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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:49 pm

At home feeling sorry for myself, so being bored I decided to muck around with previous shots.

When trying to get the white balance right on the shot, I kind of liked the tungsten blue look so I made two versions. Does the blue work for anyone else ? Or does it look too un-natural ?

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Postby greencardigan on Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:00 pm

Yep, to me the blue one looks a bit too blue. Especially just above the rocks.

I dont mind the first one though.
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Postby Gordon on Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:51 pm

The first one is good, the blueness is a bit extreme in the 2nd, actually it almost looks a bit solarised.

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Postby Gordon on Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:58 pm

hmm that is weird, boring is not what I typed in!

somehow "boring" has replaced "e x t r e m e" (with no spaces) somewhere between typing it and it appearing here

extremely weird


OK, WTF is going on here, why does the word e x t r e m e get replaced by boring?

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Postby CraigVTR on Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:03 pm

#2 looks like blue paint. A ship full of the stuff must of sank.

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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:10 pm

Gordon, it's part of the word filter (the way Gary has fun with us all)

words like kar!oke become mate in public
and ex!treme become boring.



Thanks all, for the comments, looks like the blue doesn't work.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:11 pm

Yes.

Try using a thesaurus to get around the word censor. Hell, you might even learn something! :lol:

I've since adopted the word "radical" to get around the e word.
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:43 pm

Craig

As you know I'm a big blue fan, but not this time. #1 thumbs up, #2 thumbs down :wink:
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Postby mudder on Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:46 pm

Yep the golden tones in #1 for me...
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