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Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:52 pm**

Long time reader, short time member, first time poster

Was out watching the parting storm on Friday night a couple of weeks back and as the lightning was a dud, decided to take some photos of the funny lighthouse thing and the sand pump... hope you like em (have only been cropped and framed)

let me know what ya'll think

Cheers,

Matt

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:07 pm**

nice shots.......... and welcome to the forum........ I would check the DSLR front page re your banner you have in other posts....... I think you will find that we do not use then on this site..........

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:12 pm**

thanks mate...

and... banner... what banner

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:16 pm**

We are a friendly lot here........ so have a look at the Queensland section to see what we are up to........... there is a mini meet in Brisbane next saturday, all the info is posted in the Qld section

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:17 pm**

1st shot is awesome. Love the composition. Looked surreal until I scrolled down to see pic #2.

...and yeah welcome to the forum mate.

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:32 pm**

I hope you don't all kill me now (or at least curse and swear profusely at me)

but I am a Canon man

good bye friendship... hehehe

just kidding thanks for the virtual open arms

Posted: **Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:33 pm**

That first shot is just awesome. Angle, subject, colour, contrast etc - brilliant

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:54 am**

Hey Matt - welcome to the forum

Love the first shot - for some reason the first thing I thought of was Aurora Australis

Rel

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:48 am**

thanks guys

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:25 pm**

Matt

Welcome. The first shot is superb - looks like something from a science fiction film. A space cruiser against the stars.

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:28 pm**

Welcome to the forums!

Love the first one, for the same reason as Stubbsy it really looks like a towering space station, just beautiful!

Shot number two doesn't have the same impact, but it is nice!

The last shot, I really like it as well has a eerie ghostly type feeling.

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:16 pm**

love the first two. do have a surreal feel to them.

I have sat there plenty of evenings eating my fish and chips watching the action at dbar.

with the second shot, as I scrolled down I was initially presented with the shot without the fence in it and a pano shot of the lighthouse.

I liked the shot as a pano with no fence in it. wonder if you had considered that.

Either way a nice shot.

Steve

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:17 pm**

great first post by the way!!

steve

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:27 pm**

Welcome to the forum, and good on you mate for a brilliant first image posting. I mean, this first photo is just perfectly exposed and the sky looks great. It's easy enough to expose properly for a building, but getting so much details in the sky, that's really great! Don't bother about equipment, it doesn't matter what brand you use as long as you get good shots.

Link.

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:45 pm**

would be good if you could post the exif stuff about the first two, including time of day.

as everyone is saying, the whole scenes are perfectly exposed.

Steve

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:14 pm**

also, just wondering if any filters or PP were run on this image or it is as shot??

please post that exif!! keen to see the tech details.

Steve

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:17 pm**

wow the shots look almost animated

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:47 pm**

Hi Guys... No PS or PP on any of those images (cropping and rotation doesn't count right?) all shot with a 20d and a 16-35mm ef f2.8 L-series lens.

as for exif info:

pic 1: shutter - 13sec F/5 focal length 16mm ISO-800
pic 2: shutter - 6sec F/4 focal length 22mm ISO-800
pic 3: shutter - 30sec F/11 focal length 28mm ISO-800

hope this is the information you wanted

thanks again for all the great feedback... will post up more pics as I can dig them out of adobe photo album...

theres some others on http://www.photo.net/photos/mattson

cheers,

Matt

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:04 pm**

pretty much what I was interested in but also time of night.
just shot it with magic light. just trying to recreate the moment in my head or store it away for later use should the moment arise.

Steve

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:34 am**

oh sorry

it was between 11 and 11:30pm on a Friday night.

Cheers,

Matt

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:37 am**

that helps. thanks for that. explains the colour of the sky better also.

Steve

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:51 am**

Great photos, Matt! First is the best, IMHO

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:00 am**

Welcome to the forum.
I'll echo the other comments - a great set of images.
Keep up the good work and thanks for the inspiration

Cheers
Gecko

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:08 pm**

Thanks guys.

really appreciate it

Posted: **Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:57 pm**

G'day Matt,

Wow, great first post!

These have a wonderful surreal feel to them, the lighting is brilliant... If you'd actually planned for something else but changed and captured these unplanned, then you've shown a good eye... And no PP? First one's the pick of the bunch for me, such overpowering authority with that sky background... Strewth these look even better now if they're straight out of the cam... Well done...

Posted: **Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:59 pm**

Love the first pic. Composition and lighting really makes the image pop out at you.

Posted: **Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:41 pm**

Welcome Matt. #1 is a fantastic image. Surreal and beautifully composed.
cheers
marco

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