Well - per futu's request I took a landscape. I don't quite like the outcome (mainly because it's a kinda random place) of this shot but my shot of "statshuset" was of too poor quality. I do however, very much enjoy the self-portrait I took as I believe it turned out great! It's much harder than it seems to manually focus on yourself when you have to reference lol. None the less:










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This post was edited by Nevereon on May 30 2009 04:09pm

Wow. Well thanks for the constructive feedback, I've no idea how you could be bothered to change colors like that though... anyways. I agree with you completly, I'm just a viginette whore so I use it in way too many shots than I really should. The "dust speckles" are, believe me or not, two boats and a hot air baloon lol. I'm sure of it as I cleaned all my equipment right before I went out and shot these and there were tonnes of baloons in the air tonight x3 The "glamour" effect you mention is meerly meant to give the picture more feeling as I felt it was rather lacking without. Thanks a lot for your opinion though, unfortunately there aren't many people who share them here

This post was edited by Nevereon on May 30 2009 05:04pm

Yeah that first one is not as bad as you think it is. It's neat. Kind of looks "old" just the way you have it vignette and the dust particle in the sky. But I think Spencer is right, it should be there for the subject.

The second one, however, is great! Love it actually - haha. I can't do self-portraits like that.\

Btw, it's nice to see you posting more; you should join the guild!

This post was edited by chantal7 on May 31 2009 12:18am

I am not sure if I like that landscape photo BUT I definitely like your self portrait! It really looks amazing almost like a poster for a movie hmm actually it somehow reminds me of the movie Titanic xD
Btw what did you do to it when you were post processing that picture?

Yeah! I also think you should join our guild I mean it's not like you don't have enough fg to join it or something

This post was edited by Futurama on May 31 2009 01:18am

Heh thanks a lot Perhaps I will : > This was pretty much my first time attempting a self-portrait and I was quite satisfied with the result I feel I myself could have looked better in it (lol) but I figured it would have been impossible to get a good shot of yourself as well as a good shot hah.


Thanks Well, as always I adjusted certain colors etc on both of them although I hardly did much to them in the .raw editing options this time as the sunset gave off such warm colors to everything. The main thing I did with the self-portrait shot (which I otherwise pretty much never do) was that I kinda made it hdr-ish. Well, a similar principle atleast. I duplicated the layers three times, set one to 'normal' blending options, set another to 'screen' blending options and I set the last one to 'multiply' blending options. Basically screen is going to make it too bright and multiply is going to make it too dark. I than merged them all to one layer and just because I'm a perfectionist I added a 50px blur to the whole thing because I noticed that I was unsharp at about a 1600xh res. That's also why there is an almost uncanny dof (although it was still huge before the blur).