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 by radar on Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:59 pm
Okay,
back with a few more from New Zealand. We did our skiing at the Snowfarm. It is a great cross-country ski area on the South Island. I was there mid week, hardly anybody around. Most people stayed close to the lodge. Once you went a little further afield, you really were on your own.
Pisa Ranges, you can go forever, almost 
For a sense of scale, this is the rock you see in the first photo in the lower right.
Lonely skier. This one is on the Hanging Valley trail. Throughout the whole park, these amazing rock formations can be found.
All these were taken with the D70s, Tokina 12-24 with CPL.
Click on the image for a larger version.
C&C very much appreciated, alway learning
Cheers,
André Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
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by wendellt on Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:23 am
the first one shows a winter wonderland very well
but i like your concept in the last
looks like you had a great time with white powder
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by Oscar on Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:52 am
Lovely shots Andre. Wish I was there. The shadow provides an interesting concept in the last one. Cheers, Mick
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by PiroStitch on Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:08 am
See what happens if you do a b&w conversion and invert the colours then for the 2nd pic. I think it screams out to have more PP done to make the scene more surreal 
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by stubbsy on Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:59 am
André
I like all 3 of these, but the composition really makes #3 the standout. For me you've been over clever compositionally in #2 with the rock framing the moon.
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by MCWB on Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:54 pm
Andre, great shots! In the 2nd and 3rd ones though there seems to be a bit of a blue cast through the snow, maybe PS that out a bit or tweak the NEFs?
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by radar on Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:13 pm
Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.
Wendell, it is a winter wonderland. The snow and weather were just great when we were there.
Peter, maybe I was trying too hard on the second shot 
Piro, I did a B&W conversion, see link below. Not sure what you mean by inverting the colours.
http://www.leaveonlyfootprints.com/gall ... 0198-2.jpg
Trent, not sure that I see the blue cast. Does the image linked below fix that? Not sure if it is my eyes or my monitor, but I thought my monitor was fairly well calibrated
http://www.leaveonlyfootprints.com/gall ... 9980-2.jpg
Thanks again,
André PS: didn't post the corrected photos, didn't want to have too many photos in the one post. Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams
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by MCWB on Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:30 pm
Andre, sorry, I keep on forgetting that my monitor at work sucks, and that I should never judge anything on it! It looks fine on my (calibrated) monitor at home, sorry for wasting your time!
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by dreams on Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:33 pm
wow, gotta love the site, panoramic would be a killer. nice shots
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by mudder on Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:23 pm
G'day mate,
Ahhh, NZ what a stunning place...
The first almost has a lonely, lost feeling, (is that cloud or snow blowing around in the wind, in the background?), you might be able to get some more contrast in the cloud/snow in the air in the first if you create an extra layer and use a gradient layer of the same color as the darkest blue in the sky, in overlay blend mode maybe? With the gradient fading out at the bottom of the cloud/snow in the air?
The third one is an absolute pearler! I really like the way you've involved the human figure this way... The blue sky is jumping out too, great backdrop and an unusual and an interesting or involving foreground... Just a PP thought, wonder if you could select just the rocks in the background in #3 and bring the white point down a bit to get more detail in them?
Hmmm, B&W might be an interesting thing to try on these too...
Just rambling... Aka Andrew
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