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Melbourne at night

Postby Jamie on Sat May 27, 2006 11:38 am

Just a few pictures i took last night, thought id share and hopefully get some pointers on....

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Postby Alex on Sat May 27, 2006 11:41 am

Nice Jamie. Really like No.2. No.1 is nice, but it doesn't appear very vertical.

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Postby johnd on Sat May 27, 2006 4:46 pm

Nice ones Jamie.

#1 produces a strange optical effect as you scroll it up and down.
Almost like the tower is enlarging and shrinking in width rather than scrolling. Looks really good.
As Alex says, #1 is not completely verticle. If it was, it might accentuate the optical illusion even more.

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Postby Jonas on Mon May 29, 2006 9:50 am

Some interesting images there. I like the chairs in #3, but I'm not sure about the fuzziness too it. Was it camera movement?
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Postby pharmer on Mon May 29, 2006 10:29 am

#2 is good. It has a nice atmosphere to it, enhanced by the lack of colour

#1 is a tad cliched and not very interesting

#3 is bit blurry for me - camera movement?
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Postby Yi-P on Mon May 29, 2006 12:16 pm

#1 is pretty good, I like this one

#3 is bit blurred i see as well...
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Postby Jamie on Mon May 29, 2006 1:58 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone. :)

I swore the first image was straight, maybe i was leaning in the chair at the time of processing it. Never mind, thats an easy fix, but thanks for pointing that out.

I thought that the second image might come across a little dark to some people, although i like dark images myself i thought it worth putting to the people on here for their thoughts. The colour version is quite nice also but it just screamed B&W to me.

The third image is blurry (no doubt camera movment), i was using the SB600 off the camera while holding it out and up with my left hand so only one hand on the camera in bad lighting conditions. I thought there was something strange about that picture but never picked it as camera movment, i thought it was something to do with the flash reflection off the highly polished wooden chairs.
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