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Hlop's Jenolan Caves

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:15 am
by Hlop
Finally, I managed to finish PP and can annoy all of you with another set of caves' pictures :)

http://hlop.net/gallery/JenolanCaves

Could you tell which of them you really hate and wouldn't keep? Seriously, no offence. I need to know that

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:30 am
by Matt. K
Mikhail
You've got a couple of beauties there! :lol: :lol: :lol:

You seem to have nailed the white balance very well...but were you using a tripod?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:52 am
by Hlop
Matt. K wrote:Mikhail
You've got a couple of beauties there! :lol: :lol: :lol:


Do you mean Lara and Taya? :lol:

You seem to have nailed the white balance very well...but were you using a tripod?


Yes, I was using tripod, WB Auto. Then changed it to Incadescent in NC and, for some images, set it a bit colder. Also, for some of them I set enchanced saturation where I liked it. But for a few photos I used SB-800

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:57 pm
by agriffiths
I love pics 38 and 39! What were the light sources for these shots?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:36 pm
by stubbsy
Mikhail

A general observation is I think you've gone too far with the WB adjustment. I'd have liked a slightly more orange cast to many of these.

#1 is an interesting take on the bones. Every other image I've seen so far was a close up. Your shot gives a nice scale to the shot.

#10 - I like the composition in this shot, but think it would look better with a WB change to make it more orange.

#18 is great. It looks like a rhinocerous!

#19 - great shadows, again I'd like more orange.

#20 - perfect!

#24 would be great if the DOF wasn't so shallow leaving only your daughter in focus :cry:

#26 - another perfect one

#27 - a little too dark - maybe lighten the top

#31 - blown highlight in left middle is very distracting

#33 - more orange & darker would improve this

#39 - could be improved by cropping out the stairs on the right

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:57 pm
by Hlop
Thanks for detailed review Peter! I'll take most of your comments into account :)

Rhino's head was found by Taya but she pretends that it's a dragon

PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:00 pm
by Hlop
agriffiths wrote:I love pics 38 and 39! What were the light sources for these shots?


Light was "natural" :) They've got some light bulbs lightening the water. Number 41 shows the same place with those underwater lights off