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Total Vividry

Postby photomarcs on Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:19 pm

Hey Guys,

Here's my set of Vivid Sydney images, first time at Vivid and woah.. love it ! wish i had more variable lenses.. oh well thats what next year is for! :lol:

Theyre extremely low res, I had to get them from my facebook since my friend has my external harddrive atm.. so enjoy!

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Re: Total Vividry

Postby bigsarg7 on Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:18 pm

wow.....i loved every shot but the second would be my favourite. you've come so far lately with all your shots. very very well done. :mrgreen:
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Re: Total Vividry

Postby surenj on Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:52 pm

Dude, these are phenomenal. The light on that statue looks too good.

What processing did you do on the #3? There is an appealing purple tinge. Did you add that?
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Re: Total Vividry

Postby zafra52 on Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:57 pm

Wow! 1,3 & 4. Number 2 plays with my
Autism because part of the water touches
one light but not the other, which gives me
the impression your were slightly off centre.
Also, the lights seem a bit blown out. Overall
I like all of them very much.
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Re: Total Vividry

Postby biggerry on Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:49 pm

plays with my Autism


ftw?

Marcus, i swear you were following me Cameron around that night, I have similiar shots at all those places ! :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

First cab off teh rank, those borders really dont rock my world, a photo should be able to stand by itself without being held up by a spanky frame, in this case I feel the frames over power the shots, which are quite nice and would hold on their own. Bear in mind that is merely my opinion though :wink:

I do like the pano crop on the second one, very nice, was there much blue light there? I recall they had the whole walkway in Hyde Park lit up in blue lights.

Nice effect on the opera house too :wink:
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Re: Total Vividry

Postby colin_12 on Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:39 pm

I really like the first two Marcus.
Very well done. :cheers:
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Re: Total Vividry

Postby photomarcs on Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:30 am

bigsarg7 wrote:wow.....i loved every shot but the second would be my favourite. you've come so far lately with all your shots. very very well done. :mrgreen:

colin_12 wrote:I really like the first two Marcus.
Very well done. :cheers:


Thanks guys, Much appreciated for your time to look at my work. :D
surenj wrote:Dude, these are phenomenal. The light on that statue looks too good.

What processing did you do on the #3? There is an appealing purple tinge. Did you add that?


Haha What I initially did was slightly desaturate, duplicate layer, colorize to a desturated brown tinge ( I'll say brown rather than sepia) and change to overlay. then played around with curve adjustments on individual channels.

zafra52 wrote:Wow! 1,3 & 4. Number 2 plays with my
Autism because part of the water touches
one light but not the other, which gives me
the impression your were slightly off centre.
Also, the lights seem a bit blown out. Overall
I like all of them very much.


Thanks for taking your time to look at these :) yeah.. i was slightly off centre as someone else was centred in and decided to camp there for an hour :( I tried my best to recover what i could from the lights, but the toning effect is caused by desturating, and increasing the highlight and shadow contrast =D interesting effect..



biggerry wrote:Marcus, i swear you were following me Cameron around that night, I have similiar shots at all those places !

First cab off teh rank, those borders really dont rock my world, a photo should be able to stand by itself without being held up by a spanky frame, in this case I feel the frames over power the shots, which are quite nice and would hold on their own. Bear in mind that is merely my opinion though

I do like the pano crop on the second one, very nice, was there much blue light there? I recall they had the whole walkway in Hyde Park lit up in blue lights.

Nice effect on the opera house too


Hahah I loved that fountain.. I went there like 5 times? haha

The borders were mainly for facebook purposes.. hence why the last opera house was differently bordered.. since most of my photos have that border, i was like.. yeah why not :wink: but i understand what you mean by overpowering the image..

There was a chonker full of blue light!!!!! I kinda felt as if it was overly blue.. I don't know.. it felt cheap to me.. so I decided to "marcus-ify" this pano style crop with the color styling.. haha getting creative I guess you could say here. =D

The Opera House.. haha funny that.. all i was trying to do was get a small opera house.. inside a big opera house.. but failed dramatically at the exposure.. but funnily enough, passed the exposure test when i wanted a fanning Opera house =D haha WIN for me! thanks for taking your time Biggerry, much appreciated.
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