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New Year Clowning Around

Postby Wink on Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:45 pm

While waiting for the storms to roll in in country Vic lastnight i thought i'd let my family play around while i took some photos.
I really like how the moon has brought out the background.

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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby brentsky on Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:29 pm

great series adam! the first image is my favourite, the lightball is impressively spherical :D
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby tommyg on Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:37 pm

First one especially is great! All very nice though

Did you get any without the moon? Maybe cutting the sky just below the moon in a couple would work .. take away the eye being drawn to it, but keeping the colours etc
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby craig.rohse on Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:55 pm

Very nice work Adam, the first one is great.
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby Wink on Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:52 am

tommyg wrote:Did you get any without the moon?

I did this one once the clouds had rolled in a bit more...

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The composition isn't the best. We were just mucking around so I didn't bother changing from the wide angle or climbing over the fence to get closer.
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby Wink on Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:16 pm

Not sure why the above image wouldn't display... Fixed now. :D
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby biggerry on Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:37 pm

I did this one once the clouds had rolled in a bit more...


I like this, I reckon some cropping would make it very moody, maybe a portrait crop to isolate the tree an dthe clouds..

Thats a tidy lookign orb in the first image, I like the concept of the last, but needs more oommpphf (technical term) on the flash and more importantly the burly tattoed wannabe ballerina replaced with an appropriate sized ballerina :rotfl2:

not that burly tattoed men cannot be ballerina's though, it just ain't my thing :)


lightball is impressively spherical

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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby Wink on Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:01 pm

Thanks!

The ball in the first shot was actaully easy to do. I did that in one go.
I just swung my arm around in a circle while turning my body around in circles on the spot.

We tried a few different times with people in the shot. It took a bit of trial and error to balance the flash nicely.
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby zafra52 on Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:38 pm

Very nice shots. I guess the first and last one are the best with the rest being very good also.
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby Geoff on Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:59 pm

Love the first one.
As already said - the symmetry is outstanding.
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Re: New Year Clowning Around

Postby colin_12 on Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:52 pm

Nice stuff Adam.
I prefer the sky in the first two. Nice colour and cloud forms.
The orb :up:
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