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AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited January 17, 2004 in The Dgrin Challenges
hey guys, the photos are wonderful. i love seeing everyone's different styles and artistic views - so much to learn and appreciate! keep them coming! :clap

here are two sunsets i grabbed, tonight and last night. i'm just north of new york city, about 35 miles up the hudson river. it's *icy cold* here but there are still some great photo ops!

these were shot in raw, developed twice, once for the highlights and once for the shadows.

this is the hudson river
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and this is the croton reservoir, part of the water supply system for new york city
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2004
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    Wow Andy, just beautiful. I poked around a bit of your Smugmug stuff, very very impressive.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited January 16, 2004
    Nice. Croton looks as if it could be a fog/cloud layer. Very nice
    shot.

    ian
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  • Richard CabesaRichard Cabesa Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2004
    Very nice Andy. Brrrrrrrrr...it looooooks cooooooooold
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited January 16, 2004
    andy wrote:
    and this is the croton reservoir

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    Andy, that shot is absolutely stunning. :encore:encore:encore

    That, along with the jaw-dropping Shay shot of the Manhattan skyline, are two I'd be willing to purchase and give some precious wall space to.

    But I have reason to believe.....word on the street is....that it's not a completely original Williams....that in fact the master stood over your shoulder and gave advice.

    Do you deny such allegations? :dood
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2004
    Beautiful shots, andy. What do you mean by "developed twice"? How do you do that with digital? headscratch.gif
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2004
    fish wrote:
    Beautiful shots, andy. What do you mean by "developed twice"? How do you do that with digital? headscratch.gif

    Read this article and instead of shooting two frames Andy probably processed out two or three RAW files with different exposures, one normal, one lighter, one darker. Using the normal you then go and add back the shadows from the lighter one and the highlights from the darker one. That is the quickie answer. This is one area where digital and RAW are champs.

    How did I do Andy?
  • TuesdayTuesday Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited January 16, 2004
    Those are beautiful Andy.Keep em' coming.
    :tuesday
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2004
    patch29 wrote:
    Read this article and instead of shooting two frames Andy probably processed out two or three RAW files with different exposures, one normal, one lighter, one darker. Using the normal you then go and add back the shadows from the lighter one and the highlights from the darker one. That is the quickie answer. This is one area where digital and RAW are champs.

    How did I do Andy?
    Is that similar to what the astrophotographers refer to when they talk about "stacking images"?
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2004
    fish wrote:
    Is that similar to what the astrophotographers refer to when they talk about "stacking images"?

    Sorry, don't know. ne_nau.gif Photographers tend to call it blending. I have not worked at all with astrophotography.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited January 17, 2004
    fish wrote:
    Is that similar to what the astrophotographers refer to when they talk about "stacking images"?
    Kinda-sorta. Except that you're looking to combine images more than
    blend them. By combining them, you eliminate the noise and add detail.

    Ian
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2004
    exactly right ;) this is how i did it thumb.gif
    patch29 wrote:
    Read this article and instead of shooting two frames Andy probably processed out two or three RAW files with different exposures, one normal, one lighter, one darker. Using the normal you then go and add back the shadows from the lighter one and the highlights from the darker one. That is the quickie answer. This is one area where digital and RAW are champs.

    How did I do Andy?
    Andy

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 17, 2004
    thanks man... to be compared to anything of shay's is to me a huge compliment!

    as to your word on the street: as it was like minus 10 degrees, i think shay was comfortably ensconced in his studio at the time hehehehe

    this is original williams - though i thank shay for the raw technique of developing multiple exposures, when faced with a shot with such dynamic range.

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    Baldy wrote:
    Andy, that shot is absolutely stunning. :encore:encore:encore

    That, along with the jaw-dropping Shay shot of the Manhattan skyline, are two I'd be willing to purchase and give some precious wall space to.

    But I have reason to believe.....word on the street is....that it's not a completely original Williams....that in fact the master stood over your shoulder and gave advice.

    Do you deny such allegations? :dood
    Andy

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  • FleasFleas Registered Users Posts: 38 Big grins
    edited January 17, 2004
    Wonderful photos..Sure different from our desert here in Arizona
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