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[NevadaJack]

You have some great images Germaniac...the G series Canon's are a nice camera and the 20D should really provide you with a great tool to develop your talents.

I tried your desaturate with the sponge tool and it works real well. I will try it on something that will have more effect than the one below but I wanted to see how it worked. The sponge allows quicker selection and you don't have to tweak it much like when using the lasso tool. Thanks for the tip.

 

[El Zorro]

Yep, that's how I would like to have my pictures Jack! But as you say, the picture you chose is not ideal for this effect, because your car is already white-coloured. I would turn this picture completely black-on-white, which would be nice because there'd be much contrast...

 

[notic]

Ahh, thanks for that NJ and BMWFREAK

very cool picture Roberto

 

[SDNR]

very cool picture Roberto

Thank you notic ...I appreciate your compliment.

Roberto! Nice images man ............. your photos I've seen have displayed an incredible sense of composition and deliberation - something I respect a great deal firstly due to the fact that photography is not a medium that easily lends itself to such a style, and secondly because my photos always seem to be that of the spontaneous kind - not always a good thing.

Ahh, thank you very much Germaniac. I guess it reflects my control-freak nature ...seriously though, my favourite type of photography is the spontaneous type ...photojournalism at its highest level ...like the work of the Magnum photojournalists -- I wish I was a quickly perceptive as they are ....they have a kind of sixth sense that allows them to capture the perfect moment ..or as Henri Cartier-Bresson called it, "The decisive moment".

I found this sample of well known photographs from the Magnum photographers.

http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/magnum/index.htm

 

[Germaniac]

Thank you notic ...I appreciate your compliment.

Ahh, thank you very much Germaniac. I guess it reflects my control-freak nature ...seriously though, my favourite type of photography is the spontaneous type ...photojournalism at its highest level ...like the work of the Magnum photojournalists -- I wish I was a quickly perceptive as they are ....they have a kind of sixth sense that allows them to capture the perfect moment ..or as Henri Cartier-Bresson called it, "The decisive moment".
http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/magnum/index.htm

Wow... very nice images... I actually took photography as a subject last year in Year 12 and though I did pretty well in it, the more I was exposed to photographers, the more I felt that any of my effort was in vain - the sheer overwhelming magnitude of absolute quality within the artistic/photographic community; simply its depth and breadth, was pretty depressing for little ol' me

All that said I absolutely adore Bill Brandt's stuff, though my favourite photographer I think would have to be Richard Avedon... not sure if you're aware of him but basically he was a photographer who cut down all the pretexts and constructs of the subjects he shot (mainly people of fame, influence etc) and portrayed them in a brutally honest and sincere manner - the meaning and depth behind even some of his most basic portraits always astounded me.

Here's some of his stuff, sadly he passed away in 2004

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[SDNR]

Thanks for the great photos Germaniac.

I am very familiar with the work of Avedon , actually I used him as an example in THIS THREAD a few weeks ago ...he is a great photographer.

One of my favourite classic photographs is the portrait of the composer Igor Stravinsky taken in 1946 by Alfred Newman.

Those pictures by James Nachtwey on Darfur for Time are truly beautiful ...but therein lies the personal dilemma for me. I find it slightly irritating that these photographs are so aesthetically attractive when they are depicting tragedy ....it kind of turns suffering into art -- in a way, it sanitizes suffering and poverty for western "consumption". It's like a Puccini opera, at once tragic but also extremely beautiful. I know this is a very cynical attitude and I struggle with it ...but maybe Bob Geldof is correct when he talks about the "pornography of poverty" we see on our TV screens.

 

[Matt]

This ones going in next weeks photo competition....
taken with my olympus in Van Couver.

 

[SDNR]

 

[SDNR]

Here is one I really like. I have adjusted the colour obviously ..it was taken at night.

 

[Matt]

great shots dude!

 

[notic]

Very nice photos Roberto. You should open a flickr account to display them all.

 

[notic]

some photos to revive the thread.

 

[Choleric]

some from europe

and some rugby pics

 

[Matt]

Great shots choleric and Notic......My camera broke

 

[notic]

some from europe

Very nice BW. a great balance of shadows and light.

Great shots choleric and Notic......My camera broke

thinking of getting a new one? now seems like a good time. lots of new cameras have just been released.

 

[SDNR]

Terrific photos Choleric ...a very high standard of quality

Matt, is that your Olympus? ...you have not had that for very long have you ...is is repairable?

 

[NevadaJack]

Great posts the past few days here...enjoy seeing them.

Here is one that I could not enter in the competition because of the format. This shot of almost the entire strip was from a parking garage roof at about 6 miles away with a 70mm setting on my 70-300mm lens. I had to crop it to take out the bright lights in the foreground. It almost looks like a pano but it is a single shot at ISO 3200. Did noise reduction and a lot of tweaking on PS.



Here is the identical shot taken before the sun went down...the sunlight was on the downtown area.

 

[SDNR]

That is a really great shot Jack ...your new zoom is giving you some fantastic results ....I can sense you enthusiasm

 

[Matt]

Matt, is that your Olympus? ...you have not had that for very long have you ...is is repairable?

Yea it is, I dont know if its reparirable. Hopefully im still within my warranty for it.

 

[Osnabrueck]

Have any of you ever considered selling your material on iStockPhoto.com? Their site is pretty awesome for prosumers who have material worth selling, but don't have the time or energy to go through established channels.

Basically, you set up your account and upload your photos for approval. Once approved, folks like me can buy your images and you recieve a (pretty small) royalty check.

I've noticed that their site is lacking good quality photos of Europe. Photos of major European cities and monuments seem to sell well.