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Ryan Joyce
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p.1 #1 · Darn Skateboarding

First post here. Was back in June i took this photo, Bush fires all over Melbourne were making a sunset i cant forget easy and i took a photo with my old camera.

Nikon D70 50mm f5.6 @ 1/250th Iso400 2x Sunpak544s Quantum 4i Slaves

Edited by Ryan Joyce on Dec 24, 2007 at 10:00 AM GMT

Dec 24, 2007 at 02:53 PM

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p.1 #2 · Darn Skateboarding

120 views and nothing?

Dec 25, 2007 at 12:40 AM

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p.1 #3 · Darn Skateboarding

I like it. Looks like it could be very slightly overexposed and if you had an angle roughly 120* to the right, allowing you to capture the face of the boarder, it might be a little better. But then of course you probably wouldn't get the sunset.

Just a thought and since you were asking for comments, I thought I'd contribute something. Overall I like it.

-fool

Dec 25, 2007 at 03:24 AM

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p.1 #4 · Darn Skateboarding

Thank you RyM17 & Fool, I just wanted to see what someone would say. Hard to get a comment on this site. His shirt is blown out a small amount, was just before i invested in a external light meter.

Dec 25, 2007 at 06:13 AM

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p.1 #5 · Darn Skateboarding

Honestly, a decent shot. I like it. But I'd love it if you'd droped the ambient exposure a little to darken the sunset, which would increase the contrast between the rider's face/shirt, and the sunset, and give more saturated colors to the sunset. As it is, the lightness of the riders shirt/face kind of gets lost in the lightness of the sky.

Alternatively, if you shot in RAW, processing 2 versions, one with less exposure on the sky, and the other with the existing exposure on the subject, with a blend in PP could make all the difference.

Harvey

Dec 25, 2007 at 10:23 AM

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p.1 #6 · Darn Skateboarding

hfillmore, Thank you for taking the time in that comment. Words like that always make me think on how i can shoot it next time. But with the blending photo editing im not into the editing side. I'm kinda old school with Shooting photos, Shoot/levels/contrast/resize/post, im very basic. And this was shot in RAW. Thanks again.

Dec 25, 2007 at 03:02 PM

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p.1 #7 · Darn Skateboarding

Ryan Joyce wrote:
hfillmore, Thank you for taking the time in that comment. Words like that always make me think on how i can shoot it next time. But with the blending photo editing im not into the editing side. I'm kinda old school with Shooting photos, Shoot/levels/contrast/resize/post, im very basic. And this was shot in RAW. Thanks again.

I'm with you Ryan.... I hate the whole computer/PP thing. I really disdain spending hours on a shot to try to make up for what I couldn't get "in camera". In fact, I've never "blended" a multiple processed photo in my life. Just not my bag. I only mentioned it because I know that it can be done, and that others do it.

What I try

to do in shots like this is to set the camera in manual and take a few test shots to get the sky looking nice and saturated. Once I get the sky looking the way I want, I leave that exposure setting as it is, and thenstart shooting with the subjectl, messing around with the flash settings to bring the subject up to where I want it. If all goes well, sometimes it even works

Harvey

Dec 26, 2007 at 12:27 AM

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p.1 #8 · Darn Skateboarding

Nice shot, the exposure is pretty good, a bit hot on the hand but otherwise good. Since the wood on the left adds nothing, you should shift a bit right and pan so that you get the same perspective (more or less) and you don't have the pole.

Nice background

Dec 29, 2007 at 02:42 AM

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