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Here are a few shots I took in the morning at my grandparents property. Got into a fair bit of hot water for disappearing, but I have some nice shots (just have to work out suitable PP for them).

One is the same shot, just two different crops, I can't tell which one is better. Katie prefer the portrait as its doesn't have the shadows the landscape shot has.





Above is shot with Kit lens and tripod, 1/50s, f8, ISO 200




Again Kit lens, ISO 200, F8, 1/100

Craig

That certainly was a very fertile break, photographically wasn't it. I also think the portrait of #1 works better for the same reason as Katie. The portrait has a better scale to it as well whereas the landscape makes the whole scene look tiny

The last pic has the right elements, bit I'd have liked the image a touch cooler to bring up the blue/green tones. This might also yield an interesting B & W

Edit: And I forgot to mention - I really like the careful composition you've made to get that beautiful contrast between the warm of the land and the cool of the sky and water.

Thanks for the feedback Peter. I took well over 1000 shots while away with my grandparents, and probably the same again when down with my parents so January was a good month for me (Dee Why trip as well).

I took you suggest and tried a black and white of the last shot.. the colour balance on it was tricky as though the lichen was green, it turned very yellow in the sun, I tried to correct it and that's probably what warmed it up.

Also thanks for noticing my composition, I had the tripod out and was fairly careful with how I composed my shots. (I also did a lot of bracketing, but haven't tried combining some shots yet).

This is the first time I've tried Fred Miranda BW plugin, usually I just destaturate and play with contrast / shadows / highlights, so please feel free to provide feedback on the conversion to B&W.

Craig, I prefer the portrait of the reflection rather than the landscape. Not sure why but the landscape version doesn't look quite right. Have you tried a potrait pano crop (1:3) to see what it looks like?

The b&w of the post looks too bright and in your face...try a 90% de-sat so you retain some colour and play with the shadows/highlights then. Should give you some interesting effects

Craig

A quickie from me using Nik Color Efex

Craig,

The first 2 shots are decent but not brilliant, in my opinion. I do like no. 3, though and like your composition of log, DOF which blurs out tree on left and beautiful early morning or late afternoon lighting on post. Colour version is good but I must admit, I like Stubbsy's b & w version the best.

Cheers

Michael

Nice images, Craig. I like no. 2 a lot and No. 3 (coloured version). well done.

Alex

G'day,

Of the first two I much prefer the first as the landscape doesn't seem to grab me as much as the first, but gotta say I LOVE that third shot...

Really like the subject standing tall and proud in the foreground with the blurred tree in the background, good stuff... Definately B&W with some nice deep blacks, Peter's B&W treatment sets the detail of the lichen off nicely... The dark shadow on the right edge is a bummer, might be worth a try to clone out maybe? Thnk that would make the foreground stump stand out even more maybe? Just being a picky bastard