Some River Shots....>

Arch · Oct 25, 2006

.... well this place was like summin out of Lord of the Rings!.... really hard to get a good composition because of how busy the scenery was.... and just getting down to the river bank was hard enough!.... anyhow, all shot with a x4 ND and Polarizer..... some were definatley more successful than others!.....

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Thanks for looking

newrmdmike · Oct 25, 2006

i like these i think.

what was the post? it looks kind of like maybe you took a high contrast bw image and used some sort of blending option on it to get this. do you mind sharing?

Big Mike · Oct 25, 2006

Great series...I like #3 best...followed by #6.

I'm also curious to know what kind of processing was involved here.

Arch · Oct 25, 2006

thanks guys,

The processing was actually the result of having a colour cast in the shadow areas.... i recently had a discussion with another member here about it who had the same issue. The dark areas had a red cast to them.... probably due to either using an ND with a polarizer for the long exposure... or just that the ND filter is a bit 'crappy' (i have to get some good ones).... but i dont remember ever having a problem with film.... so not sure if its a digital thing?

Anyway... i had to adjust the colour balence and overall saturation... aswell as slightly desaturate the red channel in masked areas.

As newrmdmike suggested it does look similar to a technique i'v used before of using a b+w background layer with a colour top layer set to the 'overlay' blending option.... but i think it just appears like that because of the desaturation and colour editing.

Antarctican · Oct 25, 2006

Oooo, nice series! You're right, they smack of LotR. #3 is my fave, because of the gnarly trees on the right side of the bank and the shades of green of the moss on the stones. 1 and 6 are standouts for me, too.

photo gal · Oct 25, 2006

Awesome Archie!! I wanna go there!! : )

emo · Oct 25, 2006

WOW! brilliant! #3 & #6 here :thumbsup:

doenoe · Oct 25, 2006

very nice series indeed. Topjob mate. I really like #4 :thumbup:

JTHphoto · Oct 25, 2006

looks like a tough spot to photo, you did an amazing job, imo, but i wouldn't expect any less. #3 is amazing - my fav... but i thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. :thumbup:

surfingfireman · Oct 25, 2006

yup very LOTR and yup #3 is the money shot.

LaFoto · Oct 26, 2006

Well, I was wondering if I would ever be able to chose a favourite out of this lovely series, and was thinking that 3 pretty much nails it all ... but I like the others almost as much ... but in the end 3 seems to have EVERYTHING, while the others have perfect PARTS of everything. So yes. Three is the winner of the series.