Esplanade walkthrough

[espn]

Went lunch with sykestang, AJ23 & scanner. Walked down from padang side to esplanade for some Hagen Daz ice-cream, decided to play with the Nikon CIR-PL II filter.

Critiques & comments are welcome. Images post-processed in NC4 and resized+bordered in PS.


Swissotel

17mm :: f/8 :: 1/320s :: ISO400



Our Glorious dead

17mm :: f/8 :: 1/640s :: ISO400



Car bridge

17mm :: f/8 :: 1/250s :: ISO400




CBD View beneath the durians

20mm :: f/8 :: 1/250s :: ISO400

 

[Jer]

How come all the picure appears to be very noisy..other than that, I like the deep saturation of the colours. Cheers!

 

[oeyvind]

+20% or more on saturation? :bigeyes:

 

[Ice]

How come all the picure appears to be very noisy..other than that, I like the deep saturation of the colours. Cheers!

how to see that the pic is very noisy?

 

[Madmax]

how to see that the pic is very noisy?

The colour is not smooth. You can see some grains on the pic. Perhaps it could be the higher ISO used.

 

[ckiang]

Looks more like JPEG compression rather than noise.

Regards
CK

 

[espn]

+20% or more on saturation? :bigeyes:

Urm... as discussed & spoken on IRC, I believed I pushed the saturation in NC4.1 and then pushed it further in PS. :sweat:

The colour is not smooth. You can see some grains on the pic. Perhaps it could be the higher ISO used.

Hmmm thanks for pointing that out, will see what I can do, fortunately they were shot in RAW. Heehee...

Looks more like JPEG compression rather than noise.

Regards
CK

Thanks CK, I normally save it as level 7 compression in PS, perhaps... or maybe it's my over USM/Sharpening causing the pixelation.

I still got a lot more to learn.


Thanks folks for your feedback & comments, really appreciate it. Keep them coming

 

[marcwang]

Though such deep saturation and contrast make look good at first, I feel its a bit over done. The details in the shadow areas seem to have been clipped in the process.

But i must say, shots taken with a polariser does seem so much denser and unreal.

 

[espn]

Thanks marc, how's your studies coming along?

I'll take note of the saturation next time, seems to me that I shouldn't try too hard to make the sky as blue & as saturated, thanks to all who've commented on the shots, I'll bear in mind your suggestions/comments

 

[oeyvind]

espn: remember also that if the contrast goes up, the saturation will be up as well. The gave away on your saturation use was the color of the WWI monuments & the durian in the background.

 

[espn]

Thanks oeyvind for the highlight, will take note of that, too ambitious I guess. :embrass: Will try again soon.