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 Jake Noodles
 
Location: Tantallon, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
The Unluckiest Page
 |  | A bit of Miscellany
< on 9/9/2007 2:21 AM >
|  | | | Here are a few random photos that I would like to share with the UER community... Feel free to add your thoughts...
This is my very first attempt at an HDR. I don't know if it turned out okay or not.
This is just a picture of the small houses and chapels scattered along the shore of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia...
This is a poem (or whatever) I found on a chalk board on the balcony of a WPH building. I find it profound for some reason.
[last edit 9/9/2007 2:26 AM by Jake Noodles - edited 2 times]
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Lexi
      
Location: Oslo, Norway
Gender: Female
I'm getting old.
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 1 on 9/9/2007 2:36 AM >
| | | | Not a poem.
Song lyrics.
Pennywise - Fuck Authority.
[15:00:33] <SeeThirty> cause you're not likely to be anywhere that other people haven't been who didn't have protection
[15:00:41] <SeeThirty> still better safe than lexi |
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Jake Noodles
Location: Tantallon, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
The Unluckiest Page
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 2 on 9/9/2007 9:11 PM >
| | | | Oh, I see...
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Jeff!
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 4 on 9/10/2007 4:13 AM >
| | | | Posted by robdobi
never attempt hdr again.
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Kelwyn
Location: DC Metro area
Gender: Male
Jackass of all trades.
| |  | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 5 on 9/10/2007 4:23 AM >
| | | | 1 - Too much orange for my taste. I'm a bit at a loss in terms of what to recommend to improve it, because I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to show. From a composition standpoint, the lighthouse is not the focal point; there is too much headroom, the rock in the bottom is in focus, and there are people (which always attract attention).
I'd either re-shoot with a shorter depth of field, or crop the bottom to get rid of the rock, the left to get rid of the people, then match the right side. After all that, you may find that the amount of sky you have showing gives a feeling of isolation. If not, crop it down too.
Also, if you have to tone the image, sea and sky skapes tend to look better in blue (in my opinion... others may disagree).
2 - As an HDR shot, it did not come out at all. The whites are very flat and blown out, the greens feel muted, and the red building doesn't pop. I think the subject isn't helping... the sky looks pretty boring, and HDR does great things with sunsets and contrasty clouds and things like that. How did you try to make this into an HDR shot?
Again, I am having a hard time figuring out what to look at. I don't see anything that particularly screams UE in this (unless the town is abandoned, but the photo doesn't tell me that story). The composition doesn't lead my eye anywhere, and I can't see a subject to focus on. If you can get the red building to pop and mute the rest of it, that would help. You might also want to crop this to a panorama... lose half the sky, half the ground below the horizon, and the left side a little bit to the rocks.
3 - Not a very good shot. As profound as the lyrics may be, what is the difference between this and the dust jacket from the album? The idea that this is graffiti lends itself to the fuck authority theme, but there is no context, and the image doesn't tell me anything. Looking at the image should give me the same feeling as reading the lyrics, and right now it doesn't.
Another approach would be to isolate a single thought... right now there are too many words to take it in in just a quick glance. If there is a particular line that strikes you, perhaps a macro of just that line. Altogether, a tough subject to photograph artistically.
"I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this."
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| |  |  | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 6 on 9/10/2007 11:52 AM >
| | | | Did you forget to tone map the HDR?
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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Urban Pirate
Location: Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 7 on 9/10/2007 7:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by Kelwyn
2 - As an HDR shot, it did not come out at all. The whites are very flat and blown out, the greens feel muted, and the red building doesn't pop. I think the subject isn't helping... the sky looks pretty boring, and HDR does great things with sunsets and contrasty clouds and things like that. How did you try to make this into an HDR shot?
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I'm pretty sure the first shot is actually the HDR, not the second.
I don't know what you did to the HDR to make it so orange, but it makes it very difficult to look at.
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Kelwyn
Location: DC Metro area
Gender: Male
Jackass of all trades.
| | | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 8 on 9/10/2007 8:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Urban Pirate
I'm pretty sure the first shot is actually the HDR, not the second.
I don't know what you did to the HDR to make it so orange, but it makes it very difficult to look at.
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*blink*
Good call. Jake, could you post the original image?
- Kelwyn
"I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this."
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Jake Noodles
Location: Tantallon, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
The Unluckiest Page
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 9 on 9/13/2007 9:57 AM >
| | | | I did not have a single clue in this big world as to what I was doing in my attempt in that lighthouse HDR... I took all my pictures and changed the gamma, edited the colors... It was a nightmare.. I did some new HDR's, which have turned out pleasant.. Here they are...
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 10 on 9/13/2007 10:32 AM >
| | | | Posted by JAke_Noodles
This is a poem (or whatever) I found on a chalk board on the balcony of a WPH building. I find it profound for some reason.
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hehehe!!! Turned out to be song lyrics from Pennywise huh? "Rock" must be a bit profound! 
....and do try HDR again if you want to get the hang of it, but know that this attempt is not very good.
second attempts are better, but the light stroke that follows the cars roof is pretty unacceptable. But you've improved already, so keep trying and ask questions!
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| |  | | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 11 on 9/13/2007 4:17 PM >
| | | | I'm a noob...what's HDR? The term sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 12 on 9/13/2007 4:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by gr8fzy1
I'm a noob...what's HDR? The term sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
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google it!
HDR = High dynamic range
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 13 on 9/13/2007 4:29 PM >
| | | | Generally speaking, it's what photographers with little talent tend to do in order to make their photos seem more interesting than they actually are.
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 14 on 9/13/2007 4:32 PM >
| | | | Jake_Noodles, these show some potential, but you might want to pick up a couple of books on basic photography first before you start messing around with post-processing effects. Learn the basics first and worry about the cheesy effects later.
http://photo.net/learn/ is a good starting point as well.
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Jake Noodles
Location: Tantallon, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
The Unluckiest Page
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 15 on 9/14/2007 5:53 PM >
| | | | I intentionally put the light stroke in the photo; I thought it looked impressive. I know my HDR's are amateur at the moment, but I definitely plan to keep working on them. I will practice and keep learning. Thank you all for your fair, (at some times tough) criticism. I will take your suggestion and get a few books on photography and HDR, Martino...
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whats left of the psych
Location: 200 feet under the Arctic Ocean
Gender: Male
| | | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 16 on 9/14/2007 10:05 PM >
| | | | I would like to see the HDR's that you people would come up with, and see if they are the same as jakes here...eh?
Before you start to beat jake up on his shots, you should have something to back your self up on. And not hide behind your screen and give other people shit that have tried.
Ugh
If you can't beat them, shoot them!
http://urbantresspasser.blogspot.com/
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Urban Pirate
Location: Salt Lake City
Gender: Male
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 17 on 9/14/2007 10:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by whats left of the psych
I would like to see the HDR's that you people would come up with, and see if they are the same as jakes here...eh?
Before you start to beat jake up on his shots, you should have something to back your self up on. And not hide behind your screen and give other people shit that have tried.
Ugh
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You're awfully quick to assume that the people criticizing Jake's work haven't done HDR's themselves. He's taken his criticism in good stride and more than likely it will help him on his future attempts. It would seem to me that the people who are chiming in critically about the HDR probably know something about technique.
And not to jack Jake's thread, but since you want some evidence of HDR experience:
Finally, keep it up Jake, shoot me a PM if you want to talk HDR stuff in detail.
Pirate.
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Jake Noodles
Location: Tantallon, Nova Scotia
Gender: Male
The Unluckiest Page
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 18 on 9/14/2007 11:57 PM >
| | | | Thanks pirate... HDR is an art which is new to me...
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paragonUE
Location: upstate new york
Gender: Male
"I hope you have hobo stab insurance"
| | Re: A bit of Miscellany
<Reply # 19 on 9/16/2007 3:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lexi
Not a poem.
Song lyrics.
Pennywise - Fuck Authority.
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lexi for the win
little known fact, if you shake the sprinkles at the bottom of a doughnut bag while exploring, youll actually be cought by cops faster |
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