Hans Miedema
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Waiting for the jack-up to come in ,I killed some time on the boulevard
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Bart_van_der_Wolf
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Hallo Hans,
Welkom bij OPF, welcome to OPF,
Always nice to meet a fellow Dutchman on an international forum.
You killed your time well ;-) I like the subject, and your composition choices show promise. While it works in the first image, I'm not too enthusiastic about the gradient ND filter use on the others. It's a bit too much for my taste. My motto, well one of them, is: If you can see what's done to achieve the effect, it's overdone. But then I like sublety.
The problem with gradient ND filters is that they cause problems when the division between light and dark in the subject is not straight. In such cases making multiple exposures and blending in postproduction is a better approach.
Thanks for sharing,
Bart
Cem_Usakligil
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Likewise! At first I thought that Hans was perhaps Flemish but it seems that he lives virtually around the corner of where I live.
Bart has mentioned the inherent problems with ND filters so I won't go there again. Image 4 would be better without one, IMO.
It seems that there is a dilemma in these pictures about whether the sky is more important or the foreground. It can of course be a conscious choice to place the horizon near the middle as in the pics 1-3. I like the first one due to the activity of the workers in the foreground. I guess the framing can be improved a bit by cropping a bit from the left and/or top. Number 2 is the one I like best as far as the composition is concerned. The two rows of cabins in the front and the opening between them lead the eye nicely into the picture and towards horizon. I'm not sure though whether the horizon is actually horizontal here.
Thanks for showing these. En welkom bij OPF.
Groetjes,
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Hans,
Welcome to OPF. This scene is perfect for doing more work. I love the huts. This is a well loved setting for painters and photographers alike. As Bart suggests, the ND gradient filter can be limiting and today unless you are trying to shoot at a wide aperture in the bright sunlight, try bracketing and then fuse the layers by masking in photoshop or by one of the merging programs that can add up differently exposed areas to give a perfectly balanced image.
See this picture by Max Lyons blended in Photoshop. Not really complicated. You might also look at Photomatix which a lot of folk really get addicted to! Watch one doesn't aggressively drift into the habit of getting an artificial look by extreme settings.
I'm not sure about that truck on the lower right. It's colorful and with it all included in a Pano, it could be a useful anchor for a wider pano stitched image. In scenes like this, I try to get coverage of adjacent areas just in case I might want to include neighboring areas later on.
A lot of photographers really object to doing this as they want to make the picture in one shot and that's the composition that is then fixed. I am less religious about the truth since I believe in changing my mind in answer to how the picture develops.
Anyway, this picture reminds me of impressionist's love for the huts and bathers. I hope you continue with this motif to make it your own.
Asher
Welcome to OPF. This scene is perfect for doing more work. I love the huts. This is a well loved setting for painters and photographers alike. As Bart suggests, the ND gradient filter can be limiting and today unless you are trying to shoot at a wide aperture in the bright sunlight, try bracketing and then fuse the layers by masking in photoshop or by one of the merging programs that can add up differently exposed areas to give a perfectly balanced image.
See this picture by Max Lyons blended in Photoshop. Not really complicated. You might also look at Photomatix which a lot of folk really get addicted to! Watch one doesn't aggressively drift into the habit of getting an artificial look by extreme settings.
I'm not sure about that truck on the lower right. It's colorful and with it all included in a Pano, it could be a useful anchor for a wider pano stitched image. In scenes like this, I try to get coverage of adjacent areas just in case I might want to include neighboring areas later on.
A lot of photographers really object to doing this as they want to make the picture in one shot and that's the composition that is then fixed. I am less religious about the truth since I believe in changing my mind in answer to how the picture develops.
Anyway, this picture reminds me of impressionist's love for the huts and bathers. I hope you continue with this motif to make it your own.
Asher
Hans Miedema
New member
Well thanks a lot guys
really suprised by the constructive critic and suggestions, will take them in account, learning every day
Thanks again
really suprised by the constructive critic and suggestions, will take them in account, learning every day
Thanks again
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Well, Hans, are you perhaps going to go back and shoot more there?
It's a great place, but you are going to have to work hard to get your own stamp to this scene. I find I have an appetite for seeing more of this despite it having been used by so many painters. It has such an immediate reminder of so many great times people have had at the beach and whatever goes on in those little huts!
Asher
It's a great place, but you are going to have to work hard to get your own stamp to this scene. I find I have an appetite for seeing more of this despite it having been used by so many painters. It has such an immediate reminder of so many great times people have had at the beach and whatever goes on in those little huts!
Asher