Posts by DvS

Quote from Punky

And a question, in this picture, did you gave the sky any sort of hdr-threatment or did you just edit it a bit, I'm wondering how you got it to look so dramatic.

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Nope, no HDR used here, I simply do 2-3 passes of adjustment brushes in the raw->bitmap conversion tool, the one where you can change the white balance/exposure etc.

I usually do a brush with -1 exposure with added contrast and saturation and paint out areas that I'm not focusing so much on, and then do the opposite for highlights.

Thanks for the comments guys, really helps

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Color one is better.

I don't really think b/w pictures of flowers make any sense seeing as how strongly we as humans associate flowers with color.

Quote from JeanPaul

The money is not made in stock photography. its in photo shoots.I am making $1000 next Wednesday for doing some corporate portraits (about 3 hours of work)

What sort of lighting equipment do you have?

Quote from 2d-chris

amazing

Thank you

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Aliens mod?

I'd have to say that's not what roofs look like.

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Quote from Satyre

Yeah, I didn't intend to do anything of the sort, too expensive for my DIY tastes

DIY = do it yourself?

This spot is probably on the lens, a simply soft brush is enough to take it out (a brush can also be used (cautiously) on the sensor to remove that kind of things)

Nope, it shows up on all my pictures no matter what lens I use.

Quote from JeanPaul

Whatever you do DO NOT clean the sensor yourselfAnd if you ABSOLUTELY have to, NEVER use compressed air or anything of the like

Yeah, I didn't intend to do anything of the sort, too expensive for my DIY tastes

Quote from Satyre

That last one is realy cool, love the atmosphere in it. Looks a futurist place : )You get a dirty spot on the left of the building...

Thanks, I've been meaning to get the sensor cleaned for a while sometimes forget to photoshop it out.

On one hand there'd be a good chance of valve picking the map up if it's arena, on the other hand, nobody plays arena

It's very good looking though.

Quote from JeanPaul

You could get rid of that sign and tree easy

I tried, believe me I tried.

Anyway, one more of that zany building:

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":164b6ifa]Would be great to be able to play as infected as well!

There's probably lots of balance/fun issues there, since the survivors won't be moving much at all there's no ambush oppurtunities.

Quote from Sentura

what is that place anyway. it looks like a science compound in the middle of nowhere... somehow i think i've seen this before somewhere

It's really an "all purpose" building I guess. Inside, you have an art gallery in the cellar, restaurant near the top, and sometimes they have a market in the middle area.

There's also a huge artificial geyser that squirts water about 30m up into the air, really cool stuff.

I've taken some pictures of the inside, but they didn't turn out very "artistic" if you will.

Here's a shot I really didn't like:

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Stupid tree and sign in the way.

Quote from Satyre

Ok

The flower one is such a really good shot! The depth of field is perfect, congrats!

Thank you

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And a recrop of the above with slightly less saturation:

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The last one looks a bit like the teletubbies hut

Crab macro tiemz

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Quote from Satyre

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Best one, but they're all very good.

The top two I feel are slightly too saturated in post production, but it's a matter of taste.

Quote from JeanPaul

Awesome editing, and a perfect feel to it.

Cliche and boring

Thanks

Quote from Satyre

Nice set DvS Although the mirror one is very ordinary, i like it the most. The other ones look a bit blurred...

Thanks, I'll see what I can do about the blurryness, may have to do with the compression I'm using.

Here's some newer stuff:

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Have many many pictures of an upcoming map, only stitched cleverly together into some sort of moving image

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Very nice, but could seriously use 3 or 4 more detail passes, looks like a ghost town.