Nepal Peace Pagoda at night

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Nepal Peace Pagoda at night

Postby bwhinnen on Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:05 pm

Nestled away in Southbank in Brisbane.

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C+C welcome.

F/11, 30sec, 18mm on the 18-70DX attached to a D70 with noise reduction on, taken at 1:10 am on Sunday morning ;)

Note: the link is to the original sized photo in JPEG (5Mb on a relatively small bandwidth link).

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Postby Reschsmooth on Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:30 pm

Very nice image.

A square crop would look great in my opinion.

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Postby stubbsy on Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:57 pm

Brett

I took the time to look at the full version of this image. What a cracker shot. The small version here just doesn't do it justice.

A small niggle from me (but accept I'm pretty anal about these things) is that I'm a little put off by the lens flare in a few parts of the image caused by all those lights. I'd clone them out - others wouldn't. :?
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:03 pm

Brett - a cracker shot and I agree with Peter - some judicious cloning to remove the flares will make this a pic for the wall :)
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Postby NJ on Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:54 pm

the clouds look awesome, they must have been moving pretty quick.
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Postby johnd on Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:57 am

An excellent image Brett. Heaps of detail in the pagoda. Clouds are great as well. I agree about the 4 coloured flares, clone them out if you can. Also, it might add a bit more if you warped it in photoshop to straighten it up a bit (or some other de-fish software).

Very nice.

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Postby bwhinnen on Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:37 pm

Thanks for the comments. The cloning process is under-way, albeit slowly. The two flares on the floor are proving the hardest to clone out neatly...

I'll post up a new image when I'm finished for you to comment on.

The flares are the only thing that really annoyed me about this photo.
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Postby Critter on Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:06 pm

is the flare due to a UV filter being used?
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Postby dodge on Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:54 pm

the large version does look awesome..well done brett :wink:
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