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Published: 2008-05-08 22:08:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1171; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 0
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We had a fog the other morning... while the RAW convert in cS3 has no presets and takes a lot longer to use it has more control over the result than Rawshooter I find.Related content
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Glad you liked it Teresa
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Thanx and thanx for the favs!
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I think this and "Secret World" are both wonderful works. Both have resemblances and I think they would complement each other good in a series. Both dreamy, but this this being cool and blue serene, while the other is warm.
I like both very much, but this one appeals to me more.
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I'd like to think I could find more fog and do a series that would make me
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The colours and composition of this pic are amazing! 
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I love this time of the day, especially walking around during the cool morning mist. Its a great experience in summer
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a summer fog is icecream on a stick, a winter fog is still good tho! This morning there was fog AND frost!
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I agree with that. Wont be having days like that for a while now, summer is here
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I'd love to do this around sydney harbour.. so hard to both preict a fog and get there at the right time...one day!
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I think it's excellent. Just being picky... I've noticed many of your pictures are slightly tilted to the left.
I'm not sure if the 350D has a viewfinder grid to align, but anyway you could easily fix that (although cropping a little bit) in camera raw (that is, if it's not intended... but doesn't look like so).
Nonetheless, it is excellent, most definitely
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Happy to get the comment mate... in this case you may be right.. got me wondering about any others.. example? I usually use the ruler tool and arbitrary rotate in PS to correct obvious slants.
I will do an edit tomorrow.. I guess I thought the lie of the land and the strength of the tree gave a balance but I'll check it out!
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It does indeed give balance, that's why I say it's excellent. I just sometimes get picky with all that stuff. I come from a photographer's forum (where I learned basically all I know from photography) and they were harsh commenting pictures (best way to learn! 
Doesn't mean the picture isn't great.
About examples of slight tilts on your pictures, just some random selection:
[link] (not that slight right)
[link] (slight left)
[link] (slight left)
[link] (not that slight right)
etc.
That said, let me repeat: the tilting won't at all make a picture bad... it just jumps on my eye when I first see it. This is because I used to tilt most of my pictures and got criticised (because I asked for it!), so it's one of the first things that I inconsciously look at when studying a photo.
One easy way to check the tilting in photoshop (the ruler is far from being accurate most of the time), is, after camera raw, put a horizontal guide on the horizon, and check the both sides.
I think you are an excellent photographer... got the eye, and the technique. Seriously: I don't usually tend to study in detail photos from bad photographers... but I get picky with good photos when I think they could get better with this or that touch
And, of course... it's not MY photo, it's just the way I look at it. I don't want to tell you how to make YOUR photos, I'm making suggestions based on my personal vision of them alone. Please try to take my critics (for the future) as totally constructive
Best regards!
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One easy way to check the tilting in photoshop (the ruler is far from being accurate most of the time), is, after camera raw, put a horizontal guide on the horizon, and check the both sides.
How do I do that.. I found the grid option.. is there another way? this shot is a lie of the land shot [link] bit I agree there are a few slopes around... I'll be more aware. And I apreciate the crit.. I also only coment and disect that whcih I like so good on you!
With crown of thorns would you agree a slight crop on the left is a good idea?
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About the horizontal guide... just show the ruler (Ctrl+R on Windows), and from there, you can drag both horizontal or vertical guides (start dragging from the top ruler for horizontal, and from the left one for vertical, and drop it wherever you want it).
About the crop... not really sure. The tree would probably look better if more on the left, but if you crop it, you'd need to crop from either top or bottom to maintain the aspect ratio, and I think it's just "vertically" perfect, cropping from top or bottom would be a bad idea... worse than not having the tree more to the left, in my humble oppinion. The tree roots make a nice compositional game, so cropping them would do no good, and having it more to the top might make it look "boxed", so it's not a good idea either.
You might try not keeping the proportions and make a square crop or something, but I personally don't like non 3:2 crops very much. 3:2 seems so natural to me than anything else "confuses my mind" about the composition
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Picture twisted 0.7 degrees and gentle trim. Thnx fer the tip!
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Ctr R sweet as.... 
Have you a tip for making a square crop...? I select and past trial and error till I get a square dimension
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Aah, morning fog, i rarely see it! This is so beautiful... Love the composition
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Thanks very much I'm happy with this one
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You have a knack for turning something simple into something memorable.
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well gosh thanx.. precaite that
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