Baw Baw
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few photos from a small overnight hike
i really like your style op. have you got a tumblr blog or something ?
i hate the shitty white borders tbqh
>>2707696
i get that memes are fun, but if we could avoid spreading misleading information like "neutral backgrounds are bad" that would be great
>>2707701
>white
>neutral
oh it's u again
I keep expecting to see dinosaurs in each one. Looks like Jurassic Park.
>>2707679
>>2707684
>>2707686
These are great, especially those wavy trees. So eerie.
One thing I'd like to work on in my camp/hiking photos is the start and finish - I take loads of photos once we've set up camp or started hiking, but none of the prep before or the packing up after.
I think it'd be cool to get a couple of different images at the start/finish to emphasise the feeling of seclusion and immersion in the forest - maybe you and your friend on the bus with your packs on as you leave the city, or walking along a road before you get into the national park, your boots outside your tent...things like that.
Good photos, tho. Melbourne area looks mad. I can't wait to get down there.
>>2707686
lovely
so pumped that uni is done for the year, can't wait to get around the state a bit more
>tfw no qt hipster chick to give your pictures a sense of scale
Maybe I'm missing something, but none of these really have much of a subject to me.
Ease up on the sharpening in future.
Holy shit these are sharp son. Cool images tho
>>2707679
Holy fuck where do you live?
The surroundings look like some prehistoric world.
Made me orgasm a little
>>2707987
This is Baw Baw in Victoria, Australia. Not OP but I've visited, it's a cool place
Cool pics anon. As others have mentioned they are just a smidgen over-sharpened. I would also have like a couple of introductory sentences to tell the audience a little about the place and where it is
i wish I still ived in Australia. your gumbmint ruined my life OP. i lost everything.
Nice pictures OP.
>>2707693
I remember you had some specific workflow for your "look", feel like sharing it once more for the slow and retarded :D
Nice pics dude ! Impressive nature !
>>2707686
This is seriously bad ass. Nice job.
>>2707964
Thanks man
Thats a good idea. I actually did set out to achieve something like that with this trip. We drove up from the city, and I started taking pictures from when we started packing the car, also along the way at the small towns, and setting up in the carpark at the start all the way until we got home. I was trying to encapsulate the whole trip and the feeling of excitement and adventure as well as the feelings of immersion and seclusion once into the forest. Unfortunately tho i just didnt execute it well, but hoping next time it'll work better.
>>2707972
where do you live? definitely get /out/ and about while on uni break
>>2707979
>>2707984
didnt realise until I had finished that I got carried away, but im too lazy to re-edit atm. Thanks tho, definitely going to reel it in next time
>>2707987
other guy was right - Mt Erica Carpark to Mt St Gwanier in Baw Baw. Small overnight hike, but I would recommend it to anybody living or visiting Victoria, Australia.
>all of that awful aliasing
i sure am glad 1000px is the board standard here in 2015
>>2708261
>what'd the gov do to ya?
i lived there for 5 years. i was working (teaching). anyway, i got off my 457 sponsorship visa and switched to a student visa, so i could get my master's degree which would make me permanent at work and would descure my permanent residency status. my masters was 2 years full-time and cost about $100k. When i finished my degree the gov't changed the rules and i no longer qualified for a visa with my degree. with a few weeks notice i lost my job, home, everyone and everything i knew, - my relationship ended, my friends and professional network all gone etc - and had to leave the country with nothing and nowhere to go. i've been effectively homeless in the US ever since and with the amount of debt i have my life is basically over. and i have an advanced degree from a foreign country.
absolutely ruined my life, permanently.
>>2707684
best one
>>2708268
baw baw
>>2708276
fuck you, and nice one
>>2707974
The subject is the forest, Its all about atmosphere. Even the ones with people in are about the forest. The people aren't the subject in any of the images they're just there for perspective and scale.
>>2707679
Whats up with the hipstershit border.
>>2708257
whether 1000px was the standard or not, its what you'd be getting anyway
>>2708268
fuck man, thats pretty shitty. surely your masters is applicable back in the US? or even here on another 457 visa or something? anyway, really fucking shitty circumstance
>>2708276
lol
>>2708337
whats up with such vapid comments ignoring the photos and focusing on such a minimal aspect of the file
>>2708374
>whether 1000px was the standard or not, its what you'd be getting anyway
Then stop oversharpening bruh. Presentation matters. That's why you put the hipster borders on your photos, right?
>>2708377
yeah man
>>2708379
well, ya blew it.
bump2
bump for c&c
>>2708884
>bump for more upvotes OMGZ!!
Translated by Bing!
>>2707679
EXIF
sfdfsfs
I don't think the shots with the girl really belong here. Unless you do what >>2707964 said, which would introduce her as a character we can relate with. Great for the memories box or whatever, but in terms of lolart they just dont fit in. In addition they are all the same composition (person in the centre surrounded by trees). Try and mix it up a bit.
Of the remaining 5, you had a good start with >>2707681 and >>2707682 - which just happen to be mirror images of each other - and >>2707690, which I think is the pick of the bunch.
Then the sun came out and destroyed your blacks in the final two shots D:
>>2709505
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated. I understand its somewhat of a mismatch of photos. There are two that I plan on using in a bigger set of photos from the aus high country for "lolart" purposes. But this set, as is or part thereof, I was planning on (maybe) sending to a local website along with a write up for a section they have on good nearby walks.
re: them being all the same, how would you have done differently? maybe I'm too comfortable with what I like in this sort of environment
what do you mean by the two being mirror images? is that a bad thing? I was almost thinking of displaying them as a diptych as pic related.
>>2709849
I guess it makes sense to include the person if these shots were intended to showcase the walk. They would certainly work better when accompanied by some text.
Regarding how you repeat the same composition, look at:
>>2707679
>>2707680
>>2707686
>>2707687
I scribbled over the main elements of these images and averaged them together to illustrate how similar they are.
Try moving closer or further from her or placing her over to one of the sides.
And regarding those two images being mirrors of each other - it's not a good thing or a bad thing, its just a thing. I wouldn't put them together like that though
I'm curious what you do in post to get these dark shadows and muted colors without losing the sense of vibrancy you'd get by lowering the shadows and reducing the saturation
>>2710205
me too
>>2709136
everything you faggot hence EXIF
read the rules
May I use some of these photos?
>>2710205
He will respond with a question, like "why do you want to know?"
He's a faggot fishing for compliments, nothing else, don't expect useful info from him.
>>2710633
Where's your thread?
>>2710633
salted salt with a side order of salt, hold the salt, with extra salt
>>2710633
>I made you say something ridiculous in my head and now I'm mad at you for it in real life!
Do you make your boyfriend apologize for things he does in your dreams too?
>>2707686
This looks like dark souls
>>2710705
Without exif they are not your photos
simple as
>>2710705
you are the most unhelpful person on earth, pretentious and egotistical. They are asking you a question you fucking moron
>>2710740
>You are the most unhelpful person on earth
>They are asking you a question
They are asking me a question? They agreed that they were asking the same question as me.
Calm your fucking shit man.
>>2710705
lol idgaf about exif, was just wondering about your process
>>2710776
>Everyone thinks I'm zx
how fucking stupid are you people
come on now
read the name field
>>2710118
Fuck, you're right. I do have more including some closer ones and some ones composed differently. I should have poster the closer shots, as I think they were stronger ones from the set, but the girl didn't like them, so I respected her wishes in not posting them here. Thanks for all the comments, given me a bit to mull over and think about next time I'm out
>>2710602
>>2710208
>>2710207
me too desu
>>2710205
>>2708063
I'm pretty bad at post because I'm exceedingly lazy, so its all down to cheating with vsco:
shoot to very slightly underexpose
vsco filter, not full, somewhat light to moderate
increase exposure slightly
increase contrast slightly
slight vignette
>>2710633
why would I ask why they wanted to know? cause, its pretty obvious. It seems you're referring to the exif request earlier and i guess you're the salt baron himself here too >>2710603. Normally I dont post EXIF because in my mind having the viewer know the settings/gear/everything is completely pointless and only really serves the kind of person who spends there days checking nikonrumors and shitposting in the gear thread. But seeing as you're acting like such an insufferable twat I'll end your tantrum by just giving you what you want
>>2710739
this definitely lands in the top 5 most ridiculous things I've read on /p/
thanks for the chuckle
>>2710740
If this is still the salty salt baron then I'm actually worried for yr mental state tbqh. You're way too hung up on absolutely nothing. That anon was not me and he was unhelpful because he couldnt answer their question because he couldn't take the photos. Sorry to explain it so thoroughly, but your comprehension skills seem to be a bit blunt so better to lay it all out and avoid further confusion, eh?
attempt #2, hoping the exif is attached this time
>>2710963
>. Normally I dont post EXIF because in my mind having the viewer know the settings/gear/everything is completely pointless and only really serves the kind of person who spends there days checking nikonrumors and shitposting in the gear thread
Pretty new to all this and long time lurker but when browsing /p/ for practice I like to guess what I'd shoot these at and then compare what I'd do to the exif, think about why I thought that way and then think about why they thought to use those settings to compare to my own
Not a lot of great stuff to go out shooting so when I plan a trip I can keep an open mind about all the ways I've seen people shoot things and try them for myself
Just a bit of perspective because I can see why you'd want to omit exif but it's really helpful for people trying to find their own way
>>2710966
You're approaching photography in 100% the wrong way.
>>2710997
How should I approach it?
Not trying to be condescending by the way I'm genuinely curious as to how this is bad
>see a photo someone took
>try to use the knowledge I've learned to make an educated guess as to how to take this photo, or did the processing
>see if my process was similar
>see where personally I would have differed
>experiment with a new perspective
>>2710999
Ignore him. Do whatever is fun for you m8.
>>2711001
fun is taking pictures
>tfw finding neat subjects in literally nowhereville
>>2711002
I commented mostly because I felt like the technique in these photos was interesting and that's where I'd take a look at the exif and make some guesses
I can look at the composition without exif. If there is exif I can both study the composition and technical side
>>2711002
Oh also I forgot to mention that if you have any pointers on how to break down composition I'd love to hear them as well because as you say I'm going about it the wrong way there's probably a right way or a process to do so
I quite liked what this anon did and I've been applying this idea to breaking composition down>>2710118 along with trying to draw 'lines' as to where my eyes are drawn to get a sense of the flow of things
>>2710965
>welp, exif didnt work. oh well
You cheeky bastard. ;)
>>2709849
Those two pictures don't work together at all
i went on a camping trip recently as well. haven't had time to work on the photos tho. just quickly did some stuff to this on Gimp but needs work still
[EXIF data available. Click here to show/hide.]
Camera-Specific Properties: Equipment Make Canon Camera Model Canon EOS REBEL T5i Lens Size 18.00 - 55.00 mm Firmware Version Firmware Version 1.1.3 Lens Name EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Image-Specific Properties: Image Orientation Top, Left-Hand Horizontal Resolution 72 dpi Vertical Resolution 72 dpi Image Created 2015:11:27 13:56:52 Exposure Time 1/25 sec F-Number f/5.6 Exposure Program Not Defined Lens Aperture f/5.7 Exposure Bias 0 EV Flash No Flash, Compulsory Focal Length 55.00 mm Color Space Information sRGB Image Width 5184 Image Height 3456 Rendering Normal Exposure Mode Auto Scene Capture Type Standard Focus Type Auto Metering Mode Evaluative ISO Speed Rating Auto Sharpness Unknown Saturation Normal Contrast Normal Shooting Mode Unknown Image Size Large Focus Mode AI Focus Drive Mode Single Flash Mode Off Compression Setting Fine Macro Mode Normal White Balance Auto Exposure Compensation 3 Sensor ISO Speed 352 Color Matrix 135
>>2711234
I actually just posted that. Anyone got any opinions on how they would edit it? Just want to get a feel for other peoples styles.
>>2710958
what do you mean by vsco filter not full? do you blend it 50% with the dry image?
>>2711242
wheres the raw file
>>2710966
I understand, but these arent shots that are worth knowing the settings. Theres nothing exciting going on thats out of the ordinary
>>2711227
why do you say that?
>>2711234
composition doesnt feel right, pp doesnt bring out what it needs to, image in general is just flat. also resize.
>>2711328
like sunscreen m8 just slip slop slap but dont go too heavy y'know
>>2711379
>>2711234
what do you think of this? i have a bunch of different styles. cant really stick to one particular type. i might trash that other photo though. i cant seem to be getting anywhere with it.
>>2710965
>welp, exif didnt work. oh well
I think VSCO removes EXIF. It does for me.
