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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:20 am

Got up before the sun this morning, here's one of the shots.

I find it very peaceful and relaxing to look at.

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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:25 am

Here's another, with slightly less saturation.

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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:27 am

Nice work owen, did you use any filters (ND for instance) when taking these shots ? Oh and is that Point Perpendicular I can see in the background ?
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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:35 am

Hi Craig. I didn't use any filters on these two shots. They were shot with the Tokina 12-24. I did shoot with the flash to bring out a little detail in the foreground rocks... there were times though when there was a big lens shadow unfortunately. I could have really used an ND filter, but there were not many waves to give me that misty water look.

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Postby greencardigan on Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:41 am

Beautiful!

I could gaze at these all day. Dont think my boss would like that though. :)
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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:50 am

Thanks very much :) I'm on holidays neh ne neh ne neh neh :p :wink:
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Postby JED on Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:58 am

Love these images. #2 is my favourite.

More please. As greencardigan said, could look at these all day.

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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:19 am

owen wrote:Thanks very much :) I'm on holidays neh ne neh ne neh neh :p :wink:


Make the most of it mate :) So was it Point Perpendicular in background left of centre ?
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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:08 am

Yes it was Pt Perpendicular. Good observation :)
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Postby mudder on Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:34 pm

You're right, I've been blissfully staring at that landscape one for a few minutes now (hope I don't get busted here at work)... So relaxing... The portrait one doesn't seem as relaxing to me, wonder if it's the vivid color :?

Lovely colors, isn't the morning the best time of the day!
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Postby rokkstar on Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:12 pm

Beautiful Owen, just wonderful.
I cannot take images like this, I just don't have the eye. I could look at these for ages too. Frame them and sell them mate.
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:26 pm

Owen

Both images are really good, but I think both the colours and composition are better in the first shot.
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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:55 pm

Thanks Andrew, Matt and Peter.

Matt: I had about 80 shots that I didn't bother converting from RAW... I don't have a good keeper rate at all! Hit 80 shots on one hole of golf, you're bound to get it on the green eventually! :D
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Postby owen on Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:09 pm

Here's a new colourific version of the second image. I actually noticed the lens shadow in this one after PP'ing it a bit. Do you think the colours look okay? I basically increased saturation and made it a bit warmer.

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edit: doing a preview I can see the area where I tried to tone down the lens shadow... any ideas on how to make this less obvious?
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Postby mudder on Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:26 pm

Beautiful color in this mate, strewth this looks nice...

I would never have noticed the shadow, and even then I'm only assuming where I think it is, I doubt if anyone would notice otherwise...

If you wanted to, I guess you could always either add a mid-grey layer in overlay mode and gently dodge the new overlay layer, that way you can always change and redo the dodging by painting over any dodging and burning you're not happy with using a mid-grey brush... Or you could add a levels adjustment layer with a gentle mask over the shadow area and lighten only that area... There are probably a few ways, they're just the first couple of ways that come to mind...

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Postby BBJ on Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:17 pm

Owen, very nice mate i like the colours. there are some nice places around to get these sort of shots, pitty i dont live near any of them. :lol:
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Postby ozimax on Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:32 pm

Very nice especially 2nd one, I can't shoot these either, well done.
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Postby LostDingo on Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:10 pm

Owen, that first really has some great color in the capture, I'm jealous of the Tokina!

Only thing I would ask is if this can be sharpened or enhnaced just abit to give more detail in the rocks.

I'm not really sure the falsh would help in these situations but the lighting can be a bit tricky to work with
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Postby owen on Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:48 am

Hey Dingo. The flash actually did help otherwise the rock would be only a silhouette. However I think I will take mudders advice as to how to fix it up... I did try to dodge the colour a bit, but forgot to do it on a seperate layer, which might make it easy then adjusting the opacity and levels of it to get it just right.

Thanks for all the cool comments guys.

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