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| 70 |
Mar 17 |
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Mar 21st |
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| 70 |
Mar 17 |
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Mar 21st |
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| 70 |
Mar 17 |
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Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I did enjoy the sense of creativity I felt that night, but remain unconvinced it's something to print. Just for fun, because I did have fun experimenting, here are some additional zooming/spinning images from that night. Photography should be fun. |
Mar 21st |
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| 70 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
I forgot to add how I love fences and but particularly the sweep of the branch across the top of the sky. Does a great job framing the scene while also covering up the blank sky. |
Mar 9th |
| 70 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Yes – beautiful golden light nicely caught! When I first opened it & looked I smiled. Then I read your note; it makes me happy to.
Good move keeping the horizon low retaining as much sky as possible; that is the story. I see a roof top and tree tops over a nice pink sunset blush beyond but then it goes dark; there’s no tree trunks to ground the trees. See if you can pull up the shadows hiding the trunks to provide a base to complete the composition.
Monitor calibration is the most important step in editing and well as monitoring your room light when editing. Plenty to read about it on the Datacolor or XRite sites and color management elsewhere on the web. I too use Spyder 5 weekly.
Question: why choose f4? This is a good setting to keep your focused depth of field very shallow to separate your subject from its background, but a smaller aperture such as f8-11 would provide a deeper depth of field to ensure the distance from the tree branches to the clouds are all sharp.
To catch more light increase your ISO. Test your lens; take a tripod shot starting at f8 ISO 100 and raising the ISO one stop at a time to the end of your camera's range and learn at what level you need to worry about introducing noise. These sensors (especially Sony's)and the software logarithms are getting so good some can go to 32,000 before getting too noisy for software to deal with. Find out what your limit point is. Then try to keep it below that.
Was it a windy day and the clouds blowing quickly by and you needed to stop their motion? If not why use the fast motion stopping speed of 1/500? I was taught that the slowest speed you can shoot hand held is one over whatever the mm lens length is; in your case that would be 1/50 so make it 1/60 second. This would allow more time for the subtle sunset colors to penetrate their way onto the sensor.
Am not familiar with Adobe Acrobat.
Shot from your back deck - Lucky you - I'm sure there will be another opportunity to try this shot again!
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Mar 8th |
| 70 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Wow. Those waves sure look powerful against that lone lighthouse on sentry duty. What was your post processing? Did you use a reflection technique? How’d you do that? Interesting effect. Looks backlit too. |
Mar 8th |
| 70 |
Mar 17 |
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Love it. Beautiful. Only suggestion is to see if you touched the bland sky with Lightroom's Dehaze brush, would it bring out any detail in the faint clouds I think I see? |
Mar 8th |
| 70 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Fine example of the golden glow while maintaining good detail in the highlights and shadows. The offshore horizon color balances the bluff grasses well creating a solid composition of a peaceful serene moment of reflection.
I agree with Tom; try to paint the big rock, perhaps all 3 of them, with a bit more exposure and also add a bit of clarity & contrast & saturation to coax out their gold highlights and texture.
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Mar 8th |
| 70 |
Mar 17 |
Comment |
Lovely capture of the moment that the light lengthens and everything in its path pops. The light on the multiple small clouds is mirrored on the glowing bits of lacey foam flowing up the shore. Shows a nice effect of motion. The foamy lip of the wave is perfectly highlighted creating a soft leading line toward the tree. Good choice of shutter speed and depth of field back to the tree and beyond. The wide angle lens exaggerates and enlarges the foreground foam in the bottom right and diminishes the perceived size of the tree a bit but it still looks natural and creates a nice composition.
The left side is a bit dark with no detail. I don’t think you can crop it off as that would put your leading line wave right on the edge of the image leading your eye out of the image. We want to keep the eye within the scene to continue exploring.
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Mar 8th |
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