Landscape Photos from Werribee Treatment Plant and Glenmore

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Landscape Photos from Werribee Treatment Plant and Glenmore

Postby kipper on Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:48 pm

A couple more photos of the environment at Werribee Treatment Plant at dusk. Taken on the field trip with Nicole, Bruce, Arthur and his wife Rachelle (spelling?). This was the best sunset I've ever seen, the colors in the sky and the algae in the water was producing some amazing colors.
The pano was taken handheld and made up of I think 9-10 images. The final result was an image about 11000x2900. I cropped it down to 10000x2800 as there was some white section and I though there was some space on the right that didn't give the image much symmetry.


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Also a Rainbow taken on Reids Rd south of Glenmore last Monday on my RDO while I was out taking photos and following Wedge-Tail Eagles.

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Postby rokkstar on Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:54 pm

That second is superb. Love the reflection.

And what can I say about the rainbow? Love it, love the negative space, love the the tree and how the rainbow is falling into it. Terrific.
I might try increasing the saturation and a slight curve adjustment though.
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Postby kipper on Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:58 pm

On the rainbow?

I've already bumped the saturation a fair bit and applied a velvia action. I might muck around with levels and curves to try and bring out the rainbow more. It's funny when you look at it in the flesh it looks more vivid. When you record it, it seems to lack umph. Does that come down to the dynamic range of photography?

FYI, in the second those aren't dust bunnies but birds. If you look at the left at the horizon you can see a flock of them.

I really don't know why I have a tripod as I seem to manage handheld quite well :) I guess for long exposures at beaches/rivers it's good or if you want to do macro (then again Kerry does quite well handheld).
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Postby Hlop on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:03 pm

All 3 are good but rainbow is my favorite. Well done!
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Postby kipper on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:16 pm

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm going to reprocess the second photo in panofactory as I've just done a different photo using different settings and I think it has worked a lot better.
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Postby embi on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:31 pm

I wouldn't have wasted my time taking the rainbow shot. I would have been over the fence in a flash to get the pot of gold to satisfy the lens lust! :lol:

Awesome images once again. Keep showing them to us!
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Postby owen on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:31 pm

The third one does it for me. Great composition and a great eye to get that shot.
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Postby HappyFotographer on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:34 pm

Darryl you have produced some amazing images from the WTP....I have completely enjoyed viewing all of them.

The rainbow one though I really love.....the emptiness of the landscape with the rainbow coming down on what appears to be the only trees in the area.....couldn't have planned it better if you had God's ear :lol:
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Postby kipper on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:37 pm

Taken a couple of weeks ago on a different occassion, near where Jamie said to go searching for Wedge Tail Eagles. For a minute I thought God was showing me where they were, either that or a pot of gold (as mentioned. As the end of the rainbow as just up the road. At the time I didn't realise their was a twin/double rainbow, only when post processing did I see. Otherwise I would have zoomed out a bit more. Was trying to be careful not to get my reflection in the photo :(
This is about an 8 image handheld pano.


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Postby Alex on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:37 pm

Great landscapes, Darryl. I love the pano.

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Postby HappyFotographer on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:46 pm

Darryl

while I sat here oggling your images yet again my nine year old saw the double rainbow and his first response was "WOW" high praise from a young manling who makes an effort not to be impressed by anything too much.

:lol: :roll:

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Postby Jamie on Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:59 pm

WOW! :shock:

What can i say, that last pano shot is just brilliant! I also love the second shot you posted up.

Keep up the great work.

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Postby waspo on Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:11 pm

Awesome shots!!
I partically like the 2 pano's and that rainbow is something else!
Well done, Darryl!
Cheers, Jase. :D
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Postby kipper on Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:36 pm

Thanks for the comments guys/gals.

Just trying to redo the 2nd pano with better settings related to exposure in pano factory. The image doesn't look as blown, but for the life of me I can't remember the pp flow that I used before to get the desired result. It's a big sigh :(
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Postby kipper on Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:09 pm

Ok here is my updated version with better exposure settings in Panofactory. Plus I decided to go a bit different here as I've seen a lot of landscape photos in magazines use Magenta Filters.

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Postby waspo on Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:23 pm

Yeah, that looks much nicer! :D
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