[pete4130]

November 29, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Set your camera to deliberately underexpose by one or 2 stops. You’ll lose the shadow detail you don’t need and all that will stand out are the brighter areas. It’ also gives you a fast shutter speed too.

On matrix metering your camera is trying to get detail in the dark/shadow areas that aren’t important.

[pete4130]

September 29, 2009 at 11:17 am

Thanks Harry,

I had 2 sb80/800’s set up to the left on 1/4 power and one on the right at 1/4 power fired with pocket wizards. I shot at 400 ISO, f9-11 and 1/250th -1/320th second. The light falling on poolbeg chimneys was luck. I had to keep waiting until it broke through the clouds. I used a 4 stop grad ND filter to bring the sky at the top in a bit too.

The guy is a French flatland bmx world champion…so easy to shoot with, He can do whatever I ask him to on a bike which was super!

[pete4130]

September 11, 2009 at 10:59 am

Thanks,

It’s hard trying to post this bigger. any bigger and it would mean scrolling…which isn’t so bad with a sequence I suppose. I do know exactly what youmean with some space between shots. I did this quickly so I didn’t geta chance to space them out. You are dead right though, some space between shots is needed.

The guy no the bottom is filming, not shooting medium format although he is another photog!

Pete.

[pete4130]

August 24, 2009 at 8:24 pm

Thanks. It was shot on a Holga I got for free, the last shot on end of a roll of Fuji pro 400H.

[pete4130]

August 24, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Shot from the 69th (?) floor, of Sunchine City in Ikebukuro…so I think I’m wrong with the title. It’s definitly not Ginza!

[pete4130]

August 21, 2009 at 9:44 am

I’d be tempted to get these if I had more Pocket Wizards to go with them. Already have 2 SB-80’s and they work great. A bargain for anyone who does get them at that price!

Here’s a few pics I’ve taken with my SB-80’s

[pete4130]

August 20, 2009 at 12:06 am

This looks a little soft to me. Were you shooting on IR film and corrected for the shift in IR focus or was it a photoshop filter you used? The grass on the tracks in the foreground looks a bit blown to me. I’d love to see more detail here and a bit more of a tonal range across the entire image. It’s looking a bit washed out to me, particularly on the left hand side where the bushes are

[pete4130]

August 19, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Nice capture. Great tones. I really like the lighting and the tones are superb. Is this film or digital? I do think your horizon is a litle off in the first one though.

[pete4130]

August 19, 2009 at 2:29 am

If you were interested in selling the body seperately I’d consider it. When was it last serviced? Was the shutter replaced? What does the battery meter show in regards to being replaced? How much for body only?

[pete4130]

August 16, 2009 at 9:16 pm

There’s no need for profanity here to be honest, no matter what ratio of comments received to comments given anybody has. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I can’t see where I was impolite.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Hopefully I’ll have my comments given/received ratio up to point where I’ll be allowed to reply in future :)

[pete4130]

August 16, 2009 at 2:46 am

There is no post processing halo along the mountain line as all that was done was levels and curves across the whole image so no idea where you are getting that from?

[pete4130]

January 17, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Close, very close! It’s one of those bath scrub things.

[pete4130]

January 7, 2009 at 12:14 am

Thanks everyone. I spent a little bit of time on this. I did some selective levels and curves adjustement on dofferent parts to balance out the image and desaturated the sky a little, it was a tad green/yellow for watever reason on the original RAW. The area in the foreground was an unused field that was pretty wide and filled the foreground so I cropped it. I shot this on a 200mm lens so that gives another idea of the scale. It was shot while I was taking a leak on the side of the road (not at the same time obviously!) and I wasn’t really too happy with how it looked. I was really shocked at what a little post processing did to it. There were all weather conditions at the same time that day, within 5 mins I’d been through a cloud, rainstorms, snow and blazing sunshine which gave me the nice light, shadows and dramatic clouds. I’m still a little overwhelmed at how it turned out. Landscape is not my thing at all!

[pete4130]

January 6, 2009 at 6:44 pm

I was lucky enough to pick up a 2nd hand 80-200 2.8 AF-D lens a few months ago for €450. Fantastic. It’s sharp, fast AF, built like a tank (so a bit heavy) and even at 2.8 its almost perfect. Some slight, ever so slight distortion at 200mm that is so easily fixed in PS (if there are horizontal lines where it can be noticed).

I shot this at 200mm and cropped the foreground a little. It is a really amazing quality, cheap alternative to the 70-200 VR lens.

Buy it if you get the chance!

[pete4130]

January 6, 2009 at 1:22 am

I was shooting ISO 3200 and underexposing by 1 stop. They were all shot at 2.8 on a Nikon 80-200mm with shutter speeds from 1/100th to 1/160th.
I was at the ALT show too. They never fail to impress!

Thanks,

Pete.