experimental pictures

[TRSmith]

Experimenting with ACR and PS3, going for grunge.

Tim

 

[cam]

daddy's little princess

shooting through plastic...

 

[helenhill]

Tim / Wild & Snake like ..... Cool Composition......Beautiful tonalities!!


Cam / You're shot ROCKS !!
Reminds me of 'Spirit' Photography - quite popular during the Victorian Era

I actually love the way these two shots follow each other /manly Man & girlie Girl
Best, Helen

 

[Mitchell]

This is an experiment in LightRoom as much as anything else.



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Best,

Mitchell

 

[TRSmith]

Thanks Helen! And Mitchell, really nice!

This is the last one of these, I promise! Down by the old cannery on the coast.

 

[Mitchell]

Thanks Tim.

As you probably guessed, in LightRoom I added lots of saturation and/or vibrance (I can't remember what exactly) to this image. This only seems to work with a very small number of my water pictures, and nothing else.

For a long time, I wanted my pictures (generaly small areas of the landscape) to look like what I'd seen in reality, as if I were saying to the viewer, "I saw it. It's out there. You can see the same thing if you look." Now I don't seem to care as much about that documentary aspect. (My subjects are almost never people.)

I seem to look at paintings more than photographs, and paintings almost alway seem to use reality as a inspiration, a stepping off point, not an end in itself.

Tim, I like your shots here. I'm guessing you added some vignetting and saturation on the rope shot. And aggressive sharpening and grain to the cannery.

I used to hate PP, but now that the tools are getting so much easier, and I'm learning my way a bit, it's getting more fun and really powerful.

Sorry to be so long winded. Great idea for a thread Cam. Lots of good stuff in here.

Best,

Mitchell

 

[wbrandsma]

Expensive expirement.

 

[Bob Yanal]

I'm not sure if these count as "experimental" or "happy accidents" or none of the above; but they're kind of interesting. (Taken at the Toronto Museum of Natural History with a Ricoh GX100.)

 

[Jack]

Tim, I'm generally not a huge fan of the grunge look, but it sure works for that tire and rope shot -- very nice image!

:thumbs:,

 

[micampe]

Tim I really like that truck/machine thing (sorry I don't know the word) and the processing you have done. Looks almost like some grainy BW film.

 

[TRSmith]

Thanks Jack and Michelle! It's kind of fun to experiment and try to duplicate looks that float around the web. The grunge thing is fun but a little goes a long way. Stuff that's already grungy seemed like a good place to try it .

Cheers!
Tim

 

[sizifo]

Ghosts on the London Underground. I took this one today. Maybe typical, but still looks pretty cool.

 

[Guy Mancuso]

Does look pretty cool . Nice capture

 

[helenhill]

So Cooooool.......Sizifo

 

[Will]

Oh I like that one sizifo, that is really good!

 

[sizifo]

Thanks. London is a great city for photos. Hope to post some more soon.

 

[Irenaeus]

Great thread!

This one's from a GRD, straight from camera, no PP, unfortunate blurring/DOF/etc but I like it and want to do more in this vein and better. Bedtime now, though.

Irenaeus

 

[Dirac]

May I add this one here? (GRDII, moving train)

 

[wbrandsma]

The reflection is beautiful, Dirac.

Theme Shadow

 

[mwalker]

Garden of the Gods

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