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A couple of images from an evening around the town on Friday night..
Both shot with a Canon 40D and Sigma 10-20..
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WOW,i love that first shot,definately Tourist Postcard worthy :worship:
It's stunning,fantastic photo.
Even as a poster or printed on canvas.
Julie.
yep gotta agree first one is stunning !! nice work
Yeah loving the first one, amazing shot :D
that 1st one is a very nice hdr bud gotta be happy with that
first shot is awesome cant wait till i can do that
paul
first shot is awesome cant wait till i can do that
paul
If you want to know how.. I can give you some pointers ;)
As we're in critique.....
First pic the horizon is too central. I know we don't have to be a slave to 1/3s but this would really benefit from there not being the end of the main subject almost slap bang in the middle of the frame. You've shopped it nicely but it looks a bit over-processed to me but I imagine in print this wouldn't be the case.
Pic 2 looks great but the composition needs straightening up. I love the UWA and everything it gives but the convergence in this shot doesn't work for me. The chain in the lhbc initially appears to give foreground interest but I actually find it annoying.
Disclaimer: JMO, they're better than my shots but it's in critique so I said what I felt.
Thanks IZ..
First shot - I played around with the horizon level in the first.. there's a lot of mud expanse and a lot of sky.. I cropped to keep as much of the foreground mudflats as possible as I'll usually err towards more sky rather than less, and the expanse of mud at low tide is what makes this shot a bit different for those that know the area. If I crop anything off the bottom I lose the pool on the left, which balances the interest on the right-hand side. That leaves either trimming some more off the sky.. or reducing the crop on the sky to put more in.
Full frame pre-crop (with a different colour tone)..
I left it a bit late to take the shots, right on the light limits for the lens, and the image is a bit soft for my liking in a couple of places.
I will go back to this spot again at low tide.. maybe adjust the angle a little.. I can stand maybe 6' more to the left, or to the right all the way back to the shore.. I can also perhaps drop the view point a foot or so vertically.
What would you tone down on the processing? For an HDR this is about as restrained as it gets ;)
Second shot - you're right about the straightening, I only noticed it after I posted it - it's a couple of degrees out and needs rotating anti-clockwise. I initially thought about rejecting the shot because of the chain.. it's not quite far enough in to the frame for me, and there was room behind me to step back another couple of metres at least.. although my photo buddy was stood there lining up a shot the other way.
Taken at 10mm it's at the extreme end of the lens.. I'd prefer to get into a spot to use the lens at 14mm which is its sweet spot, but that would require a pair of mudwalking stilts for that angle.. but having said that I think I could have stepped to my right and back onto the edge of the road and used the gantry and granary to frame the soft evening light on the quayside buildings beyond.
All critique welcome.. otherwise how can I improve?
Notes
All HDR processing done using FDRTools Advanced 2.2, crop, tone and colour adjustments with Lightroom 2.3 (using preset 300v2 as a starting point), borders using Mogrify (and my own export preset), text added using GIMP 2.6.2.
I would have a go at cloning out the cars as well....
For the time being that level of cloning that is outside my abilities.. I'm not sure where I'd even start with the green estate.. textured background behind it, plus the textured fence in front..
It might be easier to sneak some yellow no parking cones down there the night before I go back..
For the time being that level of cloning that is outside my abilities.. I'm not sure where I'd even start with the green estate.. textured background behind it, plus the textured fence in front..
It might be easier to sneak some yellow no parking cones down there the night before I go back..
LMAO I'm rubbish at PS full stop. I think it's only the silver one that's distracting as it's so close to the centre of the frame.
Plan b sounds like a better option though........ :thumbsup:
Edit: soz it's not in the centre but my eye gets drawn to it.....
Nice pics !!
The only thing that bugs me is the 2nd one, take those cars out and it would be a better industrial feel to the pic.
Fantastic photos.
I agree that green car is a little distracting though.
nice, second one looks to be halo'd a bit from the HDR-i
are you shooting proper HDRi or pseudo HDRi ?
its really difficult to comment any further as the pics are so small
cdurkin100
19-05-09, 18:08
Greatv pics, love the first
I always do true multiple exposure HDRi processed and tonemapped with FDRTools.. if you click any of the pics it links through to the Flickr photopage.. then you've the option of "all sizes" to get the image as large as you want :)
There is a touch of haloing on the second.. I've been experimenting a bit further with some other images and I think I might be able to remove the worst of the haloing (certainly around the gantry) by adding a layer on top.
I like the sky in the second photo
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