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Postby stubbsy on Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:42 pm

Mudgee gets cold in winter so I figured these pics from last weekend suited a B & W treatment best given it was a cloudy overcast day anyway. DO these work for you? BTW Both were taken with the 10.5 DX fisheye

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Postby PiroStitch on Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:47 pm

Sublime Peter! Looks like you have the FE mastered. Love the look and feel of the b&w conversion and composition is spot on.
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Postby huynhie on Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:57 pm

You might as well throw away your other lenses Peter. That Fisheye is all you need for great photo's. :wink:
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Postby Alex on Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:59 pm

Peter,

Both greatly composed photos with excellent treatment.

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Postby Yi-P on Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:20 pm

Looks wide and cold out there :P
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Postby rokkstar on Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:32 pm

Peter,

THese are great.

1 has a cold feel that I instantly associate with WW2 POW camps. Composition works with the sole dandelion in the middle of barbed wire. Horizon is slightly off but it's minor.

2 is just perfect. THe simpleness of the composition works really well. It's edging towards a Michael Kenna style shot.

Top work Peter, I really must come on a shoot with you one day.
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Postby blacknstormy on Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:32 pm

Peter - you are really making that lens work huh? Fantastic photos - and perfectly converted too !!!!
I really love the symmetry of the second shot - congratulations !!!!
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Postby mudder on Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:33 pm

I love the perspective in that first shot and terrific B&W treatment... Both of these work well for me, the symmetry (spelling?) in the second one seems to have a nice balance...

Were these de-fished in Capture or anything?
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Postby suzanneg on Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:03 pm

First one is stark, bleak, cold. Really excellent.
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Postby wendellt on Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:58 pm

both hauntingly beautiful Peter
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:25 pm

Thanks for the feeback on these. The dandelion really makes #1 for me. I PP'd these two in a different way to my usual style of using the Nik Color Efex filters and used Virtual Photographer instead.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:05 pm

stubbsy wrote:...and used Virtual Photographer instead.


I'm converting him. 8) :lol:
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