>>> challenge 19 - comments and critiques thread <<

Andy · August 8, 2004

right here guys. this is the place to put your images that you are considering entering into dgrin challenge 19, "wide angle."

remember, you've got to give, to get. so please, provide feedback, comment, and critique to your fellow dgrinners. try to hit 2 or 3 other photos each time you visit. and visit often.

here is the challenge 19 info thread, rules, and where you enter your photos

have at it!

Shakey · August 8, 2004

Bridge Work :Non Eligible
Okay I will kick this off.
Title :Bridge Work.

Tim
Dang usually I am a day late and a dollar short. Now I am a day early and still a dollar short:D .

Andy · August 8, 2004

Shakey wrote:

Okay I will kick this off.
Title :Bridge Work.

Tim

okay but remember, the challenge starts at 12:01 am Monday morning nyc time ....

Shakey · August 8, 2004

Doh! oh well back to the drawing board LoL .

My sched stinks for shooting in the summer .:cry

Tim

DoctorIt · August 9, 2004

andy wrote:

okay but remember, the challenge starts at 12:01 am Monday morning nyc time ....

baby steps to 12:00... baby steps to 12:00...

dugmar · August 9, 2004

Airshow this weekend! Should be a good place to get some big, wide shots.

Doug

lynnma · August 10, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

No, I am not going to crop it, I like the impression that the rocks are so high up.

They aren't, just high enough for a short legged dog to see over, only eyes and ears showing.

Just to show you what the photo looks like without having to scroll down.
g

Ginger, this shot made me smile from ear to ear.. so it works for me. I love it.:D

rutt · August 10, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

Rutt, is there one kind of general L Curve for this type of situation. Don't care about the color so much, like what I have, but will take suggestions on the blown areas, except for the trash can. Can't do it, no way, baby.

g

Looks pretty blown to me. There are things you can do to recover some detail in cases like this. Did you shoot RAW? That would make a big difference in how to approach this problem. The lens flare in this shot might also be a problem. Andy has been known to hate it and wrote a tutorial on getting rid of it (in Sid's Hall of Fame.)

lynnma · August 10, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks, Lynn, re Corgi Sighting. A lot of my photos could be repeated, or are typical, IMO, but that one, I swear, I have never seen anything like that before, to say the least of "repeating" it. I am really going to try to sell it, or something. If it weren't for the wide angle, the whole shot would have been so much less.

This is a more typical shot, yesterday morning. I always wear tennis shoes, so it was just to much trouble to take them off, ..........to make it short, I now have flip flops, got into the ocean, and this is one of the "wave" shots I took.

That was really fun!
Been years!
Going to do it again.
Have more,
(OK, I got the idea from a book, a look see how to, so it is not "dumb")
But they are my waves, not the other guys.

g

I played with this for 2 mins.. I don't think I've improved it (as usual)

Sandy · August 10, 2004

Ginger, I like the colors and feeling in this flower shot.

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks

for Playing Lynn. I went up and made an L curve, hehe, LAB, of course, my own area of extreme dislike and inexpertise. It actually came out pretty good. Now I am asking, is the gold, coming down off of the wave, is it lens flare? I will post the "fixed" blown area where the sky meets the sea in a sec.

Most of them have that gold area, and, though I printed out Andy's tutorial, it seems a bit much work to fix a whole line of supposed lens flare, thereby changing the whole photo. It either is not flare, or it is massive flare and not worth it, IMO.

Andy, Sid, any experts on flare? I used the blow up image thing, and I could not see that it was flare, looked like the gold color that the sea turns when there is that sun on it.

But experts, please speak. I will post the fixed version, anyway. In a minute.

Meanwhile, here is a flower photo for you all to look at as you are waiting. I promise to shoot fruit, also, probably this afternoon, .

Stan · August 10, 2004

My view for the summer

ISO100; F/14; 1/50sec; FL18mm

mercphoto · August 10, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

Thanks

To me the fence in the background is disturbing in its lack of focus. I'd rather see it in focus, or much more blurred. For my tastes its inbetween blurry and focused in a not-pleasant way. Can you retake the shot?

DoctorIt · August 10, 2004

Stan wrote:

My view for the summer

ISO100; F/14; 1/50sec; FL18mm

not a bad view! I like the shot too, how bout some kick in those colors? I'm sure an old LAB steepening a la Rutt would do it.

DoctorIt · August 10, 2004

here I am:

yeah yeah, go head Rutt, tell me you want it in color (I just don't like how I look in color. i look to real and boring, this makes me a little cooler and more mysterious... ooooo).

wxwax · August 10, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

Ginger, this is hilarious, made me laugh out loud.

wxwax · August 10, 2004

DoctorIt wrote:

here I am:

yeah yeah, go head Rutt, tell me you want it in color (I just don't like how I look in color. i look to real and boring, this makes me a little cooler and more mysterious... ooooo).

My, what big toes you have.

Andy · August 10, 2004

eric's s-portrait

DoctorIt wrote:

here I am:

yeah yeah, go head Rutt, tell me you want it in color (I just don't like how I look in color. i look to real and boring, this makes me a little cooler and more mysterious... ooooo).

a fine example of what wide angle can do. nice one. notice the perspective change?

Andy · August 10, 2004

***** for the entries here, and in the official thread ****
let's identify the focal length, it helps us all.

so, in the official thread, please say:

photo title, focal length, shooter

in the comments thread, just say "28mm" or some such.

wxwax · August 10, 2004

I'm not sure all of our members will know what focal length they were using. They'd have to know how to read EXIF data.

ginger_55 · August 10, 2004

I have been assuming that since I have been shooting with the kit lens, as wide as possible, that it has been 18 mm.

Is that not correct, and what is the exif?

ginger

ginger_55 · August 10, 2004

I have the one who basically has been posting. Mine is the first on the Challenge forum, only one other.

Did someone complain re the focal length?

They all look wide to me?

Aside from the fact that I have kept that lens at 18 mm, and I was wishing tonight that I could put it wider.

I don't know what to think on the timing and the big red letters, re how I was shooting.

And I don't know how to prove it.

ginger

wxwax · August 10, 2004

ginger_55 wrote:

I have been assuming that since I have been shooting with the kit lens, as wide as possible, that it has been 18 mm.

Is that not correct, and what is the exif?

ginger

Thanks for making my point, Ginger!

EXIF is the data that the camera stores for each shot. Depending upon the camera, it can include the time, date, camera model, shutter speed, aperature, ISO, focal length, special camera settings, whether you left the iron turned on back home... that sort of thing.

It's what cmr looks up when he wants to know if you made the bed before leaving the house for the day.

I always get in trouble when I do math, but if your lens is 18mm on a camera with a 1.6 magnification factor, then you're actually shooting at 28.8mm.

Shakey · August 11, 2004

Here are a couple that I took on Sunday so they are not eligible.I shot every shot at 18mm thinking the contest had started DOh!
18mm or 28.8 after conversion

I hope to be able to get out this week to get something.

Tim

Shakey · August 11, 2004

I like this one so far Ginger

The one that is similar to this without the dog looks like it has had to much post process work.And it does not look real to me.

Tim

ginger_55 · August 11, 2004

Shakey wrote:

I like this one so far Ginger

The one that is similar to this without the dog looks like it has had to much post process work.And it does not look real to me.

Tim

Thanks, Tim. They both had the same amount. The assembly line process. But the sky or something was a bit blue in the other one. Different shots, same post...........

ginger

spockling · August 11, 2004

First attempt today.......5.4 mm or 35 mm equivalent

Stan · August 11, 2004

DoctorIt wrote:

not a bad view! I like the shot too, how bout some kick in those colors? I'm sure an old LAB steepening a la Rutt would do it.

The front of the tractor is altered alot, shot through tinted glass, it mutes all the colours.
Here's the unaltered pic

gubbs · August 11, 2004

Found myself in a pub on Monday evening, I have cropped this slightly just to lose the camera from the right. Eligible?? and any good??

SeeMoon · August 11, 2004

gubbs wrote:

Found myself in a pub on Monday evening, I have cropped this slightly just to lose the camera from the right. Eligible?? and any good??

I like the idea Gubbs! But her face in the mirror does not take the attention that it should..maybe a little extra exposure?
By the way..only Brit's 'find' themselves in a pub, do they?

Andy · August 11, 2004

nobody's complaining. relax. breath deeply.

we just want to know. it helps.

so put on your entry, ginger, 18mm x 1.6 crop factory = 29mm. that'll be fine.

no worries.

bikehiker · August 11, 2004

Can I play? I had a little time yesterday morning, but the morning haze was playing tricks on me. I'm going to try a spot Fri. that I've been wanting to get to and haven't yet. well this is what I have so far.

Childs Play at 35.5mm equivalent

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