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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« on: August 11, 2012, 07:16:07 PM »

And 4 more - sorry I cant figure out how to link directly to Flickr...

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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« on: August 11, 2012, 07:15:01 PM »

Here are some of mine...

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Software & Accessories / Re: Upsizing pictures for large canvas

« on: August 11, 2012, 07:09:33 PM »

The place where I got one of my images printed from a single frame of the 5DIII to 60" canvas, used Alien Skin Blow Up 3. Might be worth of a trial to see how you go. The end result was great!

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Landscape / Re: Feedback on portfolio

« on: August 06, 2012, 12:33:41 AM »

Hi Hammar,

Shooting mostly lanscape / seascape stuff myself, I think your shots are actually really well balanced and exposed. One thing that I think you might be not doing is post processing "enough".

I hope you do not mind, but I took via screenshot one of your shots and did the following:
1) Brightened the foreground
2) increased contrast and saturation via Nik Software Colour Efex Pro by applying Tonal Contrast and Pro Contrast. Overall took me 2 minute so its very easy.

Here is the result. Again hope you do not mind.

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Landscape / Re: Beautiful sunsets

« on: August 06, 2012, 12:24:57 AM »

Stanley

Gorgeous shots. Really like the brilliant colors. How did you shoot those? Thanks for sharing.

Thank you! Most of the time, all I end up doing is increasing contrast and saturation with the help of Capture One for Raw editing and then in Photoshop I use Nik Software mostly again for contrast / saturation. I stay away from replacing colour etc - basically I just intensify the scene

Sometimes I also exposure blend (+/- 1-2 stops) if required to control the shadows and highlights.

Here is the rest of my portfolio - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanleykozak/

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Landscape / Re: Beautiful sunsets

« on: August 05, 2012, 09:13:37 PM »

Here are some from me... Mostly around Sydney...

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Lenses / Re: ND Filter system for landscape photography question

« on: June 17, 2012, 06:10:55 PM »

I started using the Cokin Z series grad filters. After a while, I upgraded to Singh-Ray and then changed them all to Lee. Big expensive mistake. I advise is to go straight to the Lee. Basically - Cokin and Singh-Ray filers produce a magenta colour cast, especially when you stack them. So for instance if you stack a grad ND and an ND.

Go with Lee.

Have a look here - these are all taken with Lee filters. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanleykozak/