Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on July 17, 2015, 05:38:29 pm
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Feedback welcome.
I spent last week in the Rockies, driving a thousand miles, walking 60, spending money on gas and travel and fancy lightweight gear. Photographic results: not so great. The attached images are all from one evening, a mile from home.
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I like the first and last. The middle one is a nice example of clouds but the foreground looks like it was pushed too hard and that kills the detail.
The other ones have much more interesting foregrounds. I especially like the tractor in the grass. Are these HDR? They have that look but it might just be how you managed your shadow areas in processing.
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I think my favourite is the first. I find it quite interesting having the road lined up centre with the change in cloud lighting.
I would be interested in seeing it with more of the top cropped off. Perhaps that just speaks to my love of wide panoramic aspect ratios though.
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... a mile from home.
It is said that most car accidents happen a few miles from home. What that has to do with your photos? I have no idea, it is just something that crossed my wandering mind :)
Beautiful photographs, all three.
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Thanks for the comments.
Matt - not sure what "pushed" means here, but I think the foreground would be more realistic if it was lighter. The tractor shot is HDR, and the tractor could be darker.
Mike, I do have tighter shots of the bright front, but am a sucker for context and all that surrounding structure.
Slobodan: thanks. Most accidents happen at home, so perhaps we can expect some successes there too?
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I like them all, but the tractor shot is especially nice.
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Too bad about the Rockies trip, Scott, but you've captured some beautiful scenes right in your own neighborhood. I think the one with tractor looks quite stunning when the overall exposure is brought down a bit, and the foreground just a bit more, to move towards a little more of the natural balance that one expects from backlighting.
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All three are good, but I particularly love the sky in the second; I think I'd crop off a bit of the uninteresting foreground, though.
Jeremy
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I think the first one is excellent. You may want to try a black and white treatment too, I think the first (and perhaps last) have great potential as B&W as well as color.
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Thanks for the comments.
Matt - not sure what "pushed" means here, but I think the foreground would be more realistic if it was lighter. The tractor shot is HDR, and the tractor could be darker.
Mike, I do have tighter shots of the bright front, but am a sucker for context and all that surrounding structure.
Slobodan: thanks. Most accidents happen at home, so perhaps we can expect some successes there too?
I was thinking there was some aggressive shadow recovery going on and maybe not that much detail to get out of those shadows.
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This is the "world" in your back yard. No. 1 has perfect balance with the road headed to the wall in the clouds. It is striking.
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Thanks for the feedback, very helpful. I have added a couple of revisions to #1.
John -- I have many of this tractor but that night the stars aligned (in the form of clouds). Great stuff on your home page.
Arlen -- Yes. I have complaints about the grass seed heads being distracting, too.
Jeremy, Matt -- There isn't much detail in the foreground, a crop might help. It could be a little greener and brighter.
Pollarda -- a crunchy Reichman sky might work here, I'll see...
Larry -- that balance lasted just a few seconds, the front was miles away but moved very fast.
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That works for me in monochrome.
Jeremy
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That one is pretty great in color or B&W, but I'm starting to lean toward B&W now.
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Wonderful shots.