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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: batmura on September 11, 2013, 05:35:00 pm

Title: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: batmura on September 11, 2013, 05:35:00 pm

A couple of days ago, I drove to Kerpe about 2 hours from where I live to shoot the rocks in Kerpe. I started with a sunset and finished with light painting. Here are three shots.

Colour
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3811/9724891723_d8ea00895e_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9724891723/)
Kerpe 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9724891723/) by batmura (http://www.flickr.com/people/batmura/), on Flickr

Black & White
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3669/9728115204_f124fb7045_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9728115204/)
Kerpe 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9728115204/) by batmura (http://www.flickr.com/people/batmura/), on Flickr

Night
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2834/9728111188_814eff8911_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9728111188/)
Kerpe 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9728111188/) by batmura (http://www.flickr.com/people/batmura/), on Flickr

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 11, 2013, 06:25:10 pm

My vote goes to #1. Highlights vs. shadows well balanced. You might want to remove that white halo between the rocks and sky.

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: wolfnowl on September 12, 2013, 02:12:34 am

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 11, 2013, 06:25:10 pm

My vote goes to #1. Highlights vs. shadows well balanced. You might want to remove that white halo between the rocks and sky.

Yes, I agree.

Mike.

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: Fine_Art on September 12, 2013, 02:21:14 am

3rd that. Really nice.

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on September 12, 2013, 03:10:32 am

I like all of them, but my vote goes for #2. I think the B&W really brings more richness to the rock textures (hey, I am a geologist...).

As for #3, I am not sure about the light painting, seems a bit too harsh. But the colour in the sky came out nice.

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: arlon on September 12, 2013, 04:36:05 pm

Great pictures but the amount of sensor noise in the first pic really surprises me. I know my D700 has a lot of sensor noise at longer shutter speeds and I have to use in camera noise reduction to get rid of it. I find all the red and green dots distracting in the full size image, no problem on the smaller image. SUch a pretty place..

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 12, 2013, 06:04:55 pm

#3 bothers me a bit, but #1 and #2 are both quite fine. I think I prefer the B&W, slightly.

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: Bullfrog on September 13, 2013, 08:40:08 am

I like 1 and 2 - 3 is overly saturated for my eyes. 

Title: Re: The Rocks: Sunset - B&W - Night
Post by: Matt Tilghman on September 13, 2013, 12:27:58 pm

Very nice!  Also vote for #1