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First Photo Post..(C&C)

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    #2
    PixelTrawler
    Registered Users Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    Thats very well taken, I like it.

    Colours are great and the composition is good


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    Thoie
    Registered Users Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    I really like it. If you were going to start fiddling with it you could oomph the reds a little, and maybe lose a bit of the right hand side, but I like it the way it is.


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    dakar
    Registered Users Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭dakar


    Wow, good start! Nice composition, interesting subject and good control of exposure. Well done.

    Where is it?


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    #5
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    Lagnagoushee wrote: »
    Hi, A lurker steps forward with first picture post.
    Complete newbie...so :confused:

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/3049219033_2f8e4384c2_b.jpg

    Really good atmospheric shot. There's something small and white way in the background to the right, slightly distracting, maybe a bit of photoshop could sort it out. I don't know anything about photography really, but I can tell you have a good eye... the way the brown rust matches the brown earth, as if the truck is becoming part of the soil.


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    #6
    symbolic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭symbolic


    Love it. Great shot. Very 'no country for old men'.


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    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    Very good, was it taken in the states or Ireland?


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    #8
    nilhg
    Registered Users Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭nilhg


    I hope the OP doesn't mind, but I've inserted the picture in this post, I think you were trying to do it yourself

    3049219033_2f8e4384c2_b.jpg

    If you hit the quote button you'll see how I did it.


    I have to say I like this, lovely tones, if I had to pick something to criticise it would be the placement of the truck in the image, I'd like to see another one with it on the right.


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    kjt
    Registered Users Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    Welcome to the forum and quite a nice image to start with.
    I think a little curves/levels in photoshop/lightroom could do you a lot more justice :)


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    #10
    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,931 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Great shot, but... with a bit of post processing it could be so much better :)


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    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Good shot! Wat camera, lens, zoom, Arpeture wer u usin?? Would make a nice print. Personally id change it to b&w and see if it would make a difference


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    l pearse
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭l pearse


    Looks like the Austrailian outback...Interested to know where it was taken myself,
    Really great shot Lagnagoushee.


    177899mf5tub44wr.gif


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    jen_23
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭jen_23


    The sky is fantastic in it. Great pic!


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    #14
    kgiller
    Registered Users Posts: 694 ✭✭✭kgiller


    Great shot. What camera and lens did u use? If i was to guess, i would guess at a really expensive lens and camera.


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    #15
    Weidii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Weidii


    That is one classy shot. I'd be tempted to edit it a bit to make the van "pop" as my life drawing teacher says, but really it's an amazing shot.


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    democrates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    Nice crisp shot there, you can almost smell the rust and earth. I'd personally bump up the saturation a bit more to bring out the reds, but then my screen is not calibrated.

    +1 what nilhg said on the composition. Generally speaking if a person or object with a face or 'front' is facing left or right, leave most space in front of the face so it's not rudely interrupted by the frame, it's a personal space kind of psychology, you want to see that there's nothing too close to the face even though it's inanimate.

    That said, rules are there to be broken and everyone has their own tastes.
    Well done, and if that's GM's new concept vehicle they're gonna need a bigger bailout :D.


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    jpfahy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


    3053829961_ce1688e00a.jpg?v=0

    lol


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    #18
    dazftw
    Registered Users Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    3049219033_2f8e4384c2_b.jpg

    30492190332f8e4384c2bmk9.jpg

    I don't like doing this sort of thing but, I really wanted to see how it would turn out.. little bit of curves and saturation goes along way imo. OP's original image is perfect besides the kind of grayness in it. Looked really flat. Other wise as others have said the composition & exposure are spot on. :)

    Network with your people: https://www.builtinireland.ie/



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    #19
    djd80
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭djd80


    I think this would be a brilliant shot from the same plave as a long expousre on a brightish night......


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    #20
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    import into lightroom with 300 preset :D


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    #21
    City-Exile
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭City-Exile


    Very nice composition.
    The truck really jumps out of the shot!


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    mumof2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭mumof2


    Cool shot!!


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    TheNorthBank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭TheNorthBank


    jpfahy wrote: »
    3053829961_ce1688e00a.jpg?v=0

    lol

    I love the PP you did on this, care to share your secret?

    Tnx


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    #24
    Lagnagoushee
    Registered Users Posts: 401 ✭✭Lagnagoushee


    Thanks for all the comments, advice and helpful info given ........ reckon that I need to learn a lot more. My first post and no one took a bite out of me...... you know what that means....I will post again :D.
    The photo was taken about a month ago on the Great Eastern Highway near Menzies, Western Australia.
    Exp 1/160s @ f10, ISO 200, Canon 5D, 16-35mm


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    democrates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,046 ✭✭✭democrates


    jpfahy wrote: »
    3053829961_ce1688e00a.jpg?v=0

    lol
    Now that's the ticket!
    It's exactly how the world looks to me since I hacked up a new pair of shades out of two cpl filters :D.


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    jpfahy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


    TheNorthBank wrote: »
    I love the PP you did on this, care to share your secret?

    Tnx

    Aperture on the Mac:
    Cloned the headlight
    Dodge and Burn; burned down the sky, lightened the headlights
    Highlights and Shadows; down and up slightly
    Saturation: slight increase
    Colors; picked up a red sample from the mudguard and increased it
    Pity I hadn't the original image in Raw, could have done a lot more


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