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Critique please: Lower Lake

Postby xerubus on Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:59 pm

After some constructive criticism please.

This is a shot of what my kids call the 'lower lake'. The shot is a long exposure in infrared, with some added film grain.

http://www.nikonaustralia.com/gallery/Other/lower_lake

Here's my thoughts. At first I thought the shot was far too busy, but after a while I found that this 'busyness' was not actually a bad thing for me.. it gave me plenty to dwell upon in the shot. I would have also liked to have exposed for longer to get star trails.. but there is always next time.

Over to you.

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Postby sheepie on Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:12 pm

very nice - although I'm not a huge fan of IR.

As a suggestion, have you tried cropping to avoid the foliage in the foreground? Not sure how it would look, maybe just burning a little to reduce the whiteness of it would help.

I like the fact you can make out stars, although a slightly darker sky would have shown them better.


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Postby xerubus on Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:14 pm

i might make a couple of adjustments as per your suggestions... will let you know...
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Postby phillipb on Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:24 pm

Xerebus, I can't give you any critisism constructive or otherwise because I've never tried IR, but I do have a question. How come the trees are so obviously IR but their reflection in the water is very normal?
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Postby xerubus on Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:29 pm

the trees had direct light from behind me reflecting on them.... in the original shot, you can't actually see any reflection in the water... i had to play a lot with contrast to actually start to see the reflection...
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Postby Vicareyus on Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:23 pm

Hi Xerubus
Don't know anything about IR so cant comment on this aspect. Re the foreground - I actually think it might improve with a touch more of the foreground included...but then I know too well that experience of making multiple croppings of same image and at the end going...well quite like them all really - gets confusing. Like the shot before on your website - silk clouds.
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