Blues Point Sunset...

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Blues Point Sunset...

Postby Remorhaz on Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:59 pm

It was great to catch up with all you guys (and gal) - a very enjoyable evening eating, talking and shooting - even Cam's 1000mm+ Nikon J1 :) and only wish I'd gotten more time to try out the D800 :(

Comments and suggestions welcome...

Pre Sunset with 10 Stop ND and a 0.9 GND filters pointing towards the setting sun

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During sunset pointing away from the sun (towards the Opera House and the coathanger) again with 10 Stop ND and a 0.9 GND filters - a three and a half minute exposure to get some interesting water and sky effects - my favourite shot of the evening

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Which unfortunately meant I missed most of sunset in the other direction - here's the trailing edge

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and lastly back towards Luna Park, SHB and SOH for the obligatory twilight long exposure

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Re: Blues Point Sunset...

Postby aim54x on Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:20 am

I am simply loving the big stopper action!
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Re: Blues Point Sunset...

Postby surenj on Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:03 pm

#2 I would brighten the top half by half a stop and mark it to keep... :wink: The creamy tones and nice combined with the pastel colors and the familiar sight.

The rest is meh. I am not too excited about the inclusion of the stoney pavement which has icky texture and clashes.
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Re: Blues Point Sunset...

Postby biggerry on Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:09 pm

surenj wrote: which has icky texture and clashes.


lol, for lack of a technical term

Nice shots Rodney, i like the second one, buts no surprise - i think the slightly wider composition works well here but on the flip side the eye does not know whether to concentrate on the sky or the foreground, possibly cropping some sky would balance it out more.
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Re: Blues Point Sunset...

Postby zafra52 on Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:14 pm

I like the 3rd one best. Lovely colours
and well framed.
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Re: Blues Point Sunset...

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:23 am

aim54x wrote:I am simply loving the big stopper action!


Yes but it's making me want the "real" BigStopper now... :cry:

surenj wrote:#2 I would brighten the top half by half a stop and mark it to keep... The creamy tones and nice combined with the pastel colors and the familiar sight.


Thanks Suren - I tried half a stop but found it too much (settled on a quarter :))

surenj wrote:The rest is meh. I am not too excited about the inclusion of the stoney pavement which has icky texture and clashes.

biggerry wrote:lol, for lack of a technical term


:) - hard to find something to do with the edge wall other than completely exclude it and have nothing at the bottom or try and incorporate somehow. I was kinda happy with it in #3 (although I MUCH prefer Gerry's shot in this instance). With #4 how about a pano crop of the top half?

biggerry wrote:Nice shots Rodney, i like the second one, buts no surprise - i think the slightly wider composition works well here but on the flip side the eye does not know whether to concentrate on the sky or the foreground, possibly cropping some sky would balance it out more.


Yeah... - I'm not sure - me personally I liked the action that was going on in the sky the best...

zafra52 wrote:I like the 3rd one best. Lovely colours and well framed.


Thanks Zafra - but you've really got to check out Gerry's masterpiece in this instance :)
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