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Flat Rock

Postby aim54x on Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:43 am

It was good to catch up with Greg today, and despite the baking sun, the ND Grad kit proved useful

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Re: Flat Rock

Postby Remorhaz on Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:24 am

Cameron, I really love the clouds in the first, you've got a purple flare spot in the middle thats a bit distracting that you might want to try cloning out. Theres something about the rocks at the bottom however - I think they need to be less exposed or something - they just look a bit too washed out.
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Re: Flat Rock

Postby colin_12 on Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:17 pm

I also feel that there is something lacking in the stone.
I like the composition of the third image. It is telling a story for me.
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Re: Flat Rock

Postby aim54x on Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:46 pm

Remorhaz wrote:Cameron, I really love the clouds in the first, you've got a purple flare spot in the middle thats a bit distracting that you might want to try cloning out. Theres something about the rocks at the bottom however - I think they need to be less exposed or something - they just look a bit too washed out.


Flare noted (must clean off filters and lens) ..I have actually pulled it back a bit from the original, but then backed it off a bit again...maybe I will have another play with those rocks.

colin_12 wrote:I also feel that there is something lacing in the stone.
I like the composition of the third image. It is telling a story for me.


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Re: Flat Rock

Postby aim54x on Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:05 pm

#1 with exposure on rock adjusted...flare left (have yet to work out the best way to get rid of it in CNX2....cloning is not really that much chop for a patch that large)
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Re: Flat Rock

Postby biggerry on Mon Feb 07, 2011 12:04 am

I like that reworked image cameron - nice spotting on the clouds and great use of the CPL. I would just bump the contrast using a mask on the lower part to get it to match the sky.
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Re: Flat Rock

Postby aim54x on Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:59 pm

biggerry wrote:I like that reworked image cameron - nice spotting on the clouds and great use of the CPL. I would just bump the contrast using a mask on the lower part to get it to match the sky.


Thanks mate...but no CPL used (I dont have the necessary step up rings to go from 52 -> 77, nor do I own a 52mm CPL) just stacked ND4 and ND8 grads.
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