Nikon User Thread

OK, I swear this is it (I just keep going through more and more stuff), but this one is for the Fenway faithful :)

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Corrected
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Shot on the long end of a 210mm lens, sports scene setting.

-Jeremy
 
Jeremy,

Here are my thoughts on your shots:

CD Girl - I like the cc a lot, but I am not as fond of the framing. I wish her face wasn't so center. A little more to the right, with more empty space to the left, would have worked better for me. As it is now, the foreground steel is too in my face. I also wish I could see here eyes just a tiny bit more.

Buildings - I love the angles. Unfortunately, the cc'd photo is extremely pixelated on all the edges.

Self Portrait - I love the cc. If your bag wasn't in the picture (and no camera strap) I think it would be perfect. It would make the black of your camera pop more.

Thanks for sharing,

Chris
 
CMessineo said:
CD Girl - I like the cc a lot, but I am not as fond of the framing. I wish her face wasn't so center. A little more to the right, with more empty space to the left, would have worked better for me. As it is now, the foreground steel is too in my face. I also wish I could see here eyes just a tiny bit more.
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I agree... I took a ton of her and this is one of the ones that she liked so I started to play with it. I completely ignored the rule of thirds, but at the same time... well I have no defense. Let me see what else I got from that day, but still, I like the color grading in the image.

CMessineo said:
Buildings - I love the angles. Unfortunately, the cc'd photo is extremely pixelated on all the edges.
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I completely agree. I think that when/if I go back to this image the one thing that I need to do is not unsharp the picture. It is right around where I changed the sky from the white to the blue that you can really see the effect. I think I should have most likely used a polarizer on the image but didn't because... well I just didn't.

CMessineo said:
Self Portrait - I love the cc. If your bag wasn't in the picture (and no camera strap) I think it would be perfect. It would make the black of your camera pop more.
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Thanks... I kept taking pictures out of the window and this was me just screwing around for a bit. I wasn't blocking the shot, just sitting there and taking a picture of my fat ass. I hate seeing pictures of myself and can't stand to walk in front of my DVX or my camera. There is just something about it that bothers the hell out of me, but this seemed like a fun shot and I liked the mirror frame.

I still haven't done my thirty second exposure shot yet... I really want to get that done.

-Jeremy
 
cheezweezl said:
wow, i can't find the seams. good job. is that photomerge?
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Partially. Also healing brush and trickery.

Isn't it odd the Telephone pole between the two buildings only has lines running to it from the right? There was a slight glitch there I didn't feel like fixing, so I masked it.

The other seems are well blended.
 
I studied the hell out of the picture looking for seems and it was like a 'Where's Waldo' test... I couldn't see the seems and it took me a decent two minutes of looking at phone poles before I saw what you pointed out.

Great job and really sharp. I like it a lot and I'm normally not a pana fan at all. It just looks really good and sharp.

That being said... I think I have fallen in love with the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens... Too bad it is pushing $750 and out of stock everywhere. I hate this hobby.

-Jeremy
 
Thanks guys. Actually, there are 2 layers of seperate channel luminosity copies blurred and set to multiply and screen on top, and it lost quite a bit of the sharpness from the original. I was trying to get a moddy feeling, but retain some color.
 
Here are a couple of more images from my DC trip this past weekend. All of these are straight out of the camera with no post adjustment (yet!). I just wanted to demonstrate a couple of the images that this camera is capable of with the stock glass with no correction applied in post.

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Once again, these are uncorrected, literally taken from the camera and uploaded to snapfish and just posted to demonstrate some of the uses of the 17-55mm kit lens on the D50 in varying detail, focal lengths, and lighting conditions.

-Jeremy
 
Yeah, they just also distort the thread view by stretching the window waaaaaaaaaay out... Good detail and nice color correction but just way too large.

-Jeremy
 
i like the burned look but you lost the cool backlight effect on the hair. all the detail has been blown out. mybe try to dup. the original layer, apply the effect to the top layer, then use a layer mask to get rid of the blown out areas and bring back those highlights from the orig. image. then cc the orig to match the color of the top and you got it.
 
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