Awesome pics of our wide brown land, but where here is it THAT green? (2nd pic).

I live in the 'temperate' south east and it's turning into a dustbowl down here.

That shot was taken on Kangaroo Island actually:)

Awesome!

3 frame HDR - compiled in Photomatrix

Could you elaborate on what this means? I've seen the HDR effect a lot lately and thought it would be cool to try to reproduce, it it's even possible with my crappy camera.

I'd recommend it. I dont really shoot anything but HDR these days. Except for macro photography:




Its not a true HDR image, you need an expensive specialised camera for that.

But 3 photos all taken at different exposures. Under exposed, over exposed and exposed. Then you combine the frames. This gives you a wider dynamic range. And also allows all the elements to have an even exposure.

What sort of camera do you have?

HDR = High dynamic range. It's what makes the green look greener than green etc.

It's what makes whole picture evenly exposed (in both dark and bright bits) due to combining few differently exposed shots. And makes me bored of itself, to be honest, its damn popular technique nowadays and I actually want to see a picture and be sure it REALLY looked that way.

Not to be rude, sans' photos are good, I wish I could do something that well. Even processing is good since I don't see that annoying halos which are often visible in poorly done HDRs (ok, except the photo with lone rock). But still, I'm just tad fed up with ze HDRs.

Fair enough I know where your coming from, not rude at all. I think its the massive amounts of crap (halo'd) HDR attempts that give it a bad name. Used sparingly you can achieve really nice results. However I think it is closer to what you would see exposure wise. The colour is definitely more dynamic than what the human I can see. But I'm not really going for naturalism either. I think they look a little more magical.

Cheers and thanks:)

Awesome!

3 frame HDR - compiled in Photomatrix

Could you elaborate on what this means? I've seen the HDR effect a lot lately and thought it would be cool to try to reproduce, it it's even possible with my crappy camera.

I'd suggest having a look at this, and related videos or Google searches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVuDbcAfN_I

From what I understand, the problem with cameras is that they're not good at dealing with images with both very bright areas, and very dark areas. You either get things visible in the dark area with the light area as a big white spot, or the other way around. HDR takes the same picture several times, but with different white balance, then combining into one picture where both light and dark areas are visible.

Or, I suppose you could do it the other way around and have both light and dark areas blurred to white and black spots

It doesn't effect the white balance. Just the exposure. Exposure being the amount of light hitting the film or sensor for a given time period.

That sounded anal

See here for white balance explanation
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

Yeah that's what I meant, I know shit about photography though

Yeah that's what I meant, I know shit about photography though

You done well

Hey, Florida has some nice views too!











And yes, all of these were taken while I was in my truck, both driving and stopped.

i am SO VERY GLAD that i posted my pictures on the other forum's thread BEFORE seeing these, so i have an excuse for having posted them

amazing work, amazing country!

Hey, Florida has some nice views too!

First reaction of my brain was "ooooh Crysis". I'm off to kill myself.

Hahaha nice Bruno!

Nah, just a little picture I took the other night! So yes, Florida can look just like parts of Crysis!

i have never seen a real palm tree in person.

Those Palms are massive!

Could pass for FarCry:)

Nice work mate, looks really nice there!

I have an Australian friend who plans to move back there and take her 'pom' boyfriend with her.
So I hope to be over there at some point for a wedding and an extended holiday.
The country looks amazing, those photos just take me away from the crap view I have out of my window right now.

i have never seen a real palm tree in person.

I'd say Florida's coasts are the only real reason to visit here. I dont really like the weather or the people but dammit I LOVE the coast!

Those Palms are massive!

Could pass for FarCry:)

Nice work mate, looks really nice there!

Thanks! I wouldn't even begin to call myself a "photographer"...But I wouldn't mind getting into it more considering some of the areas right around where I live are very picturesque "Florida"...pretty well shown in the ones I posted though