Couple at Sunset

Couple walking at sunset in Langebaan. Taken with a Canon 400D. I am afraid I have lost the image details.
George Barrett

Paternoster Flowers

This photo was taken at Paternoster a few weeks ago. The colours were wonderful.
George Barrett

Painting With Time Entry

My attempts at painting with time. In the first shot I was trying to show the grass moving - really tricky and I've yet to get it right. Second image (another, oh look how pretty the water looks with slow shutter speeds cliche, I know!) is 39 Steps in Hogsback. Only problem was waiting for a still moment, so as to stop movement in the red berries. I think we should start adding technical information to our posts - first image 2.5 seconds, F18, ND4 (I think?) and ISO 100 (should really have dropped this to ISO 50) second image 2.5 seconds, F18 with polariser, ISO 200 (which shows I was not really that awake when I took it!).

Neil.

Dodge/burn Layer tutorial

For anyone interested I have just posted a new tutorial on creating and using a separate dodge/burn layer that can be found at http://www.limephoto.co.za/Dodge_Burn_Layer_tutorial.html . For those using CS4 I intend to add (eventually) an additional tutorial showing how to dodge and burn using the greatly improved dodge/burn tools of CS4 and blending through the luminosity mode.

Any comments on how to improve the article are always welcomed.

Cheers
E

Painting with Time entry

There seems to be something of a theme going on here with panoramics :) I shot this yesterday morning for the painting with time theme. This shot consists of three images shot horizontally with an exposure of 15 sec at f16 on ISO 200. I also had a polariser, 2 stop Nd and a ND grad on the front of the lens so as to balance the sky and slow the exposure.

E

Panorama shots

Hi All,

Sorry for the long delay in publishing again. Indeed I got scared ;-) by your positive reactions and thinking that I could never live up to the expectations again. But Hell, all generals lose a battle sometimes, so I might as well get some critique and learn from it... After Emil's post on shooting panorama images I got the guts to publish some of mine. So here we are. Somehow I really like panorama images, just by their format. They suck you into the image and make you search for things in the detail. Otherwise, if there is little detail, they often create 'a feeling'. For example a peaceful,tranquil feel, like the jetty photo below. Or a more gloomy feel like the Drakensberg image from Emil. I would like to learn to create that effect on people through my images.

So what are your hints and tips on the images below? Do they create any feeling at all when you view them?

Late afternoon in Hluhluwe Game Reserve, panorama created in photoshop using 3 images. Nikon D80 with 18-55 VR Nikkor

Jetty at Catalina Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, using 3 images in photoshop. I used a polarizer here. Nikon D80 with 18-55 VR Nikkor

Hippo's waiting to come out during sunset in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, 3 images stitched by panoramamaker 3.0, camera Fuji Finepix S5400

New Theme - Painting with Time

It's been a while since we had a theme in the Group. Here's one for September/October in that case: Painting with time. Painting with light obviously involves using a lightsource as a 'brush' in which details are illuminated during a long exposure. Well, painting with time is that minus the 'brush'.

For those new to painting with time, a couple of pointers - Neutral density filters help a treat in lowering exposures. If you don't have one try a polariser, or even stacking polarisers (just don't cross them as you'll get a pure black image). The polariser will reduce the exposure by 2 stops. For once the lowest aperture also makes sense, even though it's soft, for the simple reason that if there's movement during the exposure it's going to blur in any case. The longer the exposure the more 'painting with time' there is.

Have fun with those long exposures!

E