Official BeyondUnreal Photography Thread
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I see what you mean about subjects being centred. A lot of old buildings (the houses of parliament for example) have towers or higher / lower bits, so even if the whole thing is centred the tower throws the eye off-centre. The castle is more or less a simple box shape, maybe that's the problem.Yes it is Norwich Castle.I couldn't tell you if the Egyptian mummy is still there as I haven't been there myself in a good 14 years, but as far as I'm aware it is!
I know what you're saying. It's kind of catch 22 because if I sorted out the exposure for the floodlights, the rest of the castle would become underexposed. It does have some stunning brickwork, and I have done some up-close shots (during the day), and normally I'd have tried other ways, but as it's for a task of making it suitable postcard (which means a crop is out) for Norwich. Postcard research tells me that the subject is almost always central, and pretty much fills the frame - Which is slightly odd as it breaks the rule of thirds! I do appreciate the feedback though, and if it wasn't for a postcard I'd agree you're absolutely right about trying a wider shot/crop.
Are you allowed to do a split frame postcard or does it have to be a single photo?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ill-tempered/sets/72157607541105513/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noctorum/96322381/in/set-72057594060198143/
Random shots from today.
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These came out great! I love it.
Nice. I like the minimalisticness of the shot, but I think it could of been a little more interesting if you shot it landscaped (no idea of the actual photography term for that) and had them off center to the right maybe. Great work though.
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Just got back from 9 days in Umbria and Tuscany, Italy. Beautiful landscape, and some locations I've wanted to shoot since I took up photography and first came across pictures of them by the likes of Charlie Waite and Joe Cornish.
The food and wine were pretty good as well
All shots, Nikon D3 with various Nikkor lenses ranging from 17mm to 400mm in focal length
High up in the Sibillini National Park, Umbria
Iconic cypress trees in Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
Dawn mist swirls around a valley in Umbria
Morning light on wine corks
Capella di Vitaleta in Tuscany in the pre-dawn mist
Taken from the plane around 15 minutes before landing in Milan. Somewhere over the southern Alps
Vinyard in Montalcino, Italy
Dawn mist in a valley in Tuscany. The perspective is compressed using a telephoto lens.....I got incredibly muddy shooting this.
High plain in late light in Umbria
Sheep in Tuscany
A few minutes after the sun has set at high altitude, the clouds are painted pink in the afterglow. The blur of the clouds comes from a shutter time of around a minute.
Mist drifting around the base of a peak, just after sunrise in the Sibillini National Park, Umbria
A foggy morning in Tuscany made landscapes impossible, so I played around with shooting spider's webs covered in morning dew drops.
The last few seconds of sunlight on the Piano Grande plain, high in the Sibillini National park, Italy
Mist in a valley in the Valnerina, Umbria
More on my website
Just got back from 9 days in Umbria and Tuscany, Italy. Beautiful landscape, and some locations I've wanted to shoot since I took up photography and first came across pictures of them by the likes of Charlie Waite and Joe Cornish.
The food and wine were pretty good as well
All shots, Nikon D3 with various Nikkor lenses ranging from 17mm to 400mm in focal length
High up in the Sibillini National Park, Umbria
Iconic cypress trees in Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
Dawn mist swirls around a valley in Umbria
Morning light on wine corks
Capella di Vitaleta in Tuscany in the pre-dawn mist
Taken from the plane around 15 minutes before landing in Milan. Somewhere over the southern Alps
Vinyard in Montalcino, Italy
Dawn mist in a valley in Tuscany. The perspective is compressed using a telephoto lens.....I got incredibly muddy shooting this.
High plain in late light in Umbria
Sheep in Tuscany
A few minutes after the sun has set at high altitude, the clouds are painted pink in the afterglow. The blur of the clouds comes from a shutter time of around a minute.
Mist drifting around the base of a peak, just after sunrise in the Sibillini National Park, Umbria
A foggy morning in Tuscany made landscapes impossible, so I played around with shooting spider's webs covered in morning dew drops.
The last few seconds of sunlight on the Piano Grande plain, high in the Sibillini National park, Italy
Mist in a valley in the Valnerina, Umbria
More on my website
A big fan...along with Galen Rowell, Art Wolfe and Joe Cornish...books by those guys are what inspired me to learn...and to get up at stupid times of the morning to shoot the dawn.
Glad you like the shots
Glad you like the shots
I very much do.
I would ask if you have them in their original (or at least a much larger) size to use as desktop images and a screensaver but you probably think I'll just try and sell them somewhere.
Took a bunch of shots today at the "Petting Zoo." That is what we call our threats training facility. It has quite a listing of old Soviet threat systems.
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I cant go below 200 on my D40 and I honestly dont know what the other two mean
Increasing the aperture will help right?