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City through shrubs

Postby Geoff on Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:21 am

Took this yesterday whilst at North Head...combination of city/bush landscape...comments welcomed:

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Re: City through shrubs

Postby wendellt on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:07 am

Excellent work Geoff
Great depth of field work, it feels like a very cosy scene
i assume you used your 50mm 1.4?
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Postby Geoff on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:11 am

Thanx mate,
Nope..kit lens 1/200th sec. F13 @ 70mm.
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Postby Aussie Dave on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:19 am

really nice shot Geoff. I like the way you have composed the city between the branches.....very well done.

The only thing I'd possibly look to change is a little more contrast on the cityscape...but that's just my personal preference.

Well done :-)
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Postby JordanP on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:38 am

Cool image Geoff. A nice fresh look at a well photographed subject. I like the soft contrast on the citiy, giving a hazy effect, and how it is in contrasts with the strong blacks in the forground nature.

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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:41 am

We now know who the North Shore bush lurker is :lol:

Great shot Geoff
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Postby mic on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:15 pm

Very nice geoff, thats a view of Las Sydneynus I have never seen before. where's that Coat Hanger thingy :D

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Postby Geoff on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:39 pm

Thanx Mic,

Look carefully to the right :)
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different approach ...

Postby christiand on Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:47 pm

Hi Geoff,

I must admit that I have a rather different idea regarding this shot.
I would have cropped it much tighter because I believe that in its current form the photo has too much foreground shrubbery and too much twigs on either side, especially on the left hand side.
I believe that the city scape deserves all the attention, framed by a less amount of twigs.

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This is NOT inverted...

Postby Geoff on Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:01 pm

ok...so I took christiand's advice/thoughts and copped the image more, by the way, this is not inverted..then I played around in CS2 - and came up with this.... went to image/adjustments/gradient map... and this was the outcome...just mucking around :)

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Postby christiand on Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:36 pm

Hi Geoff,

what do you think about this crop ?


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Postby Geoff on Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:02 am

Yeah...it's good but not enough sky is included I don't think :)
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Postby KerryPierce on Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:44 am

I like it, but agree with Dave that a little more contrast on the city/clouds might be a good thing. :)
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