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November 11, 2021 at 8:00 pm #66364Dan CopeParticipant
Thanks for the interest in this post. These items are no longer available. Some have sold and some I have decided to keep. Thanks!
October 30, 2021 at 8:42 pm #66075Dan CopeParticipantThanks Lydia for posting this! I am listing here the items individually priced:
• Nikon D7100 body with original Nikon battery and charger
$325• Nikon 50mm f/1.8
$65• Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5
$65• Nikon 12-24mm f/4
$350• Nikon 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6
$175• Tiffen 77mm ND6 filter
• Altura 77mm ND4, C-PL, and UV filters
• Hoya 77mm UV filter
• 77/67 mm adapter
$50• Mountainsmith camera bag with waist and shoulder straps
$25• Manfrotto MT190CXPRO3 carbon tripod
$250• Manfrotto 494RC2 ball head
$60September 19, 2019 at 10:22 pm #44206Dan CopeParticipantI too like the second photo! Very nice! What stands out to me about the first one is that the barn wall seems too overwhelming. There is so much of it in the photo that it almost seems as if it’s a picture of a wall with a family in front of it as a opposed to being a picture of a family with a wall behind them. Also the white rim board at the bottom of the wall draws my attention away from the family. Basically I feel like this photo has more of a “random” look or a “snapshot” appearance. Kind of like they were at a family reunion and decided they should get a quick photo together before they headed home so someone said “Ok why don’t you stand here by the barn and I’ll take one for you”! Your second shot on the other hand looks very purposeful both in composition and location! It’s one they should definitely be glad to hang on the wall! There’s only one problem with it… you forgot to tell the dog to look at the camera😅
April 24, 2019 at 11:50 am #38969Dan CopeParticipantThanks Lydia and James for your excellent comments! Actually the B&W photo was taken from atop a bluff about a mile BEHIND where I took the one along the river. I thought it was an interesting example of the power of focal length. The B&W image was taken at 44mm and the color image was taken at 18mm. Even though I was a mile closer, the mountain looks much farther away simply because of the wide angle. As to why I made the second image black and white, I at first thought this was going to be a nice image with the green trees and the white mountain and some color in the clouds, but when I processed it, it just wasn’t what I was hoping it would be. So I made it B&W.
March 15, 2019 at 3:47 pm #37888Dan CopeParticipantThanks Lydia and Hannah for the comments! Good thoughts! I think that although the trees on the left side do put the size of the falls in perspective, yet it’s not definite enough because as far as the uninformed viewer knows, they could actually be small trees. A person standing in a purposeful pose would be more of a definite size comparison. Perhaps I should see if any of the people that are in the original shot could be including in a pleasing way and edited properly to draw enough attention to be noticeable.
March 10, 2019 at 8:13 pm #37696Dan CopeParticipantAwesome!! Thanks for all the good comments and helpful insights! This was my second visit to Yosemite and fortunately there was good water flow both times I was there! I photographed the more iconic view from across the valley, trying to incorporate various rocks and vegetation along the river as foreground subjects, but being two days before Thanksgiving, there were a lot of bare trees that I felt detracted from the beauty of the scene. I was happy to find colorful foliage right next to the falls! Here’s a vertical composition that has a more purposeful appearance. The area is littered with such a jumble of rocks that the challenge was finding a foreground subject without the scene looking too cluttered. I like the idea of a person posing in a purposeful way to create perspective. Of course the challenge would be making the person noticeable enough to have the proper impact. Don’t you think our Lenspiration membership ought to include an all expense paid week-long workshop in Yosemite??!! Ha!😅 Just kidding! But it would sure be fun to spend a week there!
February 26, 2019 at 1:56 pm #37321Dan CopeParticipantDo you think that that level of zoom can be done still in editing?
It’s doubtful. What you have here is a picture of branches with a few barely noticeable ice droplets. In order to make it into a photo of ice droplets, you would need to zoom WAY in until the ice droplets become prominent. That amount of “zoom” or crop in post processing would result in undesirable results as far as image quality is concerned. If you got an opportunity to shoot ice droplets again, I would suggest getting very close or zooming in with a telephoto lens to really fill the frame with the ice droplets, keeping your aperture wide enough to blur out distracting branches etc. Also look for an angle that creates a darker background as opposed to the bright background of the sky. You want those ice droplets to stand out instead of blending in with the sky. Try to find a composition that eliminates as many branches as possible. Even break some branches off and remove them if necessary. Basically just keep in mind that if the photo is of ice droplets, you want people to look at it and see ice droplets and not branches! Unfortunately ice droplets don’t occur every day but if you get another opportunity, I’ll look forward to seeing what you come up with!
February 24, 2019 at 11:09 pm #37300Dan CopeParticipantI think it would have been good if you could have found a way to zoom in on the ice drops and isolated them more. As it is they don’t stand out as a subject in the midst of the clutter of branches.
January 4, 2019 at 1:58 pm #35997Dan CopeParticipantNovember 21, 2018 at 10:54 am #35110Dan CopeParticipantI’ve never heard of “an effect called opoid.” Can you explain further?
November 21, 2018 at 10:39 am #35109Dan CopeParticipantThanks Kina!
I can’t claim to have done anything right taking it- it was pure chance:)
I disagree! True, there are those times when you’re in a great location with great lighting and it seems that you can just “point and shoot” and come away with an impressive picture, but even so, there are some things here that you’ve done right! Not everything about your picture was “pure chance”!
November 21, 2018 at 10:30 am #35108Dan CopeParticipantYou’re welcome Ben! I wouldn’t say it’s a “fail”. I’m sure it has potential to be used for something! And even if you don’t ever actually use it, like you said, every photo is a “learning moment” and that makes it worthwhile even if it didn’t turn out as impressive as you had initially hoped! And besides, for you the photo is definitely worth something as it will evoke memories of that moment when you experienced the enchanting sunset in person!
November 10, 2018 at 6:01 pm #34868Dan CopeParticipantHere’s kind of what I had in mind with my suggested edit to the foreground. I emphasized the clump of sagebrush and the surrounding color by brightening it and adding contrast. I brought out the color a little more by using color balance layers. I also darkened some of the other foliage and removed a few distractions, including the people! They all came back so I told them to leave again 😀 I don’t know that this would work very well unless you use the tight crop as I’ve done. Otherwise the sagebrush is so small, it doesn’t stand out very well.
November 9, 2018 at 11:12 pm #34851Dan CopeParticipantNice colorful sunset! I know what you mean by being “a little rushed in trying to get it before it faded away.” It seems like those colorful sunsets are gone so quick! Good job on capturing the colors! Although there’s not much that draws me into the picture other than the color. The silhouette of the tree leaves against the colored sky does offer some interest but to my eyes it’s not a compelling subject. I would crop off the dark area on the left side of the photo and use the tree trunk to frame that side of the picture. Also editing out the power lines would help.
the back ground looks like it was taken with a 5$ point and shoot camera, that is being removed as we speak
I’m interested in exactly what you mean by this and what is it that you are removing?
November 9, 2018 at 9:11 am #34838Dan CopeParticipantVery nice! Like @dhancock mentioned I would straighten the horizon. Personally, I like the cropped version better as it narrows in on what’s interesting. In fact I would actually crop it in a little more. Your foreground is nice and well edited. I really like how you captured the lighting! A good foreground is often what sets a photo apart from others and makes it look less like a snapshot! What makes this foreground work is the one little clump of sagebrush that stands out in the lower right hand corner. The fact that it’s surrounded by orange-colored grass (or whatever it is lol) adds to the visual impact. I think I would try to figure out a way to emphasize that even a little more in post processing.
I should have bracketed the exposure to gain more detail in the highlights, but I didn’t have a tripod.
That would have been great! Especially if you could have obtained a nice sunburst effect just as the sun was slipping below the horizon! It would have added interest to the left side to help balance out the photo. I have actually bracketed exposures without a tripod. As long as you can hold the camera very close to the same position, you should still be able to align the exposures in post processing.
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