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Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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Just popped in to inform that most of the images are down. My damn hosting service died on me and providers customer service can't be bothered to answer e-mails. (well at least they're really cheap...) To make matters a bit worse I didn't have an exact backup of the folder where the images were stored. Anyway. The opening post and tutorials are up and running again. Hopefully the rest of the stuff will come back on-line soon. If it's not back up by tomorrow evening (say about 10pm UTC+3) I'll go through the whole thread and edit my posts. I'm so hoping I don't have to do that. In the future I'll use the new host which is hopefully going to be a bit more reliable.
Edit: Went through the thread and fixed the links. Damn I hope I'll never have to do that again. Quote:
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2008-07-12, 15:32 | Link #123 |
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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Sucks that you had to go through and redo the links.
I thought that the colors of the other images were quite nice. You're pretty good with post processing. My newer batches of pictures are being taken in RAW+JPEG mode, so I'll start trying it out as well. The airplane shots are great! I'm not a huge fan of planes or anything, but you did a superb job of capturing the colors along with the details of the sky. I'd imagine that the exposure was somewhat difficult (or maybe you went at a good time of day?) but these are fantastic. Nice work!
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2008-07-13, 09:56 | Link #124 | |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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Exposure wasn't such an issue but post-processing was a bit of a challenge. The direction of the light was good for taking those photos, but the saturation turned out to be really bland, so I had to increase it quite drastically. On a side note, tried animation again. With quite noobish results though... Behold the muzzle flash!. Making it AS safe killed the quality. Here it is in all its glory. |
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2008-07-13, 12:53 | Link #125 | |
AniMexican!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Monterrey N.L. Mexico
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I also like it too, btw.
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2008-07-13, 13:21 | Link #126 | |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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Smoke calls for redo though. I think I'll try KiNA's smoke tutorial later. Not sure about bg either. edit: smoke redo. AS-safe Last edited by escimo; 2008-07-13 at 14:30. |
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2008-07-13, 17:28 | Link #127 | |
Klutz
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: California
Age: 33
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My only nit-pick is that the smoke seems to linger a bit too long. After the shot try having the smoke slowly disappearing. That's just a suggestion of mine. xD I do love your works, and thanks again for the "Old Photo" tutorial.
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2008-07-14, 10:21 | Link #128 | |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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I decided to screw the filesize limit though... Way too many actual frames. I'll be away till Friday. There's probably more photos to come then. |
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2008-07-14, 14:20 | Link #129 | |
ǾΝΈ ΡЇΈÇΈ is the Best !!
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: away from you
Age: 35
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Good Work on it escimo-San ^_^
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2008-07-19, 11:38 | Link #130 |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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I'm back!
Couple of photos from my summer cottage near Mikkeli in Finnish lake district. Wasn't too productive photography-wise on my trip but managed to get a few shots of couple of swans and wild ducks one evening. Quality isn't all that great had to underexpose them quite a bit because of the tricky lighting conditions, but here they are anyway. |
2008-07-19, 15:36 | Link #133 | |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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I did sneak around here every now and then but it's such a pain with a mobile phone and GPRS-connection. Our summer cottage doesn't have electricity or running water so you can just guess how's the broadband like.
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I'm not going to let you guys off the hook without a batch of a bit more atry farty stuff so here they are, straight out of the oven. |
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2008-07-19, 20:01 | Link #134 |
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 38
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Do you recommend Lightroom over Photoshop? I've been hearing all sorts of good things about Lightroom and Aperture, and I've been thinking that maybe I should look into them. I think Aperture generally gets better reviews than Lightroom, but of course it's Mac-only. Even though I'm using a Mac now, I hate the idea of locking myself to software that's only on one system.
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2008-07-20, 04:37 | Link #135 | |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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Still Photoshop is very much necessary if you want to do some actual manipulation to the photo. For my purposes Lightroom is usually enough. Last edited by escimo; 2008-07-20 at 10:13. |
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2008-07-21, 20:14 | Link #137 |
Busy busy busy
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Slovenia
Age: 37
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You and I have a nice timing when we decide to bump our threads
I like that 'different' sig, although i would probably remove the effect from the face and dodge it a bit. But it looks great. And also, nice text effect on the first Aria sig!
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2008-07-21, 20:24 | Link #138 | |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
Age: 42
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I tweaked it a bit. Better? |
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