Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: churly on July 29, 2014, 04:26:29 pm
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Critique welcome.
Chuck
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Hmmm... something seems off with that b&w conversion. The sky seems ok, the leaves appear too light, and I would like to see a better tonal separation between the rocks and the tree branches. Overall, those three areas (leaves, branches, rocks) seem to blend into each other, and I think they would benefit from a clearer separation.
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I like the contrast between the blocky stones and the sweeping tree.
A nit: when it comes to clouds, timing is everything. And for "timing", read "luck", mostly.
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Thanks for the thoughts guys. Agreed on both counts.
I shot this on a very fine walk with my wife and son but I rarely shoot well on those walks. Unfortunately the number of keepers over the last couple months has been rock bottom. :(
Chuck
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It's a good B&W. Given the light, I am not sure how much more tonal separation can be achieved?
Also, would it have been possible to take the shot from a lower angle, reducing the overlaying between branches and rocks?
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"luck", mostly.
+1
You need a lightning :o storm! :o
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When I first saw this last week, I wondered:
- whether the lack of separation between tree (juniper?) and rock was intentional, tree taking-on the enduring quality of rock
- whether tilt-shift would have allowed the plane of focus to be aligned with the direction of the tree into the picture plane
- whether IR would have created a tonal separation between the new growth, and the twisted roots and rock.
Yes, I was trying to convey the tree (a juniper) hanging in there in the frame of the rock (thus the title) but the lack of tonal separation wasn't intentional. In fact, I think this was a good idea that wasn't supported by the execution or the light or clouds. I don't have experience with T-S but on an APS sensor, I don't imagine there is enough dof discrimination to work with. That's just a guess.
I sort of pseudo-IR'd it in the processing at least in terms of pushing the greens to the extreme. That didn't pass Slobodan's believability filter and I tend to agree.
I am going to let this sit for a while but will likely come back to it if I can identify a processing strategy that will do a better job of getting what I want. I'm not likely to take the time to do anything about the clouds though.