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    Vancouver photos

    Better late than never some pictures from our trip to Vancouver in November last year.
    I would like to know what you guys think to them, I am in no way a good photographer but these ones caught my eye.





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    The middle one is excellent

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    That one in the middle is quite eye-catching. There's something funny about the viewpoint, looking down through trees at the sea (lake?) Makes it look like a bird's-eye view (I guess it really is, judging by the 3rd pic!) It's just different enough to make it stand out. The sillhouetted trees, reflections and interesting clouds all help. If you saturated the colours in the sky it'd make a nice poster.
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    hmmm...let me see, stanley park and grouse mountain?
    I like the middle one. brilliant. (hink the camera's wonky in the first one!) me being picky would like to see a bit more contrast/saturation in the middle one, easily rectified in PS. but as it is its a very good shot. well done
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    Quote Originally Posted by shiato storm
    being picky would like to see a bit more contrast/saturation in the middle one
    Dunno, I love my eye popping colours hence my previous addiction to Velvia but sometime subtlety can be just as good.

    Edit: makes for a much more relaxing photo IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shiato storm
    think the camera's wonky in the first one!
    No, that's the world famous Lake Slopey, the only place where you can go water skiing without a motorboat.



    Again, nothing that can't be fixed in a graphics program.
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    Thanks for the comments guys, as I said I am in no way a good photographer but i would like to be. I used an Olympus C-50 to take these photos. How do I improve the middle photo as suggested Shiato? Also how can i make the top one less wonky?
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    That second one down is fantastic, I love pictures of the sky.

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    Wow thanks for the comments i guess i got lucky with that 2nd picture. It was taken from the top of Grouse mountain as guessed by Shiato, and it is looking down onto Stanley Park and English bay and a little of downtown too.
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    Nice! my cousin lives there i think, his wife invited me up once, i would say yes but the airplane tickets are expensive!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wedge22
    Thanks for the comments guys, as I said I am in no way a good photographer but i would like to be. I used an Olympus C-50 to take these photos. How do I improve the middle photo as suggested Shiato? Also how can i make the top one less wonky?
    Hey, you only need one good photo to be a good photographer!

    In photoshop you could use the commands:

    Image/Adjustments/Hue-Saturation/Saturation=+30

    Image/Rotate canvas/Arbitrary/2 degrees clockwise, then crop edges.

    What paint programs do you have?

    I posted the above changes, but my web host seems to be down right now.
    EDIT> Is back up now...


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    i do not have any paint programs at all, except MS paint lol.

    I will be taking alot more pics of Vancouver come September as my wife and i are emmigrating there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wedge22
    i do not have any paint programs at all, except MS paint lol.
    If you right-click the file and OpenWith, there might be another MS utility that can view/edit graphics, e.g. Picture Viewer??

    But why not just download IrfanView ? Highly rated, under 1MB, and free.

    EDIT> Just downloaded it myself! It loads a LOT faster than PhotoShop CS, lol.
    And it has commands Image/Enhance Colours and Image/Custom Rotation. Well worth a try.
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    may I?

    just a touch of saturation and contrast...
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    Wow that looks great Shiato, I will have to try and get the full size image looking that good now.
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    well, you took a fantastic picture, all I did was adjust it a touch to bring out what was in it.
    i'll try and recreate what i did and pass on how it was done. I used photoshop for a start but if you haven't got it then you can get a free image program called 'the gimp' [gimp.org but it seems to be down right now ]...
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