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Dima Діма
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
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Last: Nov 06, 2026
Kyle Foreman
In The Round Practice
Hey everyone. Recently some Pep Ventosa work came across my social media and it inspired me to get out and try his in the round technique again. I've tried it before without a ton of success.
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Last: Nov 05, 2026
Alan Brown
Exploring a different angle.....
I posted recently about how using the Bluristic app angle mode could simulate the action used in the Pep Ventosa 'in the round' technique.
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Last: Nov 05, 2026
Денис Білоус
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Charles Mercier
Grain silo
A couple of old photos taken while the Amtrak was stopped - somewhere in Colorado, I think?
(And yes, I like that the vertical leans!)
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Last: Oct 22, 2026
4 Comments
There is a lot to like here, but there are a few issues as well...
First you need to apply distortion correction to the image to straighten out the lines on the light house, very easy fix in light room or other similar photo editing software.
I would also lift the shadows on the light house a bit to better focus the attention there.
Nice image overall :)
There are large areas of maximum black with no detail, which rarely works well. (I know you like contrast and dense blacks, though.) There is convergence (verticals not parallel to the frame edges) in the building from tilting a wide-angle lens upwards. There is a halo around the building, most evident at the left edge.
These could all probably be massaged out, and it's potentially a fine image.
I will try to fix the halo and the tilt of the building. My original plan was to make both the building and ground black. But, I decided to make just the ground black.
You catched a good light in the sky & a beautiful glow on the building! FOr me it is a huge benefit for your photograph when the lings of the building are parallel to the frame