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Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby colin_12 on Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:16 pm

I just love this sort of photography in case you had not already noticed. My wife calls it a sickness.

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A couple more sky scrapers for Peter

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These were tiny around 1mm and just totally wierd

Now for these which is the better crop etc? Suggestions appreciated as always.
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby aim54x on Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:30 pm

I love these...esp the #3, green on green is wonderful!

I have to get up the mountain again to take more fungi photos with you
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Postby Remorhaz on Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:34 am

I think I like the square crop for the green.
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Postby colin_12 on Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:46 am

You know you are always welcome Cameron.

Thanks Rodney :cheers:
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby gstark on Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:59 am

I prefer the square crop as well, Colin. It brings the fungus a little closer to the viewer.

All three of these images are great, btw. You're doing great work.

And being a fun guy into the bargain. :)
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Postby chrisk on Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:25 am

fabulous.
the green one is easily my favourite. i dont like the square crop personally.
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby colin_12 on Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:17 am

Seems I'm not the only one, oh Garry :lol:
gstark wrote:And being a fun guy into the bargain.


Thanks for your input as well Rooz , I was tending towards the rectangular one but am still of two minds. I am happy with the way both look, I just want to see what other think as this is a good way to guage appeal.
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Postby CraigVTR on Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:54 pm

I prefer the rectangular crop as well.

All good shots.
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby surenj on Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:20 pm

Wow really like the directed lighting in #1

#2 looks very 3D! Nicely done. Perhaps you can co-erce a little sharpness out of it.

The greens are great! I think I prefer the rectangular crop by a smidgen.
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby stubbsy on Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:39 pm

colin_12 wrote:A couple more sky scrapers for Peter

Thanks Colin. I think that kind of composition lends itself well to such fungi.

And, unlike the others so far, #2 is my pick of these. I like the soft milkiness of the image and the very even light you've achieved. As for the green one - I also prefer the square crop.
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby Geoff M on Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:40 pm

Nothing to critique on these Colin :D

Oh and the preffered crop for me is the rectangular one.
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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby biggerry on Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:28 pm

colin_12 wrote:These were tiny around 1mm and just totally wierd


nice, I like these ones!

with regard to the crop, I would leave it uncropped, it seems to get a bit lost in teh cropped version, which is counter-intuiative but thats the first thing I noticed :)

I also reckon the white balance is thrown off a bit by all that green, heres a quick edit I did, let me kow if ya want it removed! I tried to make the little old toadstool standout a bit more and also corrected the colour cast.

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Re: Oh come on, you know I can't help it

Postby colin_12 on Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:07 am

Thankyou all for taking the time.
You can always have a go with my images Gerry, thanks for the effort.

surenj wrote:Perhaps you can co-erce a little sharpness out of it.

It was a bit soft to start with Suren, I was a bit shakey.

stubbsy wrote:I think that kind of composition lends itself well to such fungi

I like it too Peter
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