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Australia, Bannockburn, Clyde Park, Geelong, lunch, photography, Victoria, views, wine, winery

It was back home and back to reality this afternoon. The weekend of taking photos is over and now I have to work my way through what I got. I took lots of images, though having said that the weather wasn’t fantastic so I had to make the weather work for me. It is interesting, but we can talk about that another day.

Today I had lunch with my clients and we went to the Winery, Clyde Park at Bannockburn. The views were worth the visit, though there was more to it than that. Actually one of my clients asked me not to tell you about it because she doesn’t want it to be popular.

To see more photos and read about the winery continue reading here.

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photography, images, Awards, still life, grapes, reworking, Traditions, Blurring, wine

Last night I stayed up late to work on an image to show today. I knew that I wasn’t going to have much time to do it today as I was off to the city this morning with Klara. We went on a tour of the Melbourne Town Hall and then off to the Aquarium. I really wanted to do the tour and the bribe to get Klara to go was the Aquarium. I am hoping that I might be allowed to get back into the Town Hall to take some shots. So I found an image I could use that I could rework for todays post.

This image was first shown to you in March in a post called Processes and Traditions. This was when I wasn’t doing so great with the HDR processing and was still finding my way around the software. I have learned a thing or two since then.

As I said, last night I worked on an image. I was worried that when I looked at it today that it would look bad. It doesn’t, but then I realised there was another major problem with it.

Can you tell the difference? I did the wrong photo. Can you believe it?

I could go and redo it, but to be honest, right now I am too tired. I am hoping you can tell what I have done differently to the first one. Look beyond the fact that the image is different.

I tried to bring out the textures a lot more. I have also done a lot more blurring than what I was doing in the past. I made the background much darker. I did lose the wine bottle, but I don’t think that matters. I love how the crystal glass comes out.

I was allowed to take some photos today of the inside of the Town Hall, but they aren’t great, you really need a tripod to take the photos. I will show you some from there and the Aquarium in the next few days.