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Something completely different for me :)

Postby sheepie on Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:12 pm

Went to Aroma Coffee @ The Rocks today, and only had two coffees!

Took quite a few pics though, and thought I'd have a go at some creative PP work for a change...

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70-300G @155mm, f7.1 1/320th ISO200 (with a little help from NikEffects)


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Standard Kit lens @70mm, f11 1/30th ISO200 (desaturated and tinted)

EDIT: Updated first pic for colourspace change
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Postby admajic on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:18 pm

First shot to me looks over exposed. Im not keen on the treatment you used. second shot is a nice B&W im guessing at Governer Phillip Tower. Nice one.
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Postby mudder on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:21 pm

Hmmm, the first seems too "high key"(?) for me, but I really like the second. Nice tones and the glimpse of the bridge gets me in...
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Postby sheepie on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:40 pm

Have just realised I didn't change the colourspace on the dancer - have updated the file on smugmug, you may need to refresh to see it.
Hopefully that helps with the vision ;)
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Postby johndec on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:44 pm

Leon. I actually like the first one, it's got a faded 1960's transparency look about it. So if that was the look you were after, it's good. If that wasn't your goal, whoops... :oops:
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Postby drifter on Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:57 pm

I really like the second shot . Nice comp and the conversion works well too .The first one doesn't work for me .
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Postby Greg B on Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:30 pm

Leon, number 2 is very good, I like it a lot.

The first one is almost there, maybe try desaturating by, say 50%, to enhance the aged look? Just a thought, but nice experiment.
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Postby sheepie on Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:49 pm

Greg B wrote:The first one is almost there, maybe try desaturating by, say 50%, to enhance the aged look? Just a thought, but nice experiment.

A couple of options:

The original (on the left) from the NEF file, converted to JPG with no adjustment. And a further development with Greg's suggestion of less saturation (on the right).

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I still like this pic, if only for two reasons: 1 - it's the 70-300G, 2 - it's something quite different for me.
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Postby Matt. K on Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:22 pm

Leon
I like the original better. It has a certain........energy? Impact?
I also like your second shot. Youv'e added a sense of drama to it. Nice work!
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Postby sheepie on Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:25 pm

Rather than start a new thread with other PP'd pics of similar style, I thought I'd show them here. As I said, I'm trying something I don't normally play with...

Standing Guard:
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Closer crop to show clarity:
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Going down:
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Postby BT*ist on Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:51 am

I like the B&W in the first grouping, and I really like 'standing guard' - I've had multiple goes at that statue in Martin Place and I think your crop is what I should have been going for all this time!

Nice capture on the escalators - Wynyard?
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