Hello Carl,
I stil have to tell you what play it was on my photo of "The piano".
It was Adagio from Frans Schubert (Scherzo allegro vivace D845).
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it very much.
P.s. the sky on the "The Dreamer" was unaltered, whereas the sky on the beach was edited (more contrast) on the PC. The sun was above the picture, therefore you couldn't see it. The camera I used in this case was the EOS 350D.
See you around Carl!
"What other reason could there be to get up in the morning except to set ourselves free."
If my comment on your work ever seems to criticise, it does not. It is always so that we may learn together.
"What other reason could there be to get up in the morning except to set ourselves free."
If my comment on your work ever seems to criticise, it does not. It is always so that we may learn together.
Carl, thank you for your kind words on "Piercing Qualities". I just got lucky with this shot. Itwas the only clear spot for a shot and the eagle landed right there on the dead branch. I was about 100 feet from the bird. The original image showed the bird as half the hieght of the frame but good ole cropping works very well;-0
you are the most awesomeest coolest friend i know, i know all my photographic talent is right from you, and to be honest i even coppied you because i think your soooo cool when i got the same camera as you
"A piece of toast with butter always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet. What happens if a piece of toast is tied butter side down to the back of falling cat? Does it hover above the ground in perpetual indecision?"
Thank you Carl for your comments on "Sticking Out". I'm very pleased you liked it.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity
Albert Einstein
Shhhh. No mentioning the buldges that i didn't notice. They would have appeared when i got rid of the car in the background:P. And, i don't think i did much with the curves, but i did use the burn tool to burn some of the highlights down. it works pretty well in some cases.
"A piece of toast with butter always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet. What happens if a piece of toast is tied butter side down to the back of falling cat? Does it hover above the ground in perpetual indecision?"
Hi Carl, I'll take what you mentioned in consideration next time I go to photograph something of the like. All your comments and advice are greatly appreciated.
I'm sorry for the late thank you, I'm not sure if I gave you one or not, if so or not, thanks for your words on In the Distance (Reworked)! Also, the colors were made like that because I go for the sort of unreal sort of colors, things you wouldn't see everyday, thanks again.
"A piece of toast with butter always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet. What happens if a piece of toast is tied butter side down to the back of falling cat? Does it hover above the ground in perpetual indecision?"
Thank you for the critique on "Summer Pools" Carl. I can see where your eyes are focusing now. I really should pack my gum boots to reach the sweet spot:))
Hey carl thanks for commenting on my photo..very appreciated. I did in fact use film for the shot..ISO 200 Fuji..as for my scanner its actually a really crappy Canon scanner that uses a CIS instead of a CCD..
Hey Carl , thx for the comments on spider and ice & metal.
About spider that was done before i hade PS so my options then were limited , and altough i would love to do what you sugested , i lost the original pic .
But i will take your adivese on ice and metal.
I do have a bunch of others, and in my oppinion probably one or two better ones. I started with this one because it is landscape and not portrait. I'll be posting more soon with the dreaded bars on the side. If you want i can email you a couple of them too. I probably wont post all of them because people wont like them. It was an awesome day though. It was around 0 degrees so it wasn't too cold, but there was mostly snow cover everywhere. It looked good.
I did see the picture you posted. I'm pretty sure i have seen it before. You should post it anyways, people like wierd stuff. They might even like the shadows you don't like:P. I got a picture of an ice climber too:P.
No, i haven't had any time to go really:P. I have been working crappy shifts from 1:00 to 9:30, so if i don't have something i have to do in teh morning i have been sleeping to long:P. After today i have some time off, so hopefully i will be able to go look again. I think ive decided it will be either the nikon or sigma one, with a bit of a leanancy towards the nikon at the moment. So not yet, but hopefully soon. Maybe ill drag you along if you want to come again:P. But anyways, how was your trip?
Hi Carl, thanks for your comments on Robin 3. I'm never one for paying too much attention to borders as I don't think they are that significant. What I was trying to do here though was position the birds eye roughly on the right hand 3rd and leave space on the side the robin was looking. Thanks for your feedback though, it's really appreciated.
Hi Carl...thanks for dropping by to view Winter on the Rocks...glad you liked it...yes, I did a little post processing darkening...thanks for your interest.:Pat.
Your generous words are most apprecited. Glad you found the snowcover so appealing. To tell you the truth I haven't taken such a photo yet I would be 100 percent satified with. Of course I try my best to convey the atmosphere of the place but always have the feeling it seemed much more beautiful in reality than on the photo. I believe also the cameras will never capture the scenery as it is, with all its niuances.
I took the one of the bear at f/10. i tried a bunch of different f stops. 2,8 was amazing. The snot and eyes were in focus, and the rest out. Its pretty neat. Now all i need to do is find something interesting to take pictures of.
Hi Carl,
Thanks so much for the advise, I really appreciate it. Im going to follow through with all your suggestions as soon as I get back from my holiday (this computer doesnt have photoshop) and then I`ll let you know when I load it!
thanks again!
Soph
Hello Carl. Thank you for your comments and query about “Tuckers House”. The photo was taken in misty rain, which I enhanced, by selective use of the diffuse glow filter. Cheers.
Hello Carl, it’s me again. Thank you for you compliments about “Turbulent Beauty” and about my gallery. The shutter speed for “Turbulent Beauty” was about 2 seconds. Most of my shots were taken with a 300D with the kit lens or a 70 – 200mm F4 zoom. Of late I have been using a Kodak SLR/c with a 17 – 40 F4 zoom. When they stopped making the Kodak the price dropped to a point, which made it difficult to say no:-)
So you definitly are smarter then those other two. I agree the thirds are still there in hay field shot, and you are bang on 100% when it comes to shake, not focus. I tried to up the iso, and i got it pretty close, but no tripod:(. Tripod borrowing might be a good call, while i was thinking i would bring the video card to church tonight, but i ended up being to lazy to grab it out. Nextt ime i see you ill try. oh, and yes, i did use the polarizor on that one.
Thanks for the comment on my "Petrifying Springs Park - Bridge #3." I appreciate it. The image isn't crooked - I made sure of that in PS - but the land does slope off to the left like that :)
the picture of the penicl was taken at F22, 2 sec, with the big tripod. There was accutally a bit of a glare on the tip of the pencil so i did use burn tool to bring that down alittle. The rotating of the camera would have probably been a good idea though.
unfortunately, my picture uploading is hindered by the quality of my scanner. I work on film only, prefering old cameras over new digital. (True, both do have their advantages and disadvantages). As soon as I figure out how to run photoshop, which i recently acquired, and i can justify getting every processed roll of film on CD, maybe i'll upload a few. For now, i'm content to use Caedes as, how shall I say, inspiration.
Hi Carl, it is nice to see your comment on "Talk of the Pacific". Sounds like it has been way to long since you've been to the coast;-) I keep a regular eye on your work to get inspiration. I will soon be an Alberta resident...wanna buy a house? Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the tracks idea on my image.
Hello Carl, It’s nice to hear from you. You asked what lens I used for “Splendid View” it was a Canon 70 – 200 F/4 lens. The exposure was 1/8 second at F/20.
Thanks for the feedback about my "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" vs "Saturated Old Buick" images. I've been getting low ratings on my Black and White as well as my highly-saturated, high-contrast images, while the normal color ones are doing fine. I think most people just prefer color to B&W, and without the development tricks.
Hey Carl, thanks for the comment on "In a Funky Blue Haze". That's one that I found in the bottom of the old shoe box. It's an earlier version of Fujichrome that was made before you were born. It's ASA 100 film (ASA American Standards Association was used berfore ISO). There that's your history lesson for today...lol
I did use the flash. Nice pick up on that. You are probably right about the snow in the bottem there. The problem was i was standing on the wall of one of them picnic huts in bowness park, so i was having a good enough time keeping my balance:P.
Thank you very much Carl for your comments on "Spring Runoff ". I really appreciate it. The perspective thing does kind of look the way you described it. The way it was achieved is using a technique called "Hyper Focal". If you would like to know more about it just drop me a line. In case you already know about it: It really is something isn't it?
Hello Carl.....Thankyou for your comment on (DAFFODILS) it is very much appreciated....Cornish daffodil farms are some of the largest and most efficient in the world, supplying flowers and bulbs to all parts of the UK, to Continental Europe, and to the USA....All the best....Mick.
Thanks for expanding my collection of possible/future desktop backgrounds! You have quite an amazing set of pictures in your gallery, probably one of the best galleries I have seen on Caedes. Keep up the good work!
-Greg
I agree with the background comment. I'd like to pick up some foam board from staples and make myself a little studio thing, but up until now i have been too cheap:P. Im suprised you liked that one though. I almost didn't post it because i didn't think it really worked.
No bracketing on the landscape one. That is probably why i am so suprised it worked out like this. Ill email you the original if you want, so you can take a look at it. The clouds changed alittle but not a lot really.
Hey Carl , thx for the comment and advise on on the fence ( # 1 ) ; always appreciated.
I found that if you go out for shooting insects , the best time is early( still cold ) but already a bit sunny , that way they come out into the sun , but or not yet active. And it helps to have a 150 mm macro so you don't disturb them.
I really enjoy your work posted here at Caedes. I started looking through the listing of photos posted by you, and realized about half of them were ones I'd really liked without realizing they're all from the same guy! It sure looks beautiful there in Alberta.
I don't like that color space because it puts the underscore before the file name, not after the DSC. It is annoying:P. Im pretty sure when you open in photoshop it might convert it anyways.
I did hide the shadow alittle with editing on the goose. As for the ridge shot, no layer work. Did some editing of the blues which was mostly just the sky. It was around 1:30 2:00 or something.
Tripod is pretty good. Would be nice if it had the ball head i think:P. Or alteast a level on the head so you don't always have to look through to see if its right, but it is still good. I believe that one was with my kit lens, but i also too some with the 10-20. Ill be posting one tomorrow from it i think.
Re: polarizer, I quite like it in that shot to be honest. It gives it more perspective, especially if you know what a polarizer does and that those two bands are opposite each other in reality! The darkness/lightness in the sky just sets the clouds up better anyway, very nice photo again. :)
And thanks also for your comment on "Fall in the gutter"-- I'd forgotten about that one :) I'll post more fall pics soon from my trip to new england last weekend. Very nice colors, though they're gone by now. Thanks again.
i didn't do any thing to the butterfly one to make it softer, but i don't think it was condensation either. I never noticed there being any and i don't thinka ll of the shots are like that. I think it was the 2.8 that did that.
Hi Carl, Thanks for checking out "Agent Orange" and leaving a comment. Comments always help me to fine tune the way I shoot and edit images so they are much appreciated. Lightroom is mostly for tweeking color values, levels, luminosity , etc. Which is much better to do before converting raw images since the raw files have the most amount of info to use. You're deciding what info to use in the conversion and not destroying data (or very little data) . Chip
I'm sorry it has taken me so long to thank you for your kind comments on "September Yellow" but I do want you to know I appreciate them. I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas.
Nah, this is a new one. We did do that, but i don't think we had a tripod, so they didn't turn out very well. They are alright, but pretty soft. I had some fresh stuff laying around today, so i thought i would try with the right stuff.
I'd have to agree mostly with what you said on my last shot. You are right, facing up stream seems to always work better. I'm not sure why. I like that you noticed the sky. It was very strange. I think it looks like i took a brush and put the blue in there, but i didn't. It looks blown out, but yet its not white. Im going to guess the rain caused that too.
and to quote a comment i made on October 22, 05, "Don't you think it might be time to update that age field?"
You caught me. The green floor had a bunch of crappy reflections and was really dual so i colored over it with green at about 60% opacity. I used the blur brush to clean up some of the crap on the players feet. So ya, i did do some stuff. That is actually me dropping in the ball and i did try without me being there and i don't think i liked it as much. I dunno. I did think of the four way lights. If only i had four flashes:P.
I'm 18 and don't travel much. But I tend to bring my camera around just to catch what sticks out from my everyday goings. (pardon me if I speak my mind)
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I know i stole your location. Did you notice one of the people who commented said that they thought i had taken a shot there in a different season? :P Wasn't me. I was down at my grandparents house so i thought i would drive by there while i was down there. I don't know if i really like the composition. Im not a huge fan of the way the stairs and water sit in there. I dunno, sometimes i look at it and say thats pretty good, while others i say, na, i don't really like it.
I took the picture of the frost on the river at my cabin. There was some holes in the ice that opened up to another layer of ice. These were on the top level. I hope that makes sense.
Thanks for the comments on 'Morning Reflections (HDR)' very much appreciated. HDR is very easy to over do. I usually try three different tone mapping operators and pick the best one.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus
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If you were sharing the flash, by having your exposures at the same time, could you not have just set his camera on manual and put the flash off. Then just set the exposure to the same as your camera, and since they are going at the same time, your flash would work for both cameras?
i might grab that from you sometime. Pretty big, so it might be tricky. We will see. I can always start from scratch. I think the biggest thing would be to get your masks (if you use them). That is always the most work.
I just told quinn the same thing about animal shots on flikr the other day:P. What can i say, the zoo is easier:P. And ya, i think you are probably right about the barb wire. Your angle might have been a little different and you added the noise. But really i doubt you were the first to take the shot either:P.
I've got about a hundred of different shots similar to the lighthouse one. Most of them are actually landscape ones. I'll get around to posting a few like that too. It is hard to decide which ones i like the best. The water is different in everyone.
Wow Carl, your gallery is very impressive! I'm short on time to comment on individual images right now but I look forward to exploring it in more depth later. I haven't been to Caedes in months till the other day but hope to make more time for it like I used to. What kind of camera do you use? There's such clarity in your shots- you're very talented in your composition etc. Can't wait to see more!
'Lisa
Hi Carl,
Thanks for your nice comment on "Sea Shell Mix", and about my gallery in general. I really appreciate it :) And I'm glad you liked my water-macros, because I'm posting more these days!
I'm off to see your gallery now,
Have a good evening!
Jess
I agree with your comment about the red. Especially that one car kinda in the middle. The rest of the picture has a bit of a timeless old fashion kind of look to it, but then there is this 90s-2000s car in there. Boo.
Its too bad the planet didn't work. i was thinking maybe that mountain one would work, but wasn't sure. I've been looking for a good place to do one. I thought i found a pretty sweet place on my trip. It was in the Halifax citidal (an old fort). I was down in the courtyard area, so there was walls all the way around, but half of them were in the sun, and half in the shade, so it too didn't work out too nice.
I thought about trying to take the parks sign off it, but im to lazy being that it is on siding that is running on an angle. That would be a big pain to clone in.
On the other one i did have the sky darker, but since the foreground is fairly dark the darker sky made the picture seem a underexposed a bit. So i decided to go with the brighter sky. As for the green light, i will be sure to tell them next time im there that they should change the color of it.
Carl, Your gallery is magnificent and you come from an awesome place. I spent two weeks in Banff and Jasper and could not get enough of everything. My spirit was free and it felt like I could really connect with something much greater and grander. I was humbled at how insignificant we really are in the larger picture. I admire those who hike and camp out in these places. They make me keenly aware of danger especially when foggy, misty and grey. It seems I need to be out of there before sundown. Thank you for sharing your experiences and beautiful pictures! Vanda
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