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Dumay de Boulle
07-06-2011, 01:04 PM
Canon 50D
Canon 600 f4 L IS
ISO 400
AV f4.5
TV 1/1250
AWB
RAW file processed in CS5 iMac
Subject Distance 56.7m

A shot I took in the Kruger National Park about 3 months after I started photography Jan 2010. It was a very overcast day. Shot from my Sedan on window, which gave me the low angle resting on a bean bag...I thought the only way back then to increase SS was to drop aperture. But it worked out and gave a nice shallow DOF. I really like the mood in this image...Great to hear your thoughts.:S3:

Vivaldo Damilano
07-06-2011, 01:14 PM
Dumay this image has good mood, the soft light helped. :S3:

peter delaney
07-06-2011, 02:50 PM
Nice image Dumay.... need to tone your yellows down especially in the grass/foilage..

Dumay de Boulle
07-06-2011, 03:10 PM
Nice image Dumay.... need to tone your yellows down especially in the grass/foilage..

Thanks for the advice Peter. Reposted, dropped the yellow channel and put up the green channel...Please let me know if its better.

peter delaney
07-06-2011, 03:24 PM
looks alot better... Dumay:S3:

Morkel Erasmus
07-06-2011, 03:47 PM
I like the perspective here Dumay and it's nicely composed to tell the story...even at 3 months experience you had the knack :w3:c3:

Repost is indeed an improvement. Do you have any space at top or bottom left? Maybe it's my eyes playing tricks, but my brain tells me there needs to be just a tad more space for her invisible legs...:2
WDYT?

Harshad Barve
07-06-2011, 09:15 PM
You gotta love this :cheers::cheers::cheers:
TFS

Hilary Hann
07-06-2011, 10:21 PM
Love the mood and sense of place you have shown here.

Sid Garige
07-06-2011, 10:34 PM
Nice image Dumay. Like the repost.

Marc Mol
07-07-2011, 02:04 AM
Like the overall setting and colour here Dumay, with this female nicely framed.
Agree with Morkel on just a tad more lower room.
TFS

Steve Kaluski
07-07-2011, 04:34 AM
I can see this working very nicely as a DPS (Double page spread), repost works now.

Dumay, me being 'picky':w3, but i just wonder if you should just tone down the two darker blobs in the BG to the right. Not a deal breaker, or distracting, just thought it might give the BG more uniformity?

TFS
Steve

Rachel Hollander
07-07-2011, 06:36 AM
Dumay - the repost looks great. I like the soft tones of this and the POV.

TFS,
Rachel

Katie Rupp
07-07-2011, 07:00 PM
Very nice image, Dumay and even more impressive given only three months experience...I agree with wishing for a bit more room for the virtual legs and I love Steve's idea as a two-page spread.

Dumay de Boulle
07-08-2011, 04:35 AM
Thanks folks...I think its called beginners luck:e3:S3:. I do see you point about more space at the bottom but I fell like there might be too much open space and OOF area at the bottom that might be distracting. This was almost full frame and composed in camera.