The Ledge

Dwayne OakesDwayne Oakes Registered Users Posts: 969 Major grins
edited November 29, 2008 in Landscapes
Thanks for taking a look !

-Nikon D80/Nikkor 18-70mm
-0.5 seconds @ f/16
-46mm
-ISO 100
-EV -1/3
-jpeg no pp

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited November 28, 2008
    Interesting textures
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  • WachelWachel Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited November 28, 2008
    I am curious...why no post processing?
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  • Dwayne OakesDwayne Oakes Registered Users Posts: 969 Major grins
    edited November 28, 2008
    Wachel wrote:
    I am curious...why no post processing?

    My approach to photography is point and shoot. Here are the
    3 main reasons why. This is subjective of course as there is no
    right or wrong approaches in photography (anything goes in art)


    1-my memory is lousy and for me to remember the WB, light and
    color saturation 5 hours after a nature hike I will get it wrong,
    I find the camera does a better job at these when it is well tuned

    2-I have a bad habit of overcooking my work in pp, I tend to make
    my work look pleasing to the eye (eye candy) and not necesaraly
    to what the scene looked like, I find the jpeg engines with no pp
    keeps things more tamed, natural and real looking

    3-shooting jpeg with no pp keeps my photography skills
    sharp in the field as there is not much room for error


    Take care,

    Dwayne Oakes
  • cj99sicj99si Registered Users Posts: 880 Major grins
    edited November 28, 2008
    SLRs are not meant to spit out perfect images. A P&S will spit out a better image.

    Your image is a bit flat, but maybe you dont care about that...

    So I guess what your saying is this vertical ledge has collected all these maple seeds?


    Your images are great, your conversions need a little more contrast though.
  • Dwayne OakesDwayne Oakes Registered Users Posts: 969 Major grins
    edited November 29, 2008
    cj99si wrote:
    SLRs are not meant to spit out perfect images. A P&S will spit out a better image.

    Your image is a bit flat, but maybe you dont care about that...

    So I guess what your saying is this vertical ledge has collected all these maple seeds?


    Your images are great, your conversions need a little more contrast though.

    Thanks for your views on this ! You are right about the DSLR vs P&S.
    I went the DSLR route because they are less noisy. You will find some
    of my images will be on the flat side. I set my in-camera contrast setting
    a little lower than most.

    By doing this it opens up the sensor and I get more tones which I favor
    in my work. I thought the seeds were an intersting subject as one strong
    gust of wind in the right direction and that moment in time would be
    gone. Nature is so dynamic it is changing by the second !

    Take care,

    Dwayne Oakes
  • Dwayne OakesDwayne Oakes Registered Users Posts: 969 Major grins
    edited November 29, 2008
    Interesting textures

    Thanks Awais !

    Take care,

    Dwayne Oakes
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