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| Thursday, 21-Sep-2006 16:31 |
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what we saw
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from this side
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this one was a bit easier to edit, because there was more to work with, compared to the previous entry's shot. didn't edit the colors too much, but i did use the spot healing tool quite a bit. very handy, especially if you have dust spots in your picture. of course, the better option is to clean your sensor la when you see dust spots in your picture. it'll save you the trouble of having to spot heal every picture.
oh wait, pns owners don't have this problem. good for you!
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| Sunday, 17-Sep-2006 05:23 |
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what she sees
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on the other side
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colors macam tak best. maybe i'll revisit this one later.
here's the picture again, reworked (20/9/2006).
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| Sunday, 10-Sep-2006 15:38 |
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inward
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minimal editing. shot with a 50mm f1.8 lens.
tired.
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| Friday, 1-Sep-2006 16:20 |
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roots
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akar
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shouldn't forget our roots now, should we?
this is actually a high dynamic range image, although it may not look like it. one can say that it looks like something that we can see anywhere, and i can agree to that. in fact, that is exactly the point i want to make with this particular image. if you try to capture an image where there are bright highlights and very dark shadows, most often you would be hard pressed to choose which area to meter. that's the problem with photography (with digital, at least), but not with our eyes. our eyes have been created such that we can easily take in both the lights and shadows, praise be to God.
so, for this image, i tried as best as i could to maintain a very natural look and feel through my editing. i was especially conscious of trying to maintain the details in all parts of the picture, which was the whole idea of getting this picture in hdr. however, it does feel like the picture lacks a bit of oomph.
thoughts and comments are very much welcome.
ps - below are the pictures used to create the above composite image. see what i mean by the choice we have to make when metering? you gain some details in one part, but lose other details in another part (3/9/06).
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| Sunday, 27-Aug-2006 12:00 |
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the ride back on top
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i'd do it again.
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| Sunday, 20-Aug-2006 02:44 |
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fading sunlight
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taken on a lazy weekend.
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| Sunday, 13-Aug-2006 12:00 |
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bunga dan kaki
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been somewhat lazy to go out and shoot (although some would argue that i don't necessarily have to go really far to get pictures), so i've been trawling through my old pictures to see if i can breathe some life into them a bit. the mineral water bottle picture is an old one as well, given a new lease of life.
this picture here is one of the earliest pictures taken with my then recently purchased nikon d50. yeah, fresh out of the box, and it already had to earn its keep.
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| Monday, 7-Aug-2006 08:06 |
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something evil this way comes (OR... the gathering storm)
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feels a bit overdone, but i was sort of inspired by imran's (constantly) eerie themes.
what do you think?
by the way, this one's a bona fide high dynamic range (HDR) image. it was created using the automated function in photoshop. this composite image was created using three images with different exposures (+1EV, 0EV, -1EV). totally different from the images in the previous entry, which were created using only one image.
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| Friday, 4-Aug-2006 12:00 |
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tak menjadi
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the original image
attempt number 2
attempt number 3
now, between the second and the third attempt, which do you prefer? why?
or, possibly you find that both pictures don't work for you? again, why?
by the way, this was sort of an attempt at HDR, although even i am skeptical that the pictures look like anything but HDR. hence, the title.
if anyone's interested, i'll describe in brief how i managed to get the details from both light and dark portions of the picture.
ps - here's a brief description of how i got these two images, copied and pasted from an email to a good friend (7/8/2006):
| Quote: | basically, from that one source file, i made two copies. one copy, i adjusted the exposure levels for the dark parts so that they look okay. then i made some tweaks in color. same process for the other copy, but this time, it was for the skies. bila dah puas hati edit both copies, then i combine them together using that technique i read at luminous-landscape.com (look up the tutorial on digital blending).
it's sort of hdr, but not at the same time. i haven't been able to achieve hdr-like effects just yet with this combination process, but at least i managed to get 'correct exposure' for the whole image. oh yes, you may want to adjust the opacity and fill with the layers too, before merging/flattening the images together. you can also try to play around with the blending options to see what you can get.
tweak the image as you see fit. you may merge/flatten the images before or after making the necessary tweaks, but it's probably easier to flatten before you edit the picture. |
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| Wednesday, 2-Aug-2006 13:48 |
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mother cat, again
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bravo!! 
Kucing kalau ader kaler biru cam maner agaknyer... ? mesti ramai yang suke...heheheheh 