[Enzyme]

August 3, 2010 at 10:18 pm

Hi Guys.
Thanks for the comments. I actually have a version of the image without the 2 people in it but I felt their movement added a dynamic to the shot. I didn’t want to take just another shot of Dun laoghaire Pier.
As I was taking the shots the 2 guys came walking along the wall. I pretended I had finished shooting so they would not get down behind me. Once they came into view and jumbped I clicked the cable release.
And Jason. You caught me out. Ya I live beside Dun Laoghaire Dart Station. I could tell you how I live miles away and walk on my hands and knees in the middle of the night to get there in the hope of some good light. It just involves looking out the window to the pier and going, will I bother getting up. Ha

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August 3, 2010 at 4:57 pm

Hi Miki
I think we’ll disagree there. For me they make the shot :)

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August 3, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Hi Ras
I agree with the lads. The colours are way to saturated, the greens especially. Usually you have to tone down greens in HDR images. There is also a strong colour cast on the 2nd and 4th shots. On the last photo your your mask to darken the sky has also had a marked impact on the tall trees on the left. You can see where the trunk goes from normal tones to suddenly black at the top of the trees

All that can be resolved in post production though. I quite like 3rd photo. Nice movement in the water and the tree gives a nice balance to the image.

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August 3, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Great shot Brendan. Your 2nd attempt is much better.

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August 3, 2010 at 4:15 pm

John
Well done. You’ve got a really beautiful shot there.
Enda

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August 3, 2010 at 4:11 pm

Lovely shots Peter and like you and others have said nice subtle use of HDR. You have replicated the scene rather than going OTT. My only point would be to darken the highlights on the top photo around the sun and water below it. I don’t know if you have you one of your underexposed photos that could be used to add detail.

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July 17, 2010 at 1:13 pm

Hi Jason
Ya you were right about the limits of the lens, but also I felt without the steps you would have one third of the image that appeared like a wall of stone and needed something to strengthen the composition.

That’s strange about the flickering. Glad to see it has sorted itself out. :)

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July 16, 2010 at 7:55 pm

Thanks Jason
I was using the railing and the 2 steps to lead your eye into the scene. I was also using them to give a sense of scale.

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July 13, 2010 at 8:13 pm

Thanks Ray. Much appreciated :)

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June 29, 2010 at 11:06 pm

Thanks Luke
I did as John suggested and removed the wee cloud

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June 29, 2010 at 5:59 pm

Cheers John. Now that I look at it, you’re right.

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June 28, 2010 at 8:45 pm

Right I thought there was something up when 2 were saying the contrast was low. I looked at this and my site and I thought I was going crazy but I thought the 2 images looked different. The contrast on the image on this site was indeed low. It turns out the link to the image on this post was to an incorrect version of the image. I’ve changed the path so this is the proper version. The contrast is a good bit higher. :oops:

Sorry about any confusion.

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June 28, 2010 at 7:51 pm

Hi Philip
I don’t really think it’s flat. I didn’t want to turn into a surreal HDR type image. The sun was just setting so it was very subdued. On pages with my panoramic images on my website you have an option to view the image in a larger size. If you do that you’ll have a better picture, parden the pun of what the image is like :wink:

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June 28, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Cheers Steve.
Ya it’s hard to get a true feel at this size, the panoramics even more so.

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June 24, 2010 at 8:17 pm

Hi Richie
I really like the graphic composition with the 2nd Image.
With Image 2 I would crop the corner of the theatre. It’s a bit distracting. I see you have a 24mm TS lens. If I was taking the shot I would have taken a 2nd shot with your shift a bit to the left so you would get the whole of the angled edge to the theatre and including the whole “Grand Canal Theatre” sign. You could seamlessly stitched the 2 together as you have a tilt and shift lens. It would give a nice graphic edge to the image. At the moment there just isn’t enough of the theatre in my opinion.

It was a pity about the sky in the last shot as it’s a nice composition. I would just crop out the edge of the pole just peeking into the frame on the left.