Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk this week.
Was quite fun meeting new people and walking around for two hours taking photos. Good getting other insights into taking photos and seeing the photos that people took.
I might put another couple up sometime during the week. While I had fun, I don’t think I took anything spectacular (won’t be winning any of the prizes).
Processing on this was a bit different to what I normally do. The main change was lowering the vibrance slider (I normally tweek it up a little). This has given the photo a slightly desaturated look without going too far to grey. Sharpness & clarity have been cranked up a bit to really make the leaves pop.
One thing I really like about this photo is the twigs on the ground along with the very low depth of field.
A quick update with a few photos uploaded from my photowalk around the Yarra on the weekend. Can be found here.
Not a lot of editing in these, very basic adjustments.
Enjoy.
Also about to upgrade to WordPress 3.0… hopefully this goes ok 
Edit: Wow, painless, let me know if there’s issues with the site.
Photo walk around Melbourne this week. Took quite a few photos from along the Yarra River area. This was one of my favourites.
Taken with my Tokina 12-24mm f/4 lens at 12mm. So a nice wide angle shot. I’m not 100% happy with the angle of the wheel, looks a little lopsided, but this is mainly due to the very wide angle lens and the subject being off center.
Processing wise, a little done to it, but not a whole lot. Basic white-balance, levels, noise reduction & sharpening. From there, I’ve pushed the clarity and contrast up quite a bit along with the vibrance and a touch of saturation. A minor vignette was added, but in the end, it probably doesn’t enhance the photo as much as I was expecting. A bit of clean-up along the left was done to remove the edge of a tree that was showing.
Later in the week I’ll probably upload a few of the other photos I took from my walk.
Next week will probably be stuff from around the other side of the city as I’m going on Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk. Which I’m looking forward too (just hope it’s not raining for the walk).
I was lazy last weekend and didn’t write up the photo. Took it and uploaded it though.
Originally this was going to be taken and processed with flash. I had it set up and it looked quite impressive. 2 Flashes, one from each side to try and get a nice even light/reflection across the chrome – a strip softbox would be ideal, but unfortunately I can’t afford one… yet. Since this is a light sabre, and it has it’s own light, I figured I’d give that a go. Turns out it looked really good. Best thing to improve this image is if I had a seamless black background (paper or muslin). Not much processing at all apart from all the touch ups removing the dog hair from the couch.
This weeks photo is a bit of an experiment in processing. In particular the border.
A nice chinese statue from near the Princess Theater on Spring St in Melbourne. A bit of an experiment in using a “sloppy” border which I quite like (I don’t think it would work putting a title on the image though). The other experiment comes from watching Photoshop User TV and a suggestion of using the sharpen brush (which wouldn’t have been touched in previous versions). I did some selective sharpening with this on some of the high detail areas to make them pop out more. On top of this, I’ve played around with some Lightroom presets to get a bit more of a vivid/saturated look out of it.
Half way point of the year. Can’t believe I’ve kept this up! This weeks photo comes from a photo walk I did at lunchtime on Friday scouting out locations for a future photo shoot (no details yet, don’t want to jinx it!).
Hosier Lane in Melbourne is quite well known for its (legal) street art. This little laneway (Rutledge Lane) comes off the side of Hosier lane, around the back of a single building, then rejoins Hosier Lane. Looks like a fantastic location for a grunge style shoot. I took quite a few other shots of much better street art on my walk, but considering I was just taking the artwork, I couldn’t really call the photo my own.
One thing I really like about this photo, is that the bins are in the way, but have just been painted over. Nothing is really an obstacle. Even the road itself has graffiti on it.
Processing wise, not much apart from the basics really. Being an overcast day, the colours had great contrast, so even the tweaks on levels were minor. A slight vibrance boost (not much though) and some sharpening.
