Photography II - Page 17

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-15-2011, 12:58 AM

Oh my God, Nerd, I absolutely adore those two photos! So gorgeous!

EllethValatari · 02-15-2011, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by BeardofPants

What did you use for post-processing? They turned out very nicely!

Thanks! You're going to laugh, but I took the pictures on my phone and then used the Adobe Photoshop App to enhance the color. It literally took the swish of a finger.

Nerdanel · 02-15-2011, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Gwaimir Windgem

Oh my God, Nerd, I absolutely adore those two photos! So gorgeous!

*grin* thanks! glad you enjoy them - it was a lot of fun to take them.

we go to the studio a couple of times a year, and the first time it was fun just to take regular portraits with nice lighting, but after a while, that gets extremely boring.. no matter how pretty the models are :P so lately i've tried being a bit more creative (although i also had to take pictures of a baby, and the parents didn't want anything too creative there).

Nerdanel · 02-17-2011, 09:21 PM

my little family on a cold winter morning

EllethValatari · 02-19-2011, 12:04 AM

Played with some vintage effects...

Taken at the coffee shop yesterday.

BeardofPants · 02-20-2011, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by EllethValatari

Thanks! You're going to laugh, but I took the pictures on my phone and then used the Adobe Photoshop App to enhance the color. It literally took the swish of a finger.

V. cool!

***Jonathan*** · 02-20-2011, 04:21 AM

V. cool indeed

While I also like to enhance colours and alter contrasts and brightness, I usually go an unnecessarily long way to do so

The Gaffer · 02-21-2011, 05:53 AM

(GW - hope you didn't take offense at my wee jokey wokey)

I think you have a flair for portraiture, Nerdy. Either that or everyone goes all mean and moody when you point a camera at them. I think that one of your fambly is brilliant.

Instead of "Say cheese" do you go "Life is futile?"

Nerdanel · 02-21-2011, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

(GW - hope you didn't take offense at my wee jokey wokey)

I think you have a flair for portraiture, Nerdy. Either that or everyone goes all mean and moody when you point a camera at them. I think that one of your fambly is brilliant.

Instead of "Say cheese" do you go "Life is futile?"

*grin* i like your observation, although i'm not sure why all my portraits are like that. maybe i get photos of smiling people, but i prefer the moody ones. :P no, maybe it's more that i ask my models in the studio to do weird things (which makes them look moody) or that my presence just makes people realize that life IS futile.

The Gaffer · 02-22-2011, 06:38 AM

Well, whatever it is, it gets good results. I love the cat - totally in the moment - in contrast with your bloke - miles away.

Nerdanel · 02-22-2011, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by The Gaffer

Well, whatever it is, it gets good results. I love the cat - totally in the moment - in contrast with your bloke - miles away.

thanks a lot - and again, a great observation. it's seldom that people who comment on my photos point something out that i didn't notice myself.

Nerdanel · 03-10-2011, 04:22 PM

i spotted the northern star and thought i'd try to take a long exposure shot, maybe get some star trails.. there are some, and the other light made me not so interested in taking a really long exposure shot. so i'm not sure about this one, but the light pollution sure brings out pretty colours in the sky! not too many stars, though..

EllethValatari · 03-10-2011, 06:10 PM

Nerd, I know nothing about the effects you just described, but when I look at that picture, all I can saw is wow. Amazing. Beautiful. Whimsical.

Nice work.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-10-2011, 07:31 PM

Wonderful; I love the way the trees seem to be circling around and embracing the sky. The motion trails (as I assume the fuzziness is!) on some of them makes it almost like a dance.

The Gaffer · 03-10-2011, 07:37 PM

Yeah, I love this picture, for those exact reasons. It is a probabilistic dance. Like how the more detailed you get, the more blurred they are.

Nerdanel · 03-10-2011, 08:18 PM

thanks, all! i'm glad you like the photo that much.. it did turn out somewhat interesting, and it's nice to hear that it's interesting in a good way. i wasn't sure about that.

Nerdanel · 03-15-2011, 06:26 PM

i finally managed to get a decent photo through our 20*80 binoculars - it's not very easy to align the camera and the binos, but it's super-easy compared to managing to focus well.. X) but it was fun!

Nerdanel · 03-28-2011, 06:05 PM

we (me and sedeer) are going to put up our photos in the international book shop downtown (a used book store), give a little talk about our photography and even have some books for sale. we finally managed to finish the book, and you can get a glimpse of it here.

(that's sedeer's blurb page: mine is here, but the new book isn't on there.)

it's a risk we're taking with the book, since we don't actually know if anyone will buy it - we ordered 10 copies of it, and if it actually sells, we'll order more. otherwise, we lost a couple of hundred euros.

it's 80 pages, so there are quite a few photos.

unfortunately, the preview is only 15 pages, and only shows the landscapes - later on, there are lots and lots of macros and monkeys and apes and stuff. i'm quite happy with it.

EDIT: the book has a full preview now, so you can see all the photos in it..

Nerdanel · 04-02-2011, 04:49 PM

i seem to have gotten into the sky thing, so here's another photo of star trails (a bit of a longer exposure this time):

and here's a slightly different/weird photo.. i call it resurrection.

.. there'll be more soon!

**Mari** · 04-03-2011, 07:39 AM

Interesting Nerdanel! Love your pics as usual, though I'm not a big fan of the ones with the models under sheets or whatever the stuff is. It's a bit creepy.
The book looks gorgeous. I wish I had to money

02-15-2011, 12:58 AM	#321
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Oh my God, Nerd, I absolutely adore those two photos! So gorgeous! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-17-2011, 09:21 PM	#324
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	my little family on a cold winter morning __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

02-19-2011, 12:04 AM	#325
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Played with some vintage effects... Taken at the coffee shop yesterday. __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

02-20-2011, 04:21 AM	#327
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	V. cool indeed While I also like to enhance colours and alter contrasts and brightness, I usually go an unnecessarily long way to do so __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

02-21-2011, 05:53 AM	#328
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	(GW - hope you didn't take offense at my wee jokey wokey) I think you have a flair for portraiture, Nerdy. Either that or everyone goes all mean and moody when you point a camera at them. I think that one of your fambly is brilliant. Instead of "Say cheese" do you go "Life is futile?" Last edited by The Gaffer : 02-21-2011 at 05:55 AM.

02-22-2011, 06:38 AM	#330
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Well, whatever it is, it gets good results. I love the cat - totally in the moment - in contrast with your bloke - miles away.

03-10-2011, 04:22 PM	#332
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	i spotted the northern star and thought i'd try to take a long exposure shot, maybe get some star trails.. there are some, and the other light made me not so interested in taking a really long exposure shot. so i'm not sure about this one, but the light pollution sure brings out pretty colours in the sky! not too many stars, though.. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

03-10-2011, 06:10 PM	#333
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	Nerd, I know nothing about the effects you just described, but when I look at that picture, all I can saw is wow. Amazing. Beautiful. Whimsical. Nice work. __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

03-10-2011, 07:31 PM	#334
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Wonderful; I love the way the trees seem to be circling around and embracing the sky. The motion trails (as I assume the fuzziness is!) on some of them makes it almost like a dance. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-10-2011, 07:37 PM	#335
The Gaffer Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: In me taters Posts: 3,288	Yeah, I love this picture, for those exact reasons. It is a probabilistic dance. Like how the more detailed you get, the more blurred they are.

03-10-2011, 08:18 PM	#336
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	thanks, all! i'm glad you like the photo that much.. it did turn out somewhat interesting, and it's nice to hear that it's interesting in a good way. i wasn't sure about that. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

03-15-2011, 06:26 PM	#337
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	i finally managed to get a decent photo through our 2080 binoculars - it's not very easy to align the camera and the binos, but it's super-easy compared to managing to focus well.. X) but it was fun! __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. "* - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

03-28-2011, 06:05 PM	#338
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	we (me and sedeer) are going to put up our photos in the international book shop downtown (a used book store), give a little talk about our photography and even have some books for sale. we finally managed to finish the book, and you can get a glimpse of it here. (that's sedeer's blurb page: mine is here, but the new book isn't on there.) it's a risk we're taking with the book, since we don't actually know if anyone will buy it - we ordered 10 copies of it, and if it actually sells, we'll order more. otherwise, we lost a couple of hundred euros. it's 80 pages, so there are quite a few photos. unfortunately, the preview is only 15 pages, and only shows the landscapes - later on, there are lots and lots of macros and monkeys and apes and stuff. i'm quite happy with it. EDIT: the book has a full preview now, so you can see all the photos in it.. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page Last edited by Nerdanel : 04-03-2011 at 07:58 AM.

04-02-2011, 04:49 PM	#339
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	i seem to have gotten into the sky thing, so here's another photo of star trails (a bit of a longer exposure this time): and here's a slightly different/weird photo.. i call it resurrection. .. there'll be more soon! __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

04-03-2011, 07:39 AM	#340
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Interesting Nerdanel! Love your pics as usual, though I'm not a big fan of the ones with the models under sheets or whatever the stuff is. It's a bit creepy. The book looks gorgeous. I wish I had to money __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

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