Couple of water at dusk last night.edit-with originals

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Couple of water at dusk last night.edit-with originals

Postby tasadam on Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:19 pm

Been a while, so here's a couple from last night.

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Hope you like.
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Postby johnd on Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:31 pm

Hi Adam, I like both these images. The wave in #1 looks good and the breaking water in the foreground of #2 works as well. Where were these taken? I thought you were heading for Cradle Mt not the coast?

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Postby dviv on Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:40 pm

Great Pictures!

Not sure if you were going for the soft look but have you tried sharpening them up a bit? - They seem very soft (might be my monitor)
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Postby tasadam on Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:14 pm

dviv wrote:....They seem very soft (might be my monitor)

Might be
(a) 18-70 kit lens
(b) an experiment in post processing.

I took several images from here, near Preservation Bay which is between Penguin and Burnie. Of my results, in each example here I made a HDR file in Photomatix from the data from one RAW file which was under exposed by one stop.
I then played with detail enhance under tone mapping, then saved. Then opened it in PS and auto-contrast. Save as jpg, then resized using Image Resize Powertoy, which compresses the bejesus out of it - turned an 8Mb jpg into about 60kb.
Result - a bit soft...

Yes John, I have done the Overland track. But I have 1500 photos to sort and it all seems too daunting at the moment... I need a better work flow.

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Postby tasadam on Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:03 pm

So here's my photoshopping efforts on the same raw files

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And here's the original basic jpg as shot

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I've got a lot to learn about photoshopping.
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Postby Trieu on Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:19 pm

First one if my pick. Nice colours, not too strong.

Sometimes I get so invovled in Photoshop the end result is so ugly I need to start all over again... being carried away in Photoshop is so easy to do..

Yeah def. number 1 for me :)
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