Photographs (warning, big page)

Post by **hubird** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:57 pm

I bought a digital camera two months ago, it was a Hewlett-Packard model R707, 5.1 MP.

I made almost 300 pictures, all of them within half a kilometer from my place.

I knew Photoshop a bit from making some cd booklets and labels.
This time I had to dive deeper into it.
Great fun I had, trieing out all the possibilities

About more than 40 photos you can view at *******
EDIT: I made a selection for you, leaving away the obvious ones

Check it out here:
http://www.ezsound.nl/huub/Photographes ... Readme.htm

Here are some examples.
Hope you enjoy

Tractor on a dyke, cutting grass.
The horizontal lines are from electricity cables.
The driver is looking backward, it made me put the spot on the back.

Railway bridge, they recently hang a cycling road along the whole construction. This part of the bridge is lightened, I made kind of blacklighted.

Escalator, seen from footstep level.
Colours as original, I just masked some stuff in the very upper part of the picture.

'Old' shoppingstreet at night, with some geese from the neighbouring park put into it.
Here I learnt working with layers in Photoshop

Two huge cranes, bended to uselessness.
Looks a bit like a satellite in space, isn't it?

This one, like most of the pictures, was taken by daylight, but in Photoshop you're god

Two young female students in a club at 04 oclock, the club closed after that night because of bankruptcy.
Drown or drunk?

Building-site, in the charge of a huge light at the back side.
Looks like an illegal danceparty is going on

Kind of doomsday?
That car almost drove over my left foot when I took this one, laying on my front.
The orange reflections on the thin border of the white stripes on the (high) dyke road are original, from the sun going down.

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Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:09 pm

Nice ones

My favourite is the "goose walk the street at night" one

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:30 pm

Nice indeed, but maybe be a little sparing on the filters. You can see in some pics the "blocky" effect where the pic is beginning to break up.

I vote for the "goose street" pic too

Post by **hubird** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:55 pm

had to zoom in digitally sometimes, to get what I wanted

'blocking' effects must be my own fault, not that of the effect filters, except of course the Extrude effect of Photoshop

thanks for comment, both of you

Post by **garyb** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:11 am

enjoyed those...

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:02 am

Very impressive!

Lima · Post by **Lima** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:23 am

Wow! Bravo! They are very inspiring! My favourite of these is the first with the goes. On your page I like waalbridge1 and road2f.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:56 am

Well, now I know what's your favourite dope.... photos, of course

BTW now you can make your own smileys

Great pics btw. I like the industrial ones. Can you take a photo with a train in it, please? It could be a great effect - staedy landscape and a train in motion, hmmm...

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:06 pm

great shots, Huub

another vote for the hezelstreetgeese, total realism of phantasy
also liked masts-5 and in particular osterhout-9, landscape as sculpture

the latter deserves the cables 'shopped away - it's cery close to perfect (init's genre), imho

it's a new toy, so you'll probably leave the more obvious PS fx (like overcontrasting, falsecolor transparency/inversion and strange geometries) away soon. That's often FX for FX sake

you've already shown that you know how to use it to give the picture a new context (or create a new idea, if you prefer)

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:42 pm

On 2005-09-27 13:06, astroman wrote:
...in particular osterhout-9, landscape as sculpture[...]the latter deserves the cables chopped away

You're right, I didn't realize that

But it will be hard to get rid of them without artefacts.
I'm afraid I'll have to go back to the original picture.
If I only knew what I did exactly...

The grey-purple colouring is part of the result, and maybe some subtle paint fx (Sprayed Strokes??) was involved.
The removing of the white date numbers (I accidently had active in the camera) is the least hard to remove

About the use of PS fx-es, I hoped I took the right fx for the right picture.
But I will immediately admit it's a dangerous path

@ Spirit, you probably mean the blocking performance in the yellow lake/mast/tree picture (Oosterhout lake 10) on the servers page?
In fact that's the way the 'Extrude' effect filter works (softly layered-in).

Otherwise i don't know where else you saw it, except Gooses-01a, which I added to show where the gooses from the Hezelstreet come from

I had to zoom in digitally that picture, that's also why I had to 'grain and stroke paint' the Hezelstreet picture, the gooses (geese??) were to vague

@ Samplaire, maybe this could be a start (it's a railway bridge):

cheers

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:24 pm

Can't see it.....

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:41 am

I can't see the geese either.

Here's my contribution to this type of creativity and fun:

This one is during a full lunar eclipse. Can you spot the Moon?

This is from a motel room that was supposed to be top notch. What a DUMP it was!

This one came as a result of warping my pregnant step-daughter.(I see the comment coming

)

and

This is a simple rose taken at the Montreal Botanical Gardens:

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Are we listening?..

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:23 am

according to your signature... may I indicate what convolution (if applied properly) could do to sound

in this context the first 3 pics are beautiful patterns, while the 'rose' is also a great photo artwork

impressed, Tom

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:23 pm

the math procs behind those transforms are often fairly 'simple' structured, yet they (could) have the capability to control an extrem wide variety of interactions (modulation, generation, mixing - whatever you like)

no need to associate this with the boring x/y/z spectrograms...

in a book about fractal image compression I found the quote ... one can represent ANY visual scene imaginable by an equation that fits in (say) no more than 15k characters - the problem is to find the proper coefficients...

exactly that problem shows up when you want to use something graphical (like the images above) to generate and control music (and not only random noise, though noise can be (part of) music as well...

cheers, tom

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Post by **hubird** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:59 pm

thanks Paul, tho I hope not everyone will post that big pictures in this thread (up to 768 K), as loading time already was considerable with only my pics (I checked that before and choose the number of pics to show here carefully).
I plan to comprimize my pics to the half, say 150 K, to serve the modem users amongst us

Maybe you could do that also

Btw, you know you can choose 'Fade [filtername]' after applying a filter in Photoshop?
This way you keep the original picture active to some degree, which makes the use of the specific filter sensible, like with the nice rose photo

cheers

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paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:39 pm

OK. I made my pisc smaller.
I actually think they look better that way

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 4:13 am

Those 2 young ladies can't have been very good looking Hubird. Why else would you use such strong wave distortion. Btw, did you know you can 'fade' the filters in P'shop ;P

Nice to see pictures guys.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:01 am

paulrmartin wrote:
OK. I made my pisc smaller.
I actually think they look better that way

Did you apply the "Van Gogh" filter to the first two?

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:17 am

On 2005-09-27 18:42, hubird wrote:
@ Samplaire, maybe this could be a start (it's a railway bridge):

Still no such file in your server (nor even any similar in name

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:26 am

On 2005-09-29 08:01, Counterparts wrote:

Did you apply the "Van Gogh" filter to the first two?

Looks that way, eh?
The "motel room" one is my favorite in that respect. The impression of the table and lamp in a smoky room really stands out(maybe I should post the original pic?..naaaaw...)

I can see the geese now, Huub. Love 'em!

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