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January 26, 2011 at 12:05 am

Cool that really helps

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August 8, 2010 at 11:42 am

That’s fantastic advice and I’ll certainly consider what you’ve said on my next shoot. Thanks again :)

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August 7, 2010 at 10:00 pm

Hi Brendan,

I love nothing more than someone being critical with my image. So thanks for your honest opinion.

It’s only by following advice that I will get better.

I ‘m guessing what you are saying is that there is too much clutter in the image and it’s hard to focus on a specific subject, yes?

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June 24, 2010 at 10:50 pm

thanks for the replies. I shot 3 bracketed shots. Any suggestions to how I can improve on my composition for the first shot?

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June 13, 2010 at 11:34 am

thanks for the constructive C&C. Appreciate all the advice given

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May 5, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Yeah I probably should have exposed for the faces.

Thanks for the input

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March 28, 2010 at 3:52 pm

thanks for the advice. I tried that on the original file in PS and increasing the contrast through curves does give it a better kick.

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March 23, 2010 at 8:37 pm

Thanks Congo. It’s well worth getting down there just before sunrise. Does mean getting out of bed extra early :)

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March 15, 2010 at 9:04 am

The colour from the first shot is directly from the camera. It’s completely natural. I shot into the sun using ND filters totaling 5 stops and this somehow has created the magenta tint. That was not added using photoshop or lightroom

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March 14, 2010 at 9:33 pm

brilliant suggestion Mark. Thanks for your comments

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March 14, 2010 at 3:28 pm

love this shot. The sky is extremely dramatic and really adds great atmosphere to the picture.

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March 12, 2010 at 10:21 am

I cloned out the distracting weed in the picture

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March 12, 2010 at 10:07 am

Thanks for the advice. I’ll try to clone it out in some way :lol:

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March 5, 2010 at 2:13 pm

that’s great advice.

One more question. My camera is a 20D and it has 9 AF points. I tend to just use the centre point for focusing.

Would it be useful to use Auto AF point selector for sports?

Sorry for the questions but I’m not very good at shooting sports and I would love to get better.

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March 2, 2010 at 7:43 pm

I was actually trying to achieve a silhouette but it didn’t quite work out the way I wanted.

Just as a matter of interest, is Servo focus mode always used in sports photos?