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Barbarian

Barbarian

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A monochrome from the past. This was taken about 1974 with a Yashica TL-Electro, and 135mm lens. It was shot on Tri-X, and printed on Agfa Portriga-Rapid, a notably warm-toned paper. My digital conversion was deliberately done to accentuate the tone of the paper.
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Barbarian said:
A monochrome from the past. This was taken about 1974 with a Yashica TL-Electro, and 135mm lens. It was shot on Tri-X, and printed on Agfa Portriga-Rapid, a notably warm-toned paper. My digital conversion was deliberately done to accentuate the tone of the paper.
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man I could play with that . an interesting look. what is the color of the building? I usually don't add warmth. i wish I had the means to get a bit better. there are things i have photos of and plan to that are mostly geared to locals. one is an an empty grove packing house. historical in nature as the family is one of the pionners.
 
The building is grey brushed concrete. Really modern treatment, back in the 1970s. Have you ever tried playing with GIMP? It's a free image processing program from Mozilla. Not as user-friendly as photoshop, but it works very, very well for me. I have some free Raw image processors, a free denoising program, and several HDR programs to round it out. Almost everything you'd ever want to do, is doable with freeware.
 
Barbarian said:
The building is grey brushed concrete. Really modern treatment, back in the 1970s. Have you ever tried playing with GIMP? It's a free image processing program from Mozilla. Not as user-friendly as photoshop, but it works very, very well for me. I have some free Raw image processors, a free denoising program, and several HDR programs to round it out. Almost everything you'd ever want to do, is doable with freeware.
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yes, but unless I buy the program I cant upload it to social media or a imgur. the files it saves wont work with facebook, imgur.
 
mine is more of getting a better camera. I take a lot of moon shots. some I have posted. if my camera was a bit better as I have friends that did it during a few lunar events such as the eclipse that had great detail. my camera couldn't do that.
 
Don't use "save"; it saves the image in the GIMP native file. Instead, use "export as", and then specify ".jpg" or ".tif" or whatever extension you otherwise use. I'm not too happy with their latest version, because a lot of people don't get that "save" is the wrong command to export the image in a usable file extension.

Try it with "export to (wherever your pictures are stored)" and it will work fine.

What "save" will do, is save the image with all the history of processing that you did, so you can go back and undo stuff if you like. I never use the original image, and always work with a copy, so that's not something I need.
 
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mine is more of getting a better camera. I take a lot of moon shots. some I have posted. if my camera was a bit better as I have friends that did it during a few lunar events such as the eclipse that had great detail. my camera couldn't do that.
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The issue is, properly exposing the moon means you should use the setting that would work for a bright sunny day. If you let the camera figure it out, all that black space will cause all the moon detail to be blown out. If you have manual settings, try setting the ISO at 200, aperture at f11 or f16, and the shutter at 1/200. Should get you in the ballpark.

Edit: the moon is actually dark grey, so you might want to open it up a stop or two, maybe at f8, if you want it to look shiny. A full moon isn't the best time, because a sidelighted (partly crescent) moon will show more detail.
 
Barbarian said:
The issue is, properly exposing the moon means you should use the setting that would work for a bright sunny day. If you let the camera figure it out, all that black space will cause all the moon detail to be blown out. If you have manual settings, try setting the ISO at 200, aperture at f11 or f16, and the shutter at 1/200. Should get you in the ballpark.

Edit: the moon is actually dark grey, so you might want to open it up a stop or two, maybe at f8, if you want it to look shiny. A full moon isn't the best time, because a sidelighted (partly crescent) moon will show more detail.
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full moons with great detail. trust me , I have some good ones that have detail, crescents. I figured it out but still nothing like the full red moons I saw .
 
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