- This topic is empty.
Dublin in the snow
-
A couple of shots I took yesterday of Dublin in the snow. I’m pretty happy with the Harcourt Street one specially. What do you think?
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi / Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100) /Aperture: f/14.0 /ISO Speed: 100 / Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi / Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40) / Aperture: f/22.0 / ISO Speed: 100 / Exposure Bias:+1/3 EVLovely shots…. normally I don’t like branches coming down from the top but it really really suits this image :)
agree with tommy,
although personally i think it would be better if you could have managed to get a tow truck to remove the car maybe photoshop would be cheaper even if its cheatingon 2 i might be tempted to crop off some of the building on the left, it looks like its falling into the picture, i’m assuming you used a wideish lens which caused the distortion
fantastic exposure though, do you mind posting what settings you used
Thank you Tommy, glad you like the branches! It’s looking like I’ll have more opportunities to shoot snowy scenes of Dublin…
Thank you redto! I was thinking about the car after I took the shot. If it wasn’t for it, it would look more like Dublin in the old times. I don’t have Photoshop, never used it, so I can’t cheat! May be that will change after Christmas and I’ll be able to do another version of this without the car! A tow truck would have been handy, people should think more of photographers’ needs and not have their cars parked in nice old-time-look street scenes, the thoughtlessness of it! Thanks for the advice about the cropping, yes, there is a bit of a lean there. I don’t have a wide-angle lens, just my Canon’s 18-55mm. I’ve noticed I get that distortion with buildings quite a lot when I go to the widest angle I can use. I’ve put down the settings I used under the photos. I went one stop up with the exposure. I read on a book I have for my camera that when shooting snowy scenes you should go one or two stops up to get white rather than grey snow, I think it worked!
yeah people are quite thoughtless leaving cars an stuff around like that. hey I shoot film so photoshop is fairly alien to me
I think 18mm is considered wide angle well it is in my book, still think they greatThanks redto! I don’t do film, at least for now, but I like to achieve the film look as much as possible, I hardly edit my pictures, don’t like the overprocessed look you get with a lot of the photoshopped shots!
I am just wondering why you did not keep the verticals, well vertical? I am not entirely sure the blacks needed to be so black, there seems to be a slight loss in detail, but they are nice shots
Thanks Brian. About the verticals that’s just the way the shots came out, I always get some distortion when I go to the widest angle on my camera’s lens (18-55). Is that something that can be fixed in Photoshop? I haven’t got it yet. As for the blacks I’m afraid when I convert a picture into black and white I just hit the ‘black and white’ button in Picasa, I don’t put a lot of thought into it. Something else I should work more on when I get Photoshop maybe… Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Verticals should be kept as close to perfect as possible while shooting, this is not a lens correction issue it is more about keeping you camera perfectly level when you take a photo. almost all architectural and interiors photographers will tell you there most important bit of kit is a tripod and a spirit level. additional barreling can be fixed in a number of ways using either PS or additional stand alone software such as PTgui or DxO.
take care.
Thank you Brian, yes, I’m probably not careful enough about keeping my camera level, have to watch that type of thing. On the first photo I was paying more attention to getting the old woman in front of me in the shot (whilst not slipping on the ice) than to anything else. Here are two other shots I took of the same scenes in portrait format, I think I prefer them!
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
