Random ferry hop shots

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Random ferry hop shots

Postby rokkstar on Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:38 pm

Going through some of my shots from Le weekend and played with these three. Thanks to Leigh for the idea for the birdseye shots :wink: .

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1. An absolutely fantastic house occupied by a very cool medstudent chick.
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2. People and shadow watching
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:42 pm

Matt love number 1, looked great on camera and even better after your PPing (what did u do to get the affect ?). Considering the lighting in that shot, you've done awesome!

Out of the second two, #2 is stronger, number #3 seems a little lacking for me.
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Postby rokkstar on Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:46 pm

Thanks Craig,

The PP'ing was pretty much just curves adjustments. I used a couple of masks, one around the front chair, the back right of the shot, and the foreground/right hand side.
That's about it really. A few layers of curves and Roberts' your fathers brother.
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Postby macka on Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:15 pm

I agree with Craig, PP of #1 is great. Fantastic colour gives this a lot of interest.

I also really like #2, and it looks as if you've already done some saturation, but I'd be tempted to try and bring out the red bricks a bit more. Great patterns; nicely spotted. :D

#3 isn't great for me. I have seen this done a few times before and I think the best ones have had more people/shadows in more interesting arrangements.
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Postby rokkstar on Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:29 pm

macka wrote:#3 isn't great for me. I have seen this done a few times before and I think the best ones have had more people/shadows in more interesting arrangements.


Yeah, I took quite a few from up there and have loads of shots with loads of people in them. Haven't really looked at them yet but what I liked about this one was the diagonals and lack of people.

Thank you for the comments Kris
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:32 pm

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#1 is absolutely brilliant. Fantastic composition, wonderful colours and with a lovely warm glow to the shot (did you use a gel on the flash for this?).

In such company the others pale, but I quite like #2.

#3 doesn't grab me - not enough story to it I think and it just doesn't hold my attention.
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Postby Steffen on Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:14 am

Nos 2 and 3 remind me of my own (failed) attempts from the same vantage point. You make the colour of the pavers work nicely.

No 1 is a ripper shot, visually extremely strong. It looks like those med students get a lot of hands-on home assignments? :wink:

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