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Fun with MF images 2023

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Greg Haag

Greg Haag

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So this area in my back yard was an eventful place for us this past summer. We married our youngest daughter under the tree toward the back with all the interesting limbs and we buried our dog under the little statue in the lower center of the image. I guess I had too much time this weekend and decided to photograph it as sort of an enchanted garden. I used Christmas lights on the ground in the ivy and did a series of shots lighting the trees with a flashlight and blended them together in Photoshop. The base images was a 60 second exposure at f14. The images lighting the trees were 2 minute exposures remotely triggered with the Fujifilm Cam Remote app.

GFX100s 23mm
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jng

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Greg Haag said:
John, I am so glad you got out to photograph the super bloom! I have never been so tempted for a spontaneous trip west, but just could not work out the details.
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Thanks, Greg. We didn't quite manage to find a super bloom per se, although the hills around our location were dotted beautifully with California golden poppies and other flowering plants. I did spot a patch of Baker's Goldfields, however, and grabbed a shot using the XCD 21, which when cropped square on the X2D's 33 x 44mm sensor roughly matches the field of view - and ensuing perspective - of the legendary Hasselblad Super Wide C in 6x6 format, on which I cut my photographic teeth.

John

Field of Gold by John Ngai, on Flickr​
 
P. Chong

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An old colonial house, which we call a "Black and White Bungalow", as these are characteristically painted in black and white. These houses typically have a pitched roof with wide overhanging eaves due to the rainy tropical condition, and the high roof also allows for good ventilation that draws in cooling air. The ground floor is generally open and spacious, often tiled for coolness. The building may have large verandahs, and some have elevated foundations similar to that of a traditional Malay house. Only about 500 of these bungalows are said to remain now in Singapore. Typically these are still owned by the government, and in those in high end residential locales are rented out to families with big budgets, and others are adapted for commercial use like restaurants, bars and ofices. Alpa 12 TC with Alpagon/Rodenstock HR 4.0/40 with Hasselblad CFV II 50C. Handheld.

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Photon42

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Greg Haag said:
So this area in my back yard was an eventful place for us this past summer. We married our youngest daughter under the tree toward the back with all the interesting limbs and we buried our dog under the little statue in the lower center of the image. I guess I had too much time this weekend and decided to photograph it as sort of an enchanted garden. I used Christmas lights on the ground in the ivy and did a series of shots lighting the trees with a flashlight and blended them together in Photoshop. The base images was a 60 second exposure at f14. The images lighting the trees were 2 minute exposures remotely triggered with the Fujifilm Cam Remote app.

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Fantastic!
 
Greg Haag

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espelancer said:
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Looking for advices.
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Welcome and thank you for joining in! I love the composition on the image! All I can give you is my take on how I would approach the image. I typically do the majority of this work in Lightroom or C1 on the raw file. I would probably start by reducing the highlights, I think it will bring out more details in the feature waterfall. Next I think I would try opening up the shadows a just a touch. If in Lightroom, I would use a brush on the waterfall on the far right and bring up the exposure, highlights and clarity a bit. Next I would use a brush on the waterfall on the far left I would bring highlights down ever so slightly, clarity up to taste and desaturate a bit. Next I would use a brush and bump exposure and clarity selectively on the rapids in the middle of the image to lighten things up a bit. Next I would use a brush on the mossy rock and reduce exposure/highlight just a bit, for me I find it competing with what what would be my feature, the main waterfall. As a finishing touch, I might warm the feel of the image up a bit. Here I am imagining that with the bit of lens flare in the image that I am here just as the sun is about to set behind the mountain and the warm glow of the sunset is skimming across the image. That is just my initial thoughts on how I see this, sorry for the long response to your question. Thank you for sharing, I look forward to seeing more beautiful images from you!
 
Greg Haag

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I have been limited on my ability to get out of town and shoot for the last little bit due to work, so I find myself shooting things around me such as flowers, scenes in my yard and todays subject is the back of my office. It was an interesting sunrise, so I walked out back with my GFX to try and capture the moment.

GFX100s 23mm (2 image pan cropped to taste) f22 for 3 seconds
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Greg Haag said:
Welcome and thank you for joining in! I love the composition on the image! All I can give you is my take on how I would approach the image. I typically do the majority of this work in Lightroom or C1 on the raw file. I would probably start by reducing the highlights, I think it will bring out more details in the feature waterfall. Next I think I would try opening up the shadows a just a touch. If in Lightroom, I would use a brush on the waterfall on the far right and bring up the exposure, highlights and clarity a bit. Next I would use a brush on the waterfall on the far left I would bring highlights down ever so slightly, clarity up to taste and desaturate a bit. Next I would use a brush and bump exposure and clarity selectively on the rapids in the middle of the image to lighten things up a bit. Next I would use a brush on the mossy rock and reduce exposure/highlight just a bit, for me I find it competing with what what would be my feature, the main waterfall. As a finishing touch, I might warm the feel of the image up a bit. Here I am imagining that with the bit of lens flare in the image that I am here just as the sun is about to set behind the mountain and the warm glow of the sunset is skimming across the image. That is just my initial thoughts on how I see this, sorry for the long response to your question. Thank you for sharing, I look forward to seeing more beautiful images from you!
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Thanks for the detailed advices. I will try it out :)
Actually, I am thinking in the same direction as yours. I reduced the exposure on the left fall and the near stone. It seems I can do more. Increasing the exposure on the right is a good idea. I will follow your suggestions and have a try :)
I am using C1, but I struggle with it because the preview looks very different from exported image, so I have to adjust and export to see the result :(

Followed your guidance, I think it is much better now, thanks a ton :)
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