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February 10, 2008 at 7:25 pm

nince. nice, nice…
A lovely creation, a great mood captured and a deservedly happy photographer no doubt.

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February 9, 2008 at 10:45 am

hi gents, thanks for the feedback. appreciated as always.

I played around some more and ended up with, as you both suggested, just correcting them a touch more.

I think I am pretty happy with the result.

Peter, I haven’t tried the lens correction facility ( I am on a pretty steep learning curve at the moment and enjoying it too) so I’ll check that out this evening.

Thanks again guys

here she is

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February 8, 2008 at 10:53 am

:shock: wow, them comments were more positive then I expected. This was my first attempt at some ‘advanced’ PS techniques – merging, layer masks, b+w conversions etc.

so thanks to all

Mr Lousy, you’ve a good eye indeed because thats exactly what I thought when I was actually there composing the shot – unfourtunately moving any further to the left would either have involved asking the subject to move slightly or chopping down a swathe of branches which would obscure him. In the end I took the compromise composition ( for fear of missing the shot totally). As I only had a 24-70 with me this is a crop, removing alot of branch/sky deadness from the top.

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February 8, 2008 at 2:28 am

like the tones, nice exposure.
I think just a tad of a crop to take out maybe 20 – 25% of the sky and the left hand reed bank. although the tones in the sky are nice I think the image could gain a bit more power with a little less sky

would have loved to have been on the boat. looks peaceful

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February 5, 2008 at 10:57 pm

Thanks Paul & Paddy. You both apear to be giving pretty much the same guidlines

Paddy. I particularly appreciate your detailed advice and indeed words of caution. You mention what will NOT impress national editors and I understand the thrust of what you are saying. What i am reading into your post though is that it will not be the quality of the initial images that gets me work but the follow up and the quality of the images I subsequently send in.

The quality of these subsequent images will depend somewhat on the events I cover so what my next question for you is: Apart from reading the news and keeping up with forthcoming oppurtunities are there any resources available (online or otherwise) for identifying oppurtunities that would interest editors?

Maybe I should target PR work in conjunction with editorial in order to bankroll me through the lean periods ahead.

thanks again for your time gents.

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February 5, 2008 at 12:56 pm

randomway wrote:

The question is, why did I post this in the P. Business section??

cos it’s the randomway :roll: :wink:

yup good site
I joined there a couple of months ago and I know a lad who subscribed to the actual mag. and got a rather deadly 2008 diary off them. nice.

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January 30, 2008 at 11:52 pm

I agree, the foreground is really nice but on my screen it looks like an aurora borealis (sp!) event is taking place in clare skies :lol:

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January 30, 2008 at 11:48 pm

i like this. I’ld stick it on my wall.

the pebbles on the sand, the tortured looking rock and the great sky. three pics all composed to make a top pic for me.

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January 30, 2008 at 11:38 pm

I haven’t seen the original as I am only a newbie but I tend to agree a bit with Rob. The tree and the boat drag the eye about, it feels a touch disjointed. However, I’ld like to see it without the boat, just the tree maybe?

lovely working of the image though.

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January 30, 2008 at 11:32 pm

Thanks Peter, great advice on all counts. I’ll give the straightening a try.

The saga continues…

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January 30, 2008 at 6:09 pm

3 from sallins today for me to have a think about. For me it’s prob between little eden and the 2 swans.
I waited till the rain came for 2 swans to float by little eden but no joy :(

the aquaduct wasn’t as photogenic as my imagination portrayed but some other parts were nice down that way.

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January 30, 2008 at 11:10 am

thanks pat,

I hadn’t thought of using colour at all but it could be worth a try, maybe even a colour pop?

I had a quick look today over the map of the GC – there is an aquaduct in Sallins where the liffey crosses the GC so that fits the bill.

I am off down there now to have a look.

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