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SC4D Off Topic Section => Matters of General Interest => The Artist's Place => Topic started by: RickD on March 05, 2011, 11:14:52 AM

Title: RickD's photo album: New York City 2007
Post by: RickD on March 05, 2011, 11:14:52 AM
I got a new camera and Photoshop Elements. I am still learning to use them. I never had a camera with manual settings before. But it is fun.  :thumbsup:
These are some of my first photos:

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Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: io_bg on March 05, 2011, 11:42:32 AM
Very nice pics :thumbsup: I wish I had a camera with manual settings, too ;D
A small tip for the landscape pictures - don't place the horizon in the middle of the frame. Try to place it according to the rule of thirds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds) depending on what you want to emphasize on - the sky or the land. Also, having something in the foreground (a fence for example) would make them even better :thumbsup:
Can't wait to see what else you've in store for us ;)
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: Skimbo on May 11, 2011, 05:13:59 AM
oh, some nice motives in there, especially the second :D
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: rooker1 on May 11, 2011, 05:27:23 AM
Very nice pics.  I really like the second pic too!

Robin  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: Exla357 on May 20, 2011, 02:00:58 PM
Cool stuff, Raphael! :thumbsup:

-Alex
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: art128 on May 21, 2011, 05:39:07 AM
Nice photos !  &apls
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on May 27, 2011, 01:54:41 PM
Thanks for comments and advice.  :)

A steam train was passing by my balcony. Please excuse the quality. There was backlight and I had to react fast.
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Butterfly = "Schmetterling" in german.  ()stsfd()
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Me playing with my godson.
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Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: TiFlo on May 27, 2011, 03:55:51 PM
Oh the German all time winner socks-in-sandals couple! ;D (I grew up in Southern France; whenever you'd see a person wearing those during summer, it was a guaranteed German speaking one when getting closer -throw a few Dutch in there as well).

Some of your pictures are beautiful. Most, if not all, of them actually. Also, I wouldn't be ashamed of that first picture. Considering you probably had very little warning of the train coming, you managed to take quite a decent shot.

PS: I apologize if I offended anyone, I just cracked myself up laughing when reaching that last picture. Memories...
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on May 28, 2011, 02:31:11 AM
Quote from: TiFlo on May 27, 2011, 03:55:51 PM
Oh the German all time winner socks-in-sandals couple! ;D (I grew up in Southern France; whenever you'd see a person wearing those during summer, it was a guaranteed German speaking one when getting closer -throw a few Dutch in there as well).

:D Hey, at least my socks aren't white!  $%Grinno$%
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: Terring7 on May 28, 2011, 02:35:15 AM
My favourite picture is the one with the windmill, it looks like it grows from the trees. A symbol of how nature and technology can co-exist... or maybe not. Keep it up :)
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on August 02, 2011, 02:08:29 PM
A nice evening sky after a day of heavy rain.

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Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: wallasey on August 02, 2011, 02:30:55 PM
Great landscape views!!

Especially the ones with trains in em'!
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: skyhigh on August 03, 2011, 07:59:49 AM
Great pictures here  &apls  &apls

Just a pity you didn't get that steam train a little earlier, but still a good pic :D That old cupboard has got some interesting colour to it. Also I love that old phone and calculator, just looks great!
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on September 04, 2011, 02:27:30 PM
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In the foreground you can see the West Harbor Quarter in Frankfurt. It was once the winter harbor where the ships were protected from ice in the winter. It has been redeveloped to an upper class residential and commercial quarter in the last 20 years.

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The cogeneration plant is still in use.

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Everyone wants a balcony towards the water.

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The new rich people quarter has been built into the old Gutleutviertel where mostly poor people live. It is a clash of two worlds.

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Construction site for a (probably) shiny new and luxurios buidling.

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I guess the days of this old industrial building are numbered.
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: Nardo69 on September 04, 2011, 02:35:17 PM
Good ones! I love your skies - my Dynax 5D usually makes them to bright. Good eye for the architectural lines and breaks!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on September 09, 2011, 04:43:24 PM
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Om nom nom.

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Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on September 09, 2011, 05:10:42 PM
Quote from: Nardo69 on September 04, 2011, 02:35:17 PM
Good ones! I love your skies - my Dynax 5D usually makes them to bright.

My camera, too. But RawTherapee and Adobe Photoshop are like magic. ;) You could google "digital gradual ND Filter" for more information.  And a general rule is that underexposed pictures can be more easily restored than overexposed ones.
I have a Panasonic Lumix G2, by the way. Far from "high-end", I guess.
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: skyhigh on September 09, 2011, 08:15:35 PM
I just love the second shot, well done  &apls

Do you have a high quality pic of the Frankfurt one?? (first pic in the last update)
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on September 29, 2011, 11:18:50 AM
Late September Sunset

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Quote from: skyhigh on September 09, 2011, 08:15:35 PM
I just love the second shot, well done  &apls

Do you have a high quality pic of the Frankfurt one?? (first pic in the last update)

Glad you like it. Here is a higher resolution version for you:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23401098/Frankfurt.jpg
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on September 29, 2011, 03:24:30 PM
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Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: art128 on September 30, 2011, 08:42:04 AM
Nice photo!
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on November 27, 2011, 02:17:26 PM
We had a nice fall after a rainy summer. Here are some impressions. The pictures were taken in a nature reserve along the river Rhine near Mainz [Google Maps Link] (http://maps.google.de/maps?q=mainz&hl=de&ll=50.032032,8.206894&spn=0.01162,0.027874&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=23.310281,57.084961&vpsrc=6&hnear=Mainz,+Rheinland-Pfalz&t=h&z=16).

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Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: jmyers2043 on November 27, 2011, 04:07:44 PM
hi Raphael.

Beautiful pictures. I enjoyed looking at them.



- Jim
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: Nardo69 on December 16, 2011, 03:41:58 PM
Nice ones. :)

A hint for next year: Try to catch autumn leaves in backlight - then they will start to burn and glow! ;)
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on December 22, 2011, 03:03:00 PM
I got myself an early christmas present.  ()stsfd() A nice new lens for my camera. It's f1.7 aperture enables me to shoot night scenes without a tripod. However, I find the extremely small depth of field very challenging. Of course it is always better to use a tripod but in some situations it is just not possible. Like on a crowded Christmas Market:

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7
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8
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9
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I love roasted almonds

10
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and hot spiced wine. ;)

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Happy Holidays, everyone!  :)
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: RickD on January 17, 2012, 03:20:13 PM
This winter sucks. It is way too warm and rainy and the dull colors paint depressing landscapes.

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Only a hint of snow on the hills.

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Some days even feel like springtime...

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... if it wasn't for the bald trees.

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There are more than a dozen windmills on this hill and more are under construction. I guess this is the price we have to pay for shutting down our nuclear power plants.

Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: io_bg on January 27, 2012, 04:37:53 PM
Fantastic set of pics - especially the first one &apls
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: rooker1 on January 28, 2012, 05:32:06 AM
Very nice pics.  I really like the CHristamas ones....all full of so many colors.

Robin &apls
Title: Re: RickD's photo album
Post by: art128 on January 29, 2012, 03:51:48 AM
The power line one is my favorite of the last set, I really enjoyed its composition - with the endless landscape.
Title: RickD's photo album: New York City 2007
Post by: RickD on May 24, 2013, 03:22:07 PM
I recently started playing around with the Google Nik tools for Photoshop. For learning purposes I started with my old 2007 NYC pictures. I shot those with my old, crappy compact camera (Casio Exilim EX-S500). It is amazing what the denoise and sharpening tools can do to those pictures. The effect filters are really fun to use, too. However, on second glance, I think I might have gone overboard a little. ;) I am still overwhelmed by the new functions and trying to get a better feel for what they do

For comparison I have also posted the link to the original, unedited pictures. Let me know what you think: Did the post-processing save the pictures or is it too extreme?

11.1
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Battery Park from the ferry (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818151648/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4281/orignyc121007103.jpg]http:// (http://img5.imageshack.us/i/orignyc121007103.jpg/)


11.2
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Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818155764/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/3503/orignyc121007163.jpg]http:// (http://img844.imageshack.us/i/orignyc121007163.jpg/)


11.3
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Brooklyn Bridge Tower (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818129272/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/8624/orignyc131007074.jpg]http:// (http://img607.imageshack.us/i/orignyc131007074.jpg/)


11.4
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Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818134196/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3434/orignyc131007234.jpg]http:// (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/orignyc131007234.jpg/)
My favorite picture in this set. I find it unbelievable what I could recover from this really bad original. But what do you think?

11.5
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Brooklyn Bridge (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8807553337/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/3210/orignyc131007154.jpg]http:// (http://img708.imageshack.us/i/orignyc131007154.jpg/)


11.6
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Brooklyn Bridge (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8807557623/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr
A variation of 11.5 shot at a slightly different angle with completely different post processing.

Original: [img=http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6025/orignyc131007124.jpg]http:// (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/orignyc131007124.jpg/)


11.7
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Manhattan bird (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818143890/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr
The focus is wrong. It should be on the bird but it is on the second pole instead. It is not possible to correct this in software. I like it anyway.

Original: [img=http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/8310/orignyc131007086.jpg]http:// (http://img593.imageshack.us/i/orignyc131007086.jpg/)


11.8
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Chinatown Graffiti (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8807564143/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/6356/orignyc121007206.jpg]http:// (http://img834.imageshack.us/i/orignyc121007206.jpg/)


11.9
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NYC subway (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818158976/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1640/orignyc111007088.jpg]http:// (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/orignyc111007088.jpg/)


11.10
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Manhattan Skyline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdubert/8818161712/) von MrDubert (http://www.flickr.com/people/mrdubert/) auf Flickr

Original: [img=http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5213/orignyc131007151.jpg] (http://img27.imageshack.us/i/orignyc131007151.jpg/)


I would really appreciate constructive criticism before I continue to edit more pictures.
Title: Re: RickD's photo album: New York City 2007
Post by: Swordmaster on May 25, 2013, 07:37:44 AM
Wow! That first picture looks like it was taken in the 60s or something. Very good!

Like you said 11.4 is amazing, and 11.9 is also quite the difference. I only think 11.6 is a bit overdone, and 11.10 could be better if done more like the first two.


Cheers
Willy