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Topic: Four New Photos and a Revisit

deadcactus Posts: 38,266 Registered: Dec 27, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 37,437 User ID: 577,555	Subject: Four New Photos and a Revisit
	New: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512584480/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512583450/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512582768/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512581504/ Revisit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3488170468/ (original) http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadcactus/3512580850/ -----signature----- 'member dat? True dat.
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Ah-Schoo Title: Fuzzy Caterpillar of Friendliness Posts: 71,317 Registered: Aug 11, '00 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 68,974 User ID: 39,247	Subject: Four New Photos and a Revisit
	I really like Going Up. For your revisit, I prefer the color version. But I personally rarely like black and white shots. -----signature----- . Opinion = fact. Anecdote = proof. Political label more important than either of those. Welcome to ACF, where debate goes to die. . "fascist totalitarian secular progressive Zionist intellectually challenged Christian puppets." - Aerlinthina
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Lynea Title: Dances with Trolls Posts: 82,344 Registered: Jul 26, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 80,243 User ID: 280,742	Subject: Four New Photos and a Revisit
	I would love #2 if the horizon was straight. #1 is pretty cool with the contrasting colors. I'm not sure I like the revisited in B&W, but it does make the paint on the side of the dumpster stand out more. -----signature----- http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ "It's crazy that the board newbies think I am a Liberal and B_T is a neo-con." - Gustaive_MT "God left a very clear instruction to Adam. The ****head couldn't even follow that." - -Abednego-
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kashani Title: A Country Boy Can Survive Posts: 15,655 Registered: Nov 12, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 15,448 User ID: 856,795	Subject: Four New Photos and a Revisit
	#1 I love #1. #2 I like the composition of 2 alot, but I don't care for the grainy sky. #4 I love everything about this one, the contrast, the composition, the sharpness, etc. You have deff gotten better -----signature----- Nugent for president 2012 With Guns............We Are ~Citizens~. Without Guns......We Are ~ Victims~. For America To Live Political Correctness Must Die
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deadcactus Posts: 38,266 Registered: Dec 27, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 37,437 User ID: 577,555	Subject: Four New Photos and a Revisit
	For #2, I was using a new wide angle lens (Sigma 10-20mm). Don't have the hang of composing to account for the distortion yet. I do want to mix the sky though. I don't really like the revisit much either. The colors just seem off in the original. The area is lit up by very yellow lights at night. Might try just re-shooting it completely during the day... PS Anyone know a way to upload a new version of a picture on flickr besides uploading it and deleting the old one? Edit: Spelling -----signature----- 'member dat? True dat.
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Raiztlin Title: Dick Tracy Posts: 8,885 Registered: Jan 23, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 8,688 User ID: 626,780	Subject: Four New Photos and a Revisit
	You can't compose the distortion of a wide angle away. The best you can do is even out the distortion between the foreground and the background really. Also, I think PS has some filter to compansate for the barrel look that comes with the territory As I mentioned earlyer though, wide angle for architecture is not the best choice :> As for the sky, I agree with Kash. It look unatural and not not were good in my opinon. to sum up: #1 I like it, the light in the bottom left corner is a bit distracting, might wanna try your hand at cloing it away. Other then that, great composition, nice capture of the moment and the clouds look really nice. I don't know if it would be an improvement, but it might be fun to see the same shot with a longer shuttertime, so you could see the thingy move Also, there's something weird with the colors, did you tonemap it? #2 The composition of this is... well to put it frankly.. kinda sloppy :> I looks to me like a very touristish point and shoot image. I might have tried to move a bit more to the left of the statue, so that the spire of the building was more to the right of the image, that way you'd have more balance, also I think you've included too much of the base of the statue, see that bottom left corner where you got some of the lowest part of the base, which makes for a distracting colorchange, that should (imo) be cropped away. As I mentioned, I don't like the effect on the sky, I've never seen a sky like that #3 This is a very good picture, and I really like it. it's well composed, and you've done exactly what I was talking about in #2, you've composed it such that the background element (the thingy with the flowers) is not centered, and thus brings balance to the picture. Very well done #4 Lovely photo, the dog might be slightly too centered for my taste, but that is a matter of preferance, nothing else Good strong lines, well exposed just very nice. All in all I have to agree with Kash, you're rapidly improving, but please lay off the weird skies :> -----signature----- I has a flavor! CC always welcome.
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