Went for a night walk

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Went for a night walk

Postby dawesy on Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:17 am

Intention was to scope out a location for a shoot Sunday night and pop some frames to see how things might work out. Though these were worth having reviewed.

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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby gstark on Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:25 am

The first and the fourth of these work for me.

In each of these, I'd like to see if you could have wrung out a tad more detail from them, and in the fourth, I'd have liked to have seen a slightly lower viewpoint, thus allowing a bit more of the trees at the far end of the roadway to come into view.
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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby dawesy on Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:50 am

Alas a lower viewpoint may not be possible as this was taken from a bridge over the canal, but if I recall correctly te fence was bars not solid, so I may be able to get down a bit on my next visit and see how it goes.

A couple of lazy PP jobs. Simply upped exposure.

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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby gstark on Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:06 pm

dawesy wrote:Alas a lower viewpoint may not be possible as this was taken from a bridge over the canal


Fair enough. It was just a thought.

These are, IMHO, nicer. Maybe a bit of NR on the first, now?
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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby dawesy on Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:23 pm

Maybe... I might shoot them again when I am down there Sunday and get the exposure right out of the box, that may help the noise a tad, and go from there.

Still, not bad for 3200 ISO and then bumped EV +1 in post is it? In fact the second was bumped +1.7. I do like this camera...
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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby whoalse on Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:28 pm

Definitely a tad too dark for my liking as no details to look at. The noise may be alright for the dark, eerie look though. :cough:

When I first saw the images, horror-like scenes struck me and I'm no fan of horror movies! :lol:
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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby surenj on Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:33 pm

Would love to see the final results of the shoot.. I assume you have only shown us the potential backdrop for your images..?
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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby dawesy on Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:39 pm

Results of the shoot are viewtopic.php?f=18&t=34569

Didn't use the above as the backdrop, but was shot by the canal in these images.

I intended to re-shoot the two above but the canal was full of water, and the flood lights at the end weren't on, so the shot simply wasn't there!
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Re: Went for a night walk

Postby DebT on Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:14 am

Hi,
#1 for me ..find that the shot has plenty to look at and was drawn by the differnt angles and reflections
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