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I've had a hectic weekend playing Hunter tour guide for Sheepie. Here's the only image I've processed so far. Despite being quite dark, I quite like this one. Click the pic for a larger version.

Faaark!

Stubbsy, this is simply one of the best landscapes I've seen from you.

Too dark? Looks fine here.

stubbsy wrote:I quite like this one.

So do I Peter. A lovely serene shot. I like the subtle variations in the colours in the sky and the water and the way the jetty leads your eye into the image.

Cheers
John

bloody awesome shot stubbsy!
so sharp, yet so smooth!
love the colours

That is pretty damn good, sorry its bloody excellent. Shame about the super bright light reflection on the left.. but its a tiny tiny niggle.

A beautiful image. Nice one, Peter.

I've gotta say that this looked much better on your new monitor this morning Peter My little laptop screen just doesn't do it justice!

Thanks again for a great weekend (as usual) - Looking forward to seeing some more from the shoot. Next time, make it a little cooler though will you?

Stubbsy, Stubbsy, the horizon mate, look at the horizon.

Great shot though.

Peter, thats so wonderful, i'd like to buy a biiiig print

How much?

Kate would like a big print too, (we don't even have any of my shots hanging on the wall) better get my act together... so Peter where was this spot ? and can I borrow the D2x ?

It's not too dark at all. It looks fantastic.

I’ll add to D’s comment - farking brilliant Peter

Ripper shot Peter!
FRAME IT - STAT!

Peter, this is pretty ordinary.....pretty EXTRA-ordinary.

One of the best shots I've seen from you Peter. Excellent. Now why didn't you take me there?

I agree.

This is a great photo.

Russell

phillipb wrote:Stubbsy, Stubbsy, the horizon mate, look at the horizon.

Great shot though.

....... peter now about the horizion on a very good pix..........

Wow - very well done mate

Well done Peter,

That is a great spot at Belmont. I've always wanted to get a shot from there at sunset, now I won't, don't know that I could improve on this

And I don't think it looks too dark.

When I saw Sheepie's shot of the kids on the jetty, I thought I recognised the location.

Thanks for sharing,

André
EDIT: I was wondering how you got that pano shot, should have known, looked at the exif, the fisheye king. You make that lens sing!)

Just two words:

AWE
SOME

Brilliant work Mr Stubbs.

Excellent work - as usual, Peter. Well done. Cheers, Mick

Superb Stubbs !!!!!

Excellent landscape photo. Looks great to me.

Alex

Peter,

I keep coming back to this photo, love it.

A few questions

-did you have to de-fish it much?
-interested to know why you used shutter priority as opposed to aperture or manual, just curious

thanks,

André

radar wrote:interested to know why you used shutter priority as opposed to aperture or manual, just curious

I know he was practising his counting skills while taking shots - can only assume this meant he was using BULB with his remote Whether that's the case with this shot I guess only Peter can confirm

Firstly thank you all for your comments.

Yes the horizon is crooked (I did fix it, but managed to post one I had not fixed). I'll fix that tonight.

As for selling prints. My honest view is the image is not good enough to print bigger than A3. When I look at it at about 200% I can see a lot of colour pixel noise in the water (a purple pixel here, a pale blue one there) which I fear may make a large version look bad. That said I've printed it at A3 and it looks fine.

André wrote:did you have to de-fish it much?
-interested to know why you used shutter priority as opposed to aperture or manual, just curious

You are correct that the image was taken with the 10.5 DX fisheye, but this image has had NO defish as it didn't need one. All I did was crop the bottom a little to remove the noticably curved shoreline and crop the top top to make a more pano style shape which I felt suited the image. If you have the horizon going through the centre of the fisheye lens it remains straight.

The shot was taken in shutter priority mode and is a 30 second exposure at F8, ISO 200. The image was taken at 6:49 PM so it was pretty dark by that stage. I used shutter priority because I wanted a long exposure to get the light and that's the easiest way to control that. Manual scares me

Im speechless, cant say more to what have been said above...


Can I borrow a D2x??

Good one Peter! I think the line of the jetty really helps in the picture. Brings u into the photo.

Makes choosing the POW easy!!

Great image Peter

This is simply amazing photo!!!

I agree with Jenno ... easy choice for POW!

stubbsy wrote:Manual scares me

Come on Stubbsy...the water's only cold when you first jump in

Great image by the way

Very Very nice picture this Peter, i gues sif the rest are like this mate i would be very happy. Well done and look forward to seeing some more mate.
John
BBJ

daniel_r wrote:Faaark!

i couldn't have said it better !!!! it slapped me in the face .. wonderfull stubbsy

cheers rob

Aussergewoehnlich - extraordinary !

It is very very very v,v,v,v very nice.
It is so smooth, it is sliding off my monitor
Straighten it, please.

Cheers,
CD

Peter a spectacular shot resulting from a clear vision and some excellent PP'ing that has raised the image to another level.
cheers
marco

Thanks you all for your comments.

I was pretty lucky with this (and the other shots from that outing) because mother nature provided the hot day and cloudless sky that contributed to the great sunset colours captured here.

Hi Peter,

I had another close look on a high-res monitor (1650 x 1200).
Really lovely shot.
I was wondering if the photo would benefit from subduing the three reflections in the water on the left hand side and also straightening the horizon.

Thanks for sharing,
CD

very very nice.... Should be printed framed and maybe sold!

Bloody great shot Stubbsy.

Mic