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Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:27 am
by paulmac
New toy. I just love the crazy distorted perspectives you can coax out of this lens.

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We build our ferris wheels to go faster here...

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This one has been straightened out just a little:
Many thanks to the dude on the pushbike for the light trail....

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As has this one: A fairly stock kind of picture, but it does look nicer at a higher resolution.

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Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:49 am
by velly_16v_cab
love the photos. the first one looks crazy! i love it hehe

i have been meaning to get out around the city since having my tripod.
I am a sucker for the flames outside crown :D :up:

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:21 am
by Glen
Nice work Paul, any sort of post processing?

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:22 am
by MHD
Second one is very cool.... nice work!

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:48 am
by PiroStitch
very nice Paul :) That second one looks like it's this huge ray gun powering up to blast us back to the stone age.

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:18 am
by potato1
Great stuff, I like the second the best with the ferris wheel. :up:

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:32 am
by paulmac
Glen wrote:Nice work Paul, any sort of post processing?


The first one is straight off the camera. I sent the others through Neat Image to reduce noise.

The last two had a small amount of distortion correction applied to them, and then the resulting crop. I could have left them alone, but the Arts Centre spire and the city buildings had just enough lean on them to make it noticeable.


Piro, you and I are on the same page. The second one just needs a bunch of monkeys dancing around, ala 2001 A Space Odyssey! Or is it a stargate into some other parallel universe....
OK, where did I put my pills?

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:41 pm
by PiroStitch
Heh, thought you were going to ask me to run around and start painting the bells with the strobes or something :P

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:12 pm
by camrak
Good shots Paul, speccialy this #3! I like the mirror effect in the water. :up:
Small complain ... for me #2 is quite overexposed, but I know that the lighting conditions in this place was very hard to make balanced exposure. :)

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:41 pm
by pucara
Nice photos Paul I like number 3 keep the good work..we see in the next meeting in the city,,,,carlos,.. :lol:

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:13 pm
by Pehpsi
A great set of images, all four of them.

I like night shots because they require very little PP for some reason.

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:10 am
by Greg B
Great shots, I love them all. The 10-20 is a really good lens and you have shown its potential very well.

#2 is special!

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:50 pm
by chrisk
#2 rocks man ! i love it. very unusual aspect.

Re: Melbourne at night, with the aid of a 10-20mm

PostPosted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:58 pm
by Matt. K
Big,bold and colourful! Works every time.