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 by mudder on Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:32 pm
G'day,
Another post, just going through a heap of stuff from the Otways thing and found this lot that I haden't stitched together yet. Unfortunately the distortion etc made the necessary cropping stuff up the framing (RATS!), but the image still seems to have a nice feel...
Orig is 7151 x 2840 after stitching 6 NEFs  Stuffed up on the exposure during RAW conversion before stitching and took recovery so I'll do it again later properly with a lower EV on the NEFs...
Just about 15 mins PP and re-sized to see what you thought...
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Man settings, shutter 3"(each), F20, kit lens, ISO200, 18mm, (I think an ND8), NR=ON, 6 shots, spot metering on primary shot (the shot used to set exposure that's used for all the other shots)
 Aka Andrew
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by blacknstormy on Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:46 pm
Mudder - I really love this shot. I feel like I'm sitting beside the water, listening to the birds and feeling cool. Beautiful !!!
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by Matt. K on Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:19 pm
Mudder
I'm going to be blunt here...it is a technically nice image of some pristine rainforest but....the composition lacks something. There are no leading lines or a main point of interest, and this gets the eye hunting around for the "hook", or point of the photograph. Every image needs a "hook" but I can't find it. It could have been something as simple as a bird or a flower or something out of place. Landscapes are very, very hard to pull off and you are 80% there but it has to go one step further to be a nose magnet. I'm guessing that most of us who use this forum would have been attracted to the scene as you were, and for the same reasons. I think a slight change in the point of view, or a walk around, might have yielded the magic shot. I knew one maggot who used to carry plastic flowers...the swine....and put them into landscapes like this. Bloody hell! It worked! But I know that the members of this forum would never stoop so low. (But think what one solitary blood-red tulip bloom would have done for this image).
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by mudder on Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:26 pm
Matt,
Thanks you for your feedback, it's good and means a lot.. Yeah, the framing got buggered up when I cropped, but mainly I was simply LAZY! You are spot on.
I've actually been guilty (once) of removing a flower from an adjacent area and either place or hold strategically, but only for scientifical research purposes of course 
The day before I didn't have the waders with me so I simply walked into the river to get a better angle, so this day I didn't have any dry pants left... Otherwise I'd be in there again Aka Andrew
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by Matt. K on Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:51 pm
Mudder
I'm wondering if you had shot along that branch at top left, and it had pointed at something of interest, like a rock or a tree...then maybe that would have been enough to give it the lift compositionally. At least it would have led the eye to another element of the landscape. It's usually the little things that spring to life in these kinds of images.
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