Official BeyondUnreal Photography Thread
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Also, all the pictures seem to come out of my camera rather blurry. Could it be my lense? It's an older Tamron Aspherical 28-200.
Also, all the pictures seem to come out of my camera rather blurry. Could it be my lense? It's an older Tamron Aspherical 28-200.
Anyone tried the Hipstamatic App for the iphone? I bought it the other day and it's pretty neat. It basically runs photoshop like actions on your photos and makes it look like various toy cameras. Pretty neat stuff, but I wouldn't say it's good for anything other than Facebook.
I took this last night of a friend just ****ing around with it.
I took this last night of a friend just ****ing around with it.
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While I think the pose for your first picture is nice, you are really pushing Teal & Orange too much IMO.
While I think the pose for your first picture is nice, you are really pushing Teal & Orange too much IMO.
Bought a copy of CS 5 Photoshop. Gdamn even with a student discount... its a lot of money.
People talk about all the content aware features as a selling point.. but that's not the best part of the latest version of Photoshop. Its the new noise reduction engine. Previously seen in Lightroom 3 beta.. it looks like they tweaked it some more.
Good news: We finally have an excellent noise reduction system which removes noise at the RAW level. What you say? You took photos and there is still too much noise? There is a solution.. export your raw photo as a .tiff with color noise reduction off. Import into ACR via bridge and turn the color noise reduction all the way up. It looks absolutely stunning!
ACR is finally producing some excellent results for the 7d raw files. The photos look very sharp, the color is finally looking better, and there is plenty of details in the shadows. This is something that was missing in previous ACR versions for both the 20d, 30d, 40d, XTI, and the 7d. DPP always mopped the floor with ACR for shadow detail, but not anymore.
The disadvantage: ACR is soooo slow. PS does some things much fast. Bridge loads images faster, but ACR is slower. I guessing it has a lot to do with rendering higher quality images. Having 18mp raw files probably doesn't help either. Looks like my 2.4ghz dual core Macbook has met its match.
Bottom line: You may want to go back and reprocess some of your favorite photos which where almost ruined by too much noise. Its that good!
First photoshoot with CS5:
People talk about all the content aware features as a selling point.. but that's not the best part of the latest version of Photoshop. Its the new noise reduction engine. Previously seen in Lightroom 3 beta.. it looks like they tweaked it some more.
Good news: We finally have an excellent noise reduction system which removes noise at the RAW level. What you say? You took photos and there is still too much noise? There is a solution.. export your raw photo as a .tiff with color noise reduction off. Import into ACR via bridge and turn the color noise reduction all the way up. It looks absolutely stunning!
ACR is finally producing some excellent results for the 7d raw files. The photos look very sharp, the color is finally looking better, and there is plenty of details in the shadows. This is something that was missing in previous ACR versions for both the 20d, 30d, 40d, XTI, and the 7d. DPP always mopped the floor with ACR for shadow detail, but not anymore.
The disadvantage: ACR is soooo slow. PS does some things much fast. Bridge loads images faster, but ACR is slower. I guessing it has a lot to do with rendering higher quality images. Having 18mp raw files probably doesn't help either. Looks like my 2.4ghz dual core Macbook has met its match.
Bottom line: You may want to go back and reprocess some of your favorite photos which where almost ruined by too much noise. Its that good!
First photoshoot with CS5:
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Yeah, I know. It's suppose to be like a toy camera, and you don't have any option as to how it handles things. You can just choose some variables that are the lens and film it uses. Basically you are chosing actions to combine.
Bought a copy of CS 5 Photoshop. Gdamn even with a student discount... its a lot of money.
People talk about all the content aware features as a selling point.. but that's not the best part of the latest version of Photoshop. Its the new noise reduction engine. Previously seen in Lightroom 3 beta.. it looks like they tweaked it some more.
Good news: We finally have an excellent noise reduction system which removes noise at the RAW level. What you say? You took photos and there is still too much noise? There is a solution.. export your raw photo as a .tiff with color noise reduction off. Import into ACR via bridge and turn the color noise reduction all the way up. It looks absolutely stunning!
ACR is finally producing some excellent results for the 7d raw files. The photos look very sharp, the color is finally looking better, and there is plenty of details in the shadows. This is something that was missing in previous ACR versions for both the 20d, 30d, 40d, XTI, and the 7d. DPP always mopped the floor with ACR for shadow detail, but not anymore.
The disadvantage: ACR is soooo slow. PS does some things much fast. Bridge loads images faster, but ACR is slower. I guessing it has a lot to do with rendering higher quality images. Having 18mp raw files probably doesn't help either. Looks like my 2.4ghz dual core Macbook has met its match.
Bottom line: You may want to go back and reprocess some of your favorite photos which where almost ruined by too much noise. Its that good!
First photoshoot with CS5:
That does sound awesome. I think I am going to pick up a copy soon. =)
Yeah, I also took advantage of student discounting. I got CS4 Design Premium for about $200 at my university's computer store, but since I was able to get CS5 for free, I now have a CS5 Design Premium upgrade for free! What suite did you get and how much did it cost?
I paid $200 for it. Its a great deal. Not as good as free but its a veddy nice price. I only bought photoshop as I don't have much use for the other programs.
Some pictures from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.
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There's just too much dead space making only the center parts of the images as interesting to the eye. Though the second pic, I agree, isn't interesting at all. Unless it's not meant to be.
Try not to force the viewer to have such a narrow point of focus, it's rather uncomfortable to the eye.
I'd say that the last pic is the best out of all of them, at least it gives me eyes room to move and see more.
Try not to force the viewer to have such a narrow point of focus, it's rather uncomfortable to the eye.
I'd say that the last pic is the best out of all of them, at least it gives me eyes room to move and see more.
I agree!
The first shot is pretty good. I would love to see that shot spiced up with some more aggressive post processing to make it more interesting. I would love to get my hands on the original for a go!
The first shot is pretty good. I would love to see that shot spiced up with some more aggressive post processing to make it more interesting. I would love to get my hands on the original for a go!
Photo Shoot with Sing! Yes that is her real name. We met up and had a lot of fun with a test shoot. I just wanted to see what she could do. Will have to do a shoot with her in the future.
This is my second shoot being edited in CS5. I just cannot say enough good things about it. Its really made my work flow style so much faster and cleaner.
This is my second shoot being edited in CS5. I just cannot say enough good things about it. Its really made my work flow style so much faster and cleaner.