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Don't Fret...
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Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:09 pmby leek
This is one of about 30 shots that I took of King Tide, a Sydney reggae band who played at Bondi Pavilion on Sunday...
We enjoyed their music immensely and I hope that I've captured some of the intensity of their music in this picture...
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Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:27 pmby Matt. K
John
A dramatic image. I think you got what you were after. You have to love black and white...it has a power of its own! It's a printer!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:02 amby mic
Yep !
Thats an Album Cover.
Nice one Leek.
Mic
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:40 amby stormygirl
WOW! A fantastic image Leek, I really like the B&W treatment you've done, his hand looks amazing! I'd have to agree with Mic, an album cover for sure.....I love it! Very simple and uncomplicated.....you can almost hear him strumming!
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:51 amby Alpha_7
Nice shot Leigh, I really like the B&W treatment of this shot, is it possible you could post the orginal to see what it looked like in colour ?
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:03 amby Alex
Very nice, Leek. I really like this one. Well composed, exposed and tack sharp.
Cheers
Alex
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:05 amby leek
Alpha_7 wrote:Nice shot Leigh, I really like the B&W treatment of this shot, is it possible you could post the orginal to see what it looked like in colour ?
Now the shot might have been inspired by Leigh's recent efforts, but it was definitely taken by me
I'll post the original later when I get home...
Interestingly, all post processing was done in Adobe Camera Raw... Curves, Desat, Sharpening & colour levels... The only thing that I used Photoshop for was to resize it, add the border and save as JPG...
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:12 amby Alpha_7
leek wrote:Alpha_7 wrote:Nice shot Leigh, I really like the B&W treatment of this shot, is it possible you could post the orginal to see what it looked like in colour ?
Now the shot might have been inspired by Leigh's recent efforts, but it was definitely taken by me
I'll post the original later when I get home...
Interestingly, all post processing was done in Adobe Camera Raw... Curves, Desat, Sharpening & colour levels... The only thing that I used Photoshop for was to resize it, add the border and save as JPG...
Sorry my Sony,
I feel foolish now.. I think its a sign to put my glasses on
(Can I also claim degraded vision due to last night's Cricket?). I hope I didn't offend you too much leek.... (definitely seem to be in a similar style to Leigh's work..)
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 10:19 amby leek
Alpha_7 wrote:I hope I didn't offend you too much leek.... (definitely seem to be in a similar style to Leigh's work..)
Not at all...
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:21 amby Glen
John, really like this shot out, more than the others you have posted this has a certain something to it. Very impressive
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:33 pmby stubbsy
John. Nice composition and nice PP on this. What prompted you to try using just ACR for PP - curiosity or other reasons?
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:59 pmby leek
stubbsy wrote:John. Nice composition and nice PP on this. What prompted you to try using just ACR for PP - curiosity or other reasons?
Mainly curiosity... the latest ACR that comes with CS2 provides a huge range of controls over most elements of the photo... I was just exploring...
One big advantage is that you don't need to save a
PSD file to record your PP changes as the changed settings are recorded against the NEF file (even though the NEF file remains unchanged).
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:03 pmby Nnnnsic
Alpha_7 wrote:Nice shot Leigh, I really like the B&W treatment of this shot, is it possible you could post the orginal to see what it looked like in colour ?
Well thank you now, that's very sweet.
Great shot Leek.
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:40 pmby Aussie Dave
leek wrote:Mainly curiosity... the latest ACR that comes with CS2 provides a huge range of controls over most elements of the photo... I was just exploring...
One big advantage is that you don't need to save a
PSD file to record your PP changes as the changed settings are recorded against the NEF file (even though the NEF file remains unchanged).
Yes indeed. I always use the ACR in
PSCS2 for PP my NEF's. I find it very useful. I don't always agree with the auto settings, but with some quick tweaking, it processes them beautifully.
I also have a custom setting setup (named D70 RAW), which basically turns every AUTO feature off, and the NEF is processed as the camera took it.
A great tool
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:58 pmby leek
Aussie Dave wrote:I also have a custom setting setup (named D70 RAW), which basically turns every AUTO feature off, and the NEF is processed as the camera took it.
A great tool
Thanks for that tip... I was wondering how to do that
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:13 pmby petermmc
Leek
I like the way that the E string is still vibrating. It's live music.
Great work.
Peter Mc
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:14 pmby leek
As requested by Alpha7, here for comparison is the original colour image without any PP...
The B&W image wins hands down in my view...
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Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:27 pmby Alpha_7
Thanks
Leek!
Definitely better in B&W, but thanks for indulging me by posting the orginal shot. I feel I can learn a bit more when I see how people change their shots, rather then just looking at the finished product.
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:37 amby flipfrog
this is great a image !
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:48 pmby mudder
The B&W seems to have totally transformed the image... Really gritty and strong emotion... That'd be great promotional stuff...
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:51 pmby sirhc55
The power of B&W
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Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:54 pmby birddog114
sirhc55 wrote:The power of B&W
O/T, spotted something new in your avatar.
