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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: KMRennie on November 10, 2014, 07:43:55 am

Title: First light
Post by: KMRennie on November 10, 2014, 07:43:55 am

Taken in Borrowdale Nov 2012. The sun had just "risen" from behind a hill and was starting to light the trees. Olympus E-410.
Comments welcome Ken

Title: Re: First light
Post by: Colorado David on November 10, 2014, 09:38:29 am

Awesome.

Title: Re: First light
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on November 10, 2014, 10:31:54 am

You caught the moment just right.

Title: Re: First light
Post by: ron lacy on November 10, 2014, 06:05:26 pm

Beautiful light and a great image.  Well done.

Ron

Title: Re: First light
Post by: luxborealis on November 12, 2014, 09:31:57 pm

Well seen! Beautiful light and contrast that nicely sculpts the rock and trees. It feels a bit static, though, and might benefit from having more negative space to the right - to give some space for the light to come in from.

Title: Re: First light
Post by: KMRennie on November 13, 2014, 01:23:57 pm

Thanks for the suggestion Terry I think that I have some space to the right. If not in this shot then in others taken with a slightly wider setting. I can probably merge the new data in as it is quite dark and soft.
Ken

Title: Re: First light
Post by: KMRennie on November 16, 2014, 07:43:46 am

Whilst trying to work out why my digital images get poor marks in competitions while my prints do o.k. I decided that viewing and processing them on a wide gamut monitor in ProPhoto gamut and then resising and changing them to sRGB as the last stage may not be the best idea. So I have calibrated my monitor to sRGB and worked with my image at 1400px wide and sRGB from the start. This of course means that I will have 2 produce seperate files and have 2 seperate workflows for prints or digital images. Does anyone else do the same or am I being a bit OTT? It could be that I am trying to wring the most out of files shot on cameras and lenses that are not great, in this case Olympus E-410 with the cheap 40-150 lens.
Any comments anyone?
Ken