On my way to work (Vancouver) ~30 NEW PHOTOS!
polycounter lvl 19
...then at lunch to pay a $95 ticket (grr) I brought my girlfriends camera with me. It's just a dinky Canon Powershot. I have a pretty interesting walk to work and Vancouver is a fun city to walk about in. In no way do I consider myself a photographer, these were just snapped then brought to Photoshop. Did pretty much the same thing to them I do with my folio renders.
Most were just done to show my view from the Granville Street bridge as I walk in, and what some of the streets are like in Yale Town, then up near Robson Street.
Check here for the original posts snapshots.
Most were just done to show my view from the Granville Street bridge as I walk in, and what some of the streets are like in Yale Town, then up near Robson Street.
Check here for the original posts snapshots.
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Alex
Looking great ^^
We do that 1000x day on wedding photos where I work.
He may have hand painted some of the alpha (lens blur?) or they may all just be a radial gradient falloff.
Adam? How close am I?
damn those are hot shots!
cheers
The handmade DOF kills them tho. Since it was not in the original picture why did you add it? :P
I like the lomo effect you have on the corners but I think it's a bit too strong - the roadsign picture looks like it's been taken through a carbon tube somehow!
Do I sound like an annoying dick? Excuse me if I do. :P
Scoobs pretty much nailed it all on the head.
Thanks everyone. As I said I don't consider myself a photographer, these were done just for fun. I'll probably do more over the coming weekend.
In the picture of the long street with a uHaul truck and a man walking across the street wearing black you can see Threewave's offices: They're the black building with gold lettering up the side.
Cool photos indeed, really makes me want to see what my digital camera is capable of.
The alleyway pic is probably my favourite though. Great stuff.
-caseyjones
Necessarily a bad thing, though? Yah sure, its not a miniature - but who cares, if it looks neat? Right? I think it looks neat anyway.
p.s I envy your walk to work. 35 minutes of freeway driving is making me batshit insane.
Haha you and DOF Adam. Cant resist it on your photos as well as your renders :-) Great pics, really nice. Must visit someday. Never been north of the border.
p.s I envy your walk to work. 35 minutes of freeway driving is making me batshit insane.
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I highly recommend the trip, Daz. If you can afford to, I recommend taking a stop off in Seattle as well and meeting up with the Polycounters there, too. Vancouver was a neat area, and while I can't say I'd want to live there or the surrounding areas, I definitely enjoyed walking around the area after meeting Adam. Parking is a whole other matter... right Adam?
I wish I could live in a big city like Vancouver. Cape Breton is like the pimple on the ass of Canada.
Flaagan - yes, you parking on THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET (!!!) was quite funny.
Daz, come hither.
The first few photos got my trigger finger itchy so I went for a walk to Granville Island. I can see the entrance to the island from my family room, it isn't a far walk and I don't know why I didn't do it earlier. Here's what I snapped today, after coffee:
Check them out in higher res here: www.adambromell.com/photos
Woo, fun after noon!
The only time I would use this effect is if there was something eye catching in the center of the effect to look at. Otherwise you're just high jacking peoples vision tract and not providing a pay off.
It looks like your camera was a person blacking out as it took the photos. They are nice to look at and if I take my Environment artist hat off and put on my "lets look at artsy photos" hat everything is fine. But that first hat always creeps back on and I find the DOF/Fade counter productive to why I would collect photos, reference.
I'm such an environment whore...
As it is, you're always running the edges off to flat blandness and smacking the viewer in the face with whatever's in the middle : as vig is bang on in pointing out, sometimes with no pay off. That's not so good, given that a lot of these are well composed before they hit photoshop, and when they come out the other end they're less so.
a two-part process for digital photos is a great thing (hell, that's pretty much the point), but it's a shame when the human eye behind the camera gets sidelined by the PC
i want to see ruined buildings from the inside.