a few from the past

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a few from the past

Postby Mr Darcy on Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:59 am

I am not quite an active photographer again, but I have started revisiting my back catalogue

A tribute to Arthur Stace that I made in response to a challenge here a few years ago. ("Painting with Light")
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I have learned a bit since then, and have applied a slight vignette and played with levels and contrast a bit. The original found in the link above was SOOC.
I should also mention that due to a computer crash with backups less than perfect, I lost my original photo. The edits were made by downloading the copy from the potograss website.

This was me playing around with light. I learned a lot about lighting with this shot (and the 20 odd that led up to this one :) )
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High key Haiku (aka The Bucket Woman)

This one still needs work. Perhaps a vignette, something needs to be done with the background, and I need to deal with that yellow object bottom right. But apart from the vignette, my PP skills are just not up to it.
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Re: a few from the past

Postby Remorhaz on Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:34 am

Welcome back to the land of the avid photographers Greg :)
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Re: a few from the past

Postby aim54x on Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:38 am

Great to see that you are still around Greg!

I really like the high key Haiku!
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Re: a few from the past

Postby ozimax on Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:34 pm

Amazing light painting. Hard work but worth it. Well done.

Arthur Stace, Mr Eternity, was a contemporary of my Grandfather, both Baptist church workers from a bygone era. I've always thought it ironic that on NYE, 1999, "Sin City" honoured, above all others, a Baptist street preacher!

Great image.
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Re: a few from the past

Postby TonyT on Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:08 pm

welcome back I been doing the same of late.
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Re: a few from the past

Postby Mr Darcy on Sun Apr 07, 2013 6:34 pm

I was never really happy with the magpie in this post, so I decided to have a go at reworking it while procratinating on a more pressing job

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Re: a few from the past

Postby zafra52 on Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:50 pm

Good selection. I prefer your second version of
the bird as it removes distracting elements and
directs the attention to the its eye.
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Re: a few from the past

Postby Matt. K on Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:40 pm

Magpie is an outstanding iconic ozzi image.Nice to see your reworked images
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