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Frazer Family replied to the topic Thanksgiving Still Life in the forum Photo Critique 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Thanks James, for the comments.
I wonder where the softness you’re seeing comes from; maybe it’s the result of slight camera movement between frames?
I don’t think it’s out of focus.
What’s funny to me is that, upon examination, the softness, which is present in the .DNG file too, looks as though it comes from a denoiser. I didn’t use one, though.…[Read more] -
Frazer Family started the topic Thanksgiving Still Life in the forum Photo Critique 2 months ago
Since today is Canadian Thanksgiving, I prepared for it last week by setting up this shot. It’s an HDR, compiled in Darktable from three shots each separated by two full stops.
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
Lens: EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS
Focal length 171 mm
ISO: 100
Speed (-2 stop): 1/1250 sec
Speed (0 stop): 1/320 sec
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Frazer Family replied to the topic FEATURED: Organized Toys vs. Disorganized Toys in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 5 months, 1 week ago
Here are a couple other ideas. I realize that the first photographs are not toys, but they demonstrate organization vs. disorganization.
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Frazer Family replied to the topic FEATURED: Photographer in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 7 months, 3 weeks ago
This is heavily edited in GIMP, as, in the original, the camera was in the middle of the picture.
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Guiding Light (ends February 1) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Here’s my attempt at it: four pictures compiled in GIMP 2.8; three of lightening and one of the lighthouse. The picture of the lighthouse was actually taken in the middle of the day, so I darkened it significantly.
Eliana Franzenburg, here’s a quick description of how I did it, in GIMP, (because it’s free software, although Photoshop or Affinity…[Read more] -
Frazer Family started the topic Silouhetted leaves in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 4 months ago
Here’s a macro shot I was able to fix thanks to buddingphotographer‘s suggestions on chromatic aberrations. Any critiques are appreciated.
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Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.5-5.6 IS
Aperature: F/5.6
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Obedience vs Willfulness (ends July 27) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 1 year, 4 months ago
One of my brothers suggested a close crop, but I only have 1700 px. I should have thought of taking some closeups.
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Obedience vs Willfulness (ends July 27) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 1 year, 4 months ago
I know this is a really late entry, but I finally managed to get a picture of a “stubborn” donkey. The truth is, she really isn’t stubborn and it was hard to make her look like it! 🙂
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Chromatic aberration corrections. in the forum Photography Q&A 1 year, 4 months ago
Thanks buddingphotographer, I think that will really help.
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Chromatic aberration corrections. in the forum Photography Q&A 1 year, 4 months ago
Good point, David Frazer. But “chromatic aberrations” only gives me an automated chromatic aberration correction. Sometimes, it does a good job, and other times it doesn’t.
Specifically, I was wondering about the TCA (Transversal Chromatic Aberration) red and blue sliders under the lens correction module, as shown in the screenshot. Is this…[Read more] -
Frazer Family started the topic Chromatic aberration corrections. in the forum Photography Q&A 1 year, 4 months ago
Hello everybody,
Does anyone know how to do an effective chromatic aberration correction? I’ve been trying to use Darktable’s “lens correction”, but the tool is really complex and I haven’t been able to make heads or tails out of it.
Any and all relatively educated answers are appreciated.
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Obedience vs Willfulness (ends July 27) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 1 year, 5 months ago
When I saw the request for “willfulness,” I immediately thought of one of my photos of our very stubborn calf! I’m attaching a few ideas for “obedience” too, though the first one doesn’t quite fit the criteria in that it contains a person. I thought of my “Horse Training 101” photo… 🙂 Then my sister suggested we go out together to take a new…[Read more]
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Tulip in the Dew in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 5 months ago
When I came to look at these again, I agree with Lydia Bennett and blessingscaptured about the focus. It would have been better to close my aperature more. Thanks for the input.
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Frazer Family started the topic Tulip in the Dew in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 6 months ago
I was trying to get a good shot of the sparkling dew on these tulips, but the sun stayed behind a light cloud cover until the dew dried up. What could I have done to improve these shots? Any advice is appreciated.
Photo #1:
Aperture: f/5.6
Speed: 1/160 sec.
ISO: 200
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT
Lens: 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6
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Frazer Family started the topic Snowy Lamb in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 7 months ago
@creative-click-photography, it’s lambing season up here in Quebec! Do you get snow in lambing season in Australia – September I guess? I admit, April 20th is really late to have this much snow still around even in Sherbrooke. 🙂
I’d be interested in hearing from anyone with experience photographing animals in the snow. To get the image of there…[Read more]
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Frazer Family started the topic Icy Birch Seed Close-Up in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 8 months ago
I liked the effect that the ice gave to this shot. I wasn’t really sure how to crop it though. I’ve included a non-cropped version as well as my final copy. Any and all comments, critiques, and suggestions are appreciated.
Exif data:
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Speed: 1/1250
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Frazer Family started the topic Cat in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 9 months ago
I actually took this shot some time ago, but I only got around to editing it recently. Any critiques would be appreciated. I have included a jpg copy of the original and of the editted version.
Exif data (applicable to both):
Camera: Canan EOS Digital Rebel XT
Lens: EF-S 50-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Aperature: f/5.6
Speed value: 1/640
ISO: 200
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Frazer Family replied to the topic Dreary Beauty (ends February 17) in the forum Shoot to Serve Photo Assignments 1 year, 10 months ago
Here are a few taken a couple years ago.
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Frazer Family started the topic Removing fog in post-processing in the forum Photography Q&A 1 year, 10 months ago
Hi everyone,
I have a question for someone who is good at after-shot corrections. When I took this shot, the rain forced me to keep my camera inside a clear plastic bag. Also, there was a lot of fog rising from the puddle in this shot. I didn’t like the fog/blurriness effect, so I used Darktable software to achieve the second photo. However, I…[Read more] -
Frazer Family started the topic Foggy Sunday Morning in the forum Photo Critique 1 year, 11 months ago
I posted a few months ago two other pictures of this beautiful morning and it was suggested that my focus be on the fence instead of the close-up cedar hedge. This is such a picture that I took at the same time. How would you edit this picture? I took it with the sunbeams in mind, but didn’t succeed at drawing them out. I observed, James, that…[Read more]
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