Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

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Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby biggerry on Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:49 pm

No sunrise action here - it was a shame I could not hang around for the PP session on these images since I was keen to see what you chaps would produce and how.

Nonetheless, no reason why we cannot follow on teh discussion here. I really did not have any pre-conceived ideas other than lining up a few of teh buildings that I thought may work well, ie old geology, old med and main quad.

I varying set of images, I am interested in critique and comments - good, bad, ugly or plain old indifferent.

curse the clown who put a dent in those two panels.. ruined me shot.

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I know there are several crop variations hiding in this one, just not sure which would work better, starburst at the top 3rd?

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some grass stuff that the gardeners would be proud of..

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being such a green unversity there is now a plethora of unused bicycle chainup rings, i reckon they are more for looks than functionality ;)

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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby surenj on Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:13 am

Gerry,
#1 I hope you are kidding and since this was a PP meetup,...

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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby surenj on Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:17 am

Crop? [blue = Feng Shui]

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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby biggerry on Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:14 pm

surenj wrote:Gerry,
#1 I hope you are kidding and since this was a PP meetup,...


nice, a little content aware filler?

surenj wrote:Crop? [blue = Feng Shui]


yeah i had something similar in mind but with some more room on the LHS.
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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:57 pm

biggerry wrote:it was a shame I could not hang around for the PP session on these images since I was keen to see what you chaps would produce and how


Yeah we didn't get any PP done - we did go to Broadway with that intention but Suren had a problem getting his images onto his computer. We mostly spent the time talking about our workflow and PP techniques (specifically in Lightroom since we both use that) - which I think was still a very useful discussion.

#1 - I think this one may look a little too HDR'd (mostly in the pavers - which are tough because it makes them look too coloured/glossy/tiled?). It's a minor thing but correcting for the vertical of the left hand edge of the building.

#2 Suren's crop may be a tad tight I reckon - I'm not sure I can recommend a better crop - perhaps a square crop of the lhs?

#3 85 with the f -> 1.4 :)

#4 - I didn't realise you also took an image of these rings :) Suren and I were obviously still playing with compositions of the old Geo building - I'm not sure your's is working for me - for that matter I'm not sure mine is either but here it is...

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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby biggerry on Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:56 pm

Remorhaz wrote:Yeah we didn't get any PP done - we did go to Broadway with that intention but Suren had a problem getting his images onto his computer. We mostly spent the time talking about our workflow and PP techniques (specifically in Lightroom since we both use that) - which I think was still a very useful discussion.


:up:

Remorhaz wrote:#1 - I think this one may look a little too HDR'd (mostly in the pavers - which are tough because it makes them look too coloured/glossy/tiled?). It's a minor thing but correcting for the vertical of the left hand edge of the building.


straightening does help. I am not overly concerned with the HDR look, maybe dialling it back a bit may help, i am a bit ambivalent on these now.

Remorhaz wrote:#2 Suren's crop may be a tad tight I reckon - I'm not sure I can recommend a better crop - perhaps a square crop of the lhs?


yeah see below


Remorhaz wrote:#4 - I didn't realise you also took an image of these rings Suren and I were obviously still playing with compositions of the old Geo building - I'm not sure your's is working for me - for that matter I'm not sure mine is either but here it is...


i was going for a internal ring shot after I took these ones however opted against it to try and maintain some originality :cheers:


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and a another BW of the main quad.

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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby Remorhaz on Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:05 am

That second version of the modern building still isn't working for me - and I don't think I like the horizontals and verticals going everywhere but straight - it's only marginally off which I think is the problem - if it was way off I'm sure it would be fine but it's only slightly slanted everywhere.

That last shot however is the bomb - nicely seen (I should have done that :)). I don't even mind the slight tilt upward on this one and the processing is good. It is maybe a little flat (from being HDR'd I expect?) and maybe even slightly green tinged on my monitor? but I still love the image.

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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby biggerry on Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:47 pm

Remorhaz wrote:That second version of the modern building still isn't working for me - and I don't think I like the horizontals and verticals going everywhere but straight - it's only marginally off which I think is the problem - if it was way off I'm sure it would be fine but it's only slightly slanted everywhere.


yeah,. i think that POV just makes it all a bit off - lookign back I think Surens crop may actually be the best.


Remorhaz wrote:That last shot however is the bomb - nicely seen (I should have done that :)). I don't even mind the slight tilt upward on this one and the processing is good. It is maybe a little flat (from being HDR'd I expect?) and maybe even slightly green tinged on my monitor? but I still love the image.


was going for the mirrored look - i am interested in this green tinge you speak of. I do not see it on any monitors..anyone else see it :?:
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Re: Sydney University Architectural photography thingy..

Postby Mr Darcy on Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:51 pm

biggerry wrote: i am interested in this green tinge you speak of. I do not see it on any monitors..anyone else see it

I think it may be the envy filter kicking in :mrgreen:
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