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The Golden Hour

Postby stubbsy on Sun May 28, 2006 8:15 pm

Three shots using the 24-120 VR lens, taken at dusk from Darling Harbour looking towards Cockle Bay. The hour around sunset has the most fantastic light and these images show the amazing variability in the light at that time. The first two images were taken 3 minutes apart and the third was taken 14 minutes later.

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Postby Slider on Sun May 28, 2006 8:27 pm

Very nice Peter. The last is my favorite. Love the colour :D
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Postby johnd on Mon May 29, 2006 1:44 pm

Lovely colours Peter. Nicely composed and sharp as well. That last one, 1/20 sec, was that on a tripod or was it the VR working :?:

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Postby stubbsy on Mon May 29, 2006 11:27 pm

Mark - Thanks

John - Thank you too. Tripod shot, VR off. My hands aren't that steady VR or not :wink:
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon May 29, 2006 11:39 pm

Beautiful
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Postby Matt. K on Mon May 29, 2006 11:55 pm

I agree with Chris.
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Postby birddog114 on Tue May 30, 2006 7:17 am

Peter,
You got all the credits, nice captures, compositions, and colourful!
IMHO, still love these after few visits, I looked again few times with my other half and we all agreed.
She also said: not much there to see at the OH Sorry Peter! :(
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Postby Trieu on Tue May 30, 2006 8:35 am

Always, always, always a pleasure to look at :)
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Postby huynhie on Tue May 30, 2006 8:44 am

Peter I don't know whether any one else noticed or not but you have a few stuck pixels on that new camera of yours. I suggest that you return it to Thanh.
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Postby birddog114 on Tue May 30, 2006 8:52 am

huynhie wrote:Peter I don't know whether any one else noticed or not but you have a few stuck pixels on that new camera of yours. I suggest that you return it to Thanh.


I'm happy to take it off his hand if he's willing to part with it :wink:
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Postby ozimax on Tue May 30, 2006 9:39 am

2nd and 3rd are crackers, as always
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Postby macka on Tue May 30, 2006 9:49 am

Lovely light in the first and last one.
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Postby stubbsy on Tue May 30, 2006 8:17 pm

Thank you all for your comments.
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Postby Yi-P on Tue May 30, 2006 8:28 pm

Very nice!!

Were you on tripod??
I mean, was the camera on tripod?? :P
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Postby Steffen on Wed May 31, 2006 12:31 am

Beautiful range of pastels and geometric shapes. Love it.

Out of interest, did you use any lens distortion correction during PP? The lines seem all pretty straight for a zoom.

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Postby stubbsy on Wed May 31, 2006 11:02 am

Yi-P - as said above :wink: the shots were tripod mounted.

Steffen - For #3 I used DxO Optics Pro to correct lens distortion and vignetting. For #2 and #3 I applied the perspective correction tool in Photoshop CS2 to straighten the verticals. #1 is as is
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Postby Sheila Smart on Wed May 31, 2006 11:07 am

Nice work - great light on the last one.

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