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Due to the amount of duplicate photos I took, I don't really have a lot of photos from last night's outing. I'm dribbling them out over a few posts to make it seem like I was more productive than I really was.

I want to thank Mattk for giving me the idea of photographing this. Actually he didn't give me the idea so much as I STOLE it, after I saw him photographing the water. Anyway, full credit to Matt, I wouldn't have this shot otherwise.






I don't know if it works in BW, but I gave it a go. I usually favour colour photographs.

Great image and I prefer the colour.

Doug

What the freak said

What Peat said.

gstark wrote:What Peat said.

I think I've created a monster

Oh, you two!

Thanks for the feedback, I'm pleased you like the photo.

stubbsy wrote:

gstark wrote:What Peat said.

I think I've created a monster

That would have been your parents, I suspect.

Nice photos Doug, I like both of them.

Bob.

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The colour is much better. The purple tinge really looks nice.

Thanks Bob for your comment.

Thanks Steve. I like the colour more too.

I prefer the colour Doug, and really like the magical properties you've captured here, I wouldn't be surprised if the land of the lake didn't arise from the water herself.... I'd certainly prefer it to a Peat Monster

I too prefer the colour one Doug.
Matt. K sure is an inspiration to many of us.
A great teacher and a great guy.
Looks like you guys had a fun night of shooting.

Thanks Craig. Do you mean "Lady" of the lake?

Geoff, you are right in all you say about Matt. Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them.

Good job Doug! Here's a take on my version. The lesson is that 2 photographers can point their cameras at the same subject and end up with prints that are quite different. I intend to rework the other versions later on. PS I love the intense blue that you've accentuated in your inmage.

That's very interesting, thanks for posting that Matt. I'm puzzled why mine is so much more blue than yours. Was that the photo you used flash for? I didn't use flash.

Mine's very blue out of the camera. I just tried to post-process again, and it keeps coming out blue. In fact I have to select the blue channel and reduce the saturation of the blue to stop it looking garish after increasing the contrast. I didn't really accentuate the blue (other than what happened when I increased the contrast), but I did try to bring out the red in the rocks by adding saturation to the red channel.

I hope that I'll be able to see your reworked versions in the future, I'm very interested.