[GALLERY] Phreelancer's Photography

[Cortexian]

Note: I'm going to try and organize ALL of my images into spoilered sections in the first post, as well as link to their corresponding individual posts. My latest stuff will be at the end of this post and will link to the actual post where the images are located, older posts will be spoilered in this post and their original post to save on bandwidth!

I figured I should get this thread rolling due to the impending arrival of a DSLR in my hands... Here's a few shots I did in Canmore a few years ago with a point-and-shoot, edited in Photoshop to adjust levels, brightness/contrast, and color balance for a few...

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/79700357803905851171.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/55833150446151909221.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/82633622903004584810.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/66136211423231102457.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/68829777494589777903.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/07334348897873078927.jpg

Critique is welcome, but keep in mind these were taken a couple of years ago.


Updated the second image from above for a better look: (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?p=493931#post493931)

Yea I really like images 2 and 3 as well, MrBig what would you suggest I improve on in post processing?

Edit - I applied a warming filter to the image and played with it a little to make it look slightly better, hard to see the different unless they're side by side though:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/05220661105870858773.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/20584289168935316691.jpg


Some images from my new Canon T1i: (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?p=498754#post498754)
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/08964928790523410496.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/34659211993458272294.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/52754101982265269820.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/10387415017479494453.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/14901404312814879995.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/70461988891385048979.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/24215776874683620638.jpg

Full size image from this camera:

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/59633601219728565922.jpg


Still learning everything about this, most of the above images were taken on the basic mode settings. Here are an image with a long shutter speed and manual ISO:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/56577673974950676681.jpg

Can't wait to get some outdoors shots on this.

Playing around with long shutter speeds, lasers, and Christmas lights: (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?p=500030#post500030)

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/81991485321721463340.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/77422083317208270555.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/60990209974416684017.jpg

Some shots of various things I can see from my kitchen... (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?p=500282#post500282)

[Futzy]

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/55833150446151909221.jpg
I like that one very much
All of would need a bit more post work to look better though.

[Higuy]

Your pretty lucky to live near them, I love that type of enviroment.. its just so cool looking.

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/55833150446151909221.jpg
^ I like that picture.

[Cortexian]

Yea I really like images 2 and 3 as well, MrBig what would you suggest I improve on in post processing?

Edit - I applied a warming filter to the image and played with it a little to make it look slightly better, hard to see the different unless they're side by side though:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/05220661105870858773.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/20584289168935316691.jpg

[Cortexian]

Some images from my new Canon T1i:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/08964928790523410496.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/34659211993458272294.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/52754101982265269820.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/10387415017479494453.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/14901404312814879995.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/70461988891385048979.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/24215776874683620638.jpg

Full size image from this camera:

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/59633601219728565922.jpg


Still learning everything about this, most of the above images were taken on the basic mode settings. Here are an image with a long shutter speed and manual ISO:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/56577673974950676681.jpg

Can't wait to get some outdoors shots on this.

[Jean-Luc]

Where the fuck do you get the money for all this nice hardware? :saddowns:

Nice photos though, <3 the kitty.

[Dwood]

That's a fat cat.

[Limited]

Where the fuck do you get the money for all this nice hardware? :saddowns:

Nice photos though, <3 the kitty.
Mummy and daddy of course.

Pretty nice shots.

[Cortexian]

That's a fat cat.
Yea, the non-black and white cat (they're actually two diff kittys <3) is pretty damn big. He's actually larger than one of our neighbors dogs!

Edit:
As for the cash, I pay for all my computer hardware, though as previously admitted on this forum somewhere I loan of my parents sometimes if I don't have the money at the time. However this camera stuff was purchased as a Christmas gift for my father and I from my grandparents, mother, and myself (yes I helped pay for my own gift, lol). My dad doesn't know that he's got it yet so I have to keep it hidden from him until Christmas, this limits when I can use it so I don't think I'll get a lot of practice in before then.

[Ganon]

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/55833150446151909221.jpg

y u ruin that pic with the giant branch sticking out in the middle of the screen

smash that thing and take the picture again

[Cortexian]

I was attempting to use it as foreground in that photo.

[Reaper Man]

Here are an image with a long shutter speed and manual ISO:
[image]
Lookit you showing off about your camera gear and trying to sound all technical. :allears:

Lots of incredibly boring photos, with the exception of the black and white shot of the cat. There's a difference between photography and just showing random snaps taken with your camera.

[Cortexian]

Uh, I have to learn to use it before I can take good photos, unfortunately I didn't come with genetic memory on how to operate a Canon T1i...

Also, like I said, I doubt I'll actually be able to get out and take some photos till after Christmas.

[Timo]

Fuck me. Manual ISO o_o

[Cortexian]

Playing around with long shutter speeds, lasers, and Christmas lights...

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/81991485321721463340.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/77422083317208270555.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/60990209974416684017.jpg

[Timo]

You need to stop uploading the full res images, 1600 by whatever is easily big enough and won't kill my wireless/bandwidth.

[Cortexian]

You need to stop uploading the full res images, 1600 by whatever is easily big enough and won't kill my wireless/bandwidth.
Just because I can doesn't mean I should? :ugh:

[Timo]

It's just annoying waiting for stuff to load is all. I'm sure i'm not the only one loads stuff from your website in slow motion.

[Con]

It's just annoying waiting for stuff to load is all. I'm sure i'm not the only one loads stuff from your website in slow motion.
.

I might actually comment on your photos if I didn't have to wait for them to load fully. We get the same idea with something 800 pixels wide and something scaled to that size with shot tags.

[Donut]

i love the hi res shot of your cat.

[Cortexian]

Some shots of various things I can see from my kitchen:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/12792574151575061795.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/98365870085462295355.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/50982794759409117397.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/13187310162850973480.jpg

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Do you even consider reading posts? Waste of bandwitdh.

Your picture have no focal points...some stuff is cut off...you don't know where to focus on (last 2 ones).

Tbh my mom can do better pictures than that. :smith:

[Jean-Luc]

I was attempting to use it as foreground in that photo.
Ideally, for an image like that, I would make sure any brush in the "foreground" is removed entirely from the image. You're doing landscape photography in that, and the focus is not on the leaves of a nearby plant.

Now, I'm not a professional photographer myself, but take a look at these two photos I took while driving cross country.

NO BRUSH IN FOREGROUND:
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9798/1920x1200l.jpg
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/4100/crosscountry2009176.jpg

The nice thing about those two is that the focus is COMPLETELY on the landscape as a whole. Now take a look at what happens when you photograph a landscape and you get some brush way too close to the lens.

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/6638/crosscountry2009161.jpg

You see how distracting that is? The foreground brush not only makes the scene look amateurish, but also takes away the sense of impressiveness from the landscape you're trying to capture.

[Cortexian]

Do you even consider reading posts? Waste of bandwitdh.
I'm pretty sure I have to learn how to take good photos before I can take good photos. Looks like you came in here assuming that I was a photography god because I have a DSLR all of a sudden, wrong!

I need to learn how to use it first you dole. Posting what I can gets me critique that will help me take better photos in the long run, at this time I'm just posting the pictures that I think are above average compared to the rest.


Tbh my mom can do better pictures than that. :smith:
Not under these conditions, all the shots I took were taken between other trees or window ornaments. The second last image would of been focused properly on the tree ornament and bird feeder if the top edge of my deck wasn't just below the bottom edge of the image.

I was limited in those photos because I was shooting around objects.


You see how distracting that is? The foreground brush not only makes the scene look amateurish, but also takes away the sense of impressiveness from the landscape you're trying to capture.
It looks fine to me, not amateurish at all.

I see your point on the "grand scale" though, and when I get out to the mountains this summer I'll keep that in mind for landscape shots.

Edit - Here's an image that I grabbed just now, thought it might make a decent photo after walking past it a few times:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/23235058088477431564.jpg

[CrAsHOvErRide]

I'm pretty sure I have to learn how to take good photos before I can take good photos. Looks like you came in here assuming that I was a photography god because I have a DSLR all of a sudden, wrong!


I meant what Timo said...they are unnecessarily huge.

[Cortexian]

Well, statement still stands, I'm still learning.

Also, when they're resized from 4700+ wide down to 2000 wide and compressed a tiny bit they average around 1.2 Megabytes which is pretty small and loads fairly quickly.

[Futzy]

It's not any harder to type in 800 instead of 2000. You can even make an action to resize and save for you. And use save for web if you aren't already, those are some pretty big jpegs.
Just do it from now on and let's see better compositioned shots in the future?

[Jean-Luc]

1.2 Megabytes which is pretty small and loads fairly quickly.
lol :v:

Not all of us have fiber-optic internet. I'm on Comcast 20mbps download and it still takes 20-30 seconds before the page loads. Really, unless you're showing something hyperdetailed or providing a wallpaper version, there is no reason for the image to be so large.

[Cortexian]

I only get 7.5Mbps download and the 1.2MB images load in 2-3 seconds...

Either way, nothing pisses me off more than clicking on images expecting big resolutions and then getting something only slightly larger. I'm spoilering all the old stuff so it shouldn't matter anyways.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

I only get 7.5Mbps download and the 1.2MB images load in 2-3 seconds...

Either way, nothing pisses me off more than clicking on images expecting big resolutions and then getting something only slightly larger. I'm spoilering all the old stuff so it shouldn't matter anyways.
Spoilering doesn't protect from loading. A common Modacity missassumption.

[Hunter]

I always though that by using the spoiler tags the content does not load. If I thought correctly, I always though that the "div?" which the content is contained in when the spoiler tag is used is always set to hidden in the style sheet, or in-line styling.

If it is set to hidden is should not load?

But still, your images should be saved to max 1000 pixels width, which is a good enough resolution to present your images. You can easily provide an external link to your full resolution images.

And ass MrBig said, when you use the save to web feature in photo shop you can see the outcome in a live preview and reduce the image size by adjusting the quality slide. Half the colours in most images cannot be detected by the human eye...

(Sorry if my post makes not sense at all, just got back from mates 18th party lmao).

[Timo]

Use a bit of jpeg compression too - I save my photos at 95 quality at 1680xwhatever. The size is normally around 500kb, and the resolution means most people can use it as their desktop. If people want a higher resolution copy they'll ask.


Having that branch sticking out in that photo Jean was talking about does look amateurish. It's like you just walking up to the river, pointed and shot the photo with out any thought. Sometimes a bit of stuff in the foreground can setup a shot like that quite well, but most of the time it detracts from the overall image.

[Cortexian]

Yea, when I save them in Photoshop I set quality 10/12.

[Futzy]

Yea, when I save them in Photoshop I set quality 10/12.
File>Save for Web and Devices
It will further compress it instead of just lowering quality.

[Reaper Man]

Fair enough you need to learn to use your camera, but there's no need to be posting random snapshots. It'd be the same as posting doodles, boring doodles, or models of teapots (like a lot of people start out doing).

It seems to me you like to show off, with comments like "Oh yes" in the desktop thread and whatnot. Well then, I'm going to be blunt here - there is nothing, nothing whatsoever to show off in the photos that you have shown so far. It seems to me you post these photos to show off that you're using a 500D, you sure did post the unboxing. The 500D is an entry level DSLR. Get over it. I shoot on this semi-professional/professional level camera (http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7641/225302692742d8e41a98.jpg), yet I don't go on and on about it, though I very well could. (Not a photo of my camera, same set up though.)


TL;DR:
You have to stop thinking about the gear, learn to use it and then worry about the image, not your image.


File>Save for Web and Devices
It will further compress it instead of just lowering quality.
But if you do this, remember to set it to preserve all EXIF data.

[Cortexian]

Took a lot of photos when I was airsofting on Jan 31st.

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/16508858315239370701.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/43357356264363011326.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/23802755700750604002.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/83087271316788921853.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/72942356993647900018.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/13293950692970513809.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/46907728757103925471.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/92023954769265943978.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/36540751267290204846.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/29231719530729168450.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/00084435616199441608.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/74452957652929657380.jpg

More here... (http://leimg.lancersedge.com/users.php?act=gallery&gal=1&cat=10)

[Con]

This is what I'm talking about. Even these still images are more interesting than that video you took. I guess it's the ground-level shots that make you feel the action a bit more.

[Amit]

This is what I'm talking about. Even these still images are more interesting than that video you took. I guess it's the ground-level shots that make you feel the action a bit more.

Yeah. I really liked a lot of those Airsoft pics.

Something for Ross to drool over:

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/25227012684817386517.jpg

[ICEE]

Cool gloves in that first airsofting pic there lancer. Do you know where the person got them? the olive green ones. (http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/43357356264363011326.jpg)

[Cortexian]

Cool gloves in that first airsofting pic there lancer. Do you know where the person got them? the olive green ones. (http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/43357356264363011326.jpg)
Possibly these (https://www.sealsactiongear.com/catalog/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=1129) or these (https://www.sealsactiongear.com/catalog/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=788), not quite sure though. I much prefer the Oakley ones in this picture (http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/92023954769265943978.jpg), in fact I ordered some not to long ago... :)

[Cortexian]

Working through all my cruise photos, this was just a panorama stitch I was able to do on one of the ship computers with Windows Live Photo Gallery (need a better panorama stitching program, please advise). I know some of the most recent discussion in this thread was about presentable file size, but this is supposed to be a gigantic panorama and I scaled it down to about half the original size.

http://freelancer.modacity.net/pics/IMG_2025_Stitch.jpg

All the color edits and adjustments and cropping and stuff were done in Windows Live Photo Gallery, didn't turn out half bad.

[Timo]

Autopano pro.

[Cortexian]

Here's another panorama of the Half Moon Kay beach, the island is owned by Holland America Line and we were the only ship there at the time. Image is resized by myself, click for a smaller version of the original, message me for original, etc...

http://freelancer.modacity.net/pics/IMG_3102_Stitch_Web.jpg (http://freelancer.modacity.net/pics/IMG_3102_Stitch_Small.jpg)

[Dwood]

Most of those people are either old or fat. Nothing to see there.

[Limited]

Shame, if those people werent in that shot it would have been amazing.

Why the hell are you on holiday with a bunch old fogies?

[Cortexian]

Shame, if those people werent in that shot it would have been amazing.

Why the hell are you on holiday with a bunch old fogies?
I was trying to capture all the people in that shot, and planned to come back just before the last tender to the ship to get an empty beach panorama but people weren't cooperating.

My parents took me along on the cruise, so we went on Holland America Line which is generally geared towards older folks... When I'm 21 and able to drink without having to steal a bottle of white rum daily in order to spike other drinks, I'll have to get some friends together, rent a penthouse (sleeps 6 and is only about $1,800 per person when split up) and go on Carnival or one of the lines more geared towards younger folks.


Most of those people are either old or fat. Nothing to see there.
All of the creepy stalker telephoto shots I took of the handful of hot chicks are for me and me alone!

[EX12693]

I went on a carnival cruise recently. It's not necessarily geared towards younger folks, but toward the whole family. There is a place for just about everyone and I enjoyed myself quite a bit. At least on Carnival (I dont know about other lines) there is a three hour behind the scenes tour you can go on if you're into that kid of stuff.

[Dwood]

Shame, if those people werent in that shot it would have been amazing.

Why the hell are you on holiday with a bunch old fogies?

Not a problem in Photoshop CS5.

[Cortexian]

I did actually remove a guy from the beach panorama with all the people, basically:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/09679288118539822874.gif

Bet you didn't see that until I pointed it out, now you'll notice the blurring in the area that the guy used to be... No need for CS5! :allears:

Anyways, I made a gallery site with most of the photos I took and a lot of the photos my dad took (herp derp full auto mode DSLR photos). If you want to check it out it's located at cruisephotos.lancersedge.com (http://cruisephotos.lancersedge.com).

You might be interested in:
http://cruisephotos.lancersedge.com/galleries/100318-Caribbean%20Cruise%2018th/IMG_2402.jpg

I ran into Nick Maley (one of the main guys that created the Yoda puppet for the first Star Wars movies) at his "ThatYodaGuy" art gallery on one of the islands we visited.

[Reaper Man]

Polarizing filter, try one next time you shoot a pano. The sky and water will look so much more awesome.

[Malloy]

Who's that geek with the hat on shaking hands with you man?

edit: best say that the above statement was a light hearted joke before we see rage tears :P

[Cortexian]

I don't even get it, I'm a geek and I had a hat on so what? Funny attempt failed.

[Malloy]

No I was incinuating you were the short guy with the beard :)

[Cortexian]

Still unfunny.

[Malloy]

Fullstops mean business on the ends of statements.

Must've been cool meetin that prop guy and all, he tell you any anicdotes or was it just a brief meeting?

[Cortexian]

We chatted for awhile since there was no one in there except me and his assistant at the time, lol... Talked about Star Wars obviously and also Highlander since he did a lot of the prop work there as well.

[Malloy]

Well thats a gem of an experience, he retired now or still collaborating with certain projects?

[Cortexian]

I do believe that he's still working on certain projects, he was actively working on something that looked like concept art for some kind of creature when I was there... Should of snapped a photo.

[Cortexian]

From the Post your PC pics thread:

Gave my PC a good dust-out today with our air compressor, plugged in the halogen construction lamps my dad had in the garage and snapped some pics:
http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/25985100212692283257.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/28798082126302083736.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/45346540248317866803.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/44801863423873920376.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/35929050014908960823.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/71677150908474001907.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/32187063782581454180.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/29780291223017333712.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/92693051576354421930.jpg

http://leimg.lancersedge.com/images/00610249638046288820.jpg

I know, the plastic bits need to be cleaned better... Hand and fingerprints all over the flat surfaces etc...
Looking for comments on the photography side of these pictures, how could I of improved the lighting I was using? Is the backdrop okay for this kind of stuff or would you of used something else? Etc...