Great Ocean Road Series - 50th Anniversary

[whoalse]

These were taken over the last weekend of 2007. Would love to have your inputs. Thanks

Thunder Cave - from lower view


Thunder Cave - from higher view


12 Apostles


Happy New Year to all

[ozimax]

I think the 2nd is the best of the 3, seems like you had a good trip.

Ozi[/i]

[johnd]

I like the cliff detail in the LHS of the 1st and the RHS of the 2nd.

I understand you took the shots from different places, but have you tried stitching the shots together to make a panorama shot. The perspective might be too different between the shots for this to work, but it's worth a try. Also, with the pano, the cave mouth might end up being too central.

If I had to choose one, I'd go for the 2nd. Only thing I don't like so much is the colour of the clouds. maybe take some blue out and desaturate them a bit.

Cheers
John

[Travy]

Great images!

i like the 1st and 3rd

[whoalse]

Thanks, folks, for your kind comments and advice.

will look into it when i'm back home. Can't wait leaving for home though as still in a holiday mood!

it was a good trip down with a close friend of mine who visited me.

johnd, what's LHS and RHS? I'm a noob with these acronyms! would also love to do pano but not sure which program is the best (yet simple to use). any recommendations?

thanks again

[Alpha_7]

LHS RHS == Left hand side and Right hand Side

And my preference is for the first one. Nicely done.

[johnd]

johnd, what's LHS and RHS? I'm a noob with these acronyms! would also love to do pano but not sure which program is the best (yet simple to use). any recommendations?

thanks again

What Craig said.
For panoramas, I use Panorama Factory. From memory I think it costs about $70 or $80 or thereabouts. You can get a free trial of it as a download. Just google panorama factory. Only trouble with the free trial is it puts a Panorama Factory logo right in the middle of your panorama. Good enough though to see if you like the software. If you decide to buy, you pay your money and they email you the codes to unlock the software and get rid of the logo.

You can also put together panoramas using Photoshop etc, but I have found Panorama Factory pretty easy to use and produces great results.

Cheers
John

[DStrom]

Try Hugin,

its free (though it can be harder to set up) and I have had much better results than from Panorama Factory ...

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

[adam]

For me, I like the third one best The first seems to lack a little in contrast and sharpness on the upper right rocks (upper centre in the second), but I'm guessing that this is just the rocks, and a small image (which I shouldn't peep so close).

I think that some sense of scale could be provided by inclusion of a person or 'standard sized tree', but not necessary. Just what I would have liked to see, particularly as I'm wondering whether the green at the top is just grass, shrubs or actually big trees dwarved by the large size of the rocks.

Reminds me of some photographs a friend Angeline showed on smugmug yesterday

[whoalse]

Thanks heaps, guys...

Adam, Angeline (or i am used to her other name) is a closed fren of mine. Small world eh........