Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Lovely images! Great stuff!
|
Thanks Mike
Really glad you like them
Quote:
Originally Posted by jjjnettie
I looooove your work Shel. Superb!
|
Aww thanks J
You know how to make a girl smile!
Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidTrap
I looked at these pics before I went on holidays to the beach for Christmas and was inspired to get up in the wee small hours in search of some seascape sunrise shots - alas the weather hasn't obliged... Made a good excuse for an afternoon nap though!
DT
|
David, you've made my day
The weather has been a bit iffy but I always try to get up anyway if it's not raining but still cloudy. Sometimes you can get the most amazing shots with some moody dark clouds and ferocious seas
Of course it sure is hard getting up at 2:30am to get to the coast for sunrise...
It's usually worth it though! I haven't mastered the art of napping, I always feel really crummy afterwards
Quote:
Originally Posted by hotspur
Really great stuff Shelly,Thanks for the information on PS you do.
I am very limited in PS so try and get an idea of what others do so I
can attempt it.I think StephenM had some lovely rainforest creek images a while back,he used a ND 8 filter,which sounds useful for this type of photography and sunsets etc.
David-those early morning beach scene shots are great to have a crack at,so beautiful colours in the morning,so have a go when you can.
Here are some I did along time ago,Its hard to get the weather right,I do not
get to stay at beach often.These images taken with my old long gone 300D and 17-85 lens.I am looking forward to attempt something like this again,with 50D and 10-22 mm Canon wide field lens.
Cheers Chris
|
Hi again Chris, try youtube-ing some simple Photoshop Tutorials or landscape tutorials, they can be helpful but above all, just keep it simple. I like my shots to be as natural as possible but if there is one small change that will turn a good shot into a great shot then I'll certainly do it if it isn't going to effect the quality of the image.
I'm no expert on PS myself, my partner taught me most of the technical stuff as I'm really bad with it all. I'm very creative, I know where to point the camera and I notice things like reflections of clouds in still water, the artistic side of nature but it's the settings and post processing I've always struggled with.
One extremely important post-processing rule that I always failed at is creating a background copy layer to use for editing. I always use to edit straight on the background which was devestating if you stuffed it up and saved it, then you'd have to start all over again instead of just deleting a layer. And I never use to change the "mode" to 16-bit til my partner saw me doing it and gave me some more helpful pointers
Just have a play around with raw settings and try some curves, it's amazing what a small amount of curves can do for a shot.
Before I got my graduated filters I use to use exposure bracketing and combine the images in photomatix, which worked okay. But now I use Lee grad filters for my seascapes and the "Big Stopper" filter (10 stop filter) sometimes as well. I can also use the Big Stopper for water falls etc. but we always try to get up really really early and get to the falls when the light isn't harsh and most of the time I don't need the filter and can just use a longer shutter speed.
Photos are nice and have some good morning colour but are a bit dark, that's why I found exposure bracketing helpful to get a perfectly exposed sky and foreground as well. So give it a try or look into some grad filters, they are awesome
Anyway, enough with my amateur ramblings
Love the sea sunrises and sunset and all. Superb colors. Good looking frog too, but hey that's just personal preferences. 
You are so talented! And you're only going to get better.
