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Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby Remorhaz on Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:12 pm

Had an excellent day out in the Blue Mountains - we spent the morning (from 8AM) in the Valley of the Waters at Wentworth Falls.

The conditions were perfect with very overcast (if a little drizzly) skies and lots of cloud cover ensuring nice slow shutter speeds.

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NIKON D90 + 17.0-50.0 mm f/2.8 @ 17 mm, 2 sec at f / 22, ISO 200, CPL

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NIKON D90 + 17.0-50.0 mm f/2.8 @ 17 mm, 0.5 sec at f / 16, ISO 200, CPL

This fellow came out to join us...

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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby aim54x on Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:21 pm

You have really managed to squeeze out some nice and slow shutter speeds.

As for our Dragon friend...he looks a bit blue!
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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby Remorhaz on Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:33 pm

aim54x wrote:You have really managed to squeeze out some nice and slow shutter speeds.

As for our Dragon friend...he looks a bit blue!


Thanks - and oops :) - White Balance corrected now :)
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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby aim54x on Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:34 pm

That was quick! Looks a lot better
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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby bigsarg7 on Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:22 am

Wow, they're all crackers IMO! fantastic! excellent work, very impressed!! :up: :up:
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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby colin_12 on Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:23 am

I like the first and the third here. Nicely done. :up:
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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby Jenno on Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:08 am

Nice compositions but you might want to dial back on the whites a bit....a little hot for mine
#2 looks a little cool as well especially in the trees.. maybe a little warming might improve it
Nailed the lizzard :up: but then again he is used to posing...probably telling his family right now how many customers he had on Saturday :)
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Re: Wentworth Falls - Valley of the Waters...

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:21 am

Jenno wrote:Nice compositions but you might want to dial back on the whites a bit....a little hot for mine
#2 looks a little cool as well especially in the trees.. maybe a little warming might improve it
Nailed the lizzard :up: but then again he is used to posing...probably telling his family right now how many customers he had on Saturday :)


None of the whites had clipped however I've selectively reduced the exposure on the whites now and brought out a little more detail in the very dark areas on #1 and #2 :) - what do people think?

I hadn't adjusted the white balance on #2 or #3 so I've also warmed them up a bit now too

The lizard was very accommodating :)
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