welcome to holland

[D.Labruyere]

I've decided to try my hand on photo's for once, and shooted some landscapes near my village :) I've used a really crappy camera, so I hope they are up to standards :bashful:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image10ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image9ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image8ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image6ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image5ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image4ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image3ab.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image2.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image1.jpg

the last picture is quite blurry :\ is there a way how I can change or prevent that?

[sve]

Hey, Harldor ;) ! Thank you so much. I'm enjoying them. I started understand why people are not violent there. Enough space for anybody. I have to admit it's nothing like I imagined them to be. Is it a willow? It's different kind that in Russia and America. I want more. If it's not to much trouble for you I would be happy to look.
I tried to play with Sharpen tool in Photoshop with your last picture. Unfortunately it's not enough information on photo for filter to create needed outcome.
Thanks again, Sveta :rendered:

[Jucas]

I've been to Holand. A beautiful place, I really like the country and the people are some of the nicest I have ever met, period. I took alot of photos in amsterdam, I love taking photographs there.

These photos are fine, but what makes them unqiue? What about Holland are you trying to say. From a visual standpoint the images aren't showing anything in perticular I can't see other places in the world. The images themselves could use alot of 'clean-up', either in camera or post in photoshop. I encourage you to do some research about how to control your camera to the fullest potential and also if you are interested in photography look into buying a good manual SLR with a fixed lens. SLR's these days can be had for almost nothing and you will learn how to compose a picture from the ground up.

I did a little clean up on your image here, nothing special.

[D.Labruyere]

hi jucas, thank you so much for replying to this thread, and even improving a picture of my :) (it looks so much better now :/) I'm certainly planning (but yeah.. money is a problem ^.^) on buying a good camera, and doing more research in how to control those things. Now you said it, the pics are indeed not really that unique, but well.. I geuss my personal likeness for that kind of landscapes took control of me :p but I think I should/could make them more interesting :)

but darn... how do you improve the colors in ps? :/ I just can't find all the tools in that programn to do that sort of things :[ (yeah, I know, I'm noobie in that sort of things :p)

@ sve, glad you liked them :)

[sve]

Hey, Haldor :). I'll take a chance to answer this instead a person you asked. It all can be done in Adobe Photoshop. There a lot of useful features to correct or change totally an image.For example, on a main panel there is Image. Inside of it you will find Adjustments. In it (Oh, it's a treasure chest!) Levels, Brightness, Color's correction. For everybody' taste :)
Sveta Dudetta

[D.Labruyere]

oh yeah, I've found all the shiny tools ^.^

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/image2abc.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a131/haldor/IMG_1ab.jpg

that certainly makes a difference ^.^ though... I think they look better now :bashful: (harhar, I've stolen your black thingy around the pic jucas)

I wonder now why I photographed potato's on the first picture... :\

[Jucas]

Your welcome.

Next shots you take avoid taking them in bright sunlight, it makes for very difficult pictures. All your shadows fall straight down and don't describe any space or forms and the sun at that time bleeches the most color.

If your are interested in photography, specifically landscape photography, look into buying a film camera. A SLR (single lens reflex, with a fixed lens. Get something used and old, with no automatic functions).

When tweaking your images in photoshop be careful of over saturation, this tends to make a picture look very digital, and very amateur. Tweak your images so they pop, and not to much so you destroy the value structure in the images. Also look for 'casts' when tweaking.

Example. Your tweaked image had a very strong magenta cast, which I have never seen at ths time of the day. What I did was color balance the magenta cast down, and adjusted the color levels to something a bit more balanced.

http://www.jlauch.com/blog/images/temp/casts.jpg