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{K:437} 3/18/2003
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Cheers Wayne,
By all means, when you get to town next, look me up. You can have a look through my billions of transparencies that were great idea's unrealized!
Take it easy, Simon
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 3/18/2003
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No worries Simon, I don't have a great attachment to the shot, just that everyone else seemed to be uploading images of Sydney at the time so I thought I should too ! I'm likely to be in Sydney again sometime within the next year so I might take you up on that beer. By the way, nice shot of the Leura Cascades, I admire your stamina carrying an RB, etc. back up the hill after that.
Cheers,
...Wayne
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{K:437} 3/18/2003
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Cheers Wayne,
Quite right, it's an optical effect due to both the lens and the orientation. It's not my aim to frustrate you mate, it's only my opinion. I just don't think the image works that well, thats all. If you had shot it with a 24mm or something I think the overall effect would have been far more pleasant, and objects would have been allot sharper. I don't shoot anything wider than 24mm myself and have never found super wides very appealing for all the reasons discussed. If you ever get to Sydney again, your welcome to tell me where to stick it, over a beer perhaps.
Yet again, Kind regards! Simon :O)
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{K:437} 3/18/2003
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Cheers Wayne,
Quite right, it's an optical effect due to both the lens and the orientation. It's not my aim to frustrate you mate, it's only my opinion. I just don't think the image works that well, thats all. If you had shot it with a 24mm or something I think the overall effect would have been far more pleasant, and objects would have been allot sharper. I don't shoot anything wider than 24mm myself and have never found super wides very appealing for all the reasons discussed. If you ever get to Sydney again, your welcome to tell me where to stick, over a beer perhaps.
Yet again, Kind regards! Simon :O)
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 3/18/2003
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Image detail
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 3/18/2003
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Simon,
I don't like to be pedantic however when you say "The lights on the bridge are blurred as though the camera has been moved during the shot" this is not really possible when other light sources are round. I took the opportunity to have a closer look at the full resolution scan and it shows lines of lights across the top of the roadway of the bridge. Because of the orientation of these lights the downsampled image on usefilm gives the effect you observed, see the attached image.
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 3/17/2003
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Simon,
This is a rectilinear image which was created from a full frame fisheye shot. What you see is not linear distortion but just the exaggerated perspective typical of any ultra-wide angle lens (imagine a rectilinear lens giving 130 degrees horizontal field of view). Granted the edges are a bit soft, a result of mapping the detail "squeezed" into the edges of a fisheye to rectilinear. I will post the unmapped fisheye image when I find it.
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{K:437} 3/17/2003
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G'day Wayne, since you asked...
Everything north of the pier, the bridge is falling backwards into a warped blur - so the bridge is not sharp. The buildings over at Kirribilli and Luna Park are blown out and suffer the same distortion that the bridge does. The lights on the bridge are blurred as though the camera has been moved during the shot, the tree and shrub on both extreme left and right are not sharp but are a blur or soft. Even looking at the parking bay in yellow and the pier defies sharpness. Nothing is sharp and almost everything is suffering distortion. I've seen lots of extreme wide angle shots that manage sharpness, this one isn't. As I said, if thats what you wanted to achieve, a surreal abstract of Sydney Harbour, then you've done well.
Kind regards, Simon
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 3/17/2003
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Distortion ?
Which distortion in particular ?
Maybe you'd like the fisheye perspective better ?
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{K:437} 3/17/2003
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I apreciate the aesthetic but the distortion on most of the important elements of the composition make this quite difficult to view. If it's the effect you were going for then you've done well to achieve it, I'm just not too sure I understand why you'd want to though.
Kind regards, Simon
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Petros Stamatakos
{K:12101} 2/13/2003
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Nice work Wayne!
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Steve Kompier
{K:4629} 2/13/2003
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Very nice Wayne. Nice to see some new nightshots from you. I need to get out and shoot too.
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Wayne Harridge
{K:18292} 2/13/2003
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Thanks for the comments.
There was some colour correction done to reduce the effect of the lighting which left the original scan with a green cast. Perhaps it is still a bit green ! I'm never quite sure what to do in terms of colour correction on this type of shot where there is mixed lighting.
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Todd Miller
{K:16464} 2/12/2003
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The color is excellent in this shot, particularily the green and the parking lot in the bottom. Did you use any filters or adjust colors otherwise? Cool shot.
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Hayri CALISKAN
{K:16195} 2/12/2003
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Beautiful composition.Nice night shot.
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