Flowers Afloat

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Flowers Afloat

Postby stubbsy on Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:04 pm

I was performing a semi regular image backup today and discovered around 600 images taken last October that I'd never got around to post processing. Suddenly it's spring again! These images were taken during a visit to Newcastle by christiand and his wife Annette.

All shots are moderately high ISO as indicated (I wanted a fast shutter speed, but was avoiding the use of flash) and apart from the first have had some noise reduction in PP

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Re: Flowers Afloat

Postby colin_12 on Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:57 pm

Pretty neat how the reflection in the first looks like branches with the flowers attached.
Nicely done.
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Re: Flowers Afloat

Postby biggerry on Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:16 pm

The first one I expect to see a bride or similiar in the reflection! Very nice. The last one is a standout for me, the contrast of the flower with the harsh dark background of the water really works for me. :up:
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Re: Flowers Afloat

Postby Alex on Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:21 pm

Some very nice images there, Peter. I love the colours and contrast between bright and dark. I like No. 1 the most.

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Re: Flowers Afloat

Postby stubbsy on Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:11 am

colin_12 wrote:Pretty neat how the reflection in the first looks like branches with the flowers attached.
Nicely done.

And it took a while to get it just right too - I have maybe 20 variants at slightly different elevations and angles.

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Re: Flowers Afloat

Postby christiand on Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:14 pm

Hi Peter,

they are beautiful shots - I remember the objects very well :D
Thanks for having had us and taking us to the Hunter Gardens last October.

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