Surfers of North Curl Curl

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Surfers of North Curl Curl

Postby surenj on Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:34 pm

These guys were having a great time. In particular the kid that Gerry was referring to...

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Re: Surfers of North Curl Curl

Postby biggerry on Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:03 pm

i am liking that last image, very nice timing. I reckon you could combine the first 2 into a triptych? I think that would be a cracker for this kid since he had a variation of moves!

i find these to be quite blue/cool, can someone else confirm this? possible hitting them with some warmth may help.

i think this just shows that having a shorter focal length is often not such a bad thing, these work quite well in terms of distance, did you crop these?
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Re: Surfers of North Curl Curl

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:45 am

biggerry wrote:i find these to be quite blue/cool, can someone else confirm this? possible hitting them with some warmth may help.


A little - if anything a little green/blue

I don't mind that Diptych for the first - a story is told :)

I think I prefer the waveshape and compo of the third to the fourth but the last is cleaner and sharper
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Re: Surfers of North Curl Curl

Postby surenj on Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:06 pm

Gerry, these are relatively heavily cropped. I guess it's ok as long as I don't want to enlarge too much.

biggerry wrote:the first 2 into a triptych? I think that would be a cracker for this kid since he had a variation of moves!

Hmm Good idea. will try.

Remorhaz wrote:A little - if anything a little green/blue

biggerry wrote:i find these to be quite blue/cool, can someone else confirm this? possible hitting them with some warmth may help.

Yeah, I had this dirty polariser on my lens which caused loss of contrast (that's what I assume) so I upped the blacks. This causes higher saturation. I prefer cool to warm but green ain't good. Although the water would have a slight bit of green as well. :wink:
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Re: Surfers of North Curl Curl

Postby biggerry on Tue Mar 13, 2012 1:37 pm

surenj wrote:Yeah, I had this dirty polariser on my lens which caused loss of contrast (that's what I assume) so I upped the blacks. This causes higher saturation. I prefer cool to warm but green ain't good. Although the water would have a slight bit of green as well. :wink:


I reckon the last image is the closest in terms of colour :cheers:
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