Surfing in winter
Got to the beach with some friends at 5.30am at a nice rock outcrop that would get me out beside the lads. To our dismay there was a surf comp on so we we trundled off to a break down the beach somewhat..only got about an hour in before it closed out on us.
It also ment shooting straight into the sun.
Looking toward chile
Bit flat at 1st..was he thinking about just how many noah's arks are circling below him ? They are all there... whalers...great whites..tigers...hammer heads etc etc
Starts to come up
Nothing i could do to remove the 'hot spots' in this shot...i havnt over saturated it.
Old woman island in the background...can you see her face on the right ?
Not a lot i could do shooting into the light...
It also ment shooting straight into the sun.
Looking toward chile
Bit flat at 1st..was he thinking about just how many noah's arks are circling below him ? They are all there... whalers...great whites..tigers...hammer heads etc etc
Starts to come up
Nothing i could do to remove the 'hot spots' in this shot...i havnt over saturated it.
Old woman island in the background...can you see her face on the right ?
Not a lot i could do shooting into the light...
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this one is fantastic!
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Maybe not what you had in mind but these are great shots--well if the surf
were up a bit--but regardless, the lighting gives you such a different look
that I think it'd be worth going again.
Ian
These are great. Different, and I like them! And I like them all for different reasons. With those hot spots, just create a second layer and pick up the color and paint over the hot spots and try mulitply or color burn or color to see if that gets rid of them.
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Gus
What you don't want is the lens to continually hunt. Maybe try setting the
camera to focus using the back button (www.siphoto.com for settings).
This way you can get focus right and then either leave it alone or adjust
accordingly. But the back button does allow you to stop using AI once
you're focused allowing you to continue using 1/2 shutter for AE lock.
Using the back button ("*") does take getting used to.
Ian
ooooh-La-laaa !
I love 3..... Alot!:oogle
# 9 is pretty darn nifty
..followed by #8
...for my money
regards,
A
You're welcome!
Looking forward to next week's batch.
Ian
Here is an example. It was darn hazy as well as being backlit. This is the out-of-camera jpeg:
After post (color balance, crop, sharpen, curves to darken silhouette):
I'm convinced the reworked shot is more close to what my eye was actually seeing there on the beach in the hazy late afternoon, but really there is not truth about this. I loved the golden shot when I first saw it, but somehow it isn't what I ended up with.
I actually like your original shot...
Yes, I like it, too. But I don't understand where the colors come from. I don't think it's really how it looked, but rather some artifice of AWB in the 20D.
Hey, 'Gus, I wrote something about this. Did you read this:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9805
If there is any detail left in the blown areas, this is just about as easy as it gets.
- Adjust exposures and shadow in ACR so that neither end of the histogram is clipped.
- Convert the raw into 16 bit mode
- Apply shadow/highlight with low shadow amount and large highlight amount
- Restore contrast with curves
Its still over my head rutt...ARC ? ...I dont know how to convert to RAW...I dont know how to apply shadow highlight....I dont know how to restore with curves.Thanks for trying.
Its just not my bag. Its like me explaining split phase motor rewinding to someone whom has never done it...the very essense is missed. I can do it blindfolded.
I have to get a book & sit with CS open & do it by numbers in my own time.
those golden colors are super
got get my butt back to shoot some surfin soon, this gives my inspiration
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Them's are just super shots. Light is your friend. Strange light like that is your best friend. Wow!
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Steve
I don't care if you had to take 200 shots to get these. IMO, it was well worth the time and trouble I wasn't blowin' smoke up your skirt about some of them deserving space on your wall And yes I'm jealous :lol
Steve