London calling

[venta]

Bah. Occasionally I see photos and think wow, yes, I should take more pictures. Hey, maybe if I worked at it I could do great things like those!

Then every so often I see a photo which makes me think hell, no, I have the photographic ability of a gnat, other people can make these transcendental images and I might as well give up right now.

This is one of the latter kind.

Wow.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

Although I contend that unless you try taking images like that you can't complain about not managing. When was the last time you were up on a roof with a camera and tripod?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Aye. Also, that time on the roof should probably be followed by some work with some digital processing - that looks like an HDR image, and the fact that there's stationary traffic visible suggests that it was HDR made from a single RAW file ...

With a shot like that, photographic ability is only part of it. Ability to do the post-processing is another. And getting access to the roof is another.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I haven't been up on a roof with a camera/tripod in ages.

The trouble, as Mr Landmine so rightly says, is in the post-processing. Firstly, I shoot film, which is good in some ways but bad in others. Secondly, some time ago I saw a few examples or photos which, in the raw[*] state, weren't that great but looked fab after people had done incomprehensible things to them in their photo-editing package of choice.

I don't know anything about the post-processing and, though I presume I could learn, I don't have an awful lot of interest in it as it always feels like cheating. However... I simply won't be able to achieve the results I want without learning this stuff... and I've kind of stuck there.

[*] Not RAW, just as they were.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I've got the opposite problem - digital image work isn't a problem, but I very seldom take any really good photos.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Together we can take the art world by storm!

(Not that I necessarily take really good photos either, but I'm much more willing to work on that bit :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Phew, for a moment there I thought you were going to say we fight crime! (Which I'm not really up for, particularly in this weather.)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

particularly in this weather
Good call. Crime-fighting is another fair-weather activity. [grin]

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I try not to do much post-processing - and when I do, it's pretty obvious. Although I am finding that I am doing more, especially with portraits. And if you're doing some, it's easy to just tweak the levels a bit, to darken the shadows properly, and to lighten the highlights ... and it's then a slippery slope until you're doing full HDR shots ... [grin]

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

That is very fine indeed.

Intrigued by the article with it. The work on the building it was taken from looks much more like renovation, rather than demolition.