Sun rises (5 images - 350k)

Victor · 18-12-2002 8:32pm #1

Just some pictures I took of sunrises in Killiney over the summer. What do people think of the cropped / uncropped sunbursts? OK I know I need to avoid plants in the foreground and get the camera level and whatever. Apologies for the scans being poor in places. APS 200 film on ??? camera.

From the beach - uncropped

From the beach - cropped

From Vico Road

wiensta · 19-12-2002 10:23pm

dude they should really be like a 1/3rd of that res for a forum.

Samson · 19-12-2002 11:00pm

Victor, I hope you don't think I'm being too cheeky by making some changes to one of shots (number 2):

What I have done:
Cropped out the top and bottom of the image to make it more of a panoramic, I felt that there was a bit too much "dead space" in the image.
I have also played around with the contrast and the levels in Photoshop as the original was a bit washed out. This is due, I'm sure, to the crap machine print that you scanned from. I think because the machine/operator saw the neg as being quite dark, it/they assumed it was under-exposed and consequently gave it too much exposure when printing, hence, the washed-out look.

If you are thinking of having decent prints made, you should really opt for hand prints, as I have rarely seen a decent print from a machine.

Sun rises (5 images - 350k)

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