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Gday from Australia! Friday Flickr Photoset Critique

I decided to send a flickr photo set to Adam Lerner (as seen on FroKnowsPhoto.com) for the Friday Flickr Photo Critique.

I was glad to hear some constructive criticism from all the viewers and Adam about losing the photo frames around my images.

The most recent images I have posted on the blog have the new watermark on them and no more frames! YAY!

To answer some of Adams questions about the images I have put together the following:

Where the images were photographed and some of the before and after photos after my Photoshop brush got to them.

Adams Friday Flickr Photoset Critique on Youtube can been seen here:

Adam Lerner – Friday Flickr Photo Critique

My brief response to Adams youtube clip:

The first image was taken at Russell Falls in Tasmania. The final image was made from a 6 image stitch.

The second image of lavender has had some tones added to the photo

The third image was taken at the Pinnacles in Western Australia. I stood in the desert holding an umbrella protecting my camera from the strong wind. The total exposure time was 4 hours. I waited for the sunrise to get the golden light on some of the Pinnacle formations.

The fourth image has been shot against a cloudy sky. To have a clean white background. Adam you were spot on!

The fifth image of the saltlake footprints was taken near Karratha, Western Australia

The sixth image of the police officers has been heavily edited (see below)

The seventh image was taken from a hot air balloon at sunrise in the Hunter Valley, Western Australia

The eighth image has had a slight crop…roughly 2 percent of the image. I captured the Osprey with a Canon 400mm f5.6 after getting extremely close to it.

The nineth image has been warmed up to capture the sunrise. Taken at Gordon River, Western Australia

The last image was taken at Port Hedland. I got up really early for this sunrise (looking over a bay)

Below is the before and after of a few of the images….original image is on the left and edited is on the right.

Please note: The first original image of Russell Falls isn’t the original image. I don’t have a saved copy of the original edited one….this one is very similar…you should get the idea.

Thanks again to Adam for choosing my images to critique. Keep up the brilliant tutorials on lighting and general photography and I look forward to the next spreecast you do with Jared Polin (www.froknowsphoto.com).

If you are new to the blog I would love to hear your feedback…so feel free to leave me a comment.

Tasmania Workshop with Christian and Nick

On my recent trip to Tasmania attending one of Christian and Nick’s courses I managed to take this pano with my trusty 85mm f1.2

I can remember everyone else on the course were waiting for the first glimpse of light at Sleepy Bay. So if anyone has any shots from the course do share the link in the comments section. That includes Christian and Nick!

Tasmania

Here is another landscape from my trip to Tasmania. To me I think this image needs a boat or something in the foreground to give some perspective. Let me know your thoughts.

 

 

The final result of the video tutorials

This photo is the end result of my panoramic workflow tutorial videos.
Part 1 – Lightroom 3
Part 2 – PtGui
Part 3 – Photoshop CS5

Since Part 3 I have just added another vignette around the outside of the image.
Enjoy.

Part 3 of the Panoramic Tutorial

Well it is finally here! Part 3 of the panoramic tutorial.
It took a while for me to get it up and going.
My little laptop has just about kicked the bucket
I had to open it up and clean out the dust to try and make it go faster!

So sit back – make sure you have a coffee – and enjoy!
I hope you learn something at the same time to.
Make sure you leave a comment (just so I know you are still awake and haven’t fallen asleep – I can be quite boring sometimes!)

Secrets Revealed

Well I have had a request from Ian Oxwell about what I did to the Russell falls image. (also Danny at Fujifilm wanting to see the original as well).
I have gone one better and shown how i processed the latest image. You can see the final image in the previous post.

So here it is – the total time spent on the image was roughly 3 hours. I got bored waiting for the lappy to process some things and walked away for a while.

Click the image to view a high res version.

Mount Field National Park – Tasmania

I was quite fearful of falling through the rotten log beneath me for this shot. However I survived to show you the result.

Taken on my Manfrotto 303sph head using a Canon 17-40mm f4 – 2 image vertical stitch.