[dingaroo] Sunday Sunrise Morning Shoot @ Esplanade
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wildcat
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The 2nd picture looks okay though. You posted directly from camera jpeg? What were the differences in settings that you made?
If you are going down again, jio me pls? Need a ride in your car again :bsmilie:
Posted without PP, still a dummy when comes to PP.:cry:
Not a problem. I'll PM you on the date but got to do it after my Beijng trip. I missed your lesson on pano technique and need you to explain hehe.........
Btw, your pano is nice.:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
wildcat
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Slowly one step at a time lah. I also only started learning PP... a long way to go.
I still think it's best is still to get the shot right from the camera.
Thanks... money well spent in cab fare down to reach early :sweat:
wildcat
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A bit late (coz I actually missed out on this photo; stuck between a weird angle I didn't like and the blurred horizontal photos)... but it's my favourite photo to date. This was just before the sun started shining at 7.30am but after 7.20 so there's plenty of bright light already.
Without the usual sunrise dramatic colours to distract me, I decided this would be a good photo to convert to B&W and worked from that angle. The ND filter I used didn't stop enough light for an extremely long exposure so I "helped" it a bit in post processing - call it cheating, if you want... smoothening out the sea with a layer of blur. The irregular banding if you notice, is from the original picture due to exposure not long enough to smoothen that.
Lemme know if there's anything else I should or could have done.
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Without the usual sunrise dramatic colours to distract me, I decided this would be a good photo to convert to B&W and worked from that angle. The ND filter I used didn't stop enough light for an extremely long exposure so I "helped" it a bit in post processing - call it cheating, if you want... smoothening out the sea with a layer of blur. The irregular banding if you notice, is from the original picture due to exposure not long enough to smoothen that.
Lemme know if there's anything else I should or could have done.
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mimik07
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A bit late (coz I actually missed out on this photo; stuck between a weird angle I didn't like and the blurred horizontal photos)... but it's my favourite photo to date. This was just before the sun started shining at 7.30am but after 7.20 so there's plenty of bright light already.
Without the usual sunrise dramatic colours to distract me, I decided this would be a good photo to convert to B&W and worked from that angle. The ND filter I used didn't stop enough light for an extremely long exposure so I "helped" it a bit in post processing - call it cheating, if you want... smoothening out the sea with a layer of blur. The irregular banding if you notice, is from the original picture due to exposure not long enough to smoothen that.
Lemme know if there's anything else I should or could have done.
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Nice shot wildcat! :thumbsup:
Kit
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At first glance, the composition looked unbalanced but looking at it more carefully, you have victoria concert hall clock tower at the extreme right. Interesting.....
wildcat
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Thanks
Yes, I spent a quite a bit of time thinking and thinking and redo the crops on that. I actually had a lot more space to the right... cut too much and the picture has the stiffled feel from the right (I tried at the next lamppost, straight down the middle pole), cut too little and then the imbalance is too obvious.
Cut too much top (or too little) and it looks weird. In the end...
1. The bottom was kinda easiest to slash so that's what I did first. Chosen so that Maybank is not cut off, although I would have liked to cut off even more
2. The amount of space I left between VC clock tower and from the leftmost building to edge of pic is the same. Cutting it at the next closer lamppost, like stiffling and not giving enough breathing room.
3. The top, I did several tries... maybe a bit more crop but won't be that much different; essentially chose that length because of what I have at the bottom and cloud patterns, and yet not too much that it looks like I have too much empty sky... or do I have too much empty sky.
What do you think, shifu?
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wildcat
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Okay, got it. Yay.. remember to print my certificate of primary 2 graduation so that I can now go primary 3, hor? :vhappy:
Yeah, I've been spending a lot more time thinking, and I also need to go back to some older photos of yours and nai meh's, amongst others. Coz with new understanding, can observe and learn more things also - eyes open up. :bigeyes:
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