Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: RSL on August 16, 2013, 05:00:32 pm
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Back up to the goldfields yesterday. Lots of haze. Lots of layering.
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Oooh, atmospheric perspective at its best.
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Nice.
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Nice. Perhaps rather too much plain white sky, though.
Jeremy
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Nice. Perhaps rather too much plain white sky, though.
Jeremy
Like it as it is. Any structure in the sky would distract from the fine layers in the background.
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Nice. Perhaps rather too much plain white sky, though.
Jeremy
+1
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Like it as it is. Any structure in the sky would distract from the fine layers in the background.
Oh, I agree. I was suggesting a crop. Had the poster been anyone other than Russ, I'd have dared actually to use the word.
Jeremy
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Believe it or not, I think you have a point, Jeremy. I'm considering a crop! Actually, there's another range behind the last one visible here. Couldn't bring it up in Photoshop even though there was a B+W haze filter on the 70-200, so I may have to surrender and crop a bit.
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At my own risk of being thoroughly flogged by Russ, I tried to find the other range but could not, but did find some nice filtering of light through some very distant clouds..so maybe a crop isn't really needed.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3815/9529521889_1a14e7901e_o.jpg)
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Thanks, Chris. I'll have to go back and try a gradient.
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Good job, Chris!
Anything to dampen Russ's penchant for excessive cropping. :D
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Thanks, Chris. I'll have to go back and try a gradient.
I didn't get here via a gradient but rather through a mask, one of the ones I'm using to relearn PP. They're neat but sometimes getting from where you want to be from where you are is a bit like scratching your back to satisfy an itch on your foot.
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Well, here's a shot with a gradient -- big time. I couldn't bring up that far away range either.
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I like it this way. No crop.
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Sorry, I can't agree. The beams ruin the atmosphere. For me the first one works much better. Maybe with a slight cr** applied ;D
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On reflection I'm inclined to agree. I guess a crop is inevitable.
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On reflection I'm inclined to agree. I guess a crop is inevitable.
How have the mighty fallen!
But I must agree. The beams end up being a distraction.
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On reflection I'm inclined to agree. I guess a crop is inevitable.
Grasp the nettle, Russ!
With the beams, the shot is interesting, but it's not what you were originally trying to obtain: the character and focus has changed.
Jeremy
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Much improved. Perhaps a little over-sharpened, but that's probably something to do with the downsampling. Or the jpeg conversion. Or something.
Jeremy
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Much improved. Perhaps a little over-sharpened, but that's probably something to do with the downsampling. Or the jpeg conversion. Or something.
Jeremy
+1.
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Thanks, Jeremy. Yes, I made a print on my 3880 and forgot to go back to the original for a less sharpened version to put on the web. I do that too often.
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Much improved. Perhaps a little over-sharpened, but that's probably something to do with the downsampling. Or the jpeg conversion. Or something.
Jeremy
I agree with Jeremy. A very fine image and with the crop, the sky doesn't compete with the soft grays in the distance. I think this last version emphasizes them better.
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Thanks, Jeremy. Yes, I made a print on my 3880 and forgot to go back to the original for a less sharpened version to put on the web. I do that too often.
If only you used Lightroom for printing...
Jeremy
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There...! Now that didn't hurt, did it?! ;D
I was going through some of the "Camera to Print and Screen" videos the other night and thought of you Russ.
Jeff Schewe said something about the "arrogance" (I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I think he used "arrogance") of believing you should get everything right in the original shot, and not have to crop.
Perhaps it is asking too much to get it perfect in the original shot?
William