Shilouette- my first submission

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Shilouette- my first submission

Postby dreams on Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:04 am

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Location: Henley Beach, South Aus
the exif data still intact.

It was hot that day, i guess that reflect how a day ends hehe maybe not :D
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Postby Glen on Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:34 am

Welcome Dreams, nice silhouette. Only point I might make is straighten the horizon, no biggy but would make the image a little more complete. I would imagine you can do it easily with the software which came with your Canon
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Postby phillipb on Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:55 am

Glen wrote:Welcome Dreams, nice silhouette. Only point I might make is straighten the horizon, no biggy but would make the image a little more complete. I would imagine you can do it easily with the software which came with your Canon


Actually Glen, I think the horizon is fairly straight. I tried scrolling the photo down and it lines up ok with the bottom of my screen. Could be an optical illusion from the sloping clouds.

Bye the way, nice photo.
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Postby Glen on Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:00 am

Philip, thanks you just taught me something, never thought of doing that before :wink: My monitor must need a tilt (don't know if you can do that on LCDs), when I scroll down, on the left I still have 1.5mm showing. Sorry my monitor Dreams. PS Forgot to mention, love the colours
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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:23 am

Nice Dreams. I'm a fan of silhouettes, and I've taken a few that are similar but in morning light. It remarkable the different in the sunrise to sunset light... I can confirm that the horizon looks level on my LCD too. My only negative I can draw is that the silhouette doesn't look that sharp, but its still affective.

Nice work, look forward to more shots.
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Postby psionic on Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:32 am

Dreams,

Nice sillouette, colour of the sky looks very nice. You should also try the two jetties just a tad further up the coast, Semaphore and Largs, they also offer interesting subjects.

I'll concur with Glen that the horizon is not quite level (1-2deg) on the LCD here. It slopes slightly from left to right. Although I'm in the Northern Hemisphere and who knows what that does to an Aussie laptop :wink:

Still a pleasant image, look forward to seeing some more

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Postby avkomp on Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:12 pm

seems straight on my lcd.

the subject seems not that sharp, but as already mentioned still works.

I think a little more room around the person would have been a little better but still nice as is.

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Postby mudder on Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:27 pm

This works well as a sillohette, be tempted to lower the exposure a smidge in PP to avoid the hot spots in the sky, there's no detail you need to keep in the sillohette so might be worth a try to get even more color depth in that wonderful sky... Agree with positioning/framing the person a smidge more into the frame, seems a bit bunched up on the edge...

Nice post :)
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Postby Slider on Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:05 pm

Nice work Dreams. Well captured. :D
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Postby dreams on Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:49 pm

Hi guys, thank you for you comment and inputs, appreciate them.
excuse the sharpness, its my lens :) i use 28-200mm :(.

the reason why tight cropping was, the jetty was crouded and i couldnt get the best angle. so this is how the jettycrowd back then

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