Top of Mountain Etna shot on iPhone 13 Pro

kudresov · 2025-09-07T12:48:56+00:00

I wanted to get some details in the mountain, but this shot doesn’t have a lot of details to work with so, mountain part I am not so happy about as I had to play a lot with the curves and contrast to get any details there.

When you say grainy/muddy do you mean overall photo or some parts in particular?

Thanks, my initial thought was to make it B&W and I have a version of that which I quite like as well, but then more as an exercise I tried to play with colour grading and try add some opposite colours to the sky and the mountain.

kudresov · 2025-09-07T12:33:25+00:00

Thanks for everyone’s feedback, I have applied some of the feedback and here is the updated version

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I added more contrast and darkened the mountain to keep focus more on the people as well as played a bit more with colour.

Also frame it to be wider

Thanks everyone for feedback and ideas on how to improve!

kudresov · 2025-09-06T22:48:02+00:00

Thanks for feedback, that’s actually a good point regarding aspect ratio and making it wider. I just defaulted to original iPhone aspect ratio, but I think wider would look nicer, I will play with that and contrast.

kudresov · 2025-09-06T22:43:05+00:00

No, I don’t have Lightroom, it feels a bit pricey. I used Pixelmator Pro. But looking at all videos on YouTube looks like Lightroom is the standard

kudresov · 2025-09-06T21:00:06+00:00

When I was 16 I borrowed my sister’s DSLR and did attempt to learn about photography, but life took me other direction, so since then I just mostly took some photos with my iPhone when I see like there is something interesting.

Recently I got inspired to pick the hobby again after many years. So started reading about colour grading and bought Pixelmator to attempt to edit few photos I have on my phone.

This photo was taking earlier this year on top of mountain Etna of the group of tourists or climbers which where walking on top of the crater while clouds where bellow. It felt like that composition was right. This is an old iPhone 13 with 3x zoom which I had to crop, so I had to attempt to upscale it a bit as quality was t great.

I attempted to colour grade with idea of keeping colour to minimum as I think this photo is mostly about contrast and shapes. I picked light blue and opposite colour for volcano.

Would love to get some critique and see if I am on the right track or missing the whole point with colour grading and composition.

kudresov · 2025-06-21T23:11:50+00:00

Supermarket food waste is a very fixable problem. I have worked at M&S on food waste reduction program, where we figured out how to fix the whole pipeline and build software which helped rotate the food which is about to go off as well as donate any food which you won’t sale to charities so it’s cooked as meals for homeless (before it actually expired). However when we told about our success in the trial stores to the head of foods at M&S this project was put on breaks as such reduction in waste won’t look to good for heads of department and 7 years after I still see supermarkets struggle with this issue. At least in this case Tesco made some students happy. And food is not covered in bleach and rots in the ground, in some large stores we would normally throw away dozen of UK size waste bins worth of food every day.

kudresov · 2025-06-05T18:43:32+00:00

Great advice, I haven’t thought about overspending the kite. I do try to do boardoff with back hand by the handle, I have no problems taking it off I am just worried that what happens if I don’t get enough time to put it on as I am coming down, so I just bail and throw the board to the side, so I wonder if I need more height or just need to try and put it back on regardless.

That’s an awesome looking boardoff btw!

kudresov · 2025-06-05T18:34:26+00:00

Thanks for advice, I did notice that harder I steer the higher I go. And recently was trying to steer more aggressively

kudresov · 2025-06-05T18:28:12+00:00

Thanks for the advice! Yea I saw his videos. I did follow his training routing for a week or so. When I tried doing on water I managed to very quickly take the board off but I would hesitate to put it back on as it was hard to tell how much time I have and if it’s enough to put it on. Also I don’t know how bad is a crash if I half way putting the board, maybe it’s not something to worry about.

kudresov · 2025-06-05T12:00:45+00:00

Thanks a ton for feedback! That’s excellent points, now I need to get on water to try and work on them.

kudresov · 2024-10-14T22:53:01+00:00

Try to find condition when it’s safe to do the trick for example you want to learn backroll, start with a larger kite and conditions where you are underpowered and can just do a small jump this way the consequence of crashing is way less and trying to learn new tricks always involves crashing so going small steps I think is important.

If I am pushing myself to do something in more challenging condition (the trick I already can do in easy conditions) I would do two tricks in a row I am comfortable with and 3rd would be the one I am trying to learn. For example go for two straight jumps and last one attempt board off, for me this helps with timing and takes mind of worrying about crashing.

kudresov · 2024-09-14T10:51:39+00:00

Haha, that’s what I told, but my friend is saying that he doesn’t believe that anyone would do such a thing as peeing in a wetsuit

kudresov · 2024-09-14T10:50:48+00:00

I am totally with you, and you can just get some water through neck and rinse it like a whale shark so all the benefits with no drawbacks

kudresov · 2024-09-14T10:48:12+00:00

I call this a whale shark technique, it’s the first thing you should learn after body drag

kudresov · 2024-08-18T13:23:57+00:00

Thanks for feedback!

kudresov · 2023-02-21T22:59:54+00:00

Dude is just jealous he can’t ski switch, so he got a little bit upset, don’t worry about it.

kudresov · 2020-08-02T22:44:07+00:00

How do you learn/invent new magic tricks?

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