Team-BHP - The Official non-auto Image thread

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Originally Posted by mobike008 (Post 687857)

Would love to see pre and post processed picture next to each other to see how PP can do wonders

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Originally Posted by mail4ajo (Post 688095)

Yes, please Rudraji, it would be great to see a small snapshot of the actual image with the processed one.

Here is the problem. I do not follow any fixed process to start with. All I look for is this: There should be enough and more information in the raw file.

If I have it, I can enhance it. If I don't have it then it's a dead shot for me and I rather trash it.

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Originally Posted by guyonblackybx (Post 688657)

Took this one at Kit festival at Tank Bund Hyderabad on 13th.

Camera: 400D
Lense: Sigma 70 - 300 mm DG Macro

Nice colorful pic, you sure are at the right places to take these pics. Would love it if you post the focal length and mode in which the pics are taken in future.

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Originally Posted by Rudra Sen (Post 688733)

Here is the problem. I do not follow any fixed process to start with. All I look for is this: There should be enough and more information in the raw file.

Actually this is a huge problem. Somehow there is this assumption that one gotta have a Photoshop process or workflow. I too spent hundreds of hours looking for this elusive workflow, even bought books that boasted of teaching a workflow. It took me nearly a year to figure out it was a myth.

A workflow is nothing but a cookbook approach to photography post-processing. Once you understand what you are doing, you don't need a cookbook. But to understand, it takes a long time, and practice, practice and practice. Photoshop is such a monster.:eek:

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Originally Posted by Samurai (Post 688754)

A workflow is nothing but a cookbook approach to photography post-processing. Once you understand what you are doing, you don't need a cookbook. But to understand, it takes a long time, and practice, practice and practice. Photoshop is such a monster.:eek:

Nicely put Samurai.. i completely agree with you..First time i used PS, i was completely overwhelmed ...It takes skill and hundreds of hours of practice to master PS. luxuary i cannnot afford :)
Seeing Rudra's photos, I can comprehend what effort he must have put in to master it..or rather he is a genius in it :)

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Originally Posted by mobike008 (Post 688741)

Nice colorful pic, you sure are at the right places to take these pics. Would love it if you post the focal length and mode in which the pics are taken in future.

Thanks
Focal length :70mm
Mode: Manual mode
Sure will post these details going forward

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Originally Posted by PiranhaBoy (Post 688806)

heres my first butterfly pic, hope you guys like it!! :-)

Been to you flickr page. And this one was the first pic I didnt know this is butter fly :P tought it was sumking of Dragon fly :P

Grt shot!

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Originally Posted by PiranhaBoy (Post 688806)

heres my first butterfly pic, hope you guys like it!! :-)

Super shot! Took me also a while to figure out the butterfly, so good was the axial alignment.

But, why is the horizontal surface so severely pixellated? Did you use digital zoom or enlargement? How was the original shot taken?

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Originally Posted by guyonblackybx (Post 689029)

Been to you flickr page. And this one was the first pic I didnt know this is butter fly :P tought it was sumking of Dragon fly :P

Grt shot!

Thanks a lot :-) , a lot of people wer confused & some even argued that it wasn't a butterfly. well i'l upload the dragonfly pic here too in a while.

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Originally Posted by DerAlte (Post 689219)

Thanks, no-no i never use digital zoom, kind'a spoils the pic. The butterfly was actually sitting on a wallpaper, so maybe in the close-up macro mode, the print of the wallpaper came out like that. :-)

Panoramic view of Hussain Sagar AKA Tank Bund, Hyderabad.

Created this one using 2 pictures. Did bit of editing on Exposure and color using flickr editing.

Click on the picture to view larger image.

Nice one... :-)

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Originally Posted by guyonblackybx (Post 689480)

Created this one using 2 pictures. Did bit of editing on Exposure and color using flickr editing.

As in you used layering(HDR) or did u stitch two different pics??

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Originally Posted by PiranhaBoy (Post 689820)

Nice one... :-)

As in you used layering(HDR) or did u stitch two different pics??

I did that on PhotoShop CS3. There is an option on CS3 to create panorama its "PhotoMerge"