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Before The Rain

Postby LostDingo on Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:33 pm

Taken just as it started to rain, I felt fortunate to have had a fisherman walk into my capture as in my opinion added a sense of place and dimension.

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Postby Alex on Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:39 pm

Wow! Yeah, the fisherman cetainly makes half the picture. Looks almost like a painting.

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Postby christiand on Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:39 pm

Very cool photo,

yes, I agree with you that the fisherman added to the composition a lot.
I hope he didn't get swept away :D :cry:

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Postby blacknstormy on Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:44 pm

Lostdingo - desolate and beautiful. Well captured - hope you didn't get the camera gear wet?
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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:15 pm

Composition wise the beautiful colour in the foreground compliments the pastel shades of the middle onwards. All in all a wonderfully captured photograph.
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Postby Slider on Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:54 pm

Fantastic photo. Would look great framed on the wall :D
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Postby Manta on Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:05 pm

That is stunning LD! Well done.
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Postby birddog114 on Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:48 am

LostDingo,
That's very nice!
The fisherman makes up the story of the photo.
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Postby LostDingo on Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:25 am

Alex-Thanks for the comments

christiand-He din't get swept away while I was there :o

blacknstormy-not too desolate as at our backs there are 4 million residents :lol: Sydney :lol: Camera did get wet from the rain and honestly in the photo there are water drops but I didn't bother to try and remove, they blended in well enough :D

sirhc55-I liked the colours also, nothing overpowering. The comp, it was one of those pictures that when you looked through the viewfinder "It just felt right"

Slider-Thanks Slider, nice print would be good

Manta-Appreciate the comment!

Birddog114-It would have been totally different without the fisherman and didn't come out too bad for a longish exposure
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Postby mudder on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:00 am

Yes! This works well... The fisherman gives the eye something to settle on after going through all the interesting items in the image, this is excellent... That needs printing and framing...
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Postby the foto fanatic on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:09 am

This is a terrific image - you should be very proud. :)
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Postby Nikon boy on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:13 am

Fantastic image, love the colours
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Postby Geoff on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:25 am

Wow..I agree with what most have said here Dingo - the fisherman finishes this beautifully captured image - well done!
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Postby marcotrov on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:31 am

Terrific image, beautifully composed and exposed.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:23 am

Great stuff,as has been said, the Fisherman puts the icing on the cake for this shot. The water is really lovely in this shot.... BTW I noticed when viewing the shot (while replying.. it could almost be two seperate shots as well... one of the rock shelf and fisherman and one of the foreground rocks.. both work for me as stand-alone shots.
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Postby wally on Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:48 am

i luv this shot it remynds me of the daze when i went fishin. its an ace shot :D
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Postby kenny12 on Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:04 am

very nice composition and composture
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Postby LostDingo on Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:44 pm

mudder-Thanks Mudder, appreciate the feedback :D

cricketfan-yep :D , proud of this especially since I did get rained on a bit

Nikon boy-Thanks :!: :!: :!:

Geoff- Thanks!!

marcotov-Thank You, nothing like exposing for early light

Alpha-appreciate but I won't have to slice and dice this one, I have other captures already cropped in when exposed

wally-Hope you caught more than this poor fellow did :D He did catch a few small ones

kenny12-Thanks Kenny, appreciate it!
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Postby wile_E on Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:50 pm

Nice shot mate, I agree with you in that the Fisherman gives great perspective on it. If you don't mind me asking, what shutter speed were you using?

The fish must not have been biting that day as he seems awfully still...
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Postby Matt. K on Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:10 pm

Wonderful image.
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Postby Steffen on Thu Jan 05, 2006 4:17 am

This is an unusual array of pastels for a beach scene. Very captivating. And that strategically placed lone angler makes it a very interesting composition, too.

Did you PP this a lot or did it come out just like that? If the latter, there is a lot to be said for "poor light"...

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Postby LostDingo on Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:10 am

wile_e - Thanks Wiley, exposure was 8 seconds, 18mm f/16

Matt K. - Thanks Matt, always appreciate your comments :!:

Steffen - this is an unusual beach overall :D The sand is what one would first notice as it is red. The beaches to the left and right both have sand just as you anywhere else but this small strip it's red. That's why there is so much contrast at the bottom with the red sand, greenery under the water and then to the top the cloudy sunrise has a pastel effect.

I don't like to PP much, I'm lazy :roll: If you look closer at the angler you will see a ghost image behind him, some places of the pic are water drops on my lens as it was raining.

Typical PP I do is correct lens distortion (usually -3%), sharpen 100% @ .3 pixels and adjust saturation, this one was approx +9
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