A few mining shots

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A few mining shots

Postby phoenix on Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:05 am

Howdy again. Thought i'd throw up a few more images for everyone to comment on. What do you guys think about these?

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Re: A few mining shots

Postby Glen on Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:20 am

I find the last 2 very appealing, I could easily imagine them in a brochure
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby Pehpsi on Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:03 pm

Love to see bigger versions, but they look great. #1 looks like my cup 'o' tea.
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby GK on Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:06 pm

great shots!
The second one could benefit from a worker or a car in the picture to give feel of scale. Otherwise it looks a little small. On Strobist website there was a link some time ago to a video about shooting this kind of things and what too look for to make the shot amazing as appose to just good.
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby MATT on Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:17 pm

Nice images I realy like the first....

But on on days off so it all feels like work to me.. :wink:
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby colin_12 on Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:27 pm

I like the first. It would work well as a cover shot.
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby whoalse on Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:56 pm

Love the 2nd and 3rd one....Nice
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby phoenix on Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:29 pm

I did a few photography jobs with the mines over the last few years before i moved to canberra. It was a pretty good experience, but after about 2 years it became a bit mundane. It payed well though :)
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby surenj on Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:37 am

Nice shots... Love second and third...

What was the technique for the third?
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby zafra52 on Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:23 pm

I like them in this order 1 - 2 -3. Great shots!
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby phoenix on Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:45 pm

In the third shot I could see the lights of the larger truck coming up and the ute was doing some work for me, so i ask them to stop at that point for me, and took the shot at a slower shutter speed to get the blur of the other truck behind. It was a little while ago so i'm not sure of the specifics though.

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Re: A few mining shots

Postby Analog6 on Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:43 pm

The 2nd shot is really impressive, great use of colour and light.

If you can go again, 1 would be great if you could close in to the top of the conveyor belt and frame the sunset behind it. I realise this may be impossible, there are areas it's not safe to go, but it would look good.
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Re: A few mining shots

Postby phoenix on Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:51 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone. I have 5 images that i love and that have been published and used on websites, but they have the company name in them and they won't let me use them outside of the company.
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