iPhone 3GS from AT&T. Free ShippingIndecent Exposure Podcast 64: Incongruous expressions
Getting the raw end of the contest deal, looking for some Fringe-Be-Gone, and seeing geometrically.
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EPISODE 64
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I entered a contest to be included in a local calendar and won a coveted (sarcasm) spot. The organizer wrote to me and asked for the original raw .nef file, because they want to include the picture without any Photoshop work. This makes me uncomfortable. The picture submitted had been cropped, color corrected, contrast enhanced, and telephone lines erased. Obviously, if I send them the original, it will no doubt turn out the same as the one I submitted. If they go in and alter the image (which they'll have to do just by converting from raw,) I feel like the picture is no longer mine. I don't want my name accompanying their version of my picture. Sure, it could be better, but I still don't feel like it's mine. I want the publicity the calendar will generate, but I want my unaltered picture to be included.
What say you?
Bob McClenahan
I had a question, in case you haven't yet recorded the podcast. I was looking again at this photo and noticed a lot of purple fringing in the upper half of the skylight. I don't usually notice this problem with my camera, but it appears very distinct in this particular photo given the post-processing I did to the (originally) underexposed image.
I could scour forums and specialty websites to find an answer to this, but I figured you might be a more direct route: Is there a way to remove fringing like this from photos in post-processing/Photoshop? This isn't often a big problem, but I have definitely noticed it before, and didn't know if there was any relatively simple fix beyond the stereotypical-gear-snob's reply of, "Get a better camera."
Bob McClenahan
Senior Editor Lori Grunin has been covering digital imaging for two decades, but her memory's kind of sketchy on the details. You can hear about it every week on Indecent Exposure, the podcast she co-hosts with Matt Fitzgerald.
Lori Grunin has been an avid photographer for almost 30 years, and spent the past 15 attempting to master every aspect of technology.
Matt Fitzgerald has been involved with digital camera technology and the photo industry for more than 15 years. Matthew's background includes work as a professional photographer, a technical representative, and a repair technician.
The three photos I'd like to enter are the following. (I hope I'm doing the submission correctly!)
http://justinmoorescott.com/index.php?showimage=217
http://justinmoorescott.com/index.php?showimage=229
http://justinmoorescott.com/index.php?showimage=220
I JUST did a photo critique last week with several white images, many can be viewed at my photoblog http://justinmoorescott.com as well as the rest of my photo critiques.
Looking forward to the other submissions!
Thanks for this opportunity,
-justin
http://thatsjustin.com
oh is that right? well then yes, definitely number three http://justinmoorescott.com/index.php?showimage=220 as my entry. I had seen multiple entries from people in the past and heard about them on the show so I thought you could have a few.
Thanks!
You are right about the geometric feel to your pictures. I browsed around and liked the White Blue Gray picture.
Heidi Fischer
I guess I should maybe explain a little about my submission
http://justinmoorescott.com/index.php?showimage=220
I was flying from Columbia Missouri, where I go to school, to Houston where my parents lived a few weeks ago. I was heading to baggage claim at the George H. W. Bush International Airport when I was blinded by white. The terminal is, terminally, under construction and this the result I guess.
I saw the wall and having an obsession with manufactured spaces, had to take a picture. TSA looked at me funny as I kneeled onto the floor with my D700 and took a quick shot. Only had one try as three TSA agents started walking towards me!
I took a different approach to this weeks contest. Instead of photographing white, I photographed black. And, then I inverted them. This is something I just wanted to try.
So, here is my submission for this weeks contest:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37791728@N07/3982552788/sizes/l/
This is the original:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37791728@N07/3981255869/sizes/l/
Highgloss
:) Heidi Fischer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38593368@N07/3982680028/?eOrig=3588264375
This is my submission for this week's contest:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allex/3983816090/
Allex Radu
Heidi Fischer
Here is my submission for this weeks contest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38413087@N02/3984494394/
Karthik
This should be all over news today but since I am on EST giving a shout out.
Kudo's to the scientists who created the technology behind digital photography. Willard Boyle and George Smith share Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 for inventing the CCD sensor. I'm sure it was not that clean cut, but glad they got recognized, and opened path into digital photography. Wonder how many Indecent Exposures of their own they had on the way?
VTY - DaneinNY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeadc/3500389414
Lee.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2vC9akSxKpVvS1nT2hWHjw?feat=directlink
Pity that I don't have actual snow to work with here in sunny California!
Markitect
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3989002875/
Others I considered entering:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3989023371/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3989778666/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3989778600/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3989758128/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hmr638b/3989002793/
Mike
Heidi Fischer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/madmarv/3365115590/
My submission this week for white... an architectural detail of terra cotta:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/cnet/White.jpg
It is rainy here this week & I find this subject difficult. This is one in a series I was doing of downtown details. I wanted a white on white tone photo, but left the color of the brick & the black of the storefront in to show that it wasn't converted to B&W. I think the side colors help set off the white in this case (center focal point).
Here are 2 other considerations (same subject type):
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/cnet/IMG_3232white.jpg
- I almost had to flip a coin, this was the close second for the submission. A friend said that it looked like it was incomplete... like it was cropped too much to show what was going on. I cropped it to show this piece specifically.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p58/super6s/cnet/White.jpg
- I like it because it is not staright on (even though it falls out of the series I was shooting), but it is too beat up & has too much color mixed in with the white. I felt that it detracted from the subject matter a little too much for the submission.
Markitect
I tried something new for this one. Made a small home studio with a white paper roll, a Home Depot light and a off camera flash. I hate using the off camera flash as I can never get the look I want from it, but I persevered through it. I shot a lot of images with a lot of inconsistency. Kind goes with the experiment.
The subject is a little close to home (for Lori and Matt).
Here it is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmacke/3990380997/
Thanks for the show
Keith Macke
I hate it when my work keeps me from entering the contests! Anyway, I found white to be really tough. However, I wanted to shoot something that was extremely white, and I remembered that I had this seashell that I bought at a shop several years ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22756141@N06/3990811193/
As a matter of fact, Lori read this as a reader tip I submitted back in Episode 10 (I think... might have been 11). Just getting caught up after a brief hiatus, and love how the show has evolved.
Here is my white entry for this week. Love the podcast.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30978872@N03/3991054315/
Grace
White was the contest, so naturally I dragged a telescope outside and tried my luck.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/all_things_design/3992052214/sizes/o/
I'm not entirely satisfied with the focus/ clarity, but I'm going to cut myself some slack until I get a proper astrophotography setup where I don't have to hold my camera up to the telescope's eyepiece.
Additionally, I have a question this week (I'll post it here and send an e-mail since I'm not sure which method is protocol) question follows:
I had a question come up this week at my internship and I suddenly realized how little I know about bit-depth. I've always been aware of 8, 16, and 32 bit color mode options, but never really got a handle on the intricacies of them. I did a bit of research and came up with the potential problem of banding in 8 bit mode, but I was hoping you guys could expound upon any advantages and disadvantages there may be when working in the various bit levels.
Many thanks.... - Brian
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11061372@N07/3989643510/
I tried using an off-camera flash with my on-body flash as the commander, but since the on-body flash only points one way, I got a nasty reflection. I guess I have to buy more Speedlights. =(
-ChewDawg
This is my entry for the "white" contest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/owenmartin/3491398123/in/set-72157617390246560
Owen Martin
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by dgroszek
October 8, 2009 5:44 PM PDT
- OK - Here is mine. Had dreams of multiple white corrections and color temperatures but alas and hdr'd dinner was all I could muster.
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