The Flats

Anclote Key

Took this the other day in color, but messed with it a bit in B&W. Just wanted to show and tell.

ruskinredneck

I like it.

Germ

me personally, just needs a bit more contrast to make the whites more stark.

Anclote Key

Thx, and yea I agree. That one blown out cloud in the top left was giving me grief. I need better imagine editing software.

Germ

Not really, being good with photoshop just makes you a good graphic artist not a good photographer No idea on the camera but a lot of cameras have built color filters for b&w shooting and trying an orange, green or red can really change how the photo comes out. I know the look I like for b&ws and try and spend some time till it finally looks how I want. Its better to get it best in the camera from the start then spend a lot of time in photoshop fixing it

WaterEngineer

Anclote Key wrote: »

Thx, and yea I agree. That one blown out cloud in the top left was giving me grief. I need better imagine editing software.

The cloud doesn't bother me. But I would suggest giving it another try by opening up the jambed up shadow on the right.

What software are you using?

Also, if it were me I'd probably hit the contrast button a little harder. Right now it is a 8.5. It could be a 9.5.

Menzies

Another idea to play with. Try actually going the other way with the sharpening and soften it - you may get a Constable painting-like effect.

Anclote Key

Germ wrote: »

Not really, being good with photoshop just makes you a good graphic artist not a good photographer

I see your point, but don't fully agree. Obviously, some people go to the extreme with the photoshop stuff, but to me it's just the new age darkroom. High tech dodging and burning. The amount of time Ansel Adams put in after the shot was captured on his camera was substantial. With that being said, I see your point that trying to fix a bad photo is no way to go.

WaterEngineer

Anclote Key wrote: »

..........the photoshop stuff, but to me it's just the new age darkroom. High tech dodging and burning. The amount of time Ansel Adams put in after the shot was captured on his camera was substantial...........

A.K., the truest statement today. I have posted this video before. Watch and learn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZlovMptjyQ

Also, if you are shooting in RAW fixing this image will be fie minutes, in ACR using selective exposure.........

Anclote Key

Thanks for that video. I'm a big fan of AA. I have several of his books, and a couple lithograph prints of his, but I've never seen that video before. It's amazing what he can do with only shades of gray, black and, white. I wonder if we will ever see this lost art of darkroom work brought back to life. Reminds me of high school phototography class.

I'm almost embarassed to tell you what I used to take my photo. I snapped the shot with my Nikon Coolpix 12MP little point and shoot. I was taking a friend out for a quick ride, and as we were idling out into the Gulf I looked north and was taken back by the beauty of the clouds and the reflection on the uncommonly smooth water. When I got back home I opened the file in Picassa to do some digital darkroom work. I think I used an orange b&w filter to convert the color photo to shades of grey.

This is how the original photo looked.





Menzies...I like your idea of softening up the shot also to give it a painterly effect. I did that a while back with this photo. It's one of my favorites, and the screensaver on my laptop.

WaterEngineer

Hope you didn't mind. five minutes with the 200Kb file in Topaz B&W effects. I'm sure I could have worked a little more and saved the rest of the cloud.

Cane Pole

Perfect example of a shot that can really benefit from HDR.

Pescatoral Pursuit

I like the pic. It reminds me of one of my favorite corners of the Mosquito Lagoon. Gives me warm fuzzies all over.

Without the houses in the backgound, though.

Anclote Key

Don't mind WE, looks good.

I'll mess around with the HDR, CP

Thanks, PP.

Menzies

Cane Pole wrote: »

Perfect example of a shot that can really benefit from HDR.

:nono

Anclote Key

Something else I have noticed over the past couple days is how much different a photo looks depending on what computer you are using. I made this shot on my laptop, and it looks quite a bit different on my computer at work, and different again on my phone's screen. I'm starting to miss the good ole' days when we actually had tangible prints to look at.

Cane Pole

Anclote Key wrote: »

Something else I have noticed over the past couple days is how much different a photo looks depending on what computer you are using. I made this shot on my laptop, and it looks quite a bit different on my computer at work, and different again on my phone's screen. I'm starting to miss the good ole' days when we actually had tangible prints to look at.

Big time!

Many of my photos look one stop over on my desktop PC at home, then look perfect on my Mac at the office. Really makes me sometimes wonder what my customers end up with.

Anclote Key

What kind of biz you in?

fishingkid315

Nice


Tight lines, fishingkid315

Austin Mitchell

Awesome picture.

Cane Pole

Anclote Key wrote: »

What kind of biz you in?

I do event photography mostly, some fishing, some sports, some modeling, some fine-art, some video....lot of unpaid stuff...slowly gaining experience.

Germ

I wish I could remember his name, he does a lot of nature stuff here in florida and uses a large format camera and walks out on the flats with a 10k film camera and snaps some pretty amazing pics. It was like butler or something and I wiosh I could remember cause he had a similar pic

Germ

http://clydebutcher.com/clyde-butcher-larger_image.cfm?largephoto=ShellKey3_L.jpg

thats who I was looking for.

Anclote Key

Wow...those are some awesome photos!!!