[achtungbarry]

October 10, 2011 at 6:18 pm

I’ve only just discovered this. I am very honoured. Many thanks to all who gave me a vote.

[achtungbarry]

September 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm

Thanks for the feedback and kind comments so far.

[achtungbarry]

May 31, 2011 at 11:02 am

luimneachlass wrote:

Beautiful image, may I ask what shutter speed you actually used? I’m fairly new to photography and like to get a general idea of settings used when I see a fab pic..

Cheers!
Denise

Hi Denise,

The shutter speed was 1.3 seconds which was just enogh to give a nice blur. The aperture was f22 and the iso was 100.

Hope that helps.

Barry

[achtungbarry]

May 27, 2011 at 1:03 pm

Hello Dan,

Let me try to take you out of your misery :D .

Firstly, this is a single exposure, not a stitch. Secondly, I did use a very wide angle lens. The focal lenght here is is 15mm which would explain the elevations not being vertical. As for there not being a pattern, I think what has happened here is that I had pointed the lens ever so slightly downwards to capture the light trails. This seems to have created a reverse keystoning effect where the tops of the buildings are wider than the base. So the pattern is like a fan. I did a very slight correction in photoshop after to make the effect less pronounced. This said, many many of the buildings in Amsterdam are not vertical at all with upper levers overhanging the street.

Hope this cleared it up for you.

[achtungbarry]

May 22, 2011 at 7:42 pm

Helen wrote:

I love it – stunning image.

Just being nosey how many second of an exposure did you give this shot?

Here’s all the details Helen:

Focal Lenght: 15 mm using Sigma 10-20

ISO: 100

Aperture: f18

Shutter Speed: 30 seconds

[achtungbarry]

December 7, 2010 at 12:21 am

Ah beautiful! I love morning light. It really picks out the tones on the tree. Lovely work.

[achtungbarry]

December 6, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Thank you all very much for your kind comments. I have to say the conditions really helped. The light was incredible, the frost, the mist and reflections in the water all made my job a lot easier. Carton House is a great location when the conditions are right.

[achtungbarry]

August 7, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone. It is much appreciated. The highlights in the clouds should be alright. They are on my own screen at any rate which means they should print ok. I’ll find out soon enough when the prints arrive.

[achtungbarry]

February 25, 2010 at 9:41 pm

Sorry about the image disappearing like that. I replaced the image in flick but forgot about this thread.

I’ve also included the shot before the edit of moving the jogger. I know that this is not in the spirit of Cartier Bresson but it was more the composition that inspired me. As I was taking the shot, the HCB image was in my head.

Thanks for all the comments and critique so far.

[achtungbarry]

December 27, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Thanks for the comments Miki. Just to clarify that the second shot is Henri Cartier Bresson’s and I could only find it in a low resolution hence the pixelisation.

[achtungbarry]

December 17, 2009 at 5:34 pm

RASMITH32 wrote:

great shot, love the effect you have, how did you achieve this??

IN relation to ur question . NO I dont think there is too much grass , as someone else states, it carries your eye nicely to the bridge. Great composition in this shot.

So come on , how did you create that effect?

Ok, I’ll do my best to give a brief description.

You basically need 2 images, your base photograph and then another photograph of a textured surface. This really can be anything. I like to use one of old paper for most of my shots but anything is possible really.

Do what editing you have to do to your base image first.

Then make sure that the texture image is exactly the same size as the base photo. If the base photo is 3456px x 2344px, the photo of the texture should be resized to exactly the same.

I often desaturate the texture photo by about half.

Next you drag the textured photo on top of your base photo so that all you can now see is the texture photo.

After this, it is up to you how to blend the 2. I often use an overlay blend and then copy the texture layer a couple of more times until I get the effect/strenght I want. I also mask areas of the photo to reduce the texture effect.

Some people I know use the opacity slider instead of changing the blending mode. You can also use a combination of both. Just experiment until you get something you like.

Sometimes I desaturate the base photo a little too as the texture layer can make some colours too vivid.

I hope that helps. When I have more time I can do a proper tutorial with pics and stuff.

[achtungbarry]

December 17, 2009 at 3:21 pm

jb7 wrote:

but I have to bite my lip-

Hee hee, many others don’t!

[achtungbarry]

December 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm

nfl-fan wrote:

Have to say though that I really like the lightning one… wow… talk about being in the right place at the right time.

Bit of a halo around the steeple that might require some attention though.

Good luck Barry!

I will own up here and say that the photo is a composite of 2 shots taken at the same location a few minutes apart and the lightening was not exactly in the same location. As for the halo, I think may need to be more careful with the selections but should be able to fix that one. Thanks.

[achtungbarry]

December 17, 2009 at 11:39 am

irishwonkafan wrote:

My recent experience of judges and competition/distinction is that anything goes. In a recent competition one image got an award and 90% of the image wasn’t a photograph but a computer generated image. The panel at this scale looks striking and I’d imagine it’d do quite well as cohesion is a key element…or so achievers have told me.

Alan.

Wow, my images would seem “normal” compared to that.

[achtungbarry]

December 17, 2009 at 10:45 am

nfl-fan wrote:

Barry…

Just my opinion and I don’t know how the judges view these things – but the HDR and what looks like texture overlays are possibly more dominating than the actual photos that sit beneath them.

If I were a judge I’d be wondering could you, as a photographer, take a good photo that didn’t require heaps of post processing.

Good luck with it.

I know what you mean. My “style” if you can call it that is certainly not to everybody’s tastes. When I show a photo, I usually get either “Ilove it” or “I hate it” reactions. In a way I kind of like that for some reason.

I do wonder though would the judges go for it. A guy in a my club put in a panel of hdr/texture stuff already and got the LIPF about a year ago so you never know.

Thanks for your input.