Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

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Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby surenj on Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:15 pm

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Gerry, you missed the good light while you were running around like the blue arsed fly with out a jacket. :mrgreen:
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby aim54x on Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:52 pm

Very nice light indeed! I really have to reclaim my weekends sooner rather than later!
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby biggerry on Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:06 pm

nice ray-age there Suren :wink: , how about giving it a whack with the saturation and contrast, it feels a bit flat at my end, also a bit of vignetting on the bottom part to really send the viewer to the falls.
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:23 pm

nice rays there Suren - the bottom is a bit of a jumble for me tho - perhaps chop the bottom third off?
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby Matt. K on Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:30 pm

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Is that a shaft of Photoshop shining down the slope?? I'm sure that's one of the topics that I covered on Sunday.:D :D :D
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby surenj on Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:19 pm

:biglaugh: I would never insert shafts of photoshop into my pictures! They are straight out of camera (I let the camera do all the edits with JPG). :chook:
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby surenj on Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:01 pm

OK boys I have taken your critique ideas and slightly altered the color etc...

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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby Geoff M on Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:04 pm

I prefer the first rendition of this image with its cooler tones. The foreground details give the image more depth over the cropped version.
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby surenj on Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:12 pm

Thanks Geoff, I am in two minds about it. I actually warming up to the crop. :mrgreen:
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby surenj on Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:10 am

Note to self....next time take a pocket knife to trim dead fern leaves.... :)

Also, didn't think to get a picture with fern keeping still. :oops:
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Re: Waterfallage prior to photochop meet

Postby biggerry on Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:26 pm

Suren, i like both versions of the last two posted, the crop works, but I think the uncropped one works as well.

That small amount of air movement was annoying with the ferns, but can't be helped..

cheers for braving the cold :)
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