Post some cool photos you've taken recently!

[mole2k]

Another forum I frequent has a thread similar to this and it's usually popular.

There is a few people on here interested in photography so post some pictures you've recently taken!

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I'll get the ball rolling here;
A few rally shots from this year.

#1 Kilarney Rally of the Lakes


#2 Kris Meeke, Circuit of Ireland


#3 Patrick Elliot, Galway International

[Halcalanky]

[mole2k]

I love that Hong Kong skyline one, its one place I would love to visit.

[craigosh]

Linzie - Murray & Vern Corset


Linzie - Pigalle latex dress


Thurstaston Common (featured on google earth)

[mole2k]

These are from the past few year.

[telboy]

Wow, cool shots there everyone.
I've not realy been photo'ing long enough to get any nice shots yet.

good stuff though.

[Halcalanky]

Mole - do you do that for a living? loving the red arrows photo! I'm off to london to study photography in london next year - gotta get as good as you :P

[PaulRotheram]

sunsets/clear nights are ace, heres one of mine..

[_sleigh_]

Like the shot of London Eye with County Hall in the Background. Stopped there a few weeks back. Awesome Star Wars exhibition on there at the moment.

[mole2k]

I never got a chance to go to the Star Wars exhibition but somebody wearing a storm trooper outfit did walk past me while I was there.

I love that shot of the bullet and the rose!

I dont do photography as a living although it is something I would very much like to do at some point, I have sold a few pictures for various uses and won some photocomps. I've only been really 'into' photography for about a 18 months or so when I purchased my dSLR.

[P_B]

Some quality stuff on here, great variety too. Only been taking an interest in photography since November so it'd be a shame to ruin the thread with my toss, but hey... t'internet's rife with that kind of behaviour!

[Lee]

Some awesome shots here, most of these are things we see every day but do not appreciate.



I like Linzie

[mole2k]

Nothing wrong with those shots P_B The second one is fantastic!

[VintageRacer]

One of my efforts.

[Lee]

Does your missus know shes on the net

[VintageRacer]

Originally Posted by Lee

Does your missus know shes on the net

Erm, of course

[P_B]

Originally Posted by mole2k

The second one is fantastic!

Cheers, mole. That was a lucky one earlier this week, just weighing up the unusual curb/cobbles when that young fella plonked himself down and started reading.

Looking at your selection you seem to have a deft touch when it comes to PP, something I'm a complete buffoon with Any pointers (books/sites etc) or is it all hands-on learning?

[VintageRacer]

Something less dangerous to my health

[mole2k]

Originally Posted by P_B

Cheers, mole. That was a lucky one earlier this week, just weighing up the unusual curb/cobbles when that young fella plonked himself down and started reading.

Looking at your selection you seem to have a deft touch when it comes to PP, something I'm a complete buffoon with Any pointers (books/sites etc) or is it all hands-on learning?

Most of my PP techniques I basically learnt from just playing around in photoshop a lot. I read alot of the articles on sites like www.luminous-landscape.com too things like how to create contrast masks local contrast enhancement and things like that. I also shoot in nothing but RAW and have done for about the last year.

My usual workflow would be the following:
Import RAW file into Photoshop,
Crop, set white balance, knock exposure down to -0.5 or -1, bump shadow contrast and brightness up to expose the image correctly and import into photoshop as a 16bit image.

A touch of Unsharp mask (usually 10-20%, 60px radius, 0 threshold)
Any colour correction I feel is needed with Hue/Saturation/Lightness (or convert to B&W using Calculations/Chanel Mixer)

Smart Sharpen full sized image (usually 150-300%, 0.3px radius, 0 threshold)
Save 16bit TIFF.

resize down to 800x533

Smart Sharpen to make up for the loss in sharpness from the resize (usually 100%, 0.3, 0)
convert to 8bit, convert to sRGB save as jpeg qual 8~9


Sorry if its a bit sprawling but I dont have a set work flow and some images go through a lot more processing depending on the subject, The London Eye shot had some perspective correction work to stop the building and the Eye look like its 'leaning back' (converging verticles)

[jonmiller]

some nice shots there guys, keep em coming!