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by **marcotrov** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:51 pm

Wife and I went to Palm Cove the evening of Larry's unwelcomed arrival. Took a few snaps on dusk with my 35-70 F/2.8 (Take a look MAtt- I hope you decided to pick up that good deal on that 35-70 f/2.8 a while ago- it is a lovely lens). Be interested to know what others think in terms of composition of the 2 sets. All comments and critiques welcome.

I was experimenting with different shutterspeeds and small f/stops.

cheers
marco

by **NikonUser** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:00 pm

Number 3 does it for me.

I like the way my eye is lead into the image by the pier. And when my eye gets to the end there is that patch of light on the water. Gorgeous. Not sure if it would look better without the massive flare/blooming(?) around the lights.

Paul

by **Alpha_7** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:09 pm

Some lovely shots, I agree with Paul that #3 really works for me.

by **mudder** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:11 pm

After my recent fetish, it's good to see someone else posting shots of piers :lol:

#1, The sharpness of the pier itself makes it stand out soo much... Like the rock in the BL cnr with some nice wispy blurred water around it, think it just needs to be a smidge higher and to the right in the frame... Just me though... The spotlight in the water immediately takes my eye straight to it... Pick of 'em for me mainly due to the rock

#2, I like the blurred water's edge, but the pier now looks very muddy and lacking detail... ? F20 might be pushing the aperture of the lens too hard resulting in softness maybe?

#3, I'd crop out the dark edge along the bottom. Love the effect of the lighting and the starred lights, assume a very small aperture but couldn't get EXIF on this one... This one's quite catching...

#4 has too much bunched up on the RHS for me, there seems to be too much dead space on the left for me... Needs something in the BL third, where's that rock!

The color or sat in these seems strange to me...

by **Alex** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:14 pm

No.3 is very nice in terms of composition. But they all seem to be just a tad too blue for my liking.

Alex

by **Matt. K** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:21 pm

Beautiful Imagery! Check out that magic, deep, deep blue!
And the lens?.....I have it!

by **obzelite** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:36 pm

I love the blueness, number 3 does it for me.
That sucker would be on my wall for sure.

by **marcotrov** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:46 pm

Thanks for the feedback guys.
Matt I know you are going to love this lens. Has some flare problems shooting into light as you can see in some of the above images but overall it has great contrast and colour.
Thanks Paul and Craig. #3 was probably my fav along with #1
Alex I actually ran a Midnight Blue wash from Nik filters. I sort of liked the effect but perhaps too much

Thanks Mudder for the detailed comments I really find the comments helpful. As i stated for Alex comment above I ran a Midnight blue filter from Niks that also creates a blurred effect which I like. I probably overdi it in #2
As for #4 I agree with you I wanted to include an outcrop of rock on the left horizon called Scouts Hat (Part of Double Island just off the coast about 1km) but I just couldn't get it in and achieve the same perspective with the lens I had. I thought of moving in closer etc but with my wife beeping the horn in the car. It was prudently my last shot for the evening :wink:

cheers
marco

by **Slider** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:26 pm

Really nice results there Marco. I can feel some lens lust beginning again :lol:

Number 3 is a beauty but I keep coming back to number 1. Don't know what it is, I think it may be the swirling effect of the sea , but I love it.

by **stubbsy** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:27 pm

Marco

I'm a sucker for blue and these images really appeal to me. #3 is the best, but they're all great. And you've used my favourite filter system too!

by **marcotrov** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:45 pm

Thanks Slider and Stubbsy. Yeah I really like the 35-70 f/2.8. It is an underrated lens

I reall y took off with just the D70, 35-70 and my tripod. Forgot the remote release ML-L3 so the whole time I had to use the timer and guess when good wave action was due by counting the sets. With a 10 sec timer and 2.5 -5 sec exposure it was real guess work at times.

I tell you gee I missed that remote. I won't forget it again.
I'm thinking of you guys here in the dark only lit by the light of my screen. Generator can't handle too much more running my Engel, house fridge freezer, computer and large fluro. At least we're partly civilised the rest of neighbourhood, and I believe most of Cairns, are in darkness except for thse with noisy of generators up and down the street.
Bunnings ran out of generators today. Funny about that :wink:

The electricity board say another 1 or 2 days without power

Thank God, or actually Honda Dealers

for the Honda.
cheers
marco

by **stubbsy** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:50 pm

Marco I feel for you. It can't be much fun up there from what I'm seeing on the TV. And it's even worse for those further south (eg Mission Beach and Innisfail). I hope you stay in good spirits since I suspect it will be a fair while before you're back to normal.

by **rog** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:03 pm

#2's my fave. The layers of sky, pier, ocean, wash and sand are fantastic and crisp in the right places.

Nice one! I daren't think about the during or after shot.

by **marcotrov** on Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:06 pm

Thanks Rog. Feet on my tripod as well as mine got a little wet

cheers
marco

by **wendellt** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:04 am

the composition of the 3rd is best but the stillness of the water looks better in the fourth

although the 3rd has the waves at the bottom which frame the picture nicely

surreal scenes are sweet

by **Oneputt** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:57 am

Marco no 3 for me is the best composition and No 4 the best exposed.

In number three, the patch of light water in the foreground is just a little distracting.

by **xerubus** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:28 am

number 1 & 4 would be my pic... great shots and lovely colour tones...

cheers

by **ozimax** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:01 am

Definitely no 3 stands out for me, would like to see it a tad larger.

by **stubbsy** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:23 pm

ozimax wrote:...would like to see it a tad larger.

Max, if you click on the image it will display a larger version.

by **marcotrov** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:14 pm

Thanks for the comments Wendellt,Oneputt, Xerubus and Ozimax

It's always interesting to see how different people focus and find appealing different aspects of images.

Just got home from cleaning up Larry's calling card when blow me down power came back on

Yipee

cheers
marco

by **SteveGriffin** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:04 pm

Marco #3 for sure and it is almost certainly saleable as the calm before the storm.
Trusting the lights are on soon

by **MATT** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:07 pm

Good to hee you are alright Marco, I ahve inlaws visiting Cairns. They are staying somwhere that has a generator.. So not to disruptive for them.

nice pics also, No.4 for me great work.

Any after pics??

MATT

by **marcotrov** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:02 pm

Thanks for the comments on the images Steve and Matt. Actually MAtt I was too busy organising and cleaning up Matt but I did take some snaps for school records today.

The blue metal path under the crossed fallen trees is about 3/4 of a metre wide. To give you an idea of the size of the trees that came down. The year 5 and 6 block is but a few metres behind me. Lucky they fell the other way :wink:

I helped my year 7 teacher with this newly built green house. 2 pine trees fell around it just missing it. How lucky was that.

cheers
marco

by **Alpha_7** on Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:07 pm

Marco, those are some amazing shots of the damage, can't image how powerful the wind must feel like at 280-300km/hr.

by **ABG** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:51 pm

All of them are lovely images Marco - well composed and executed. It's interesting to see all of them have recorded a favourite image response so far. FWIW #1 takes the cake for me.

It's amazing to think you can be posting on this forum so soon after such devastation. I hope things get back to some sort of normalcy for you soon.

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