Sydney and the nearby areas.

[vii_haven]

Just came back a week ago from Sydney and a couple of the nearby areas. Just a couple of pics taken with my 350D and my 10-22. Constructive comments are definately welcome! =)

1. Overhead power cables.


2. Train 1.


3. Train 2


4. Leaves


5. Outside the Acer Arena

[vii_haven]

6. Shoe Shiner


7. Sydney Fish Market


8. Wild Flowers


9. One of the 3 Sisters


10. Mooo...

[vii_haven]

11. Beach


12. Leaving on a jet plane.

[kenele]

Thanks for sharing, I like it! Nice series!

[zag]

Nice.. #3 and #6 downtown "martin place" brings back lots of fond memories from the 80's.
thks for sharing!

[Big Kahuna]

The sky is nice, you use any filter?

[simon.edward]

thats the thing that annoys me about aus they got bloody clear blue skies lol. enjoyed ur series

[vii_haven]

I used a HOYA Circular Polarizer for shots 9, 10 and 11. The rest were done with a cheapo Tokina UV filter.

[Big Kahuna]

Originally Posted by vii_haven I used a HOYA Circular Polarizer for shots 9, 10 and 11. The rest were done with a cheapo Tokina UV filter.

Well....you have proven that nice picture doesn't need the best equipment......so you really did us (entry level user) proud

[vii_haven]

Anything I can improve on? =)

[zoossh]

Originally Posted by vii_haven Anything I can improve on? =)

composition of the below picture can be further lateralised. i a bit itchy and did some post editing after cropping. hope it didn't ruin your picture. desat some areas, darkened highlights, saturated the buildings, and narrowed the levels plus blurred the corners.

[zoossh]

paiseh, think i narrowed the levels too much and did not select the central part off. the details of the shoe shiner and his client are lost in the black & dark blue.

[vii_haven]

the pic does look better! you mean you selected areas to saturate the colors? and how do you darken the highlights? i've never done editing to the individual areas before, just editing to the whole picture per se.

[zoossh]

Originally Posted by vii_haven the pic does look better! you mean you selected areas to saturate the colors? and how do you darken the highlights? i've never done editing to the individual areas before, just editing to the whole picture per se.

it is a matter of trial and error cum visualisation. i know what i like in a scene and that is the olive yellow i want to bring out. so what i did is to select a semioval eclipse over the buildings and use a border of abt 200-250px and bring up the saturation of the yellow channel. however, i wanted to suppress the red and the green in the centre, so i did a small semioval eclipse over them with a border of 10px and desaturate the red and the green channel.

i'm using photoshop elements, so dunno if what i said above would help you or not.

[zoossh]

darken highlight and lightened shadows can be done via a function in the elements too.

[zoossh]

in general, i think your #5-8 can benefit more from increasing the exposure when shooting or postprocessing brightening up the midtones/highlights by shfting the input levels right sided bar more centrally. #2-3 can benefit more if you lighten the shadow slightly to bring out some details in the shadow. #1 should benefit more if you increase the contrast or use a circular polariser to reduce the reflection on the grey pole to make it look darker with more contrasting details.

just my thoughts. may or may not work.

[vii_haven]

I get what you mean now. =) I use a mix of Photoshop CS2 and Aperture. Will go look into your comments. =) Thanks!

[Spectrum]

Pic #5 & #11, acceptable flare can be seen from this 10-22mm Canon lens. But is OK for me (although I'm not a Canon user). Good lens nevertheless.

[nemesis32]

interestingly,the best shot i think is moo... :P

[lastboltnut]

Hi! Nice pics, thanx for sharing. I like #2, the sunlight shining on the train. Sharp and nice colour. The contrast of light.