jedi
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pic advicehe's a pic my mate nolan took of me.
how can it be improved(other than rider!)
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John
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Flash to light up the rider and the shore, rider wearing brighter colours.
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jedi
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bright colours???? no chance :O>
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John
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I think an XC attire would suit you well. Green and yellow maybe? 
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jedi
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lycra belongs in underwear and bikini's :O)
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John
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Dont let hamish hear you say that, you better start runnin!
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jedi
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heh heh
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JAW
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Re: pic advice | jedi wrote: | | how can it be improved(other than rider!) |
I'd say if he moved the frame down a bit, so you were nearer the top of the frame then you'd get more of an idea of the height you're getting. Other than that experiment with different camera angles (more unique).
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Hamish
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Improvements eh?
Composition is a bit dull with the rider slap bang in the centre. Something different like showing more of the run in and height, or leaving more room to jump into. Tell your mate not to use the centre focus point in his Canon 20D. I thought it was another cameraphone pic at first, rather than a DSLR, although the tiny file doesn't help.
Flash could help to fill the shadows but won't help with the underexposure. The meter has exposed for the bright sky which is why yourself and the trees are underexposed. Flash won't be able to light all of that. He needs to do one of two things, provided you can't just wait until the sun is a bit lower and behind you:
1. Expose for the rider and trees. This will blow the sky white so you need to compose in a way that you're minimising the amount of sky.
2. expose for the sky, as in the pic, and use photoshop. I know you "don't touch" your photos but it's no bad thing to enhance them. I would probably have exposed that scene similarly knowing I can sort it out when I get home.
e.g. A quick adjustment with shadow/highlights and a dap of PWL turns this
into this....
The artefacts are largely due to the tiny pic used. You can get much better results with the full sized files.
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rad2themax
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If hes not gonna wear bright colours then get hiom in that sk so he pops more I would probably move left and down to do this, also pan down a bit to place him nearer the op and get more ground.
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JAW
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Hamish that is an amazing bit of photoshopping. You've turned a pic of jedi pulling a flatty off a drop into a white box which says 'content protected by owner'. Stunning. 
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Hamish
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Oops. A quick change to the gallery options should sort things out. 
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jedi
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looks different for sure
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JAW
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that's better! yeah that is certainly an improvement, lighting wise.
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jedi
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nolan(who took the pic)sent me it adjusted by him
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JAW
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A lot better than the original...
so what's he done with the sky then?
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jedi
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dunno,used magic as far as i'm concerned!!
he owns his own design company
toad design or something like that
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Hamish
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It's pretty easy to replace the sky when you know how. You just use another photo and some trickery. There are loads of ways of doing it. He's fallen into a trap of having it not quite match up. It's also a bit too in focus compared to the rest of the photo and the lighting doesn't really match. The blending is a bit dodgy too. And the rest of the pic is still a bit underexposed.
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jedi
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i have no idea how.
its the matrix as far as im concerned :O
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