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Postby stubbsy on Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:01 pm

I'm clearing a PP backlog slowly. These images were all taken during an outing to Hunter Region Botanic Gardens (thanks André for organising) way back on 7/10. All these images were taken with the 10.5 DX fisheye :lol: and have had minimal (less than 10%) defishing in DxO Optics Pro. Click a pic for larger.


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Postby marcotrov on Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:08 pm

Interesting perspectives Peter. I like #1 the best here. #3 seems to contain noticeable cyan(I think?) colour fringing that DxO might rectify, perhaps maybe a play with NIK color effex (B&W Sepia???) but lovely lighting all the same :)
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Postby PiroStitch on Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:11 pm

The first one is far more powerful and enticing than the rest. The patters and lines are ace!
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:03 pm

Marco, Wayne. Thanks for your comments.

Interestingly I liked the third one best.
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Postby Glen on Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:17 pm

Stubbsy, all nice in their own way, but I wouldn't yet race to the printer with this batch :wink: I have seen a lot of your work which really works and begs to be printed, I don't think this batch is in the same league as your others.
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Postby ozimax on Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:56 pm

Now these ones don't do much for me I must admit - these trees (pandanus or similar?) are everywhere in Coffs and therefore commonplace. That doesn't mean that common place objects can't be photographed successfully, but that they don't grab one's attention as much as other rarely seen objects. I think I'm rambling here... :)
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