*OFFICIAL Photography BS thread!!

That sucks. I use the school right now, and may be putting a dark room in my house one day

 

do any of you have a flickr, smugmug, etc to post up your pics?

 

I use flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/derekabrahamphoto/

 

I need to set one up.......... Just want to have some creative name that I cannot come up with.

 

I have a Flickr, I need to set up a SmugMug acct.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluemoonoriginals/

 

I have a SmugMug account, it was fully customized but I forgot to upgrade and it wiped everything clean.

Link in my signature \/\/\/\/

 

what influenced everyone to choose photography over another type of art? also what type of photography do you like most (weddings, landscape, portrait..etc)

 

My Grandfather loved photography, he had his own darkroom over the garage. He shot Nikon and I'm hoping I can get all of his gear from my uncle (darkroom equipment included). His favorite photographer was Ansel Adams.

Right now I'm really big into Sports/Photojournalism, but I've always liked landscapes.

 

I cant draw, at all lol

Landscape/nature for me

 

I shoot with a Canon 60d and my main lenses are
Sigma 17-50 OS
Tokina 11-16
Sigma 30 1.4
Tamron 70-300 VC
Canon 100L IS macro

Here is my flickr, not a ton of stuff on there right now, just paid for the pro a few mo. ago.

BTW Flickriver is a bad ass way to show off your Flickr acct.
http://flickriver.com/photos/8418775@N02/

 

colin your work is a huge influence to me!

I love photography because of the story of which the photography tells that others may not see, also the detail that many people may miss! also I have a hobby of creating pottery which i haven't done since graduating high school in 2011. I like all types of visual art old and new!

 

Question, what's your editing technique to enhance the clouds' darkness? It looks soooo sick. I have a picture of Mt. Hood with some clouds over it and I've been trying to darken them to give it a dark feel but I keep failing.


Or do you just do true HDRs?

 

I try to do true HDRs but sometimes I cheat and just make 3 exposures out of my raw files. But if you didn't take a raw you can sometimes fake it with a jpg. Post up the pic so we can see.

 

I shoot RAW as well, but I haven't gotten into multiple exposures or anything.


I just started using CS5 a few weeks ago, so I'm still learning.


Here's the RAW file (in JPEG format, since I don't know any other way to upload it here):





I know it's not much now, but it's not edited.

 

Do you have a HDR program? like photomatix or anything like that? That picture should be ok to make into a HDR, but do you want your nice fluffy clouds all dark and mean looking?

 

No I don't. At least not yet.



I think they'd look better mean.

 

Ok, I'll see what I can do with the JPG, but it wont be until tonight, after work.

 

No problem, I'll have to look into some more editing programs.

 

there is this

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...BBA_Complete_Collection_Ultimate_Edition.html

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/732026-REG/Nik_Software_NIK_6100_HDR_Efex_Pro_Software.html

 

I'm shooting a Nikon D3000. My dad has a 55-200mm lens he said I can use

Still just using iPhoto...Want to get into a better editing software but did the free trial for Elements and hated it...Couldn't figure anything out.