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Tasmania

Postby CraigVTR on Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:32 am

I went to Tasmania before Christmas to visit one of my daughters and had a little bit of time to relax and take a couple of shots. The first shot is, what I believe to be, some type of old mill building as there is a water race below the building and you can see a mount for a wheel on the side of the building.
The second shot is of the Low Head Lighthouse at the mouth of the Tamar.
The reason for the low viewpoint of each shot is because I did not take a tripod (too tight to pay for checked baggage) and I am unable to hold the camera in my right hand because of shoulder surgery. So the only option to get a shot was plonk the camera on a solid surface which happened to be the ground, my wife offered her shoulder as a 'monopod' a couple of times. :)
Both shots were taken with D300 and the SIgma 10-20, processed in LR5 with additional processing of the first shot in Nik Colour Efx Pro and PSCC.

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Re: Tasmania

Postby Murray Foote on Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:24 pm

In the first one the water is really good and the low viewpoint works really well. I'm not so sure that the yellow/green colour caste that Color FX Pro has given you works so well though.

The second one has great colour contrast. I think it works better with a little less foreground. I think your eye stays too long in the grass as it is. I don't know if you've seen them but I took some shots of Low Head on my lighthouse trip in 1987.
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Re: Tasmania

Postby zafra52 on Wed Jan 08, 2014 5:38 pm

I also like the first one, for its viewpoint. However, it looks rather
yellowish on my screen. I would suggest either a B&W or sepia version
if you cannot correct the colours.
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Re: Tasmania

Postby CraigVTR on Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:41 pm

Thanks for the feedback guys.
Murray Foote wrote:The second one has great colour contrast. I think it works better with a little less foreground. I think your eye stays too long in the grass as it is. I don't know if you've seen them but I took some shots of Low Head on my lighthouse trip in 1987.

Murray, those shots you have taken of Low Head are great I especially like the interior shot down the stairs. I hope to get some lighthouse shots on the Canadian Atlantic coast when I am over there later in the year.
Cropped out some of the foreground as suggested.
zafra52 wrote:I also like the first one, for its viewpoint. However, it looks rather
yellowish on my screen. I would suggest either a B&W or sepia version
if you cannot correct the colours.

I tried a few different treatments on the river shot but could not up with anything I liked other than the yellowish cast as shown. I gave your suggestion of sepia a go today but just could not seem to make it work. What I like about the yellow cast is that is seems to give it an older feel and brings out the colour of the leaves in the foreground.

Thanks for the comments and hear is the altered crop of the lighthouse.
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