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Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

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Old 13-10-2007, 7:14 PM   #1
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Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

It was pretty scary.....

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Old 13-10-2007, 7:19 PM   #2
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

We'll need a few more clues than that if we're to come and free you...
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Old 14-10-2007, 8:46 AM   #3
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

ok here's another

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Old 14-10-2007, 9:14 AM   #4
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

I have it, it was Batman! These two both remind me of the first film where Jack Napier ends up in a vat of acid.

Nice shots. I really like the second one though the blue, especially in the bits at the top, is a bit distracting.
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Old 14-10-2007, 9:32 AM   #5
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Out looking for abandoned places are we
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Old 14-10-2007, 9:57 AM   #6
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

I am sure i can see Tobers face on the big vat on the left
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Looks like we can be expecting some seriously competitive entries in the competition some time very soon
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Old 14-10-2007, 12:06 PM   #8
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Strangely enough, I also received a call to meet a mystery photographer at a mystery location. I managed to take a fleeting pic of him at work...jeez it was high and very rusty...


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Old 14-10-2007, 12:09 PM   #9
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Actually I never went there for competition entry. I already took a photo for the competition that I may submit. I have an idea for a shot in my head that I want to try to do but it involves some administration and perhaps a posse to help me....if I run out of time and can't get it then I guess I now have a few options....

I was shooting at iso1250 for virtually all the shots yesterday, handheld. My partner in crime was sensible enough to take a tripod. I suspect his images are going to be rather special......

edit: Oh look......it seems someone else was in same location....
I've just realised that is a pictue of someone taking a picture like the one I just posted....wow!

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Old 14-10-2007, 6:47 PM   #10
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

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I have an idea for a shot in my head that I want to try to do but it involves some administration and perhaps a posse to help me

Do any of them bare any resemblance to the film 28 days later
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Old 14-10-2007, 6:59 PM   #11
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location



Here's a couple or three more from some mystery bloke...







Tobers
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Old 14-10-2007, 7:16 PM   #12
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Great shots fellas, especially both of your b&w's. Good detail retention considering the tricky lighting conditions
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Old 14-10-2007, 9:35 PM   #13
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Just finished another one. Some in reserve for the comp .

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Old 15-10-2007, 7:14 AM   #14
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Last couple from me. I'll hold some back in case of competition as well I think

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Old 15-10-2007, 7:37 AM   #15
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

That last one is excellent Gordon
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Old 15-10-2007, 8:03 AM   #16
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

Cheers,

First time I've actually had a go at proper photoshop. When I took the photo I was composing it like that. There is no crop, I wanted that framing. However when I looked at the raw file it struck me that it was an industrialised hell and I wondered if I could make it Dantesque.

So I did a copy imag layer, channel mixed it, then did a layer mask. Then I used different oppacities of brush to paint in the change of brightness from top to bottom as you go down in height. I think I can do it better but I've given myself hope!
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Old 16-10-2007, 3:26 PM   #17
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

I've got more but I'll make this the last for this thread...
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HDR work really suits these kinds of pictures
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Old 16-10-2007, 3:35 PM   #19
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Re: Got a call today. Met a mystery photographer at mystery location

It does doesn't it. Only problem is that the dark exposures with high iso mean LOTS of noise. This one above I cloned out windows and did a sort of gradient affect aftwerwards with a copy layer with lower exposure and a layer mask painting in at different opacities. Sounds more complciated than it was. I really need to be shown how to clone better though.
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