Dobroyd Point & Clontarf Reserve

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Dobroyd Point & Clontarf Reserve

Postby Reschsmooth on Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:11 am

Mrs Reschsmooth & I decided to go for a Good Friday driver locally, and headed up to the point overlooking Manly and the heads, and then to Clontarf.

The clouds were fantastic (at about 4pm or so).

The problem is, I feel my ability to take a decent lansdcape shot is regressing - I am finding it difficult to convert an image in my mind to one in my memory card.

Either:

1. I am expecting too much when I am shooting directly west in the late afternoon to try to get both foreground exposure and detail in the sunlit clouds.
2. I am not proficient enough in photoshop to be able to use multiple layers to extract detail from both shadow and highlights. All I have been using here are gradient overlay layers.
3. I just need more practice.

The shot of the ferries was taken with a high ISO, hence the noise.

C&C appreciated and welcome.

I call this one "Ferries playing chicken"

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The other point is that these photos printed out really dark. Does this sound like a problem with monitor calibration or something else?

Cheers

P
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Postby Yi-P on Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:34 am

They look nice on my monitor here.

For the printing, may be the printer's black/grey ranges are not specifically high enough to print those shadow details. Some printers can't print a whole lot of greyscales with their ink.
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