No I didnt use the magic ... but I was considering it unil i realised i left my little bag of magic (with my CF cards) on my bed in the UK for my one night stop over to see my parents.
I think with the conditions we had on the few dives we took that Magic may have worked quite well but I was told we were lucky with sunlight, surface conditions and visibility.
Most of the blues are actually straight out of the camera. I think there was only one image I really had to push hard to get a nice blue. The rest converted from RAW with the right colours using Adobe RAW converter.
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Posted 17 July 2006 - 12:53 AM
Really great stuff Giles! I'll have to have another look at those again later, there are so many good ones.
Great to see you had such a productive trip.
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Great to see you had such a productive trip.
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Posted 17 July 2006 - 05:24 AM
I agree - great stuff Giles. All you can eat indeed. I like the "caution, free range children" photo :-)
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 12:39 PM
Nice for a virgin runner, Giles.
But you really have to stop using Photoshop auto levels or color.
But you really have to stop using Photoshop auto levels or color.
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 01:13 PM
ouch....
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 02:04 PM
What ouch? A few of those dolphin shots look like auto-levels was used. Giles isn't sensitive... he's just born beautiful
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 06:15 PM
I was there as well.... Just so far behind in getting images processed that I only just got a chance to go through the first couple of days so far....
This was the first Humpback breach that was in photo range
I'll get to the underwater images sometime... ah... it will either happen this week or maybe August. Probably August
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This was the first Humpback breach that was in photo range
I'll get to the underwater images sometime... ah... it will either happen this week or maybe August. Probably August
Enjoy,
M
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 04:33 AM
Hey that's not Slappy... where's slappy?
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 04:43 AM
drew... stop the bedroom talk on a public forum m'kay?!
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 05:09 AM
Oh if you knew what slappy was, you'd want to play with slappy too. A record 57 times baby!
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 05:17 AM
hey.. don't remind me of my social life in yap...
and yes, Paul disclosed that somewhere else. hahaah were you two on same boat?
and yes, Paul disclosed that somewhere else. hahaah were you two on same boat?
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Posted 25 July 2006 - 05:36 AM
Yup Paul was on my boat. As were Eric, Giles, Ken and Jens.
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Posted 26 July 2006 - 08:29 AM
Auto- Colours ... psssh ... all me baby ... I got the results I like .. damn sardines were all flush from swimming so hard so they came out a little orange !
I actually did have two different conversions etc most all are over saturated, but the underwater ones are converted very differently for full size .. I am trying to perfect my technique of workflow and as these were my first RAW shots I did a quick run and then picked some to wortk on .. and then when resized they didn't look as punchy so I added some more pzaz .. and thats what I got .. maybe if Drew didn't have a cheap Apple screen to look at the pictures it would appear better
On a serious note ... I have to redo them all anyway thanks to a hard drive failure !
I actually did have two different conversions etc most all are over saturated, but the underwater ones are converted very differently for full size .. I am trying to perfect my technique of workflow and as these were my first RAW shots I did a quick run and then picked some to wortk on .. and then when resized they didn't look as punchy so I added some more pzaz .. and thats what I got .. maybe if Drew didn't have a cheap Apple screen to look at the pictures it would appear better
On a serious note ... I have to redo them all anyway thanks to a hard drive failure !
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 11:32 AM
Newbie Heidi here, on my virgin Wetpixel login. And though I came specifically to drool over the SoAfr pics (which - woa- so stunning) I was inspired to register, say hello, and post some poorly-lit pics from my little point-and-click Sony.
Thanks for letting me re-live the good old days from Mboyti via your pics. Wishing you all many happy dives!
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Eric, teetering on the edge of Magwa Falls
Thanks for letting me re-live the good old days from Mboyti via your pics. Wishing you all many happy dives!
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 11:38 AM
Hi Heidi and welcome.
Haha! I can recognize supermodel Giles just from his goldilocks silouette.
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Haha! I can recognize supermodel Giles just from his goldilocks silouette.
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 04:23 PM
Welcome.
And Eric that shot better have been worth it. Looks like you were on the edge and standing on a slippery slope.
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And Eric that shot better have been worth it. Looks like you were on the edge and standing on a slippery slope.
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 05:49 PM
Edge of a slippery slope indeed. I suspect this may have been the outcome...
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Posted 31 July 2006 - 06:32 PM
No Magwa Falls isn't scary.... what almost killed Mr Cheng wasn't sharks, whales, dolphins birds, Drew, Giles or anything really deadly...what got him was a little bug that made Mr Cheng go see the local doctor, to which he asked "Dude, it says SURGERY?!? Are you sure?"
Initially I thought he had tick bite fever. And maybe my driving was so bad he barfed... but fortunately he was really sick so I was absolved.
Initially I thought he had tick bite fever. And maybe my driving was so bad he barfed... but fortunately he was really sick so I was absolved.
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