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Postby MHD on Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:48 am

I'm not overwhelmingly happy with this image... while it is pretty, what I saw with my eye was stunning... but also stunningly difficult to capture

The pretty little port town on Picton in the Queen Charlotte sounds

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Postby atencati on Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:50 am

Did you use a circ pol for this shot, or any other filers? It doesn't look overexposed, just a lot of extra light.

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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:50 am

MHD - I really like this shot as it has shades of a Japanese type print to it. It would be a great shot to do some heavy PP especially with colours - keep them coming

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Postby MHD on Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:55 am

no filters... CP would have been useless as the angle of the sun was such that the sky would not have been polarised...

most of the light is scattered "god rays"...

yes I love the layered hills effect in this image and it will be the subject of some playing around...
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Postby Nicole on Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:56 am

I can sympathise as I had the same sorts of problems. I was thinking about a graduated ND filter. That way the foreground details are retained.

It looks very quiet and peaceful.
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Postby MHD on Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:45 pm

Yes you are right! A grad ND filter would have worked great in this situation!
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Postby dooda on Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:28 pm

Man this looks a lot like the Sea to Sky Corridor! I'll have to post some pics to show!
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Postby beetleboy on Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:04 pm

RE the ND Grad..you could also try taking two exposures in exactly the same spot (assuming you used a tripod) and expose one for the landscape and one for the sky then combine afterwards. I've seen this technique work really well. On the other hand, if you have that shot as a NEF you could get a similar result by processing the NEF twice, once for land, once for sky and then combine.

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Postby MHD on Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:13 pm

Main problem: It was taken from a moving boat :)

But I know what you are talking about...

Shooting NEF only gives you an extra stop either way...
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Postby christiand on Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:41 pm

Hi MHD

I would crop this picture in such a way that the water only makes up about a third of the bottom part. The line between water and land at the moment runs almost through the middle.
I would also give it a stab with levels in photoshop.

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Postby MHD on Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:29 pm

Not a neat and in the middle fan ;)

I have one that more closely obeys rules of thirds.... But the sky was quite plain...
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Postby christiand on Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:37 pm

another thought,
crop it in such a way that the sky (land and sky) is only taking up a third of the photo and the water becomes dominant.

what do you think ?

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