Friday 9th Sept night meet...

[PiroStitch]

Great pics guys.

@ the smurf comment. Oli, giving extra oomph to colours is good, but I think you slightly went overboard

[MHD]

Well no one here has an excuse for not entering the 10s comp!

[psionic]

Oli: Whoa ! What happened ? The sky is more blue than a smurf ?

Yeah my post processing saturates the colours a bit. I like that look on landscape and whatever-scape photos in general.. The 'original' raw capture has a darker blue sky.

Smurfs are cool anyway!

The darker sky would have tied together with the foreground a little more. It mainly stood out as we had the others shots to compare with

Thanks for the link to the plogin, still haven't taken a look at Photoshop as I'm more comfortable with Paintshop Pro... not the same league that is for sure.

And I agree Smurf are cool

/M.

[DanielA]

Hi Psionic,

DanielA: The second shot is a ripper ! Colour looks great and the highlights are not blown. Has a very natural look and a great dark mood to the image. Agree with the others about the crop and camera placement just another 2 feet I also liked the 4th image, was there any colour change or gradient applied to the sky ? That's a fascinating colour.

Thanks, I plan to make a larger print of that one.
I didn't make any change to the sky. The cloud came in and I think the light from the city made it look like that. I think I prefer the blue that we had at the start of the evening.

Daniel

[psionic]

Hi Psionic,

Thanks, I plan to make a larger print of that one.
I didn't make any change to the sky. The cloud came in and I think the light from the city made it look like that. I think I prefer the blue that we had at the start of the evening.

Hi Daniel... that will make a great print

I'm amazed with the colour in the 4th shot, its the dark reddy brown sky which I find very unusual. I like the composition of this shot also, each light source from the buildings behind are not competing with each others and they each stand out individually.

I'm still very jealous I couldn't make it. Looks like everyone has a keeper from the shoot. I can't help but chuckle when I look at your first shot with BigV nealing down and those swans... that could have been a "funniest home video" moment

/M.