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Hi there,

I'm slowly getting through the processing of my images from the Great Ocean Road Trip...

These are some landscapes/beachscapes taken along the way. Comments and critiques more than welcome.

















Hope you enjoy them

Paul

Paul shots #1 and #2 stand out to me in these series. I really like them both.

#3 Seems a little flat to me, and the horizon seems to be doing some weird (what lens did you use ?) Definitely appears bent to me here.

#4 This one is a little bland in colour, I tried a quick B&W conversion and liked the results, but that's just me

#5 Seems a little soft, I'm guessing it could of been a bit windy maybe ? That or the tripod had unstable ground to stand on ? It also seems to be suffering badly from the jpeg compression and also from sensor heat noise (top left corner is purple-ish).

#6 This one's better then the last but for me the lights are overpowering in this shot. Some purple top left is again evident

#7 This is a good shot, but my eyes disbelieve this to be the true colours, they can easily get it wrong but when I look at it, it seems a little un-natural, in particular the blue-ish tint on the rocks

#8 This shot I think might be improved by a pano crop.. definitely worth a try IMO.

Alpha_7 wrote:Paul shots #1 and #2 stand out to me in these series. I really like them both.

#3 Seems a little flat to me, and the horizon seems to be doing some weird (what lens did you use ?) Definitely appears bent to me here.

#4 This one is a little bland in colour, I tried a quick B&W conversion and liked the results, but that's just me

#5 Seems a little soft, I'm guessing it could of been a bit windy maybe ? That or the tripod had unstable ground to stand on ? It also seems to be suffering badly from the jpeg compression and also from sensor heat noise (top left corner is purple-ish).

#6 This one's better then the last but for me the lights are overpowering in this shot. Some purple top left is again evident

#7 This is a good shot, but my eyes disbelieve this to be the true colours, they can easily get it wrong but when I look at it, it seems a little un-natural, in particular the blue-ish tint on the rocks

#8 This shot I think might be improved by a pano crop.. definitely worth a try IMO.

#3 - The light was getting a bit bright by this stage which probably explains why it's flat. All of these were taken with the kit lens.

#4 - Bland is how the scene was in real life. I wasn't sure about this shot but was trying a sort of monochrome scene without actually desaturating anything.

#5 - Definately very soft. I wasn't going to post this one because of it but I just liked the way it looked. Proabably couldn't print this any bigger than 6x4

I've never heard of the purple thing before. My colourblind eyes can't see any on my screen... but blue and purple together are problem areas for me.

#7. These are indeed the true colours... I've just increased the saturation a bit. I can't see any blue in the rocks... only in the water around the rocks. Again that could be either my eyes or screen.

#8 - What do you suggest I crop off....sky or foreground? I'm very new to cropping my photos.... have always shyed away from it in the past but have recently discovered how much of a dramatic impact it can have.

Thanks for the comments. They all help with my learning.

Paul

#3 - The light was getting a bit bright by this stage which probably explains why it's flat. All of these were taken with the kit lens.

#4 - Bland is how the scene was in real life. I wasn't sure about this shot but was trying a sort of monochrome scene without actually desaturating anything.

#5 - Definately very soft. I wasn't going to post this one because of it but I just liked the way it looked. Proabably couldn't print this any bigger than 6x4

I've never heard of the purple thing before. My colourblind eyes can't see any on my screen... but blue and purple together are problem areas for me.

#7. These are indeed the true colours... I've just increased the saturation a bit. I can't see any blue in the rocks... only in the water around the rocks. Again that could be either my eyes or screen.

#8 - What do you suggest I crop off....sky or foreground? I'm very new to cropping my photos.... have always shyed away from it in the past but have recently discovered how much of a dramatic impact it can have.

Thanks for the comments. They all help with my learning.

#3 Kit lens, hmmm can you see the bent / distorted horizion or is it just me ?

#5 When you take long exposures Particularly noticeable in astronmony long exposures you get a purple "noise" due to the interference from the sensor heating up (or this is how I understand it to work). On my d70 far top left is always the worst spot (I can post a clearer example if you'd like).

#8 My idea of a crop would be something along the lines of this

Thanks for doing the B&W conversion too Paul. Not sure if you like it as you were avoding the destaturated look, but it works for me

What do you think of the crop ? I didn't like to crop or PP my shots when I first joined. But I've slowly come around, previously I was too attached to "what I shot" to see the potential if you cropped or PP'ed it differently.

Alpha_7 wrote:#8 My idea of a crop would be something along the lines of this

I think I prefer the original uncropped version.

Actually the B&W version is more what I had in mind when I first took the shot... to me it actually looks closer to how I remember the original scene than the colour version does.

I like the crop. It gets rid of the foreground that has no rocks and the part of the sky that is least interesting. When I first did a pano crop of this image I didn't like it... but I kept all of the sky and reduced the rocks down to a sliver at the bottom of the image. It's really amazing what moving the marquee selection around just a bit can do to an image!!

For me when I crop I always think "darn, there goes some valuable resolution".... even though I never actually print big enough to make a difference

Paul

For me when I crop I always think "darn, there goes some valuable resolution".... even though I never actually print big enough to make a difference

One of the benefits of having a fairly high Megapixel camera is we can get away with cropping and still get good results when enlarging. I've been so far impressed by any of my crops that I've printed, but the biggest I've gone is 8x12.