Friday, December 24, 2010

holiday lighting


holidays
Originally uploaded by Luis P Reyes
My initial attempts didn't adjust for tungsten and I didn't really like the orangy tone so I added an orange gel and set the WB to tungsten to get a more natural tone. My color tone is just about right but the walls are a bit more blueish than I would like. I maybe should have done the white balance for fluorescent...

Monday, December 06, 2010

bright sky over UBC


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Originally uploaded by slowmanluis2010
No foreground to use and wasn't able to use a tripod and the only filter I was able to use was the polarizer. I brought out the blue sky by applying curves to the blue layer and I like the effect.

blue sky


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Originally uploaded by slowmanluis2010
No tripod or filters for this one...just a quick one. So I was unable to bring out the detail in the trees. So I used both a polarizer and an intensifier to bring out the blue. Unfortunately I couldn't get a ninety degree angle on the scene to maximize the effect of the polarizer.

False Creek panorama

My third attempt at creating a panorama. Discovered that shooting vertical images was a better way to create the panorama which I did. Not sure as I think as long as it fills the frame that it would work and might technically create a better image as there would be less images to stitch together. The clouds have been really interesting lately which helped this image (I went back in the afternoon and gave up as the cloudless sky made for an extremely boring photo)as well as the reflection.

Science World blues


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Originally uploaded by slowmanluis2010
Used a polarizer and a soft GND for this image. I was able to get more width (less vignetting) from the added filters. Just enough blue as I didn't use the colour intensifier which would have given it more of a bluer tone.