tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498083334062034272013-05-17T15:12:23.383-05:00Evan's ExpoEvan Gearing's Photography ExpositionEvan Gearinghttps://plus.google.com/115923193983395320107noreply@blogger.comBlogger420125EvansExpohttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-449808333406203427.post-40710408468039075602013-05-17T15:02:00.001-05:002013-05-17T15:12:23.388-05:002013-05-17T15:12:23.388-05:00My Take of a Coastal Photo<a href="http://www.chromasia.com/">David Nightingale of www.chromasia.com</a> is a world renowned photographer and Photoshop trainer who has mastered just about every form of photography there is, from portraits to abstracts to HDR. He's so good, he can make <a href="http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/1102241218.php">a picture of powerlines look good</a>. He's one of the best I've seen! I even had the honor of attending one of his courses here in Austin a few years back. He is also a master of using Photoshop, mainly Photoshop's curves adjustment to help transform images into great works of art. He has an excellent <a href="http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/">photoblog</a> as well as <a href="http://www.chromasia.com/training/">a great training site</a>. If you are really interested in getting the most out of your photos, check it out. It's very much worth it.<br />
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All of that being said, <a href="http://www.chromasia.com/blog/archive/1305161106.php">he put an image on his training blog</a> that he took recently and challenged others to process it. He was OK with the results he got from it himself, but he wanted to see what others could do. So the following is my take. The first shot is his original straight from his camera and the second is what I've done with it. <a href="http://www.chromasia.com/blog/archive/1305161106.php">You can visit his post to see what other have done as well.</a><br />
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I have to add that David said he liked this version of which <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4258901969114&set=o.373031166070383&type=1&permPage=1">I posted on FB</a> so I guess I know what I'm doing a little... ;-) What do you think?<br />
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This is an HDR but I masked in the -2EV bracket to emphasize the lit up name of the place. Plus, I did a little dodging and burning as well. Is it too much? Let me know and thanks for dropping by.<br />
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If you know what you are doing and have the right gear, panoramas can be pretty easy and fun. For me, not so much. But, I did learn a lot about panoramas after taking and processing this photo. It still needs a little work, but for me, I think it works. The things I learned are as follows:<br />
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1. To take a proper panorama, one must know the "nodal point" of the lens of choice. The nodal point is basically the area <a href="http://www.4directions.org/resources/features/qtvr_tutorial/NodalPoint.htm">"inside the lens where the light paths cross before being focused onto a film plane."</a> That point is where you want the actual camera to pivot from while you take your shots for a panorama. That way, when it's time to stitch your shots together, the stitching software can blend the shots together as accurately as possible. Otherwise, you will get some wild and unfortunate problems from stitching to distortion (other than normal pano distortion, that is). Also, to figure out the nodal point, you will need a proper head and/or bracket for your tripod.<br />
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2. If you can't use a tripod or even if you have a tripod and not the right head or bracket, you can still take a decent panorama, but be prepared to fix a lot of stitching issues and perspective/distortion problems. I ran into a lot of those with this shot, but a photographer out there named <a href="http://farbspiel-photo.com/">Klaus Herrmann, aka Farbspiel,</a> who takes some great vertical panoramas (or vertoramas), has some great processing techniques that were invaluable. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlSzoOgcGx4">His distortion correction video was a big help!</a> I learned a lot from that video and I also learned a lot from his "making of" videos. However, if you watch those, be prepared to pause and play quite often because his techniques are quite extensive and he speeds up the vids about 10 times as fast as normal! However, you can still get a lot out of them! Those "making of" videos really helped me fix stitching problems.<br />
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3. To take a good panorama, put your camera in portrait orientation, meter the main subject in the pano with your camera, note the camera's aperture and shutter settings, switch to manual mode and input those setting accordingly. Then take all the shots to compose the pano with those settings. That way, you won't have any blending problems in post-processing.<br />
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I guess those are the main things I've learned. I hope you enjoy the shot and thanks for visiting!<br />
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Sorry, but I had to get this out there... I heard this song on a commercial the other day and I just can't shake it. I thought I'd share it because it's just so catchy! I hated disco then and still hate it now, but this thing just grabs me for some reason. Granted, it's not totally disco, but it has a sort of disco beat to it. But beware, it's catchy and you might have the same problem as me as far as sleeping goes... None! ;-) Click at your own risk! BTW... Is the lead singer's name "Sniff"? ;-) "Driver's Seat, Driver's seat, yeahhh!!!"<br />
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Austin has a plethora of food trailers. They're everywhere. It seems where ever there is a plot of land that isn't being used, someone pulls up with an Airstream or some other type of trailer and sets up a mini restaurant. This place was right between the Holiday Inn and the Chevron gas station on the southbound frontage road of I-35. Usually in the mornings these places don't have their lights on because they are closed, but this one did and I thought it might make a cool picture. Speaking of lights, this court had those new LED-type lights strung across so they really did look white. I prefer the incandescents, but this is the way of the world now, I guess.<br />
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<b>UPDATE (3-26-13):</b> Yes, it's true! I downloaded it last night and got all of the plugins free! Pretty awesome! Now, I'm the proud owner of Nik's DFine 2, Viveza 2, Color Efex 4, HDR Efex 2, Silver Efex 2 and Sharpener Pro 3 (at least I think it's 3). Woohoo!! I just hope any updates that come out from now on are of the same quality that they were when not owned by Google. We'll see! <br />
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I'm so jacked about having a full-frame DSLR with full-frame glass, I cannot contain myself! I never thought I'd actually own one, ever! But, after a few years of waiting, it finally paid off. It's kind of like buying a luxury car, at least for us.. First you start with a "reasonably priced car" (as they would say on <a href="http://www.topgear.com/uk/">Top Gear</a>) and then trade or sell for one that's a little nicer and then trade or sell that one for one a little nicer, and so on and so on. After doing that for a few times, you can finally have the car, or in my case camera, that you want. I started with a <a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/580241-REG/Nikon_25446_D90_SLR_Digital_Camera.html">Nikon D90</a> (reasonably priced), then went to a <a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=NIkon+D300s&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=">Nikon D300s</a> (a little nicer) and now I have a <a href="http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product-Archive/Digital-SLR-Cameras/25444/D700.html">Nikon D700</a> (luxury - for me anyway)! Granted, I bought it used, but it's still awesome! Then, I sold my lenses (glass in photographer geek-speak) on ebay and used that money for new full-frame glass. Now I'm in full-frame nirvana! It handles noise so much better than my old cameras and it's just a better camera all around. From the buffer size and speed to the size of the viewfinder, it's just great! There are only a couple of things that my old cameras had that this one doesn't.. The D700 only has one memory card slot. My D300s had a CF and an SD card slot so you could really pack in the pics. The other thing my old cameras had that this one doesn't is a button for live view. The D700 has live view, but it's on the select dial on the top and it's not really easy to get to. I wish I could change one of the other buttons for this. I know you can change the function button, but I have that set for bracketing as most of the shots I take need to be bracketed. If only there was another button.. Oh well. Overall I'm ecstatic!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Finally Back To Weird</span></b><br />
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Since all of my glass finally arrived, I was just itching to get out there and get some HDRs with the new camera. So, on my way to work Friday morning, I stopped on South Congress Ave in Austin and took a few shots. The conditions weren't the best as it was very drizzly out there, but I got several shots anyway. This is a shot of <a href="http://eatdrinkdocs.com/#home">Doc's Bar and Grill</a>.<br />
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The last couple of weeks, Austin hosted the big <a href="http://sxsw.com/">South By Southwest (SXSW)</a> music/film/tech festival. Now that it has wrapped, I think the people at Doc's are happy. You see Austin has this saying, "Keep Austin Weird" which is pretty much "normal" for Austinites, and I guess Doc's is happy that things are getting back to "normal". The other side of the same sign says, "S Bye SW". That was my other clue. :-) To be honest, I'm glad it's over as well.<br />
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