jake klein
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I feel I've added to much blur. Maybe a re-edit is in order.
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Lone Hoop...
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Charlotte Thompson
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Jake
I don't think it's the blur- it's too much dark shadow- IMHO
Charlotte-
I don't think it's the blur- it's too much dark shadow- IMHO
Charlotte-
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I feel I've added to much blur. Maybe a re-edit is in order.
At first, I thought I was looking at a photoshop picture with some lower frame deletions to reveal an empty frame with a repeating pattern that one sees in PS. More likely, that's snow behind a wire fence. The word "hoop" referring to a basketball net, is not in my regular vocabulary. So I looked for the round thing wooden wheel of laminated wood we use to play with as a wheel, when I was a child in London.
I can't say there's too much shadow, as that might have been needed for you to get what you wanted. However, if that's just an accident of working with a monitor setting that's too bright, then you can correct it. Look at your picture on some other computers and then you will know wether or not it needs being altered. On my laptop, a MacbookPro 2012, the form of the basketball hoop is only recognized with some effort. Then it's obvious. but that may be what you need and so only you can say that it's
too dark"!
Asher
jake klein
Member
Thank you. I appreciate your opinion. I think the foreground is too dark with no detail. I think I was focusing on the net and how it sits in the shadow.
jake klein
Member
Yes I think I really need to invest in some monitor calibration.
This was made by bracketing 5 exposures. I was on my at my cousins new apartment on the balcony playing with the tamron SP 300mm f2.8 LD IF on a tripod. I played with curves until the basketball hoop was just in the shadow. I believe I just overlooked the dark foreground.
Bart_van_der_Wolf
pro member
Hi Jake,
The investment can be modest, only a bit of time and a target for display to tweak the monitor's settings (brightness/contrast). Just squint a little and look through your eyelashes and aim for a uniform brightness at the gamma 2.2 level.
The 'Brightness' control is used to get the blackpoint of the monitor right after the monitor had at least 30 minutes to warm up and settle, and the 'Contrast' control will then set the brightness/gamma. A universal value to aim for is gamma 2.2, for all three color channels. You can use another target to get both the Black level and average gamma in the right place, before tweaking the situation at different brightness levels with the target mentioned above.
Even such a modest gamma adjustment will get your images to display as most others will see them (assuming their display is tuned correctly). Sure, with a properly calibrated and profiled display the (color) accuracy would be even better, but it already helps to get in the ballpark.
Cheers,
Bart
jake klein
Member
Thanks. I think I am in the ballpark but just didn't realize how dark the bottom of the frame was when in PP. I was too focused on the hoop.
Tom dinning
Registrant*
Hi Jake.
When you come across some scene that strikes an interest that you want to photograph, talk to yourself for a while. Find the place in your sight that has drawn you to it and ask yourself why. Then 'see' the picture in your head. Frame what you want and leave as much as possible behind. That's your starting point. If lone hoop is what you want, think about what will make it look alone. Put yourself there and feel the loneliness, the darkness in the shadows, the empty. Space of the wall, the single light, the fence, whatever it is. That will add to this feeling. When you get iron the computer create the caricature by removing the unnecessary and exaggerating the necessary just enough to still look real-ish. With conceptual photography such as this it's OK to lie a little to get the point across. Sometimes its a matter of being a bit brave. If its about. The hoop, reality is what you want. If its about the idea, anything goes.
This is a great idea, but like all great ideas they need to be worked on. Spend some time with it with your present knowledge, play with it and learn what you can do.
When you come across some scene that strikes an interest that you want to photograph, talk to yourself for a while. Find the place in your sight that has drawn you to it and ask yourself why. Then 'see' the picture in your head. Frame what you want and leave as much as possible behind. That's your starting point. If lone hoop is what you want, think about what will make it look alone. Put yourself there and feel the loneliness, the darkness in the shadows, the empty. Space of the wall, the single light, the fence, whatever it is. That will add to this feeling. When you get iron the computer create the caricature by removing the unnecessary and exaggerating the necessary just enough to still look real-ish. With conceptual photography such as this it's OK to lie a little to get the point across. Sometimes its a matter of being a bit brave. If its about. The hoop, reality is what you want. If its about the idea, anything goes.
This is a great idea, but like all great ideas they need to be worked on. Spend some time with it with your present knowledge, play with it and learn what you can do.