So so much talk on the DSLR

None Professional only !!!

A chance to show what you do with yours.

So show your results WITHOUT PHOTO SHOP/APERTURE
any of the above will not be accepted only a before and after if using any software

You been drinking?

Erm, not sure what you’re going on about. And as for the Photoshop / Aperture thing, I think you’ll find most pros run their images through something

in fairness, photshop and aperture are completely different products, a bit like comparing safari and MS word?

Are You Mr To Much Camera Than Needed

No. HTH.

I are Mr Two Mulch Cadabra Pan Needle and I claim my £5

A few straight DSLR pics with no effects added, all taken using Aperture Priority.

Some more taken the same as above and Lightroom effects.

Hammyuk
Some nice pics But work on where you take your light reading
Nice thank you for sharing 😉

What’s so bad about post processing ? A digital photo before post Is a bit like a negative before its been developed

Peep o’Day by Notoriously Bad Typist, on Flickr

Peep o’day panoramic by Notoriously Bad Typist, on Flickr

Kintail Panorama by Notoriously Bad Typist, on Flickr

Glencoe by Notoriously Bad Typist, on Flickr

Processing only to make panoramics – no other tweaks. TBH you could pick more or less any pic from my photostream and it will be SOOC – I can’t be bothered with post processing

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any of those look like under-developed negs? take good pics, don’t takr crap and try to polish it later

I shot raw so here is one of my photos pre Lightroom.

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Nice pics NBC just watch out for over exposure on the sky/ light gradient filter may help
But great pics
Thanks for sharing with us 😉

take good pics, don’t takr crap and try to polish it later

Post processing isn’t necessarily about trying to make a crap image good.

Sometimes it’s cropping, sharpening, adjusting tone for mood etc.

Same as you’d have done in a darkroom. If you shoot film would you insist on only having pictures exactly as they came back from Boots?

molgrips – Member

If you shoot film would you insist on only having pictures exactly as they came back from Boots?

I only ever look at the negative, that’s purer.

Just coming to the end of a course that was offered free by the local council, I’ve been one of a few guinea pigs for a distance learning based L1 course with the NTLC. We can’t use photoshop for any submissions other than resizing the files. I’ve managed a couple that I am actually pleased with:

My Environment 2 by LostInTheNorth, on Flickr

Weather 2 by LostInTheNorth, on Flickr

light and shade 3 by LostInTheNorth, on Flickr

lines 1 by LostInTheNorth, on Flickr

In most cases a grad filter would have helped but I lost mine a while back and havnt replaced them.

The course has been useful in making me think more about composition and camera setup before pressing the shutter button. I still use photoshop but not as much as I used to and in most cases its just a quick WB correction or a crop. Sometimes I’ll add effects to try and change the image like noise or a filter.

Northwind – Member

molgrips – Member

If you shoot film would you insist on only having pictures exactly as they came back from Boots?

I only ever look at the negative, that’s purer.

Pfft.

I’ve abandoned the camera and now just travel to places and look at things.

LOL Molgrips thats a sorry-full NO then
So no pics from you then

Rollocks, I’ll throw one in for the OP to critique.

Nice one Seba

Here’s a couple of mine. I’ve had to get a DSLR for a course I’m doing and as such I’ve only had mine a month or two.

Thanks grantway, what I like about it is that it was from a single shot, non of this scatter gun approach talked about on the other thread and full manual setting too. So I do feel quite strongly about the way the image is taken being just as important as the image itself and I don’t particularly care if the viewer appreciates that, I do and that’s important for me.
Have another for the New Year, not perfectbut I’m more than happy.

Thats cool d45yth
Good luck on the course and bring your pics back on here 😉

Ok I was stirring a little, but the principle is right – take the best picture you can, then decide if it needs work. Maybe it’s me being lazy but I can never be bothered doing anything to mine but for me (and for others I hope) they’re good enough as they are

Seb nice shot
Plenty of info in that pic too,
Should be happy with that shot

Daughter playing this morning with her “new to her” 1000D, a glass of water, and my tripod…

Manual set-up, manual focus and over 400 shots trying to get that on elusive drop!
Done nothing to the photo – just her reading the manual and playing with the WB, parameters, etc.

Heres a couple of recent ones, cropped but thats all.

1

FOD 661 DH (857) by MnDPhotography, on Flickr

2

Bridge over the Great River Ouse by MnDPhotography, on Flickr

3

Dunnock by MnDPhotography, on Flickr

That’s a cracker hammy, but 400???

One final one.

There’s only one photo I’ve posted up on here in the last two years or so that has had any treatment, and that was in Filterstorm. That’s the old tractor photo in the long-running photo thread, which had a small amount of contrast tweaking in curves and levels, with a bit of sharpening.
And they have all been taken with my Lumix TZ30 or my iPhone.
All the camera I need.

Hammyuk Give your Daughter a pat on the back 😉

Nice pics Dropoff

Nice one Count like your approach

You really would not believe the amount of time she spent on it!
Her patience is incredible.
Doubly so as the water is moving a lot faster than the shutter can catch it so she had it on continuous shooting and repeat… and repeat…..

She changed the glass and managed to catch the tiny vortex left by the droplet.

Straight out.

I shot raw so here is one of my photos pre Lightroom.

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This. In fact (possibly a contentious statement) if you just shoot JPGs and don’t do any work afterwards, it’s not purer, it’s jetting your camera make a lot of the important decisions for you. It’s almost as bad as shooting in Auto mode.

I’m happy letting the camera do a lot of the work. if you’re that bothered about creative control, break out the canvas and oil paints. I might shoot full auto, I might shoot manual, I might choose something inbetween. I choose what I think will help me capture the image I want. I doesn’t always work, but that’s part of the fun for me – finding out if I can do it. I;m already pretty sure that the bit I’m worse at is the post processing so I avoid it as much as I can. if you feel it help you, then fair enough

In fact (possibly a contentious statement) if you just shoot JPGs and don’t do any work afterwards, it’s not purer, it’s jetting your camera make a lot of the important decisions for you. It’s almost as bad as shooting in Auto mode.

This

I always aim to take the best shot I can where possible, including tripod and filter use. It’s not so surprising then that I, and many others perfect the shot with some post processing. It’s not ‘cheating’, it’s using the appropriate tools for the job.

Shot as jpeg with no post processing, bar cropping.

Sabine Spitz, Silver Medal, Women’s Olympic Mountain Bike Race 2012 by brf, on Flickr

Sold to NoTubes and ran in MBA in the US as half page ad.

This Ad will appear in Mountain Bike Action in September 2012 by brf, on Flickr

Taken with about £7ks worth of kit: D4, 70-200 F2.8 lens + x2 Teleconverter

Those 0s and 1s really scrub up well.

Ill chuck in my first pic from 1/365

1-365 by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Taken with about £7ks worth of kit: D4, 70-200 F2.8 lens + x2 Teleconverter

But how did you take that photo of your camera ?

Agree with the stuff about using jpeg actually being less creative, but I can also see the argument about getting it right straight away.

Not done much to these I don’t think.

Morecambe Bay sunset by Grum Wynne, on Flickr

Morecambe Prom BMX-4 by Grum Wynne, on Flickr

Williamson Park Butterfly House by Grum Wynne, on Flickr