Rainy Day Pelican

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Rainy Day Pelican

Postby Bob G on Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:05 pm

Just playing around in CS 4 with some old stock.

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Re: Rainy Day Pelican

Postby !~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! on Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:42 am

hehe that's cool
did u de-sat the water at all?
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Re: Rainy Day Pelican

Postby barry on Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:05 pm

I like it. Nice shot.
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Re: Rainy Day Pelican

Postby Bob G on Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:03 pm

!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! wrote:hehe that's cool
did u de-sat the water at all?



No - probably Saturated it a bit if anything.

Heavy dark overcast day.
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Re: Rainy Day Pelican

Postby Reschsmooth on Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:06 pm

The lighting is very good - it looks like very heavy cloud cover but then with lights at both camera left to provide a bit of a kicker and a main light at camera right - do you have a monster, flooded studio? :biglaugh:
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Re: Rainy Day Pelican

Postby aim54x on Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:16 pm

Reschsmooth wrote:The lighting is very good - it looks like very heavy cloud cover but then with lights at both camera left to provide a bit of a kicker and a main light at camera right - do you have a monster, flooded studio? :biglaugh:
 ROFL...but great lighting all the same! I love how there is a fair amount of detail in the reflection as well!
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Re: Rainy Day Pelican

Postby surenj on Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:33 am

Nice capture bob, I like the somewhat muted colours and the shadow... however I would like to see it in a portrait or squarish crop with more shadow included.

aim54x wrote:do you have a monster, flooded studio?

:rotfl2:
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