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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:41 pm

A mixture of lighting to try and get the effect of night and day - did it work? C&C welcome.

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Postby Matt. K on Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:30 pm

Chris

No!

It's a lovely statue but the image is too cluttered and you broke one of the golden rules....you used a brickwall as a background! :evil: :evil:
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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:36 pm

I'm not to keen on it either Chris, sorry.
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Postby Steffen on Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:24 pm

The contrast in light temperature does puzzle a bit. I'd remove the mobile phone and remote control, though.

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Postby big pix on Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:45 pm

too many distractions........ good statue, and a good balance of light.....
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Postby JordanP on Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:50 pm

I'm with Bernie on this one. Very nice balance of lighting.
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:42 pm

I concur with those that say there is too much crap but pleased that mention has been made of the balanced light :lol:
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Postby bago100 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 6:14 pm

The mobile phone and family photo is a bit of a distraction. Would like to see the photo without these items but I do like the photo especially the backgound lighting.

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Postby LostDingo on Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:09 pm

Chris, I for one will discuss the balanced light...I think it's fanatstic! I see a very fine line of a shadow across the breast of the statue....but look at the rest of the image

Sahdoes are almost non existent and the exposure is still good 8) 8)
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Postby admajic on Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:31 pm

You have a statue of a topless archer on your shelf? Interesting :)
I found the out of focus flowers on the right of the image a distraction.
overall the contrast is very good and the lamp light is interesting.
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Postby Mj on Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:04 pm

The brick wall works very nicely... just pp out all the rest and it's a winner.
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:30 pm

Mj wrote:The brick wall works very nicely... just pp out all the rest and it's a winner.


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Postby Justin on Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:56 pm

As a study, it's a great shot, it has some great qualities - goes to show if you know what you are doing... Anyway, who says it isn't interesting, semi-naked women, weapons...

What equipment did you use - also, the pic is unusually sharp for a web post, how do you process your images for web upload?
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:59 pm

This was shot with the Nikon D1 and the 28-105mm Nikkor.

Straight forward sharpening, in this case it would have been USM.
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Postby Steffen on Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:09 am

Chris, will you let us in on how you lit the image? On first glance it looks like you bumped into that scene and snapped it, but I've tried to recreate something similar and didn't get anything even close.

Still puzzled.

Paul, I like your eye for detail :wink:

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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:18 am

It was actually quite simple. The overall lighting is diffused daylight, the wall being approx 15ft from the window with lots of trees. The image was manipulated extensively is PS to balance the lighting.
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Postby Matt. K on Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:12 pm

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