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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - camperbc - Oct 12, 2011

I've been stuck in bed these past few days with my usual spinal issues, but managed to snap this picture from my bedroom window yesterday morning. Nothing too spectacular here; just thought it was interesting how the early morning sun was shining brightly, yet the dark sky was looking so ominous. Anyway, it gives you an idea of our view. (wouldn't trade it for the world!) Notice the old wharf and red fishing stage at the shore, which is in so many of my photographs. I captured this scene with my Sony A550 and trusty Samyang 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.

The second photo is from a week or two ago, showing the old punt at the shore directly in front of our house. Again, nothing very special, but I'm attracted to the uncluttered simplicity of it. This was taken with one of my Sony A500's and Minolta 50mm f/1.7.

I am hoping to soon be able to get up and about again, as Fogo Island suddenly has a bumper crop of icebergs that are screaming to be photographed. It is VERY unusual to be seeing them so late in the year. (normally from May to early July)

Glen
http://www.FocusOnNewfoundland.com

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - Kombisaurus - Oct 12, 2011

I love the light in the first shot Glen. And I much prefer the more natural style of post-processing that you're using these days too.

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - camperbc - Oct 12, 2011

Thanks Adrian, though I am a bit confused by your comment "more natural style...", as I have not altered my method of PP in many years.
Glen

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - NT73 - Oct 12, 2011

Beautiful colours and a great view.

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - EnglishBob - Oct 12, 2011

Spectacular. The shot from my bedroom window is a 20 ft high cinder block wall.

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - Pavel - Oct 12, 2011

Glen, I made 2 trips to NFDLD and your photos (these just posted and others) always remind me why I loved being there. The first photo has strongly overcast sky but the photo is front-lit by a strong sun. I saw that so many times as the weather changed so quickly. Both photos speak of tradition, open spaces, quiet and strong bond with nature. A pleasure as always.

Pavel

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - matthew - Oct 13, 2011

I love the simplicity of the second photo.

… I really need to get out to Newfoundland.

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - Zig - Oct 15, 2011

Ade, I think we've become too Canonised over the years: these Sony's are handy in the dynamic range dept, aren't they?
Glen, if you've a mo, I wonder please if you'd give a brief answer to my icebergy question, cf, your last post?

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - Kombisaurus - Oct 15, 2011

Hi Glen, Zig..

I'll try to explain the difference I've noticed. I assumed it was due to a change in PP, but a change in camera would partly explain it (and may have also triggered a change in software or other aspects of workflow).

Glen, your older work seemed to feature a lot more contrast, saturation, and sharpening applied to the final web-sized image. It felt like each of the RGB values of each pixel would gravitate towards their maximum or minimum values.
Your newer work appears a lot more natural to me and contains more subtle variation in the tones and saturation, and the sharpening seems more natural too.

A change of camera could well account for changes in the saturation and contrast (especially if shooting in JPG), and no doubt your new camera can capture a significantly wider dynamic range as Zig suggested. But I always got the feeling the hyper-contrast in your older work was done in PP or at least by in-camera settings. It seemed to be something you chose to do rather than being forced on you by the camera itself. Also the sharpening appears to be done as the final step while resampling an image for the web, so I can't see how it isn't part of the processing. Are you using different software to do that final "save for the web" step perhaps?
But whatever the cause, I much prefer the newer look.

Here are a couple of examples (from a 5 second browse of your website) of what I would consider your "older work" to compare with the photos you posted above.
http://www.focusonnewfoundland.com/photo_5684079.html
http://www.focusonnewfoundland.com/gallery_310169.html#photos_id=5806901
Look at the sky and water in these shots and compare that to the sky and grass in the shot you posted at the start of this thread.

Of course, this is just my opinion... You know what they say about opinions..

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - camperbc - Oct 15, 2011

Hi Adrian,
I checked out your links to my two older photographs in question, and the difference would indeed be the camera. These were not captured using any of my current Sony Alpha DSLR's at all, but rather a simple old Sony H7 and H50 point&shoot. I suppose for what those cameras are, the results are acceptable, but when put up against the Alphas they definitely pale by comparison!
Glen

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - camperbc - Oct 15, 2011

Zig Wrote:Ade, I think we've become too Canonised over the years: these Sony's are handy in the dynamic range dept, aren't they?
Glen, if you've a mo, I wonder please if you'd give a brief answer to my icebergy question, cf, your last post?

Hi Zig, I have tried to answer your berg question in my last thread.
Glen

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From My Window - Fogo Island Fisheye - Zig - Oct 17, 2011

Ah, top man Glen, thank you!!

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