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Postby big pix on Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:41 pm

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Postby phillipb on Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:51 pm

Very Very nice Big Pix.
IMHO it would have been brilliant if the boat was a litte right of centre and the pelican a little left, but hey this is pretty close.
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Postby PiroStitch on Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:52 pm

Great morning capture! I still can't get up that early...
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Postby big pix on Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:55 pm

phillipb wrote:Very Very nice Big Pix.
IMHO it would have been brilliant if the boat was a litte right of centre and the pelican a little left, but hey this is pretty close.


I do have that crop in another image but it is part of a collection......

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Postby mudder on Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:16 pm

Love it BP, has a real "feel" to it...
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Postby Killakoala on Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:40 pm

Nice colours and great composition. You have certainly captured the moment well.
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Postby WadeM on Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:06 am

Simply breathtaking!

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Postby Catcha on Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:30 am

was the sky actually that colour?, amazing shot there :D
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Postby yeocsa on Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:36 am

Very nice shot. the pelican is too close to the boat. the camera's focus point was not on the boat. Would prefer the boat to be the focus point.

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Postby big pix on Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:27 pm

thanks for your comments.......

Arthur...... there is NO central frocus point as it is an overall view......I am still on a learning curve with birds and not up to your standed of control of birds, must change my brand of bird seed....... the image shown is part of a larger image which I will post to night

Catcha...... Well spotted.... The sky was put in using the GRADENT TOOL, the image has been created using the RAW processer and saturation after, with a little USM and levels for contrast. The raw image does not show the colours as vivid as posted but they are there and have to be brought out, this is an old image reprocessed using ACR in PSCS2 which I find much better than PSCS, I am finding that I have a much finer control over my images and a greater depth of colour control, the colours are softer and finer if needed, but you can add contrast when you process but I prefer to add contrast later for better control.

Tonight I will post the 2 or 3 steps I took to obtain the image which anyone can do with a bit of patience using camera RAW in PSCS2 or PSCS. This quality of work is within everyones reach.

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Postby mic on Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:32 pm

Hmmmmm nice bp,

I think I'll have a shandy & wish I was there.

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Postby flipfrog on Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:46 pm

beauty big pix!

reminds me of one of you other shots with the lil fishing boat

great work
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Postby big pix on Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:32 pm

flipfrog wrote:beauty big pix!

reminds me of one of you other shots with the lil fishing boat

great work


Yes ....... quite a lot of pix's were taken that morning, along with the fishing boat, about 70 odd shots on the day......... and about 30 keepers along with about 20 odd extra keepers with cropping and PP.......

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