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1st review - What do you think?

Postby Sir Tristram on Thu May 18, 2006 8:36 pm

Hi all, I am a serial voyeur and have been watching all the forums since I joined DSLRUsers a couple of weeks ago. I have now got the courage for my 1st review. I am pathetically new so any idea's would be good.

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Postby losfp on Thu May 18, 2006 8:46 pm

Welcome!

That's certainly an interesting plane! :) Very colourful indeed... Nicely exposed, but I dunno about the composition. For me, it really needs to be zoomed in further, or wider. This is sort of an in-between nothing shot for me, unfortunately. BTW is that a Freedom Air jet? The logo is familiar, as is the hideously bright yellow :)
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Postby Michael on Thu May 18, 2006 8:54 pm

Welcome

Well it's certainly a sharp image.

enjoy your stay
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Postby avkomp on Thu May 18, 2006 8:57 pm

welcome to the forums.
certainly sharp :lol:

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Postby avkomp on Thu May 18, 2006 8:59 pm

colours look flat to me compared to the vibrant shot you showed me today.
I reckon the colour profile is wrong
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Postby BBJ on Thu May 18, 2006 9:02 pm

Sir Tristram, Welcome and glad you came out of the closet, :lol: Always good to see other people's work and join in with us all and that is a nice image i lik ethe colours bright etc.. Pluss i love Sylvesta and the Looney Tunes theme on that plane.
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Postby neroli on Thu May 18, 2006 9:40 pm

Welcome Sir Tristram.

Cool capture - love the colour scheme. BTW - an ex Kiwi??? Sir Tristram and a Freedom Air plane :D Bet most of the Aussies here don't even know who Sir Tristram is.

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Postby blacknstormy on Thu May 18, 2006 9:53 pm

Welcome to the forum :)
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Postby avkomp on Thu May 18, 2006 10:09 pm

he aint a kiwi.

I grew up with him.
100% aussie as far as I know!!

As for the image,
just looking the images you showed me today.
the image has definitely been saved as ARGB.
corrected image inbound yours!!

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Postby Steffen on Thu May 18, 2006 10:23 pm

avkomp wrote:colours look flat to me compared to the vibrant shot you showed me today.
I reckon the colour profile is wrong


You're right. The image is tagged as aRGB. Viewed properly (outside Firefox) all colours are more saturated (esp. the jet engine) and the sky a bit more blue, too.

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Postby Sir Tristram on Thu May 18, 2006 10:29 pm

Steve's right, it is saved as a aRGB but I warned you all that I'm new....

:oops:

For the record I am Aussie and my username happens to be made up of the street I grew up in ( Also a very famous NZ horse ) and I just happened to submit a photo of a NZ plane. Talk about 6 degree's.....
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Postby avkomp on Thu May 18, 2006 10:33 pm

edit: image removed, correct image is now in original post.
I just put this one up one my website with the srgb profile.
when you get the photobucket issues sorted, I will take it down.

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Postby avkomp on Thu May 18, 2006 10:49 pm

John:
I just tried to upload the image I sent you to photobucket and get 400 size also.

I did a test with a slightly smaller version and it appears to happen if the image is above 500k.
I will put a smaller version on my website asap and you should be able to use that one no worries.

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Postby moz on Thu May 18, 2006 11:06 pm

Of course, with an image that's only 700 pix wide there's no reason to make it 500kB in size either - 100kB would be ample.
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Postby avkomp on Thu May 18, 2006 11:09 pm

moz: the one that he was going to put up wasnt 700 wide.
the one on my website is 700wide because I set that keep forums happy.

John: I put the 800 wide one on your ftp server
should work for you now :lol:
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Postby bindiblue on Fri May 19, 2006 8:50 am

Welcome Sir Tristram, love the colours in this shot,, what a plane,, well done


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Postby Sir Tristram on Fri May 19, 2006 9:40 am

Thanks Steve, I have now swapped out the original for the sRGB version.

I didn't mention when I posted this photo that it was taken through a cyclone fence. I was told that if you open the aperture enough the wire in front of the lense just disappears. Would never have believed it until I took this series of photos. Just about white mans magic....
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Postby JordanP on Fri May 19, 2006 12:38 pm

Welcome!

What a cool plane - makes me want to fly in it. Well captured with very rich colour - nice job.
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