Stuck in a Carpark- Looking down.

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Stuck in a Carpark- Looking down.

Postby fishafotos on Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:25 pm

My car battery died in a carpark a few days ago (oh the joys of a 'P' Plater's car!). While I was waiting for my mate to come and give me a jump I noticed that I had some kinda cool angles to shoot from up there.

These are the results. What do you think?

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Taken with the D80 and a 50mm f/1.8

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Postby Laurie on Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:45 pm

2nd one is a great angle. nice shot
and i like the PP
well done
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Postby spaz on Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:30 pm

Quite a bit of cropping using the 50mm?

What PP did you actually do? That was the first thing I noticed.
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Postby PiroStitch on Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:40 pm

the first one is great - excellent use of line and tone.
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Postby fishafotos on Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:38 am

Laurie - thankyou

Spaz -
there is almost no cropping, i got a tiny bit of pavement in the original so i cropped it about 5% off one corner. The RAW editing was +100 Shadows, +100 contrast, +5 Exposure, -60 saturation and some vignetting. There is a fair bit in there, the reason i addedso much was because the road was really pale so it took heaps to get that strong contrast of the black and white.

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Postby Reschsmooth on Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:40 am

I like what you have done and thanks for the PP explanation.

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Postby spaz on Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:02 am

Thanks fishafotos, it's quite simple in the end and quite effective
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