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Isaac River - Comments Welcome

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:56 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Michael Hewson
Taken in dry central Queensland - this river bed is often dry ...

Image

link edited by Joanna

Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:32 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Joanna Carter
Hi Michael, the link you have provided is incomplete, is /isaac/ a folder or the name of an image without the extension ? Either way, I can't find the image on your site.

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:56 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Chong
Hi Michael,
Good to see that you have joined this board.

I think this link would work:-
http://www.planis.com.au/uvista/isaac.htm

Did you crop this or you had used a 6x12 back?

Regards

Chong

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:59 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Joanna Carter
Hi Chong, I have edited Michael's post, thanks to your pointing to the page, I was able to find the image file for the link.

Michael, my personal comment on this image is that everything seems to be leading the eye out of the left side of the picture and that is fighting the bits of mud(?) in the foreground for attention.

Thanks

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:11 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by Michael Hewson
Thanks Chong and Joanna - very kind! I see what I did wrong too.

Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:10 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00
by joolsb
Couple of quick points: as presented the image lacks contrast and, well, 'ooomph' (to use a technical term :lol:). Making a simple 'S' curve adjustment and boosting saturation a little in Photoshop works wonders.

Aside from that, I think pulling the tripod back a few steps (or fitting a wider lens, of course) would have allowed you to include the whole tree. It would have been nice to see the tree's shape set off against the blue sky.

Another approach would be to go for a lower angle and make more of that single leaf floating in the foreground...

Anyway, niggles aside, a fine image! 8)