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From Norway with kjærlighet Anonymous
These were taken yesterday, the same day we celebrated midsummer ("Sankthans", "Jonsok") with campfires near the beach and barbequed foods. It was a glorious day with temperatures in the 22°C range. These shots were taken as raw files with Olympus E-500, and I used the kitted 14-45 3.5-5.6 lens and my trusty Hoya S-HMC circular polarizing filter. The shots have been post-processed the shit out of, in order to bring out some of that extra "pop".
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>> Anonymous
really nice to see something good on /p/ for once, only thing ide have to say about them is try not to have the horizon centered in the photo. Its a golden rule ;)

Good job on the post-processing too, keep it up!
>> Anonymous
>>57918
Thanks!

As I shot these I kept in mind the horizon-rule, but as I tried to reframe in order to avoid the split-picture-effect, I realized I wouldn't gain anything but more sky and lose foreground subjects, or gain foreground and lose some of that semi-interresting sky. Believe it or not, I did not just "click until I got it right" with these ones, although I had to do some test-shots to get the exposure juuust right, in order to maximize the dynamic range. I aimed for a soft roll-of in the clouds insted of sharply clipped highlights and I think I might've done it. An E-410 or E-510 /w live histogram would've been perfect for this task, but I'll just have to make due.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>57920
That's actually kind of the point. If the land is interesting and the sky is interesting, the whole is less than the sum of its parts. The viewer can't tell figure from ground and it all looks like ground. You just have to accept that you'll need to sacrifice one or the other.

...

That being said, I actually really like these shots as-is. So, well played with telling the Rule of Thirds to go fuck itself, if you ask me. ;)
>> Harrumph
>>57923

>So, well played with telling the Rule of Thirds to go fuck itself, if you ask me

So now you're saying the rule of thirds isn't necessary. Make your mind up ....

Jesus wept ... your judgement is seriously lacking ...

OP, these are excellent shots ... ignore the tripfags and their Holier-than-thou comments
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>57927
Wait, what?

I never said the Rule of Thirds was necessary. I was just explaining the reasoning behind it.

I thought these shots were really good. They work because the land and the sky work together instead of fighting each other to be the focal point of the shots. Especially>>57914, with the lines on the hill and the lines of the clouds both converging into the distance there.
>> Anonymous !SDPEsPMnww
>>57913
Is the polarizing filter the reason behind the absolutely gorgeous blue in the sky?
>> Anonymous
>>57965
It helps, but the finishing touch is done in Photoshop with a black-to-transparent gradient from top to bottom in overlay blending mode. That really helps to push the blues into darkness. Try an opacity around 40-60%; that's a good starting point to preserve some sense of reality.
>> age Anonymous
Age. Because I love getting C&C from qualified sources to help improve my photography.
>> Anonymous
>>58208
dont forgot to add a disguised bump.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>58208
Qualified sources? Where?
>> Anonymous
>>58211
Let me put it this way: I'd rather hear nothing at all or get flamed all the way to where we are dining tonight than just "Oh, that's a nice photo. What camera do you use?". Goddamn, "regular people" piss me off sometimes.
>> Anonymous
Likte himmelen, men motivet var kanskje ltit kjedelig? Hvor er dette?
>> Anonymous
>>58228
I nærheten av Storsteinnes, Troms fylke.

For you non-Norwegian speaking guys, he asks where this is and I tell him the town and county.
>> Anonymous
>>57927
Please gtfo. As usual, you're an idiot.

And OP, these are really nice photos. I especially like the second two. The fist one lacks a focus point somehow - the others've got exciting clouds. Keep up the good work!
>> Anonymous
>>57913
>>57914
>>57916

You live in a beautiful country.
>> Anonymous
>>57913

where abouts in Norway is that?
>> Anonymous
where abouts in norway is that?
>> Anonymous
>>58251
It's in the northern parts, the second northmost county. It's located about 69° 20' N, 18° 30' E.
>> Anonymous
Stunning pictures. The detail is amazing. I wish I had those kind of photography skills :)
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>>58323
Thank you. About the detail - the 100% crops don't look nearly as good as the downsized ones. The way I PP images have a tendancy to increase the noise and/or other irregularities tenfold. Here are the orginal shots /w all default/as shot settings in Adobe Camera Raw for comparison purposes.

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>> Anonymous
are you the same person that will postprocess other people's pictures randomly?
>> Anonymous
>>58451
I've been found out! But yes, I'm one of those guys that sometimes photoshop other peoples images when my own collection has me at a creative dead-end. I would've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddeling anonymae.
>> Anonymous
>>58450
2nd 1 was better pre-shoop.
>> Anonymous
>>58475
that, and the other 2 could have been processed much less extremely while still giving a good effect. as of now, they all look like fake lolhdr images.

Some of the colors in the shooped versions look like they're on the very margin of washout.
>> Anonymous
>>58475
>>58477
OP here again. I must disagree. I find the originals boring, and very typically "just-got-out-of-the-digital-camera-like". They all have their foregrounds completely overshadowed by the very bright highlights in the sky, and the eye is instantly drawn upwards, ruining any- and all sense of line and repetition (rythm) of those lines in the sky. I'm only semi-happy with the second one, as that is the only one not shot directly into the sun, and the tones in the scene are well contained in the histogram without any need to dive deep into the black shadows and specular highlights in a desperate action to recover (important?) detail there.
>> Anonymous
>>58495
Damnit, I ment the lines and shapes in the foreground are not immidiately obvious since they are so dark, making it very hard to repeat them again in sky for a sense of harmony, rythm and repetition (sky mimics ground). In the original shots I find the foreground to be completely out-of-sync with the background, and that just throws me off completely. I also find the second and third shot to be boring from a color standpoint. The colors are washed out and muted because of the exposure issiue, and you don't really get the sense that the colors in the scene play off one another, like the blue, green and yellow in the modded images do.

Also: Yes, I've been watching the daily critique on the radiant vista website Ft. Craig Tainer (?). I especially like his take on landscape photography, emphasizing the need for a connection between the fore- and background; sky and ground.
>> Anonymous
I think it would have been better to have sky-shots and ground-shots (as the other posters have mentioned) because it's a bit overwhelming.

Norway is very pretty this time of year :D