I like the composition of the "twins fall". I ND filter will help, but you also might want to get a Graduated ND filter as well. The tops of those water falls are blown out. The ND filter will give you the "silk" look for the movement, but that top part will still be blow out, with just an ND filter.

I really like the first one you posted of the Park today.
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Originally Posted by jupitersolo
I like the composition of the "twins fall". I ND filter will help, but you also might want to get a Graduated ND filter as well. The tops of those water falls are blown out. The ND filter will give you the "silk" look for the movement, but that top part will still be blow out, with just an ND filter.

I really like the first one you posted of the Park today.
I didn't realize how blown out it was until now. Thanks for the tip on the grad ND!
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The angle of the shade of the flag poles indicates mid-fall season given the solar azimuth, and judging by the water level on the Potomac river in the background it would indicate a summer of heavy rains. So if we cross-reference with historical rainfalls we see that 2010 was the most likely year.


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Old 10-03-2012, 02:39 AM
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kinda forgotten about the Rokinon 24mm f1.4 (that was given to me)...

Sony NEX-5N + Rokinon 24mm f/1.4
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Old 10-05-2012, 06:30 PM
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I was going to use this on the "Industry" contest thread, but I forgot I had removed a lamp post, sign and power cable going through it so it would break the rules :/

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Old 10-06-2012, 10:52 PM
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Kinda surprised myself with how well this came out noise wise..
D90 at ISO3200 with 50% noise reduction in LR4
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Old 10-07-2012, 12:27 AM
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Old 10-07-2012, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by mdkxtreme
I didn't realize how blown out it was until now. Thanks for the tip on the grad ND!
How did you get the sky to come out so blue and full of detail, yet the foreground is also really detailed?? pictures look awesome.
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Old 10-07-2012, 12:21 PM
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How did you get the sky to come out so blue and full of detail, yet the foreground is also really detailed?? pictures look awesome.
What picture are you referring to?
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What picture are you referring to?
I'm guessing he is referring to the "Beginning of Fall" photo
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Old 10-07-2012, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Sly Raskal
I'm guessing he is referring to the "Beginning of Fall" photo
Ahh alright.

Here's my recipe if it helps.

1. It was already a very beautiful blue day so that helped a lot (As you can see from my first picture of the lake)
2. I shot it in HDR
3. The sky was REALLY blown on the top right because the sun was just out of the picture
4. So I used Lightroom and reduced the Highlights down to -100 in order to see the clouds.
5. Then I adjusted the blue Saturation and Luminance to extract a bit more blue.
6. The shadows under the trees were very dark so I lightened it up by upping the Shadows slider.
7. I sharpened the whole picture using Photoshop (Unmask Sharp)
8. Then I use Nik Dfine to reduce noise because HDR processing and sharpening usually creates a little bit of noise.

Hope that helps!
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I cant believe its October and this showed up in the flower bed in front of the house this week.





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Love that color

Great shot.
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Love that color

Great shot.
Thank you.

I didn't think I was going to like it, but I fell in love when I saw it in person and obviously she came home with me.
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^^ really loving the 135 eh? I love mine

show this from nj
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nice.

I think everyone should post thier settings so NOOBS like me can steal a clue!




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I think everyone should post thier settings so NOOBS like me can steal a clue!




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Most of the time you can view the Exif data. If it's a flikr image the Exif data can be viewed in the upper right where the camera name is said to be used. Click on the camera name and more than enough info will be displayed.
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Very nice! I love the way the city glows.
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Most of the time you can view the Exif data. If it's a flikr image the Exif data can be viewed in the upper right where the camera name is said to be used. Click on the camera name and more than enough info will be displayed.


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Thanks!

And the reason why I say most of the time is some people hide their Exif data because there's an option to...
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im too lazy to goto the flickr website to look at it.

i have a plug in for chrome that just automatically shows it.
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im too lazy to goto the flickr website to look at it.

i have a plug in for chrome that just automatically shows it.
Didn't know there was a plugin for that. What's the name of the plugin you're using.

BTW, I don't recall seeing any pictures from you. Do you have a public set?
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^^ really loving the 135 eh? I love mine

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Amazing shot, was this by Mitsuwa?

Those were both shot with 50, I love shooting cars with a 135 its a special lens.
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