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Just A Little Something For The Water Challenge

Just A Little Something For The Water Challenge

While this is not my entry (I'm still working on it) I thought I would post this and say:

C'mon people, 24 hours until the deadline for next week's challenge!

This is my interpretation of the woman of the water or whatever...

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18-70mm lens at 60mm, circular polarizer, .9 ND, 10 second exposure, F29, Hoya R72...

-Jeremy
 
MY entry

MY entry

Hey guys. I just got my Nikon D50, so here are is my entry for the contest!

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here are my other pictures, that i decided were not good enough, but still pictures worth showing. I shot all these pictures in Jim Thorpe, PA, at Glen Onoko Falls. Enjoy!!

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Great shot Joe. I love the sun coming through the trees. Just a really nice image. I like the detail of the woods and how close the water is to the camera. Overall very sharp and just nice composition.

I'm debating between 6 shots right now for what I want to enter, but having a lot of fun putting them together. Here are two more IR images I took today that I'm not entering.

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-Jeremy
 
Thanks Yank, I've had my D50 for about a week, and I havent put it down yet. my DVX is becoming EXTREMELY jealous. I love your pictures, i'd have to say the one on the left is my favorite though. The blues and whites are very strong. The magenta comes out nicely on the rocks as well.

My entry is the first shot as well. (sun through the trees)... so who are our judges?!?
 
We are all the judges... Essentially the way we're doing it is your picture gets you a vote. Tuesday you pick your first place and your second place winners. First place gets 2 pts and second gets 1. Whoever gets the most chooses the contest for the next week. Pretty simple stuff, but everything needs to be up by Midnight Monday.

The IRs are fun, but I wonder how artistic they are... thanks for the compliments. I really like your stream picture though. Where did you find this location?

-Jeremy
 
Just moved to the PA area, and just hiked a trail that takes you to these waterfalls. Was on a mission for the "water" picture, probably shot about 140 total, and got these 5. hah. it was fun though.
 
Okay, here's some water. I got started late and just wasn't able to put the thought I'd have liked to, into it. Next time I'll be more prepared. This is the lemon tree in my backyard. This was shot with 18-70mm lens (70mm) , aperture 4.5, ISO 200, speed 1/250.

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Okay, how do I adjust the size of this thing? In PS I changed the size to basically a 5x3 but when I bring it on here, it's either the size you see or HUGE!

EDIT: Thanks, changed from 300 dpi to 72 dpi.
 
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Blaine, I can't see a thing. The best way to resize is to adjust the height and constraint properties and adjust to 72 pix per inch.

-Jeremy
 
TheYankee said:
Blaine, I can't see a thing. The best way to resize is to adjust the height and constraint properties and adjust to 72 pix per inch.

-Jeremy
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Yeah, d'oh. 72 dpi. I was set at 300! Can you see it now?
 
TheYankee said:
Yeah, showing up perfectly. Is that your entry? Just out of curiousity.

-Jeremy
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Unfortunately, it's going to have to be because I haven't had any time to give it the thought it deserves. My entry in the next round will receive a lot more attention.
 
I don't think that there is anything wrong with your image, I just didn't know if you were submitting now when you still had 24 hours. It's allgood though, I actually really like your image and like the way everything works in it.

-Jeremy
 
I appreciate the kind words, Jeremy. But I'm going to have to step it up if I'm going to run with the big dogs. :)
 
TheYankee said:
While this is not my entry (I'm still working on it) I thought I would post this and say:

C'mon people, 24 hours until the deadline for next week's challenge!

This is my interpretation of the woman of the water or whatever...

Heather%20at%20Water.jpg


18-70mm lens at 60mm, circular polarizer, .9 ND, 10 second exposure, F29, Hoya R72...

-Jeremy
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Great subject, great shot, great atmoshere.
IR works great here (and not only here...)
 
Thanks for the comment. I like the IR, but there are some problems with it as an art medium that really cause some problems. First of all, IR causes a ton of noise in the image. Sometimes this isn't a problem because all IR images are noisey, but at the same time, it is not a side effect that I really like. The second issue is that humans just don't look great when shot in IR. The blue tone that comes through on the skintones isn't the greatest effect. I'm sure that this could be corrected with tons of photoshop work, but that changes the overall feel of the image. Finally, with IR, it is a very slow process. You need a minimum of a 2 second exposure, and most of the time it is a 5-10 second exposure. That means that it needs to be on a tripod, but not only just the tripod issue. You need to set up your entire image, focus, meter, and then you need to put the filter on and shoot. You can't really meter the image and it is mostly guessing on the exposure time with the lens as closed as possible.

Now for all these gripes, sometimes you get a great image. I like the self portrait I posted a couple of pages ago and think that in this situation the IR works great and really helps with the mood.

I've completely moved from my lens lust school of thought and have progressed to the entire filter lust. I'm quickly learning that a filter, whether it is a .5 or .9 ND, polarizer, or IR. I just keep looking at other filters like the enhancing and soft focus and some others. Filters are just where it's at and so much cheaper than new lenses.

-Jeremy
 
I can't decide what I think of these shots, but yesterday my brother and I went for a drive around the Saint Charles area... and there's a Buddhist "place" (what do I say here? Temple? Retreat?) that's in the middle of nowhere... you have to drive up a windy gravel road to get there... on some days I'm sure you'd need a 4x4 to make it... so anyway, he didn't even believe me when I said this place was back in these hills... but we drove back to it... and everything was open, but I didn't see anyone the entire time we were walking around... and of course I snapped some pics.

This is a lifesized buddha which overlooks a valley... my best guess is that it faces east... in the distance, miles away, you can see the Labadie power plant. These shots almost could have been in the "where I live" category... this is all within 15-20 minutes of my front door... right down hwy 94.

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Here's a shot standing from the other side with the sun behind buddah's head. Crop only, no PS.

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And here's another shot from the same spot... this time I opened the shutter more... got just a little bit of the eyes... then in PS I pushed the levels to 100%... funny looking shot with an animated BG, but it's simply levels... took 2 seconds.

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I like those Matt. I actually prefer the second one the most because it is that full on silhouette shot. There is something that is calming even about the image so I can only imagine what it would have been like to actually be there. Great looking stuff. What lens did you shoot it on?

-Jeremy
 
18-70mm... and yeah I know the actual quality of these isn't great... just handheld and fast snaps... I was on full manual in the silouette shot. I just noticed a little nub of tree-tops in the right corner. D'oh!

Ipo... I really like the color and contrast on that frog shot... also, if I didn't mention it before... the cat shot is fantastic. My girlfriend really loved that shot. Can you believe that there are still people hanging on to film? In a very few RARE cases I can understand it, but not many... I know a couple people locally that will go on about how great film is compared to digital, and how it will take a 20mp cam to get to that level of spare resolution, etc. etc. then you see their shots and it's almost laughable... from the first time I saw these Nikon shots I was stunned at what "ordinary" people could do with the cam... that's not a derogatory statment... I just mean non-pro-photographers... like my local buddies who eschew the virtues of film. For a real pro film probably still has various advantages including DR... but for everybody else the quality isn't even close. Digital rocks.

Jeremy... that's a great IR image... I'm assuming you know this girl... but it would be cool if that was candid.
 
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