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Pukaki

Postby zafra52 on Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:39 am

Taken with a point-and-shoot camera a few years ago, I had
forgotten I had this view of Lake Pukaki (NZ).

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Re: Pukaki

Postby Remorhaz on Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:57 pm

Hi Zafra - still a nice image (and I'd love to photograph mountains like that in good light... sigh...). I reckon you could crop the bottom off above the lighter green grassy stuff.
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Re: Pukaki

Postby Reschsmooth on Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:23 pm

Lovely image and I really like the layers that are present from the mountains down to the trees.
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Re: Pukaki

Postby aim54x on Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:53 am

Loving the layers...I would agree that a trim of about 25% off the bottom would improve the image (thirds composition and getting rid of the light green)
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Re: Pukaki

Postby biggerry on Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:02 pm

Nice shot Zafra, in this case I actually find your drop shadow actually detracts from the image. Its a nice scene and a pano crop would work well too (when does a pano crop not work well ;) )
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Re: Pukaki

Postby zafra52 on Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:40 pm

Thank you for the comments and improvement suggestions...
The reason for the dropdown shadow is because I present the
photos on a black background and give the impression of 3d,
I guess... :D

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Re: Pukaki

Postby aim54x on Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:31 pm

I like this crop a lot!
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Re: Pukaki

Postby zafra52 on Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:57 pm

Thank you aim54. For some reason it did not
occurred to me, but I am glad I followed your
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Re: Pukaki

Postby aim54x on Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:45 pm

zafra52 wrote:Thank you aim54. For some reason it did not
occurred to me, but I am glad I followed your
advice.


Credit has to go to Rodney...he was first in with the pano crop idea.....
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