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Clouds

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:30 am
by admajic
Here is my fav topic! Couldnt get out so these are from the back of my place. Sky was so amazingly sick looking. Looks like marbled meat! A bit of PP and there u go. C & C as always. Enjoy!
Adam


Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:14 am
by stubbsy
Adam
As nice as the clouds are I feel you are falling too much into the habit of seriously overdoing the saturation on your shots to the extent that they no longer look natural. The first one is the worst offender of these two. I've never seen a sky that cyan colour before.
These are good images and they don't need to be this overstaurated to have appeal.

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:53 am
by wendellt
yeah very surreal
although the suburban froth inthe foreground bothers this image
eithercompositionally focus on the clouds by shooting higher
woudl of been a good shot too if you got a silhouette of somone with the clouds behind by shooting low

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:04 am
by Nnnnsic
I agree with Stubbsy.
These shots have been oversaturated to buggery.
There's something to remember for over-saturating shots and it's much like everything else: know when to stop.
I also think that while the 1st shot isn't bad (the second one's composition doesn't do much for me), you need to pull some detail from the shadows a bit.

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:17 pm
by mudder
Wow, the saturation is probably a bit strong for me but terrific surreal effect...
Was the sat in RGB or LAB??? Might be able to get a similar level of color sat via curves in LAB but less "in your face" sort of thing maybe?

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:21 pm
by deaw
hey adam, was just wodering what settings you shot these pics on thanks mate dan.

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:56 pm
by admajic
Hey! Thanks for the comments! I agree that the colours arent natural and maybe/maybe not thats a bad thing? I made a Black and white ver and that looked pretty neat too. Ill have to redo it and post it up.
The orig was shot at f11 1/640 sec ISO 200 was an overcast morning.
I was about to save up a wierd mixed up sky ver played in
PS but its in some wierd loop and I have to head out.
Ill be back
Cheers
Adam

Posted:
Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:58 pm
by big pix
what they all said about over saturation......... but I think they would make great B&Ws

Posted:
Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:48 am
by admajic
I had a go at doing the B&W. I have never done one before. Let me know how I went. Adam


Posted:
Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:52 am
by macka
Sorry Adam, but your PP just hasn't worked IMO. Not only are they oversaturated, but also oversharpened. In the second colour image and the B&W you can see halos around the roof of the house. Your previous posts suggest you can do better.