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furioussphinx · 4th October 2009, 19:08

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Originally Posted by abhisheksircar

Nice pics .. specially the ones with the blue jeans.

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Originally Posted by clevermax

@furioussphinx: Nice pics and processing.

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Thanks a lot guys.

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Originally Posted by Samurai

This is a fantastic composition.

Thanks a lot Samu. A compliment from you is like from a critic.

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Originally Posted by clevermax

@TG: That's a classic portrait... I know... 50mm!

I just love to post process photos to this kind of look - an old photograph you might accidentally find in one of your college notebooks, not properly preserved, nor kept in an album.

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This is the original unprocessed photo

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....and here is the digitally remastered version of the old photograph...

(Sorry I exceeded the 20 minutes limit for editing the previous post)

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Awesome processing! Do you use filters?

Here is one I shot long long ago last year.

clevermax · 4th October 2009, 20:57

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Originally Posted by furioussphinx

Awesome processing! Do you use filters?

Thanks...! If you mean photo filters in PS, yes. I used Photomatix and Photoshop CS4 to process the last picture. It has got several color/curves corrections with layer masks, as well as some high pass filtering for the clouds. The Rocks portion is blended from a pseudo HDR processed from the original RAW file.

Torqueguru · 4th October 2009, 22:49

@clevermax
Incredible! I am in awe right now! Just one question, thats an old film photograph right? Then how did u get the RAW from it?

furioussphinx · 4th October 2009, 22:59

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Originally Posted by Torqueguru

@clevermax
Incredible! I am in awe right now! Just one question, thats an old film photograph right? Then how did u get the RAW from it?

TG, no it isnt an old photo, instead, he post processed it to give it that retro look.

Here a few more I shot last early morning. And last pic was also taken last year.

tifosikrishna · 4th October 2009, 23:39

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Originally Posted by furioussphinx

TG, no it isnt an old photo, instead, he post processed it to give it that retro look.

FP, I too like your previous set of shots. Very different and has a different feel to it. Very well shot and processed.

regards
tifosi.

kaushik_s · 5th October 2009, 00:25

Clevermax, that digitally remastered one is awesome. Mind sharing the details?

Torqueguru · 5th October 2009, 03:47

@Furioussphinx
Oh Ok, I get it now! When I read that post from Clevermax, I actually thought that he had remastered the old file to the new digital image and I was like, Wow!

@clevermax
It's still wow

But not as wow as it would have been if you digitally remastered an old photograph to that look!

A rather ordinary click, yet i enjoyed it, hence the post..no pp

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Regards,
TG.

clevermax · 5th October 2009, 07:18

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Originally Posted by Torqueguru

@clevermax
Incredible! I am in awe right now! Just one question, thats an old film photograph right? Then how did u get the RAW from it?

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@clevermax
It's still wow

But not as wow as it would have been if you digitally remastered an old photograph to that look!

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Clevermax, that digitally remastered one is awesome. Mind sharing the details?

Thanks for the comments mates!

I think I need to clear off some confusion now.... TG, It is not an old film photograph, I processed the RAW file to give it that look... the small image in the middle is how the original RAW file would look like without any processing:

And for the digital remaster thing, I was just joking (remember, I had put a smiley there

), I processed it from the same RAW file which I used to generate that old photo.

I used Photomatix and CS4 to process that last picture. Made a pseudo HDR from the RAW, it never looked great but I liked the rocks in that when a low value for the light smoothing was selected - the original had this portion too dark. So I manually blended that portion alone from the HDR to the original image, using CS4. Then further processing was done in CS4, some color/curve corrections, treatment to sky (highpass filter) and water (that blue color to give a Seychelles beach effect), straightened up the horizon and mostly, that's it.

Samurai · 5th October 2009, 08:06

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Originally Posted by furioussphinx

Here a few more I shot last early morning. And last pic was also taken last year.

OK, now you are pushing it.

What made the earlier shot so great was the human emotion, it is a hard thing to capture. You were able to capture a bunch of students preparing for something with intense concentration, some in focus, some not, and the varied colors were just right on.

theMAG · 5th October 2009, 19:02

Enroute to Vagamon. Somewhere between Dindigul-Theni:

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clevermax · 6th October 2009, 21:20

Sorry for the bad composition.
Shangumugham beach, trivandrum

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pramodkumar · 6th October 2009, 21:36

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Originally Posted by clevermax

Sorry for the bad composition.
Shangumugham beach, trivandrum

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Crows are the smartest birds

clevermax · 6th October 2009, 21:59

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Originally Posted by pramodkumar

Crows are the smartest birds

I knew this was coming...

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benbsb29 · 6th October 2009, 22:43

Pic taken in Kuttikanam, Kerala.

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vivekiny2k · 7th October 2009, 00:00

benny, the landscape is a good candidate for an HDR/exposure blend, you should have tried that. sky is washed out and some of the pic is too dark.

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Torqueguru BHPian Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 277 Thanked: 165 Times View My Garage	@clevermax Incredible! I am in awe right now! Just one question, thats an old film photograph right? Then how did u get the RAW from it? Last edited by Torqueguru : 4th October 2009 at 22:51.

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Torqueguru BHPian Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 277 Thanked: 165 Times View My Garage	@Furioussphinx Oh Ok, I get it now! When I read that post from Clevermax, I actually thought that he had remastered the old file to the new digital image and I was like, Wow! @clevermax It's still wow But not as wow as it would have been if you digitally remastered an old photograph to that look! A rather ordinary click, yet i enjoyed it, hence the post..no pp Regards, TG.

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theMAG Distinguished - BHPian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Avon, CT Posts: 7,196 Thanked: 1,823 Times View My Garage	Enroute to Vagamon. Somewhere between Dindigul-Theni: Last edited by theMAG : 5th October 2009 at 19:21.

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kaushik_s Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,088 Thanked: 165 Times View My Garage	Clevermax, that digitally remastered one is awesome. Mind sharing the details?

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clevermax Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Tvm/Amsterdam Posts: 2,115 Thanked: 2,909 Times View My Garage	Sorry for the bad composition. Shangumugham beach, trivandrum

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benbsb29 Team-BHP Support Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,109 Thanked: 14,220 Times View My Garage	Pic taken in Kuttikanam, Kerala.

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vivekiny2k Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: cincinnati, jabalpur,chennai Posts: 1,264 Thanked: 212 Times View My Garage	benny, the landscape is a good candidate for an HDR/exposure blend, you should have tried that. sky is washed out and some of the pic is too dark.