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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/15/2006
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Thank you, Mohamed, for this and other kind comments you have made on my photos. Welcome to Usefilm! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have over the last two or three years.
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Mohamed Tarief
{K:1141} 11/14/2006
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Excellent Shot and Winderful Composition
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 9/20/2006
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Thanks, Tim. That's very helpful. I'll see what we have along those lines in Tokyo. I'm sure there'll be something similar... I really find the narrow dynamic range of my D200 even worse than slide film, and I gave THAT up in frustration years ago, despite my love of stereo slides... So digital really feels like a giant step back to me. [sigh]
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Tim Schumm
{K:29196} 9/20/2006
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Hi Roger
To answer your questions about the filter...yes there is a mount and the filter slides up and down and also rotates...can be a pain..but it clips on and off fast. Here is a web link of the system i am using:
http://www.leefilters.com/CPTS.asp?PageID=130
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 9/19/2006
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Thanks for the comment, Tim. The big problem of HDR is movement within the image. Scenery, OK. Crowd scenes, NOT. Once you've mastered the technique it's mostly a matter of pressing buttons. How do graduated ND filters work? Do you have a big slide holder that clips over the lens and then slide the filter to and fro? or rather up and down?
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Tim Schumm
{K:29196} 9/16/2006
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hi Roger,
this technique looks like it works very well and does solve some of the difficulties engendered with digital, although I found that in film my experience was not much different. I must say though that the ND filters are so simple in use that all the PS work that your bracketing and superimposing afterwards seems like way to much work for me. With the filter system I will bracket as well, but need to do very little PS adjustment afterwards. Maybe lighting a tree that extends into the sky once in a great while or the top of a mountain.....but really that is so quick and simple. I like your efforts so far and am interested in how you develop in this regard. Those canals are great fodder for images....love the complexity and simplicity of design all at the same time.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 9/2/2006
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Thanks, Anna. I went back to England for the first time in six years, never once having felt homesick. But within two weeks of England I was homesick for Japan. So yes, I can sympathise. If you use Google to search for HDR or "high dynamic resolution images" you'll probably find more than you want to know about this technique. This is actually not a canal but a "bad" river that tends to flood and has been confined within concrete banks to try to tame it. I sure hope it works. (I live a few hundred yards away!)
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Anna Brady
{K:914} 9/1/2006
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This makes me homesick... (if you can count living in Kyoto for five weeks as enough time for that.)
This photo captures a nice Japanese city essence. The crowded power lines, the clouded sky, and most of all - the canal! I love the retaining walls and I miss the scale and closeness of everything in Japan.
Beautiful capture...It definitely works! I just wish I knew a little more about what you were talking about in your description.
-Anna
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jessie voigts
{K:6772} 8/31/2006
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roger - i read abt hdr on the nyt.com and was intrigued. i like it , what you've done with it! the walls of the canal (?) are the most stunning to me.
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Jimmy Piper
{K:5742} 8/30/2006
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great shot. awesome clarity, great mood and exposure too, my kind of shot 
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/29/2006
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Thanks for the encouragement, Collin. The problem I find with HDR is that you need to superimpose several shots, and that rules out most scenes with movement in them. I shoot mostly stitched panoramas, and there is already a problem of people who move between the various shots later stitched together (I have panoramas with the same people appearing twice or even three times!). The addition of multiple HDR shots just makes it all so much more complicated. [sigh] Oh well, I was never much good at people shots, anyway! I'll probably stick to scenery... [wry grin]
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Collin Stebbins
{K:1868} 8/28/2006
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Great shot Roger. I have been experimenting with HDR myself recently (only in my yard so far) and believe the technique has endless potential. I normally use a number of ND grad filters but I think HDR has an advantage when the sky contains trees, buildings or mountains etc as they won't be underexposed. I will be keen to see more of your results from HDR. Regards, Collin.
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Fatemeh Rahimi
{K:13523} 8/28/2006
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nice fresh greens! i like its silence which just get broken by the whispers of the water!
bravo Roger!
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/28/2006
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Thank you, Andree. You put your finger on the problem with this technique. Since you impose different images on one another, any movement of leaves., etc., or or the camera, tends to show as blurring, although the software does attempt to compensate for the latter by aligning the images. I was hand holding for this and will probably take at least a unipod, maybe even a tripod, to use in future when I am bracketing for HDR.
To answer your question, no, I have never tried graduated neutral density filters.
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andree lerat
{K:17476} 8/27/2006
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Good tonal balance between the sky and the foreground. Although combining the images creating a great exposure I think that there is a slight blurring to the composition.
Have you ever used a graduated neutral density filter? Expose for the foreground and the neutral density will reduce the exposure of the sky. Cheers, Andree
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 8/27/2006
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Unusual but Excellent , very well taken Dear Roger .
Galal
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Paolo Corradini
{K:59552} 8/27/2006
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good also iN bW
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Paolo Corradini
{K:59552} 8/27/2006
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i like the crossing lines on the sky and the urban perspective well done
PAOLO
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 8/27/2006
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I love the monochrome version, too! Because this is a shot "with character", so the conversion works well!
Gabriela
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 8/27/2006
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Thank you, Gabriela. Such generous praise from you means a lot to me! I had to work quite hard to create this image but just one comment like this makes it all worth while. I wonder if it would work equally well in B&W? I think I'll try it and post it with this reply...
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 8/27/2006
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EXCELLENT SHOT!!! One of the best I've seen in a long time!!!Love the criss-cross of the electric lines against the atmospheric sky (Thanks God, it not blue!)The perspective along the little river is superb, the eye has a long-shot view along mirror-like water!Contrast of green and gray - a beauty! The foreground ripples in the water, just the necessary accent!!!The atmosphere is of quietness, but I wonder????(Is there any such place in Japan?)Tonality is beautiful!!! My compliments, Roger!
Best regards,
Gabriela
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 8/27/2006
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wonderful composition. marvelous documentary.
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