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Old 24-11-2007, 04:49 PM
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Digital photo creativity
By popular demand (OK then a couple of you), and as a spin-off from the excellent DSLR thread, I thought that it is the right time to start another thread about all aspects of digital photo post processing – regards of whether you own a DSLR or not.

Feel free to post here examples of your creativity (NOT hi-res of course) with a brief explanation of the modifications that you have made and perhaps why and how.

I hope it will give the rest of us the chance to share their knowledge, critique, and generally help each other develop their digital photography skills.

For me? Well I am absolutely not an expert in either photography or post processing - the best description would probably be a 'keen amateur'. But given depth of knowledge that is evident in the DSLR thread I'm sure that there are some legs in this one too – with or without my contribution!

I'm fortunate enough to have been able to upgrade to a 400D this summer, and with regards to post processing software, I use Google's Picasa for most quick and general modifications (it really is a nice piece of free software that interprets RAW images too), and Adobe [Photoshop] CS3 for more advanced work when I have the time or the inclination. I have got used to shooting in RAW all of the time now.

And for developing, I use Snapfish – cheap as you like and an excellent website that allows you to preview before buying. I want to frame anything, then I always choose a matt finish – that way the photographic paper won’t ‘stick’ to the glass.

So I start with some examples. Enjoy!
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Old 24-11-2007, 04:58 PM
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This is the internals of Cologne cathedral, shot in RAW, ISO 800, no flash, and totally underexposed. Use the fill light feature in Picasa to bring out the detail...it takes seconds.

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Old 24-11-2007, 04:59 PM
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What does this have to do with Neil?


I think flash is involved, Neil likes a good flash.
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Old 24-11-2007, 05:07 PM
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Oh and errr...no hijacking ;-)
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Old 24-11-2007, 05:09 PM
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This is an example of how easy it is to use the clone tool in CS3 to wipe out those pesky foreigners from a superb piece of architecture with near perfect light...I was lucky with this one.

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Old 24-11-2007, 05:17 PM
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This is a bit of 'creativity'. It's called tilt-shift but I don’t know why, and it makes normal things look like they are models in a toy town. It was cold winter day in Bruges when I took this, and quite a run of the mill photo was transformed into something that has ended up on the wall in my study. Find out for yourself how to do it here.

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That's it for today...now I'm off out - will probably bump into Neil so I'll let you all know. Laterz
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Old 24-11-2007, 05:38 PM
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I like the tilt-shift.
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maybe we could use my photography thread

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This is a bit of 'creativity'. It's called tilt-shift but I don’t know why, and it makes normal things look like they are models in a toy town. It was cold winter day in Bruges when I took this, and quite a run of the mill photo was transformed into something that has ended up on the wall in my study. Find out for yourself how to do it here.

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That's it for today...now I'm off out - will probably bump into Neil so I'll let you all know. Laterz


There is a Japanese (I think) artist to takes fantastic pictures with real tilt-shift lenses... Can't remember his name though
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There is a Japanese (I think) artist to takes fantastic pictures with real tilt-shift lenses... Can't remember his name though


To answer my own question - its Naoki Honjo - check out his latest book "Small Planet"
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To answer my own question - its Naoki Honjo - check out his latest book "Small Planet"


Some pictures here
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I took this one at Seaworld with a Pentax A20 (10mp compact) I like it but then I took it so its obvious I would

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Newton...67163162821074

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I took this one at Seaworld with a Pentax A20 (10mp compact) I like it but then I took it so its obvious I would

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Newton...67163162821074

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It's an excellent picture, the only thing I might do to it is crop out some of the right hand side.
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It's an excellent picture, the only thing I might do to it is crop out some of the right hand side.


Thats a good idea, I could take it back to the screen in the background, will give that a go. Cheers for that LS.
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Horizon corrected with simple rotation. Verticles corrected using lens correction filter. The picture then needs to be cropped to remove white space that appears due to these corrections.

Cheap contrast boost achieved using a duplicated layer which has had a gaussian blur applied to it. This layers transparency is set to 'overlay' and the opacity is lowered. This effect should be used sparingly as it can start to look a bit 'whatever' if you use it on all your shots.

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