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My first photos submitted - be kind

Postby Spooky on Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:00 am

Hello all

This is my first post ever in this forum.

Two shots from my most recent Whitsunday holiday. Hope this works.

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Postby Spooky on Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:12 am

Try again, here is the other.

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Postby fozzie on Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:20 am

Spooky,

Well done.

Keep up the good work.

Look forward to more posts from you and also pix.

ta ta for now,
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Postby xerubus on Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:57 am

nice shots spooky....

fyi... there's a brisbane d70users meet today if you are interested....

thread here: http://forum.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t=2606

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Postby Onyx on Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:16 pm

Very nice Spooky. Hope your holiday was as good as the pictures made them out to be! ;)

I used to love the X-files too!
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Postby mic on Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:09 pm

Nice Spooky,

You could do a lot more with this shot in PhotoShop. ( The Boat )

Go Black & White / Make it very moody or even

Spooky :roll:

Well done for your 1st post.

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Postby Spooky on Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:14 pm

Here is a few from New Years Eve 2004 in Brissy. I hadn't taken fireworks before and was fairly happy that most of the shots came out. The beauty of the digial camera I find is you can take alot of photos and it gives you more chances of getting a good shot especially with hit or miss things like fast action shots.

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Postby sirhc55 on Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:50 pm

There is something very ethereal about your first Whitsunday shot that I like very much :D
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Postby the foto fanatic on Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:41 pm

I like the Whitsunday shots too.
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Postby Killakoala on Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:31 pm

Nice pics, BUT, i think you should attempt some post processing as i reckon the pics need a bit of sharpening to help get a bit more detail of of them. :)
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Postby ozimax on Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:18 pm

Hey Spook, I like the 2nd one, look as though it's from a travel brochure.

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Postby Spooky on Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:59 pm

Thanks for the comments.

Yes, I definitely need to learn more about Photoshop, I have borrowed books on it but I have struggled to learn much. I find it difficult to do things I would think were simple like putting a border around a photo. To my mind in many ways it is not particularly user friendly and the help is like the usual help in most software.... easy to use if you all ready knew what you were doing.
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Postby Wombat124 on Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:27 pm

Spooky

I like your photos. Especially the fireworks and the second photo from Whitsunday.

Don't be affraid of Photoshop. Until a few months ago it was all a big mystry to me as well. Then I went in Google and asked questions on what I wanted to do. And eventually it all started to make sense - I need to learne more but it is starting to make sense - I am fixing old scanned photos up (using the clone tool). Curves are another great tool for enhancing your images. Once you understand what all the windows are for it starts to fall into place.

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