Portland with Luben

gubbs

Had a great afternoon with Luben yesterday, despite the positive weather forecasts it turned out to be flat and grey. Fortunately, Luben is full of ideas about how to make the best of the available light, and worked his way through an array of filters, 3 min exposures, vertical panos etc etc. Made me realize how much there is to learn, especially when I now start looking at his shots. Luckily for me he's more than willing to share and felt like I learnt loads. Cheers Mate!!

Portland is famous for its stone, all the local houses are built from it

Pulpit Rock, Taken around the same time as Luben's. See what I mean!

In action

wxwax

*note to self - gotta learn filters*

Yes, I see what you mean. Your last shot is very nice, and a gradient filter to warm up the sky would have made it even nicer.

But hey, this puppy's pretty darn good.



And I really like this bad boy too.

USAIR

Grubbs
Man you sure make it hard to pick out the best shots
Their all great shots

3 min exposures and filters... nd filters?
I messed around with nd filters and long exposures on a rainy day once
May have to revisit that idea

Thanks
Fred

Andy

jon

shooting with luben's a real treat, but he's also lucky to be shooting with you! i'm jealous of both of you, great shots, indeed - and a lovely location... will you take me there when i'm across the pond in early april?

pathfinder

Very informative threads that you and Luben have posted. Very interesting. I need to get a couple of neutral density filters I think for Yosemite.

Steve Cavigliano

Holy Cow!!!
Gubbs,
These are really good Like Sid, the 4th and 5th shots knocked my socks off. Very, very nice long exposures.

See, that's another good thing about cutting your teeth on a prosumer. Especially one with NightShot, that urges you to invest in ND filters


Excellent work mates

Steve

Nir

Fantastic!! Beautiful shots!

gus

Good show ol' chap...pip pip. Mate your punching out some colour there thats for sure. Love that blue house.

Dee

Gubbs, you're being too hard on yourself
I sometimes have mixed feelings about blurred water (long exposures) sometimes I like the photos, sometimes I don't. You did good under poor light conditions -- but on the other hand, it's always good to see what someone else does to the same views, and the use of filters is good to learn.

Sounds like you and Luben had a good time, and had a nice trip to the area. Neat place with lighthouse and crazy rocks! I like the tidepool shot very much, and also the one of the rock and all the houses below... :

luben

What are you banging on about!!??

gubbs wrote:

Made me realize how much there is to learn, especially when I now start looking at his shots. Luckily for me he's more than willing to share and felt like I learnt loads.

Your shots are stunning & every bit as good as my efforts. I particularly like your rock pool & sunset shots.



I too learned a lot & really enjoyed your company. We need to start thinking about our next photo outing :-)

Talk to you later mate

Luben

luben

Another thing.......
Do I really look this grumpy!!!! :uhoh

Andy

naw, here's "happy luben" (prolly becuase we just had some really good indian food eh what!)






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luben wrote:

Do I really look this grumpy!!!! :uhoh

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luben

The bottom one looks pleasant enough.....
.........but I am smiling in a rather evil manner in the top one. It is nearly a grimace :-)

l8r Andy

gubbs

wxwax wrote:

*note to self - gotta learn filters*

Yes, I see what you mean. Your last shot is very nice, and a gradient filter to warm up the sky would have made it even nicer.

But hey, this puppy's pretty darn good.



And I really like this bad boy too.

Thanks Sid , I didn't use a filter on the top one, the light was fading enough to get a long enough exposure.
Following Luben's suggestion I used a polarizer to kill the reflections in the second.

gubbs

USAIR wrote:

Man you sure make it hard to pick out the best shots
Their all great shots

3 min exposures and filters... nd filters?
I messed around with nd filters and long exposures on a rainy day once
May have to revisit that idea

Thanks
Fred

Thanks Fred, I was too concerned about the noise on my 10d to run 3 min exposures, I used a maximum of 60 secs, Oh and yes, I borrowed Lubens ND8 for a few shots

gubbs

andy wrote:

jon

shooting with luben's a real treat, but he's also lucky to be shooting with you! i'm jealous of both of you, great shots, indeed - and a lovely location... will you take me there when i'm across the pond in early april?

Thanks andy, we've got a couple of other locations lined up so you should be able to choose by then!

ian408

Gubbs, Nice work!

ian

gus

andy wrote:

naw, here's "happy luben" (prolly becuase we just had some really good indian food eh what!)






http://williams.smugmug.com/photos/7944716-L.jpg

Hmmmmmmmmmm....beef vindaloo or maybe a sag gosht.




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luben

You are right........

Humungus wrote:

Hmmmmmmmmmm....beef vindaloo or maybe a sag gosht.

Andy is eating Sag Gosht, while I am munching a gorgeous Biriani!!!

All the best

Luben

gus

luben wrote:

Andy is eating Sag Gosht, while I am munching a gorgeous Biriani!!!

All the best

Luben

No vindaloo 'eh andy ? What a piker !

Michiel de Brieder

That Luben's a lean mean shooting machine

Great photos Gubbsy!!!

ian408

Humungus wrote:

No vindaloo 'eh andy ? What a piker !

When you get here 'gus, we'll have to hook you up...

Ian