Margaret River area, WA with an M9

Yep, me too. I thought it was black sand though. Then I started looking for Margaret River in Washington. I grew up there and never heard of it. Small wonder WA is Western Australia.

I would have left out the sky if it were my shot.

Mike

ju_ju said:

I will also be quite honest to say when I viewed the images I did not realize it was a river or even water? It looked kind of strange and I had come to the conclusion that it was some kind of melton lava with the rocks sitting on it with a path leading into the distance. It was not until a later post that mentioned it was a river I was even persuaded that this was so.

Sorry but that is how it was viewed here.

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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So i don't need to buy a leica M9! is it really that bad?
i don't understand
thank you
philippe
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Thank you !

I had a go as well, here is what a couple of my favorite Lightzone presets does with it

Sorry for the late response. I like your version as well. I'm certainly learning a lot. Pays to be less conservative.
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• Vikas

Thank you for your reactions Paul. Perhaps you are right. It was my first visit to Margaret river and I can hardly say I know the area well. Your photographs do look extremely dramatic, but a little artificial for my taste.

They may in fact not be artificial at all and only look like that to me. I know I saw enough of your area to know that the landscape is amazing and surprising and I saw a lot of wonderful and new things.

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• Vikas

I trust you are talking about Paul's photographs? I don't have any pictures that are remotely a river except that there is water on the coast but that is clearly the ocean

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• Vikas

Er.. guys, there is no river there. It's a beach where parts of the sand have a fascinating black colour. I was standing on the water side of the imade, back to the Indian Ocean, and shooting towards the land. At least in the image on the forum.

The pictures on the PBase site lined to from my initial message vary, but there is no river in them. Margaret river is a town in Western Australia and the reagion around it is also known as MArgaret River. There is, in fact a river that runs through it known as Margaret River but I have posted no pictures of it...

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• Vikas

If you are referring to Paul's comment I think he means that if spend good money on good equipment, I should take better pictures.

So not that Leica is a bad camera, but that with my abilities I am wasting money on it ;-)

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• Vikas

All done in camera with a one stop ND grad. I don't do HDR. I learnt my my landscape techniques using 5x4 and transparency film.

Vikas M Gore said:

Thank you for your reactions Paul. Perhaps you are right. It was my first visit to Margaret river and I can hardly say I know the area well. Your photographs do look extremely dramatic, but a little artificial for my taste.

They may in fact not be artificial at all and only look like that to me. I know I saw enough of your area to know that the landscape is amazing and surprising and I saw a lot of wonderful and new things.

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