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My World: Road To Nowhere

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Michaela Taylor

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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michaela Taylor said:
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Unedited, as is out of camera.
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Michaela,

The secret of getting a print from foliage, is unfortunately, to do the work that Ansel Adams would dedicate himself to do hours, weeks or months at a time. There's so much drama and detail among and in between the successive layers of branches and leaves in this deceptively simple scene.

As yet, no camera on the planet, to my knowledge can open up and display all the detail, except perhaps Michael A. Smith using his unique supply of otherwise linearly responsive film and paper, which he has stored in customized freezers.

Otherwise, one has a lot of work to do in the darkroom.

Or else, 15 minutes in photoshop will get one pretty close! But "out of the camera" here, without a lot of hidden lights on the scene, is hardly likely to show the full magnificence of such a scene.

How do you and post processing get along?

Asher
 
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Michaela Taylor

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Asher Kelman said:
Michaela,

The secret of getting a print from foliage, is unfortunately, to do the work that Ansel Adams would dedicate himself to do hours, weeks or months at a time. There's so much drama and detail among and in between the successive layers of branches and leaves in this deceptively simple scene.

As yet, no camera on the planet, to my knowledge can open up and display all the detail, except perhaps Michael A. Smith using his unique supply of otherwise linearly responsive film and paper, which he has stored in customized freezers.

Otherwise, one has a lot of work to do in the darkroom.

Or else, 15 minutes in photoshop will get one pretty close! But "out of the camera" here, without a lot of hidden lights on the scene, is hardly likely to show the full magnificence of such a scene.

How do you and post processing get along?

Asher
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We used to be great friend's, post - processing and I, but now we are mutually exclusive. I felt that I was relying on PP too much and at the same time that I was not learning the skills needed to take good photo's in camera (a must if I want to become a wildlife photographer) so to learn the one and get a bit of distance from the other I stopped post - processing my work at all.

As to post processing this photo I like how it came out - it is truthful to the feel of the moment and to how the scene was in reality. Anyway I was not taking a photo of the trees but of the light on the road, in the moment I had to take the photo that was the story I wanted to tell - the feeling that I wanted to capture was captured so I do not think I want to edit it at all.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michaela Taylor said:
We used to be great friend's, post - processing and I, but now we are mutually exclusive. I felt that I was relying on PP too much and at the same time that I was not learning the skills needed to take good photo's in camera (a must if I want to become a wildlife photographer) so to learn the one and get a bit of distance from the other I stopped post - processing my work at all.

As to post processing this photo I like how it came out - it is truthful to the feel of the moment and to how the scene was in reality. Anyway I was not taking a photo of the trees but of the light on the road, in the moment I had to take the photo that was the story I wanted to tell - the feeling that I wanted to capture was captured so I do not think I want to edit it at all.
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That makes sense!

Then do you have full control of your camera's setting for the jogs? For example, for this picture what did you use, and do you find one setting for all day and night, or do you reset the camera contrast and other parameters each time the subject changed? Some cameras allow the buttons to be programmed for different "sets" of settings, so one can, if one so chooses, bypass post processing considerably - especially if the color space for the jpg is set to Adobe RGB, if that is possible.

Asher
 
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Michaela Taylor

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Asher Kelman said:
That makes sense!

Then do you have full control of your camera's setting for the jogs? For example, for this picture what did you use, and do you find one setting for all day and night, or do you reset the camera contrast and other parameters each time the subject changed? Some cameras allow the buttons to be programmed for different "sets" of settings, so one can, if one so chooses, bypass post processing considerably - especially if the color space for the jpg is set to Adobe RGB, if that is possible.

Asher
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I have a basic entry DSLR so no fancy programmable buttons for me lol :). I have full manual control over my setting's (shutter, aperture, iso ect) and I have control over the colour and contrast setting's which I mostly leave on what I have set them too as they work for most lighting situations and my camera likes them... I change my shutter, aperture and ISO settings with almost every change of the light, sometimes is does not change or I am lucky and I don't need to change the settings, which is not very often!

The setting I had for this shot were -

F/5.6

Shutter 1/125

ISO 400

It was very dark where I was standing beause the bush had all but made a tunnel over the road.
 
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