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One for the colours

Postby dooda on Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:23 pm

This one I really like for some reason. The water holdsl a sort of fresh liveliness that I like, as well as the colour of the sky reflected in the water. Any thoughts/critiques?
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Postby Sean on Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:02 pm

Hi Dave

It looks that good - you could drink it! Love the colours and how they blend in to each other. Surely a little bumping up on the saturation levels? Not saying such a lovely place actually exists.

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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:19 pm

Dave - love it - my only suggestion would be a crop at the top to take out the building(?) :D
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Postby Nicole on Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:26 pm

The colours are great. I'm with Chris on the cropping up the top. Maybe also crop the rocks out on the bottom too.
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Postby dooda on Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:10 am

Thanks for the comments guys. I already cropped the top a little bit. Maybe I'll crop it just a tad more. That's actually a barrier separating me from the highway. I really didn't boost saturation that much. Maybe +7 or so, the result from the camera was pretty good. What really changed the color of the water was a slight tone shift to the left bringing out the water a little more.
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Postby stubbsy on Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:17 am

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Excellent. I see echoes of your clouds in the puddle shot in this. Have you thought about framing these two together I think they'd make an interesting counterpoint to each other. Or better still take a third shot and do all three as a tryptych (sp?)
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Postby mudder on Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:52 pm

The water's glowing... No nuclear reactor close by?

Great image...

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Postby dooda on Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:50 am

Stubbsy,

Really good idea! I'm going to look into this. Maybe frame them and cut two holes for the matte.

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Nope, just perhaps an itchy finger on the tone slider. Not sure exactly what I think about it though.
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