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DUW - hunter valley gardens

Postby poompy on Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:08 pm

First photo post and fairly new dslr user. and new to taking photos

these are from a trip to the hunter for my first anniversary. all taken with 18-55mm kit lense. c&c always welcome.

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Postby gstark on Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:47 pm

Ben,

Beautiful colours, especially the first "image".

In the second, you might like to either crop out the foreground, which is somewhat blown, and also some of the sky, turning this image into a pano, or else look to creating a second layer in PS and using that secondary layer to reduce the blown highlights in the foreground (and elsewhere) and thus perhaps improve the image.

I'd probably do both: crop, and then fix the blown areas using layers. :)

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Postby poompy on Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:20 pm

gstark wrote:......


thanks for the comments and suggestions will definately take them onboard.

yeh the second was taken in the middle of the day and had ppl walking though the image all the time so was hard to get a decent enough shot.

sorry about the image sizes :( . will know for next time.
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Postby Steffen on Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:32 am

The third one has a quite surreal, "Alice in Wonderland" feel to it, and a very believable 3-dimensionality. I like it!

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