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Again, thanks very much to Russell (rflower) for showing me around Melbourne on the weekend and driving me all over the place

We headed down to the docklands to try and see what the sunset would do, I was a bit disappointed I did not have more time and a tripod (russell did offer), however I can definitely see the potential in this location, as Russell mentioned this is a premo spot for getting some magical reflections of the city off the water.

Anyway heres a couple for critique from teh evening!

Golden light of sunset. How square are those buildings, that 105mm lens has literally no distortion, great pano lens


hey check out this green stuff, it grows everywhere, even in the city



I am pretty happy with this one, I usually suck majorly when taking images looking into the sun, but this pano worked out alright imo. The horizon looks a bit off now that I look at it.



and the bridge, probably should have made the pano a bit wider on the rhs...thoughts? is it a dead composition?

#1 is quite tidy I reckon. The only small tinkering I can suggest would be try and instill a similar color scheme to the RHS and LHS (ie warmify a little) to make it more even. I'd hate to think of the size of this image on your disk.

#2

#3 I am in two minds about this one. Not sure about the OOF areas which occupy about 1/4 of the frame.

#4

biggerry wrote:is it a dead composition?

Yes, I reckon if you were compare to your usual high standards. Do you have any other compos of the same subject? BTW nicely done considering the sky gave you (almost) nothing.

#3 is growing on me. Especially when I looked at it on my TV.

surenj wrote:#3 is growing on me. Especially when I looked at it on my TV.

Now you're just scaring me

#1 is very nice - love the warm glow on the buildings - crop off the left inch perhaps?

#3 I wonder what it would have looked like with the silhouette on the left being tack sharp and the dock in the distance being OOF instead

#4 I reckon you might have needed to be further to the right and closer to the bridge so it curves in front of you rather than straight across, I also find that large central pilon offputting somehow

Well i really like #1, but agree with Remorhaz about the left hand side and taking off an inch, I think it would finish of the image. I think you've captured one of the nice angles of the city for sure!

#4 I like but i do think a little more on the right would have added to the perspective a lot, but in saying that i imagine there was a lot of powerline and not nice background over that side of the bridge to memory. But the clarity I like and since the sunset was a tad dull with no clouds i think you captured it beautifully! how did you find the d7000?

I think that #3 is the pick of these.

It just glows; great use of the light here, Gerry.

surenj wrote:#1 is quite tidy I reckon. The only small tinkering I can suggest would be try and instill a similar color scheme to the RHS and LHS (ie warmify a little) to make it more even. I'd hate to think of the size of this image on your disk.

good point, I did not notice that temperature difference there..in regards to teh file size...I had to reduce the pano to 50% just to be able to work with it..

surenj wrote:Yes, I reckon if you were compare to your usual high standards. Do you have any other compos of the same subject?

I do have a couple that I will play with, these mainly concentrate on teh pillars and the tonal colours of teh sunset. Standby on that one.

surenj wrote:#3 is growing on me. Especially when I looked at it on my TV.

that I need to see...

Remorhaz wrote:#1 is very nice - love the warm glow on the buildings - crop off the left inch perhaps?

bigsarg7 wrote:Well i really like #1, but agree with Remorhaz about the left hand side and taking off an inch

yeah, that would also sort out the colour on that side and maybe balance it up some more...

Remorhaz wrote:#3 I wonder what it would have looked like with the silhouette on the left being tack sharp and the dock in the distance being OOF instead

from memory I think I have a singlke shot with this, I will dig it up and see what it looks like.

Remorhaz wrote:#4 I reckon you might have needed to be further to the right and closer to the bridge so it curves in front of you rather than straight across, I also find that large central pilon offputting somehow

bigsarg7 wrote:#4 I like but i do think a little more on the right would have added to the perspective a lot,

yeah, I am fairly convinced its a bit of dead composition, relocating to the other side of the river/bay would possibly give a more curved profile to it - maybe I should have taken up a ride in the police boat that was nearby

gstark wrote:It just glows; great use of the light here, Gerry.

yeah, I quite like this one, something a bit different for me...maybe not the best in alot of regards but something different nonetheless which makes it work for me.

bigsarg7 wrote:how did you find the d7000?

standby for gerrys essay on a week and halfs use of the D7000! in a nutshell its pretty good, but that is me coming from a D80, so it should be.

biggerry wrote:that I need to see...

You asked for it....

surenj wrote:

biggerry wrote:that I need to see...

You asked for it....

lol nice...shame about the toddler roll cage