Early morning stroll to the beach

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Early morning stroll to the beach

Postby owen on Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:46 pm

Was out this morning and caught this group of people wandering across the bridge. I would like the concrete pillars to be more vertical but I'll take what I can get.

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Postby Frankenstein on Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:33 pm

Owen, I like this - the perspective is great and you've captured great lighting.

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Postby Matt. K on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:56 pm

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You have captured the warm morning light. It is the colour of gold against that deep blue sky.
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Postby Killakoala on Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:16 pm

I agree, you've got two complimentary colours down to a tee. The red and the blue look great together. The lines leading to the centre left make this image very appealing.
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Postby big pix on Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:20 pm

the red with the blue sky look good ...... but the use of either a blue grad filter or photoshop grad on the left hand side is a bit of putting to a good image......the grad is a little strong
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Postby owen on Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:15 pm

Thanks for the comments guys. I guess I need to try taking the polariser off some times :) The only thing done to this image before resizing was a curves adjustment, which I guess emphasised the unevenness in the sky. I like it, but I should try it without the polariser next time.

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Postby BT*ist on Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:59 am

Beautiful lighting and colours. I also think it would work well as a panorama, cropped to remove the bottom part of the shot (maybe from just above the base of the second pylon from the right?)
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Postby avkomp on Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:46 am

a nice capture.

like the diagonals and use of perspective.

Agree that it would work as a pano. the dark stuff around the first pylon doesnt contribute much to this shot.

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Postby owen on Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:26 am

THanks for looking guys.

When processing it I did try cropping it just above the dark matter on the larger pylon, but it just didn't look right. Thanks for the advice though :)

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Postby owen on Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:52 am

Here's another version of the shot. The light and reflection were better in this bridge shot, so I cloned in the people from the original one. What do you think?

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