Sunrise at Sans Souci (D/U Warning)

[ABG]

Got up early this morning and grabbed a few shots at St George Sailing Club. I went around the corner afterwards and took some more just down the road from where Mick Moylans pub used to be. C & C welcome.






 PS. All of the jpegs seem to be much softer than the original images. I'm opening my photos in Raw Shooter Essentials and adjusting with the sliders until I'm happy with what I'm seeing. After that, they're converted to TIF files using RSE batch convert and transferred to PS6. In PS, I convert to an 8 bit image, resize, sharpen (using USM at circa amount 97%, radius 1.2 pixels and threshold 4 levels) and then save as JPG. I'd love to hear from the PP experts on this forum re how I can maintain the original image integity.

I've managed to tear my achilles tendon so will have a bit of time (finally) to play around with PS a bit.

[stubbsy]

I've managed to tear my achilles tendon so will have a bit of time (finally) to play around with PS a bit.

Had a friend who snapped his playing basketball ( I was playing on the same team). I KNOW what that's like from the outside. He needed surgery and weeks off. Hope you're not that bad.

Now to the pics:
#2 is beautiful until my eyes wander to the end of the jetty. why didn't you tear down that ugly sign!

#3 doesn't work for me no matter how hard I try. I see what you were aiming for (I think) with echoes of the bridge in thr seat, but no worky

#5 - love this one - the birds round out a great image, but the liquid gold water helps.

[johndec]

Andrew, You've shamed me... Look at my location over <-- I'm going to have to drag my sorry arse out of bed a bit earlier and head down to the Sailing Club for some early morning photo ops...

Well done.

[drifter]

Mick Moylans. Used to go there when i was a kid with the old man after a days sailing .

I really like the first one . This shot really flatters what is a pretty gruddy place .( I mean that as a compliment ) With planes in and out every minute and car park like traffic , its one place i never go anymore

[BBJ]

Andrew, Very nice and colourfull but i would maybe straighten the horizons on the first couple of pics. Looks like a nice place for these type of pics. Well done.
Cheers
John

[SteveGriffin]

Andrew,
very nice work. I like 1,2,4 & 5 best.

I spotted dust bunny (left side about a third of the way down) on the 2nd image and now my eye is drawn to it in the whole series. Looks like it is time for a clean and some Photoshot spot removal treatment

[Willigan]

Nice pics - 1 & 5 are great, with the birds making the shot in 5.

I've managed to tear my achilles tendon so will have a bit of time (finally) to play around with PS a bit.

That's gotta hurt, but it's good that you can put a positive spin on it

[Alpha_7]

Andrew I like most of these, in particular I like #4 , its a tricky shot to expose correctly but I just love the idea of the sun rising in the reflection, its a great concept.
#1 and #2 are nice they capture some of the beautiful colours you see at that time.

I allllmost like the chair shot, but like Stubbsy it doesn't quiet work for me, a different angle or shifting the chair so the lines lead more fluently with the bridge may of worked better.

The last shot also doesn't do much for me, for me the composition is all out of wack, too much emphaises on the tree, yet it doesn't offer the interest to warrant so much of the frame. A few other elements seem a little misplaced like half the swing set

[ABG]

Had a friend who snapped his playing basketball ( I was playing on the same team). I KNOW what that's like from the outside. He needed surgery and weeks off. Hope you're not that bad.

I had a mate who did the same thing and had to go back in for a second op after the first one didn't quite work (after having his leg in plaster for 6 weeks in the middle of summer too) Thankfully, mine's nowhere near as bad as that. It's a minor tear and I should be back up and running (literally) in a couple of weeks. Still hurts like hell tho'.

#2 is beautiful until my eyes wander to the end of the jetty. why didn't you tear down that ugly sign!

 LOL, next time I'll take the angle grinder with me

#3 doesn't work for me no matter how hard I try. I see what you were aiming for (I think) with echoes of the bridge in thr seat, but no worky

Doesn't work for me either Peter. Any assistance you can offer as to what I was aiming at would be appreciated - it was way too early for my brain to be functioning (especially as I hadn't had a caffeine hit) and I just snapped this one. My son was sitting next to me when I was posting and insisted I add this photo 'cos he liked it...

#5 - love this one - the birds round out a great image, but the liquid gold water helps.

Thanks mate. This was a bit of an opportune snap to be honest. I was looking around the eastern side of the club for some interesting images when I noticed these 2 birds. I didn't get time to check any settings and it was basically a point and shoot in A mode at F16, but I'm happy with the results.

[ABG]

Andrew, You've shamed me... Look at my location over <-- I'm going to have to drag my sorry arse out of bed a bit earlier and head down to the Sailing Club for some early morning photo ops...

Well done.

Thanks John. Even if you're not an early morning person there's heaps of good photo opps around Sans Souci. St George Motor Boat Club in Wellington St, Botany Bay Yacht Club at the bottom of Endeavour St and the wharf at the bottom of Bonney Street are great places to capture a great sunset.

Looking forward to seeing a few here from you soon

[ABG]

Mick Moylans. Used to go there when i was a kid with the old man after a days sailing .

I really like the first one . This shot really flatters what is a pretty gruddy place .( I mean that as a compliment ) With planes in and out every minute and car park like traffic , its one place i never go anymore

Thanks Drifter. Vale Mick Moylans. What a great pub it was. Now it's an enclosed, locked in yuppie village. What a terrible waste...
What did your dad sail and what's his name? I've sailed in the area since I was 7 and watched dad sail from the time I was born. Chances are, if I don't know your dad, mine will.

[ABG]

Thanks to everyone else for your comments and encouragement.

John, I think my neck must be crooked or something. All of my shots are hand held and 90+% have a non-horizontal horizon...

Steve, yeah I spotted the dust bunny too. Time to clean the sensor again...

Willigan, I'm the eternal optimist and always looking for the silver lining. Sometimes you've gotta look pretty hard tho'

Thanks Craig. As you can see in my reply to Peter, the credit really belongs to Nikon's wonderful matrix metering rather than my incredible metering skills - at least on this occasion And yep, I agree with you re the tree shot. The concept's there, but the background is too uninteresting and busy IMO.