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Cocaine Corner

Postby biggerry on Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:06 pm

man, with that title I am bound to at least get some great google views :)

Nonetheless the title is not completely irrelevant to the images, only midly..

Sunrise at Little bay with the crazy swelled resulted in nothing but a heap of fluffly white waves and foam, i am not one to let that kinda opportunity pass me up so I did try and get a few snow filled frames.

Additionally, I gave the 105mm f2.5 a quick bash to see what I could get with that.

Thanks to Suren for the lend of the bigstopper, I am gonna have to buy one of these or else Suren's gonna start charging me rent.

Critique always welcome on any aspect, composition, processing etc..particularly the BW conversion (an aspect that I never feel happy with)

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and a little series set to give a bit of an idea of the swell..

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Re: Cocaine Corner

Postby zafra52 on Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:16 pm

Lovely set. I like them all...but, the title?
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Re: Cocaine Corner

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:37 am

#2 for me - the colours and compo are nice and the wider view you got makes that foreground hole look bigger and better I reckon.

#1 just doesn't look right for me - possibly just a personal thing? - all dark, colourful and contrasty on the top left and misty white on the bottom right

#3 the soft B+W is good and probably suits the scene we saw. I reckon we could have done with a 300mm tho and really focused on a compressed just the front of the headland and those crashing waves.
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Re: Cocaine Corner

Postby aim54x on Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:02 pm

These are nice Gerry.

#1 I like the contrast between the rock and the misty water, you have great colour and saturation in this
#2 what dont you have here? Movement, colour, lines....not much left out!
#3 the weak link in my opinion. You dont quite have enough contrast, nor tone, but I am sure you going to whip something up out of this

biggerry wrote:Thanks to Suren for the lend of the bigstopper, I am gonna have to buy one of these or else Suren's gonna start charging me rent.


Well I did post that coupon code....
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Re: Cocaine Corner

Postby biggerry on Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:03 am

zafra52 wrote:Lovely set. I like them all...but, the title?

fluffly white powder = cocaine, i need something to jazz up the seascapes nowadays.. :up:

Remorhaz wrote:#1 just doesn't look right for me - possibly just a personal thing? - all dark, colourful and contrasty on the top left and misty white on the bottom right


thats cool, each to their own
water is flowing out the image - probably does not help the feel of teh image

Remorhaz wrote:#3 the soft B+W is good and probably suits the scene we saw. I reckon we could have done with a 300mm tho and really focused on a compressed just the front of the headland and those crashing waves.


true, however i reckon you need a third element in there, in this case the golfers provide context and scale - howeve r the 300 mm might have just gotten close enough to nail that dude way out in the BG on teh rocks!

aim54x wrote:#3 the weak link in my opinion. You dont quite have enough contrast, nor tone, but I am sure you going to whip something up out of this


yeah, the image lacked colour hence the BW option however I cannot get it to look 'right', i compo wise its a winner but the PP angle lets it down.

aim54x wrote:#1 I like the contrast between the rock and the misty water, you have great colour and saturation in this


yeah its amazing, there is actually not much work on this image, sooc with the bigstopper and GND and things looked pretty sweet.

aim54x wrote:Well I did post that coupon code....


no tlong now :)
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Re: Cocaine Corner

Postby colin_12 on Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:32 pm

I like the second and fourth Gerry.
I had a play with the second....

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.....Maybe a bit dark but you get the gist I am sure.
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Re: Cocaine Corner

Postby biggerry on Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:49 am

colin_12 wrote:I like the second and fourth Gerry.
I had a play with the second....

.....Maybe a bit dark but you get the gist I am sure.


I like it, good edit Colin, I would leave the left side on to give it a bit more balance but this pano crop and bumped contrast seems to work for me. :up: :up:
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