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Harbour Bridge - Flukey?

Postby dviv on Wed May 16, 2007 11:07 pm

Took this from a boat on a cruise - 1/10sec handheld!

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I'm struggling a bit with the horizon - when I rotate to make the horizon level, the bridge pylon looks silly (leans to the left). This is my attempt at compromise.

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Postby chrisk on Wed May 16, 2007 11:55 pm

VERY impressive given the circumstances. 1/10s on a moving BOAT :shock:

could use some fill light to bring it out a little more imo.
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Postby Yi-P on Thu May 17, 2007 11:03 am

1/10 on a moving boat :shock: You must have VERY steady hands :)
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Postby dviv on Thu May 17, 2007 11:42 am

Yi-P wrote:1/10 on a moving boat :shock: You must have VERY steady hands :)


Not normally :lol:

I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant :D

Any ideas about the horizon?
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Thu May 17, 2007 12:25 pm

Cool.....i like it very much!

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Postby Yi-P on Thu May 17, 2007 12:34 pm

dviv wrote:Any ideas about the horizon?


Did you use an ultra-wide angle lens? If that is the case, try to correct the barrel distortion first then level your horizons... :)
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Postby Reschsmooth on Thu May 17, 2007 12:35 pm

dviv wrote:I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant :D


That's a very crude and inconvenient, yet effective image stabilisation technique! :lol: Cheaper than a VR/IS lens?
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Postby gstark on Thu May 17, 2007 12:44 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:
dviv wrote:I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant :D


That's a very crude and inconvenient, yet effective image stabilisation technique! :lol: Cheaper than a VR/IS lens?


Dunno. Boats can get quite expensive.

Especially in terms of maintenance.
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Postby dviv on Thu May 17, 2007 12:50 pm

Yi-P wrote:Did you use an ultra-wide angle lens? If that is the case, try to correct the barrel distortion first then level your horizons... :)


Thanks Yi-P

I took the photo with the Canon kit lens (18-55) at 18mm (on 350D so 1.6x).

How would I remove barrel distortion? (bit of a noob at PP :oops: )
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Postby dviv on Thu May 17, 2007 12:54 pm

gstark wrote:Dunno. Boats can get quite expensive.

Especially in terms of maintenance.
 LOL not to mention it's fairly unreliable - took 6 or seven shots to get one (vaguely) sharp one!
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Postby seeto.centric on Thu May 17, 2007 11:17 pm

spray and pray :wink:
ill admit most of my fave pix are flukies..

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Postby Yi-P on Fri May 18, 2007 12:55 am

dviv wrote:
Yi-P wrote:Did you use an ultra-wide angle lens? If that is the case, try to correct the barrel distortion first then level your horizons... :)


Thanks Yi-P

I took the photo with the Canon kit lens (18-55) at 18mm (on 350D so 1.6x).

How would I remove barrel distortion? (bit of a noob at PP :oops: )


It is very hard to tell if it is a barrel distortion to start off with because the image is quite dark there...

But to remove that, if you have PS CS2, just go into filters->distortion->lens correction
and then play around with stuffs inside until you get a good feel of things gone back straight. :D
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Postby dviv on Fri May 18, 2007 2:03 pm

Yi-P wrote:It is very hard to tell if it is a barrel distortion to start off with because the image is quite dark there...

But to remove that, if you have PS CS2, just go into filters->distortion->lens correction
and then play around with stuffs inside until you get a good feel of things gone back straight. :D


Thanks Yi-P - Much appreciated!

I'll give it a go tonight and see what happens :lol:
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Postby Reschsmooth on Fri May 18, 2007 2:43 pm

gstark wrote:
Reschsmooth wrote:
dviv wrote:I think I just got lucky - the boat was probably moving in directly the opposite way my hands were at that instant :D


That's a very crude and inconvenient, yet effective image stabilisation technique! :lol: Cheaper than a VR/IS lens?


Dunno. Boats can get quite expensive.

Especially in terms of maintenance.


You are talking about boats and not women, right? :lol: :lol: :lol: (standard "do not tell Alicia I said that" requests apply).

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