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New Zealand

Postby ian.bertram on Mon Jan 03, 2011 10:45 pm

Hi 'yall
Here's a couple of images from my recent trip of the land of the long white cloud. Brilliant place and lots of opportunities if you've got the time.

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Kaikoura on the south island east coast (and my first play with my newly acquired ND grad filter)

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Cathedral Cove

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The Fox Glacier canyon (or the Gates of Mordor, take your pick).

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Ducks at Larnach Castle (Dunedin).
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Re: New Zealand

Postby biggerry on Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:38 am

The Fox Glacier canyon (or the Gates of Mordor, take your pick).


I'll take the gates of Mordor :up:

This shot and location never ceases to amaze me! you have really protrayed the sheer size here with the inclusion of those people. I think this composition would lend it self to a pano style shot if you had a couple of extra shots on each side!

I quite like the first too, a very nicely layered composition, I am still working out whether that seagull helps or hinders :up:
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Re: New Zealand

Postby Wink on Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:59 am

I'm amazed by the first one. The air is so clear throughout the shot.
It seems every time I go out the air has a haze to it which ruins everything.

I agree with Gerry on the third shot. The people made me realise just how big that canyon is. :shock:
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Re: New Zealand

Postby gstark on Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:42 am

Quack.

Love the colours in the first.

Quack.

I'd like to see the rest of the driftwood in the second; it seems to be truncated, to me.

Quack.

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