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Night shot of Canberra

Postby DanielA on Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:56 pm

Was in Canberra last week so I had to take the usual tourist photo:

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I am still coming to terms with HDR, so feedback is appreciated.

You can see some other shots via the gallery thread.

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Postby christiand on Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:24 pm

Hi Daniel,

wow, I haven't seen the old and the new Parliament house look like that -looks really fantastic, great photo.
You were on the "other side of the lake" - towards the War Memorial ?
What time of night did you take the shot ?
May I suggest that you crop this photo tightly so that the reflections in the lake only become a very small proportion of the image ?
This will turn it sort of into a pano - have the old Parliament House in the lower part (just below half) of the image - have the roof of Questacon being almost the center of the image horizontally..
Again, very nice.
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Thanks for sharing,
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Postby Alex on Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:52 pm

That's a fantastic shot! Love the colour and composition. Well done!

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Postby bwhinnen on Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:44 am

Nice one! Pink and Green though? What are they thinking ;)
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:06 am

Great image Daniel and unlike a lot of HDR shots this looks real if that makes sense. I think Christian's cropping idea is worth examining too.

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Postby bwhinnen on Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:00 am

Ahh that makes much more sense now, a worthy cause! Thanks Peter.
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Postby DanielA on Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:45 pm

Thanks everyone.

christiand wrote:You were on the "other side of the lake" - towards the War Memorial ?
What time of night did you take the shot ?

That's right. There is a nice lookout there, directly between the War Memorial and Parliament, right down by the water.
I think it was about 8:30pm.

christiand wrote:May I suggest that you crop this photo tightly [...]

Hmm... Here's the crop you suggested.
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I'm not sure... I don't know if the shot has the image quality to be viewed like this (the 18-70dx is good but not perfect). There is some CA showing on on each side, now I look closely.

christiand wrote:Have you been to Floriade ?

No, I didn't get there.

stubbsy wrote:Great image Daniel and unlike a lot of HDR shots this looks real if that makes sense.

Thanks. I have trouble making the HDR shots look real. Otherwise I might use HDR more often.
More practice I guess...

stubbsy wrote:The pink lights are part of Breast Cancer Month where buildings around the country are lit up in pink to promote breast cancer awareness

Ah, I wondered if that was the reason. It was certainly a bold colour.

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Postby Pehpsi on Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:58 pm

Very nice indeed! Lovin' the colours and silky water..
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Postby christiand on Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:33 pm

Hi Daniel,

thanks a lot for your response (reply). :D
I love the way you cropped the image to an allmost panoramic shot of the two parliament buildings.
Are you going to get that one printed ? It has to be worthwhile - it is a great shot :)
Is the pink illumination of the old parliament house only happening for a limited period of time because of ladies breast cancer awereness week or so ?

Again, thanks a lot for sharing - I think you have taken a lovely image.

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Postby DanielA on Wed Oct 10, 2007 11:10 pm

Thanks Pehpsi, Christiand

christiand wrote:thanks a lot for your response (reply). :D

No problem.

christiand wrote:I love the way you cropped the image to an allmost panoramic shot of the two parliament buildings.

Thanks for the suggestion. :D

christiand wrote:Are you going to get that one printed ? It has to be worthwhile - it is a great shot :)

I might do. I don't print many photos, but every now and then I'll get a batch done.

christiand wrote:Is the pink illumination of the old parliament house only happening for a limited period of time because of ladies breast cancer awereness week or so ?

We believe it is for the awareness campaign. I don't know how long it will be like that. It may have finished now. Can't you pop past and check? :)

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Postby CraigVTR on Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:15 pm

Great shot Daniel. I like the pano crop. Shame about the crane on the left hand side, but that is part of city life and progress.
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Postby DanielA on Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:37 pm

CraigVTR wrote:Shame about the crane on the left hand side, but that is part of city life and progress.

Thanks. Yes the crane is a shame. It doesn't look as bad at night as it did during the day. Great yellow thing looming out there... :?

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