Photos from the S6000fd

[hercules]

I just got my camera last week,, and i'm starting to like it, but i how come i get like not a clean shot when shooting landscape, this is just a shot i took but will the circular polarizer do the job or not thanks.

[sdcwonderer]

c&c always welcome....i played with the saturation a bit

[P_Schneider]

I just got my camera last week,, and i'm starting to like it, but i how come i get like not a clean shot when shooting landscape, this is just a shot i took but will the circular polarizer do the job or not thanks.

Hey Hercules,
The haze could be a combination of a number of things. If it's humid the camera might be capturing accurately, or if there's a lot of dust in the air or smoke from a fire.
A UV filter will help clear up the haze but I use my CP for shots with a lot of reflection, such as sun on water, and on those brilliantly clear days when you want to really capture that blue sky accurately.
You can also do some PP to help clean up the image, maybe tweak the saturation and curves a bit to get rid of the washed out look.

[flippedgazelle]

Just a little editing... (season to taste)

[hercules]

Ok thanks

[tralexan]

Hey Hercules,
The haze could be a combination of a number of things. If it's humid the camera might be capturing accurately, or if there's a lot of dust in the air or smoke from a fire.
A UV filter will help clear up the haze but I use my CP for shots with a lot of reflection, such as sun on water, and on those brilliantly clear days when you want to really capture that blue sky accurately.
You can also do some PP to help clean up the image, maybe tweak the saturation and curves a bit to get rid of the washed out look.

I did some of what Paul is referring to here in post processing with particular emphasis on tone map and color filtering. To my eye, it is a bit extreme, but it is an example of the way things can be manipulated digitally. The tools used are the Opanda Photo Filter program (freeware) and Ulead Photo Impact (pretty cheap).

It's smaller just to reduce file size.



--rick

[levicki]

Here is how my HDR moon turned out from the other night.

Paul, that doesn't look too good. It is too blurred -- you use HDRI to extract more details, not to kill them.

I have to add that I'm not entirely convinced that this is an actual HDR shot.

I already told you that it is not, because you are not taking at least three shots with different exposure values.

Keep in mind that even having three differently exposed shots and tone mapping them into 8-bit JPEG doesn't count as true HDR.

For true HDR you need camera with HDR sensor, which AFAIK are currently commercially available only for security cameras.

There is very little info on this subject that I could find anyway.

There is plenty of info on HDR imaging.

Here is my first attempt of HDRI using Photomatix. Note that I tried to make this as true to life as possible.


And another one:

[levicki]

Oh and I believe it looks better this way:

[hercules]

Oh and I believe it looks better this way:

Yes it does look good,

[levicki]

Yes it does look good,

Thanks. Btw, you need to change your signature (you've got Fuji now haven't you?)