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Here are a few images from the Blue Mountains mini meet last weekend. All images taken with my new D700. Your feedback is much appreciated. Click a pic to see it larger.

Hey Peter... interesting move to go for a D700 at this point in the cycle.

Feedback on the pics... to my eye they all appear a little oversharpened here.
The composition of #1 and #2 doesn't really deliver much that I can see but #3 provides a nice classic layout left to right and well balanced.

cheers,

Michael.

Impressive dynamic range in these Peter.

I agree that they are oversharpened. Are you using the same LR settings from your D300? Also the HDR effect is too much especially in the first. Perhaps paint that down a bit so you can direct the viewer to the interesting areas where it's sharper.

I can't but help the last one when the lighting is more even and water could be blurred a bit...

Interesting processing on teh first two Peter, compositionally the second one does it for me, the path and the overhang give the image depth, this is something the first does not have even with the two paths, couple this with the aussie bush and its gonna look flat any which way.

I think both teh first and second could be imporved by warming the white balance up, I find bush scenes come across alot better with say a 'cloudy' settign for the white balance or in post just warming them up.

I can't but help the last one when the lighting is more even and water could be blurred a bit...

I agree, however this image works nicely with the water frozen in time, its a classic spot there and very much photographed, especially given its close proximity to teh carpark did you head down the stairs after that?

and, congrads on your new purchase

I like the variety here Peter. It is nice to see that when you go out for a walk you do a good one.

Mj wrote:Hey Peter... interesting move to go for a D700 at this point in the cycle.

Not my original plan - but I needed a second body for my forthcoming trip to Antarctica so the D700 made sense - otherwise I'd have waited for the D700 replacement

Mj wrote:Feedback on the pics... to my eye they all appear a little oversharpened here

The first two are both HDR images and I think the oversharpened look is a result of that. Here's a version of #1 from a single image without the HDR treatment and a slightly tighter crop.