 | Discussion on: Image 74 - "Griffin Creek" |
| Discussion on: Image 74 - "Griffin Creek" |
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| Discussion, revisions and constructive critisms of Image 74 - "Griffin Creek" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #1 May 29th 2005 17:26:35 | Looks like a nice peaceful place and you captured that feeling. For some reason things like streams seem to photograph better if they run diagonally in the shot rather than front/back. They add more 'depth'. (Perhaps someone can explain this better.) I cropped in an attempt to get a more diagonal feel. And I lightened, increased contrast, and sharpened. |
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| Andy Leach (RedAndy) Msg: #2 May 29th 2005 17:27:44 | This is the original. To from here to the 'final' version I straightened the horizon ( oops ) added some green and saturated iirc. |
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| Ali Watters (Ali) Msg: #3 May 30th 2005 01:41:23 | What a great scene - if only you'd had a tripod and tried a slow shutter speed (~1.5 secs) - I love the effect of water on a slow shot, where it starts to look like cream flowing. Tough to spot where the horizon is with all that foilage - so you have a very good excuse! What screen resolution are you running at Andy? [Edited: 01:43 - Ali ] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Andy Leach (RedAndy) Msg: #4 May 30th 2005 05:04:33 | Like how some of the image being removed has added space, the pool towards the top looks much bigger now. The white has gone a bit bright on the water but the shape is much better and the diagonal feel really works. I'll keep that in mind for the next time. I actually have a pile of similar ones to these taken at different shutter speeds and slightly differentlocations, but none came out quite as well as this. If I'd been shooting RAW I probably could have got the shutter speed without over exposure. I love the 'creamy water' thing too, it would fit well here. In case you're interested: just behind us from here is a paradise duck sleeping on a rock in the middle of a crystal blue glacial melt river sleeping with one leg up and its beak tucked into a wing. I have a pile of them too :) It's probably one of my favourite huts in NZ, so isolated and relaxing ( so long as the river doesn't rise ). I'm on 1024x768. [Edited: 05:07 - RedAndy ] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Ali Watters (Ali) Msg: #5 May 30th 2005 05:34:23 | A 1024x768 version - if it is resized to 1200px - I'll check the code - the full version should be kept at this size. I've cropped, rotated, and put a circular filter over the top - with wallpapers I like the edges to be relatively dark, so that the icons that I leave there are easily visible. Don't know how well this has come out. I'll have to visit this hut if I ever get the chance to return to NZ. |
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| Ali Watters (Ali) Msg: #6 May 30th 2005 05:42:50 | Repost of 1024x768... |
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| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #7 May 30th 2005 10:06:02 | "The white has gone a bit bright on the water" My re-edits are generally quick and dirty. I used a big brush to lighten the background foliage. It would be fairly easy to leave the water un-lightened and not blow the detail. (Getting my good monitor on line might help as well. Even cleaning the screen on this one.... ;o) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Andy Leach (RedAndy) Msg: #8 June 7th 2005 02:19:06 | Thanks Ali, it's on my desktop right now :) The dark edges works really well. Bob, the suspense is killing us all just plug in that fancy monitor of yours will you ;-) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #9 June 8th 2005 12:43:20 | Not at all a fancy monitor. It's just that I can't seem to adjust this LCD that I'm using to give me a good dynamic range. I'm not sure when a shot is actually over/under exposed and when it's my monitor. Hooking up the new one means some semi-major desk reworking - I'm in a very makeshift space. (Building a house around me.) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #10 June 8th 2005 18:31:55 | Bob, that reminds me - I had minor problems getting the other LCD display we use to display all the major greyscales. My solution in the end was to install the Gamma adjust tool that shipped as part of the graphics drivers - now it displays the major ones properly. Might help... | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #11 June 8th 2005 18:34:56 | Whilst I remember, you don't need the monitor to be perfect to tell whether or not you've blown the highlights/shadows - use Curves, and put one point immediately beneath the end you wish to test, that'll show you! As will checking each channel using Levels, if it starts to "pile up" at the either end, then (technically at least) you've blown the channel | |||||||||||||||||||||
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