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Images of Sligo
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Hi PP, I’m surprised there’s been no response to these. I totally love the second image, if the colours of the rainbow could be intensivied a little I think it would really add to the image. That apart it’s lovely and my fav of the three
Can I suggest a crop to the first one. As it is, it looks a little ‘busy’. There’s a lot in it. Cropping out the road and gate in the foregroud and leaving the rusty tin roof and hedgerow really strenghtens the image. I’ve only tried this by scrolling down and blocking the foreground but does seem to work.Nice to see you here Peter – and a very different look from your ‘model’ shots….. :P
With a shot like the first one, the only way to straighten is to use the measure tool on the vertical lines of say the pillar at the gatepost. Try it – it works!
Cheers Brian,
Thanks for your kind comments. I made some curves adjustments to boost the impact of the rainbow and sky, but found that I was reaching a limit where I was starting to get some noise raising its head and some posterisation in the rainbow. There’s probably another another way to kick up the saturation higher, while keeping the colours true, but for the moment I don’t know how :?For the first shot I wanted to show just how accessable this view was to just about everyone, hence the appearance of the road surface in the bottom left, but looking at the shot again, I’d agree with you that a crop of the bottom would tidy things up a lot.
The third shot by the way, was taken at Knocknashee, about 5 miles from where I live and from the top gives great views of the Sligo and Mayo mountains.
Peter
I love the third image… what a great piece of botany! Super shot.
would be nice if you got the top of the tree in there… only a little bit missing though. And I think the horizon is slightly sloping to the left… or is it my imagination!?
Hi Brandyman,
Didn’t see you post when I replied last time. For the first shot, my viewpoint was a bit off-centre from the gate and the shed so the perspective lines of each are converging somewhere off to the far left. So it came down to a choice of whether to align the lines of the gate, the shed roof or the mountain top with the horizontal. Of the three, I choose to go with the top of the shed as it was fairly close to the centre of the frame and was a dominant colour. I actually overlaid the grid to line up the top of the shed with the horizontal lines so that it would ‘squared off’. I see what you mean now and aligning the gateposts with the verticals makes more sense alright :oops:Hi Jay,
I used the grid on the third shot also, and thought it looked OK. Depending on which section of the grid I looked at, the mountains appeared to tilt a little to the left or a little to the right, so I just averaged it out. The clouds rolling in from the sea and rising over Benbulbin definitely complicate things and seem to create a false horizon. The only way I’ll know for sure in future is to bring a spirit level along. :)Peter
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