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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: Fanie on August 03, 2015, 23:29:05

Title: African Road Trip
Post by: Fanie on August 03, 2015, 23:29:05

July 2013 I did a round trip through Botswana, Zimbabwe's Hwange NP, Victoria falls and back through Botswana's Makgadigadi Pans and Kubu Island.

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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on August 03, 2015, 23:35:42

The baobab trees are so overwhelmingly cute (can you apply that notion to a tree?). The delicate colours add to the overall impression too.

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Post by: Bjørn J on August 03, 2015, 23:48:22

A great series! Victoria falls from above is interesting, it looks like there is a huge crack in the earth's crust.

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Post by: Frank Fremerey on August 03, 2015, 23:53:55

what clarity of light colours and form. adorable

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Post by: elsa hoffmann on August 04, 2015, 06:03:06

great selection for a thread - beautiful

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Post by: elsa hoffmann on August 04, 2015, 06:03:44

great selection for a thread - beautiful

Title: Re: African Road Trip
Post by: Fanie on August 04, 2015, 08:25:38

Thanks for all the nice comments. I do however battle with the processing of the second photo, and are not happy as it is done. It was taken into the sun with my D300, and every way I process it it has that HDR type look.

Anyone that would care to have a try at it? I have a RAW file for it.

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Post by: Jørgen Ramskov on August 04, 2015, 10:27:34

What a trip! I quite like the Victoria falls shot.

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Post by: smusesuse on August 04, 2015, 11:18:58

Great series. I really love the trees, they are my favourites - especially the last one. But I also happen to really like the second pic btw.

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Post by: Fanie on August 04, 2015, 17:21:44

Here is one with some star trials over the Boabab trees, as well as an aerial photograph of the island.

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Post by: elsa hoffmann on August 04, 2015, 20:05:32

Quote from: Fanie on August 04, 2015, 08:25:38

Thanks for all the nice comments. I do however battle with the processing of the second photo, and are not happy as it is done. It was taken into the sun with my D300, and every way I process it it has that HDR type look.

Anyone that would care to have a try at it? I have a RAW file for it.

yes for sure - bring it on!!

dropbox?

Title: Re: African Road Trip
Post by: Fanie on August 04, 2015, 22:33:38

Thanks Elsa, mailed you a dropbox link.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/86du0mwjdm5gkai/AAD8ENBUug2Dtl5L9rjzMi82a?dl=0

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Post by: elsa hoffmann on August 04, 2015, 23:05:40

maybe?
maybe not?

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Post by: Fanie on August 04, 2015, 23:07:51

I like what you did to the sky, the grass etc was a touch warmer on the day.

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Post by: elsa hoffmann on August 04, 2015, 23:23:50

like so?

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Post by: Fanie on August 04, 2015, 23:37:32

Yes!, we are getting there, much better than my version.

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Post by: elsa hoffmann on August 05, 2015, 07:35:52

Fanie, I used two exposures and blended - so the sky was mostly done in ACR.

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Post by: Gary on August 08, 2015, 17:16:07

Fanie ... Really good stuff. Your images drew me into the photos and I felt I was there. Well done. (Elsa's sky really enhances the image.)

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Post by: Erik Lund on August 08, 2015, 17:59:59

What a superb roadtrip! Really well captured! Very nice PP colors and framing, only nit pick is when the horizon is not level in captures like the falls and the pano crop.

Makes it look out of balance...

Nice rescue by Elsa on the back lit shot!

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Post by: rosko on August 08, 2015, 22:23:03

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A superb serie. All pictures are really nice.

I like the baobabs  (both pictures) one with sunset and next one.

The last one is well done with the tiny human elements giving a big plus to this pic. It leans slightly to the right, tough.

Thank you for sharing, Francis.

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Post by: Fanie on August 09, 2015, 14:56:22

Thanks Eric, those two photos were indeed very slanted, duly corrected, although the haze in the Vic falls photo has me battling to pick a line.

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Post by: Gary on August 09, 2015, 17:25:21

Definitely an improvement, especially for the last image.

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Post by: Erik Lund on August 10, 2015, 11:20:34

Thanks for reposting the edit! Looks much better :)

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Post by: Erik Lund on August 10, 2015, 11:23:11

BTW, it's not so much' picking a line' to straighten from, it's more about the balance in the image. For a lot of images a slanting horizon looks quite good!

It's just in the first one the water should more or less fall directly towards the center of earth... ;)

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Post by: armando_m on August 10, 2015, 16:22:39

I could not resist doing some editing  ;D

(https://armando-m.smugmug.com/photos/i-BGk3gFx/0/XL/i-BGk3gFx-XL.jpg)

2 graduated filters in ACR, one for the sky , one for the ground
1 b&w layer blended in luminosity mode

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Post by: Fanie on August 10, 2015, 17:28:44

Wow, thanks Armando, that's a great rendition, love it.