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Took these this evening while doing some sunset shooting with André (Radar) and Col (Colcam) at Green Point on Lake Macquarie. Both shots were taken with the 28-70 f2.8.

To see these larger, click a pic.

Peter - the 2nd one is brilliant, actually they are both very good, however I can see the 2nd one printed, framed and hanging on your wall. Looks like you guys had fun

#2 Peter - exquisite.

I've seen shots like this before being sold. THis is a terrific shot, and like Geoff says, frame it and stick it on your wall.

I like 1 but it's not as clean as 2. the imperfections in the water distract my eye from what should be lovely clean eyes.

Top stuff.

Stubbsy, love both but like the others prefer two. I can see it being sold with a slogan on it like "If you don't jump in you will never know if you can swim" or something equally stupid

#2 for me. Absolutely stunning sir

Stubbsy

Some wonderful images here. I am a big fan of both. I like the dark contrasts under the jetty in #1 but #2 is also a very fine capture.

Cheers
WW

Peter, the first one isn't it, it is a beautiful image but it is rather random and lacks the punch.

The second one suffers from your apparent(?) attempt to have the horizon not dead centre. I don't mind centred horizons at all, and I reckon this looks a little half-baked. I had a bit of a play with your image myself and I found that a lot of negative (sky) space at the top and the horizon much further down looks a lot better to me.

(if all this sounds weird, it probably is - posted after my first bottle of red following a week of abstinence due to a soup diet my wife foisted on me...)

Cheers
Steffen

great capture and nice light...........

I have to say that I am with the others. Both nice images but the second is a standout. Lovely

Thank you all for your comments. Interestingly I prefer #1 (adrker & moodier).

Steffen wrote:The second one suffers from your apparent(?) attempt to have the horizon not dead centre. I don't mind centred horizons at all, and I reckon this looks a little half-baked. I had a bit of a play with your image myself and I found that a lot of negative (sky) space at the top and the horizon much further down looks a lot better to me

The cropping of that was a dilemma. I think you're correct I need either more sky or much less - I cropped some sky at the top, but resisted making this a square image. I think I'll go have another go.

I actually have a landscape version of the same shot, but haven't posted it since I know André took some and since I used his ND4 to take the shots AND he was there first, I've left it for him to post those.

2nd would be my choice but darken up the blues to look more like the 1st.

Cheers

Both beautiful shots Peter but in #2 I would have stood about 3 metres to the left and halfway up the boardwalk to centre the pilings

Great images Peter,

love them both but to the point of sounding repetitious, I prefer the second one. I have posted my version here

I must say that I prefer the colours on yours compared to my results. I'll have to give it another go. Tried it with DxO, but I still get the same result as with Bibble.

My only nit pik and I'm just being picky here , is that your foreground is not quite sharp enough. Likely due to the aperture you had of f3.3.

thanks for coming out yesterday,

cheers,

André

Good images Peter. I like both of these and Radar's versions as well. I have seen this phenomona of two photographers standing together and getting different shots on many occasions and it fascinates me how many differences there can be.
I will post some of mine from this small expedition as soon as I return from holidays and have a rest to recover.
Col

Very nice shots

2nd is my fav

I am stuck in the middle here peter,

cos I cant decide which I prefer best.

I love em both.

good stuff

Steve