I just came home from a holiday in Sydney and I went to Mrs Macquarie's chair at sunset. this is my first time shooting at this place and would like some feedback on it.
this was taken with a Pentax k-x and a 18-55mm lenses at 25 sec. f/18 iso 400
please ignore the watermark it is only on there because I recently found out you can copy Hi res. images off fstoppers
Critiuqe wanted sydney harbour oprahouse and bridge from Mrs Macquaries chair
I think the picture is nice and pleasant. But I can see you have a lot of sensor dust, with all the spots and dots in the sky and water. I have them myself, and I remove them in Lightroom. This dust often gets visible during long exposures. And I would always use lowest ISO available to get as clean and noise free sky and water as possible. And you can maybe try to crop of slightly on the top to see if it gets better. But that`s probably a matter of taste :)
Hi Jan I used the smudge tool in Gimp.
do you think it looks better looks better.
Yes it looks much cleaner in the sky now. There are som dots left in the sea :)
ok..... there :)
That`s better :) I have a 27" 2k screen, so I see every little detail :D
Hi Jeremy! You convey a nice mood in this one. Yes, it's better with the spots smudged out. However, it's also softened the bridge, etc. If you had a "busier" sky, then you'd need to clone out or you'd spoil the cloud shapes. I notice that there is a clone tool in GIMP. Shouldn't be too hard to use. Then you can just remove the spots.
One thing I'd have tried is to get that central channel more diagonal, but obviously that would potentially kill the sky reflection, so it might not be possible or only very slightly. As it is, it just slightly cuts the bottom of the image in two for me.