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marmiteonpizza · Nov 23, 2015

Took these two a couple of nights ago in a massive old air raid shelter near me.
The second is just the first one cropped for a close-up, which do people prefer?

Octopuss · Nov 23, 2015

Joel Charig said:
Did you use a grad ND filter for this? Or did you make the sky darker after?
Personally, I really like the darkness in this; I much prefer photos to be too dark than be too bright A little bit of dark usually suits general photos better than too much brightness.

Hah, nope! I'm a hopeless beginner. No fancy stuff.
This is how it looked unprocessed with the settings I used. I think I will try again just to see what I might come up with this time, with a TINY bit more experience with LR. I literally just randomly dragged the sliders around.

marmiteonpizza · Nov 23, 2015

Octopuss said:
Hah, nope! I'm a hopeless beginner. No fancy stuff.
This is how it looked unprocessed with the settings I used. I think I will try again just to see what I might come up with this time, with a TINY bit more experience with LR. I literally just randomly dragged the sliders around.

I always reduce highlights on the clouds, like you've done

I find the adjustment brush in Adobe Camera RAW (I don't know if it's in LR) really useful as you can paint over the sections you want to change individually.

You've done a pretty good job if you didn't know much about post-processing when you edited that

Octopuss · Nov 23, 2015

Thanks

STIG_ZA · Nov 24, 2015

Sasqui said:
Nice, judging by the focus, aperture is as big as a dime... surprised with the slow shutter speed based on that.

Room was pretty dark at the time though

Sasqui · Nov 24, 2015

STIG_ZA said:
Room was pretty dark at the time though

That would explain it

Jetster · Nov 24, 2015

rtwjunkie · Nov 24, 2015

Joel Charig said:
Took these two a couple of nights ago in a massive old air raid shelter near me.
The second is just the first one cropped for a close-up, which do people prefer?

I prefer the 1st for the contrast and scene setting. But, the second one does have portrait qualities.

marmiteonpizza · Nov 24, 2015

rtwjunkie said:
I prefer the 1st for the contrast and scene setting. But, the second one does have portrait qualities.

Exactly what I'm thinking! I think I'll go with the first for portfolios for the reason you've given

rtwjunkie · Nov 24, 2015

Joel Charig said:
Exactly what I'm thinking! I think I'll go with the first for portfolios for the reason you'be given

The first one has alot of character with all the effects in play there. The second looks very much like what you would see in a pre-auction catalog.

marmiteonpizza · Nov 24, 2015

rtwjunkie said:
The first one has alot of character with all the effects in play there. The second looks very much like what you would see in a pre-auction catalog.

That made me chuckle

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Nov 24, 2015

Joel Charig said:
Took these two a couple of nights ago in a massive old air raid shelter near me.
The second is just the first one cropped for a close-up, which do people prefer?

# 1 speaks volumes
# 2 is a broken chair

in my head, on my meds

:toast:

marmiteonpizza · Nov 24, 2015

Thanks guys, you helped me decide which to add to my Flickr portfolio =)

STIG_ZA · Nov 25, 2015

marmiteonpizza · Nov 25, 2015

STIG_ZA said:

The middle one has the best lighting in my opinion =)

grunt_408 · Nov 26, 2015

Found this contest

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http://a.pgtb.me/k30h19/jMkdg?w=41142623&e=108883407 Oh mine is this one

grunt_408 · Nov 26, 2015

Here is another from that shoot. I had everything right this day the light and well behaved dogs.

grunt_408 · Nov 26, 2015

Ive not been on TPU much lately so here is another I did recently...

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Nov 26, 2015

@grunt_408

that is a gorgeous pic, and i dont just mean the lovely lady, it is a very good composition.

grunt_408 · Nov 26, 2015

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
@grunt_408

that is a gorgeous pic, and i dont just mean the lovely lady, it is a very good composition.

Thank you

I try hard and have a passion for photography nowdays

Jetster · Nov 26, 2015

Why shoot ISO 800 why not 100 its so bright out?

grunt_408 · Nov 26, 2015

Hehe someones bin lookin at meh metadata.. Umm i do a lot of macro stuff and usually it is around 800 iso with reversed lens and tubes so I guess just a bit too lazy to change and have no noise issues at all.

Jetster · Nov 26, 2015

grunt_408 said:
Hehe someones bin lookin at meh metadata.. Umm i do a lot of macro stuff and usually it is around 800 iso with reversed lens and tubes so I guess just a bit too lazy to change and have no noise issues at all.

Correct, just trying to learn more. I did notice they are all ISO 800. I try to stay in manual mode

grunt_408 · Nov 26, 2015

I am in manual 90 percent of the time unless in annoying changing light conditions. I used to think it was cool to live in Manual all the time but Aperture and shutter have thier uses....

Jetster · Nov 26, 2015

Not that I live there. I'm still grasping the relationship between all the settings so though I would ask. But it turned out great. Just the right stuff in focus

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