Lake Burley Griffin

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Lake Burley Griffin

Postby TonyT on Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:17 pm

Have not been doing much in taking photo's lately (work been the pits lately) but been going through photo library and found this one I took in 2008 with the 12 to 24 sigma


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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby lightning on Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:02 pm

I like that, the slab of orange is a bit strange but it still works for me.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby zafra52 on Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:39 pm

Yes, I think it works well providing a contrast
of colours that end up in a grey sky.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby Murray Foote on Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:25 pm

I think the orange is too dominant and makes your eye stop there too much. I think it would work better with just a sliver of orange or else a conversion to mono.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby TonyT on Sun Feb 24, 2013 2:03 pm

I went and took another shot today but standing further back so I could replace the foreground.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby ozimax on Sun Feb 24, 2013 2:48 pm

I like the image. It sort of reminds me of that photo in media last year worth ??million dollars?
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby Murray Foote on Sun Feb 24, 2013 2:55 pm

Definite improvement. I suspect a mono conversion would be even better since the key elements of the image are close to mono anyway.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby TonyT on Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:35 pm

To dark to light?
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby Murray Foote on Sun Feb 24, 2013 4:40 pm

I think that's good and I definitely prefer it to the colour version.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby stubbsy on Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:25 pm

I also think the moody black and white works much better. Like Murray I find the orange foreground dominates the colour version.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby zafra52 on Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:16 pm

Personally, I find this conversion to B&W too radical.
The sky is too dark on my screen, but maybe in yours
it looks OK.
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Re: Lake Burley Griffin

Postby Murray Foote on Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:04 pm

Possibly. I tend to think it's OK. The real test in my opinion is as a print.
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