Comments on: Episode 025: A Winter Morning

By: Rolf

Rolf — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:49:31 +0000

As long as you don’t hide the fact any manipulation is allowed in my book. But I am not sure if I would do it here.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:25:09 +0000

do you think it would be to much cheating if you blow up the moon a little with Iwarp?

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By: Norman

Norman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:25:41 +0000

If you are doing your tax returns you deserve a break. You know, I am so old fashioned, I had forgotten all about things like Anti Shake.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:20:12 +0000

… just getting a break in doing the taxes….

You have got the same image – that is the power of RAW. I thought after I had finished the show about getting more out of the foreground. Either with an other RAW conversion or with a bit burning and dodging. I will look again at this image – I like it too and want it for the wall.

I could have shot this in burst mode – a trick I learned from Chris Marquard’s podcast. Set the camera to “rapid fire”, get a good stand and shoot a series of at least 5 images. You move while pressing and releasing the shutter, but the middle ones are quite steady.

But this was 1/15 at 18mm focal length with VR (“Anti Shake”) enabled. So this was not necessary, 1/8 could have been also safe.

BTW, I added a GeoTag for this image, there is now a google map on the page at 23.

By: Norman

Norman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:30:04 +0000

I liked the image so much that I decided to take a closer look at it. The more one looks at the image the more detail is revealed. I used UFraw with the Nikon file you provided and got an image which was somewhat different from yours. In fact, not having seen the actual scene I was quite prepared to accept the foreground as it was. Perhaps the sky could be just a touch colder. I noticed that there was a bicycle in the left foreground and the car to the right of the foreground was quite obvious. I noticed also that there were some shrubs or something growing up the fronts of some of the houses. The windows, which you had to treat needed no treatment on the image I looked at and I begin to wonder was the image I downloaded the same as yours. How fortunate you are to have such a beautiful view to the south as you walk to school.

Incidentally, did you use a tripod and, if as I suspect the answer is no, how do you manage to avoid camera shake with such a relatively long exposure?

By: giulio

giulio — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:16:57 +0000

Another really interesting video, thank you Rolf, and i wish you a great 2008!

By: Rolf

Rolf — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:17:19 +0000

With most of the images I have done only the basic stuff – rotating, cropping and perhaps a bit of curves. I try to remember to tell what has been done to the image – but perhaps I forget to do it sometimes.

By: Norman

Norman — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:21:03 +0000

I enjoyed this video very much indeed. Sometimes I wonder how much processing has been done before you actually show some manipulation or other and the result. You know, a bit like those broadcasts about cooking where most of the ingredients are already weighed and then when the mixture is ready for cooking the presenter bends down and produces a dish which just happened to have been cooked before the show started. I am not complaining I just think it must take you a considerable amount of time to prepare and present your excellent videos, far more than it takes me to view them.

Thank you again for all you have shown me this year and I look forward to an interesting and instructive 2008.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:33:42 +0000

GIMPractice is noted down as title for these type of show. Thanks!

Now I am thinking about GIMPheory and GIMPoolbox.

By: Serge Gielkens

Serge Gielkens — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:40:37 +0000

Hi, that was a nice Christmas gift. I liked this one very much: by means of a photo explaining and showing how to arrive at a desired result. One could call this Gimpractice

Thanks again, Rolf, and hope to meet the GIMP also many times in 2008!