...do you do something with the photos you post, none look real, like you used filters or something
looks like HDR (High Dynamic Range)
I consider myself an artist. Photography is my medium and my "brushes" are a variety of tools, including lens filters (the only ones I use are a polarizer and a 6-stop neutral density, but neither all the time) and a few different software programs, including Photoshop. I am not a documentary photographer - one who takes pictures and does little or no editing so as to illustrate the sometimes harsh, sometimes dull realism of the scene. My mind doesn't work that way. I modify everything: my home, my KJ, my Segway, my computer, my own body.
Love the photos Jim but I'm with Tom on his statement. I'm not a huge fan of HDR looking shots.
If you love my photos, then you do like "HDR looking shots." My camera, a Nikon D810, has one of the highest dynamic ranges of any DSLR. But I realize not everyone likes my kind of photography.
I do B&W works too.
IDK if Jim is shooting in a flavor mode but..I shoot manual white balanced, with an original image, then post process.
I took one of Jim's images color corrected, turned down saturation, and adjusted red green & blue levels.
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This looks more natural IMHO.
I don't
like the way that looks. That's why I didn't make that photo. It just didn't look that way to me when I first captured it. Yours is cold. It looked much warmer that day to me. You edited
(without asking, I might add) a low resolution photo with serious flaws. Unfortunately, I sometimes post a photo before I let it sit for a while to see if I still like it later. I didn't. I wanted to also post them on facebook today, so I spent some time to re-edit. My original has been replaced by this:
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I'm pretty sure you still won't like that one, but it's my artwork, not yours. Of course, you didn't know I was going to edit my own photo, but if you had sent me a PM first, I could have told you to hold off on your critique and example of the way you like photos until after I had finished. Then you wouldn't have that horrible streak on the tree and all the other flaws I found after the fact. I guess it's my fault for sharing a photo before it was ready for prime time.
True HDR shot in camera uses at least 3 exposures of varying difference either via shutter speed or aperture to expose all levels if light across the scene then combines them all to produce an image that shows all aspects from that you can vary the image in terms of saturation etc to suit your taste.
Although there are some cameras that have HDR settings, a "true" HDR isn't shot by a camera, it is made by an artist. I have created a few HDR images with 2, 3 and 4 images. Once I composited 8 different photos because I wanted a night scene with lots of colored trailing lights from cars, but I live in a sleepy town with not much traffic, even on a Saturday night. My photo above, though, is not a true HDR. It's created from a single image.
Yes, most HDR photos consist of
2 or more photos of different exposure levels. That's so you can get good exposure in the deep shadows, the brightest highlights and the midtones. Some software blends them automatically and tones them for you. I like to do as much of the modifications as I can myself. HDR has gotten a lot of bad press - like it's some kind of hack method of developing pictures. I think it depends on who is doing the post processing.
I am not the greatest photographer. No one is. I like the work I do, but I also realize I have much to learn. Making and even posting my mistakes helps me learn and improve. Not all my work is award-winning stuff, but I have won a few and I have had some of my work published (Psychology Today, CPU Magazine and High Times liked my stuff). Except for a single semester at San Mateo City College in 1983-84, I am self-taught. Well, that's not entirely true... I belong to some photo forums, watch photo related videos and try to learn from people whose work I admire. It's a lot like being a better KJ owner/user by listening to some of you guys.
Paul Simon's Kodachrome | YouTube
Yeah, I likes that.
