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Postby macka on Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:08 pm

Had a nice sunset yesterday... Any comments would be welcome.

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Postby Yi-P on Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:30 pm

I like the colours in #2 and #4, they're so eye-popping :D
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Postby Alex on Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:43 pm

I really like the last one.
Beautiful colours and perspective.

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Postby Geoff on Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:43 pm

Macka - all good but the last one has it! Very nice! Curiously, much PP on these?
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Postby macka on Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:22 pm

Thanks, guys.

Geoff wrote:Macka - all good but the last one has it! Very nice! Curiously, much PP on these?


Geoff, depends on your definition of "much". :wink:

The most work was done on the last shot because it was the most underexposed to start with.

In RAW I used the new "fill light" slider to lighten the foreground, increased the brightness, contrast and "vibrance". Then in PS I did separate curves layer masks for the sky and foreground, some shadow/highlight to bring to foreground up a bit more, and applied a warming filter to the foreground as well. And then just resized, with a bit of contrast sharpening.

I do seem to have brought out some banding in the bottom left corner in the process.

Here is the original out of the camera (just resized):
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Postby Steffen on Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:37 pm

The squiggly leading line in #1 has a very interesting impact on the image.

macka wrote:Here is the original out of the camera (just resized):


Aah, the joys of shooting RAW...

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Postby Matt. K on Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:34 pm

Macka
Were you working from a tripod?
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Postby methd on Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:51 am

nice work, really nice vibrant colours
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Postby macka on Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:26 am

Matt. K wrote:Macka
Were you working from a tripod?


Matt, no. Why do you ask?
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Postby fishafotos on Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:08 pm

I love #4, great pp work, really turned out well.
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Postby rooboy on Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:48 pm

Gorgeous model in #4 - what a sexy fella :D
So join in the chorus, and sing it one and all!
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