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My Home Town

Postby stubbsy on Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:13 pm

Oddly I don't spend a lot of time taken photos in Newcastle CBD despite living there. Having recently played host to some overseas vistors I took the time to do so. Here are some from that outing. I've been getting some comments on having oversaturated, oversharpened images from my new processing workflow with LR4 and CS6. These should be better now that a few tweaks have been completed.


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Re: My Home Town

Postby Bob G on Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:44 pm

All good images Peter.

#2 is my fav.
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Re: My Home Town

Postby Reschsmooth on Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:32 pm

Impressive tree in number 3.
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Re: My Home Town

Postby Matt. K on Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:49 pm

Beautifully crafted images Peter.
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Re: My Home Town

Postby aim54x on Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:39 am

I cant confidently comment on colours and exposures based on this monitor at work (they look funny, but this screen is not calibrated), but these are well composed and I would imagine will look great on a proper monitor, or even better - printed.
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Re: My Home Town

Postby biggerry on Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:18 pm

nice photo of your knob..oops i mean knobbys head :D

The remaining images do not do alot for me beside being nice snapshots of some aussie town, not to say they are bad, one can even argue they are quite well composed etc, but for me the subject content is not riveting.

In terms of your colours and sharpness - I reckon they are not overly contrasty or saturated, pushed to the higher end, but certainly not a explosion of spewed colour! I reckon they are typical of what one would find in a postcard for the town.
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Re: My Home Town

Postby zafra52 on Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:48 pm

2 and 3 are the best for me.
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Re: My Home Town

Postby aim54x on Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:32 pm

Much better on this screen!
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