Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: shadowblade on January 12, 2016, 01:48:04 pm
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The changing colours of a bamboo grove at sunrise at Arashiyama, on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Wet from overnight rain, the rocky path creates a subtle reflection of the forest and sky above.
I personally prefer the green one, taken about 20 minutes after the first, when the sun had fully risen. Any thoughts?
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Any thoughts?
Amazing hyper-realism, as usual!
Focus-stacked??
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#1 for me.
#3 would be a good illustration for a Fukushima article ;)
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Amazing hyper-realism, as usual!
Focus-stacked??
24mm tilt-shift lens, shifted and stitched, so no need to focus-stack - everything was in focus anyway.
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#1 for me, #3 is a little bit too much for my taste. But this place is so beautiful.
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#1 for me, #3 is a little bit too much for my taste. But this place is so beautiful.
It's hard to judge saturation on my monitor - everything looks undersaturated in Photoshop and oversaturated in browser, despite the system being colour-calibrated and the browser supposedly being colour-aware. Is it just a saturation issue?
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spectacular and well done.
Sandro
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Beautiful scene and great photos. I prefer #1!
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I prefer the first one, the second one is still ok. The green on the third one somehow does not belong, to my eye. Personal preference.
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I prefer the first one, the second one is still ok. The green on the third one somehow does not belong, to my eye. Personal preference.
Interesting, since, in neutral lighting, the grove is definitely green - doubly so after it's been raining.
Google link here (http://www.google.com.au/search?q=arashiyama+bamboo+grove&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGxrj_0KXKAhVBrZQKHXgqAjsQ_AUICg)
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Interesting, since, in neutral lighting, the grove is definitely green...
It is not about the grove being green, but the type of green - neon, especially visible around the patch of sky and in the far background trees.
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Beautiful location. I'm partial to #1, but I can see how 3 could work.
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Fantastic.
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Astounded to see bamboo that big. I had no idea it could grow to that size.
Regards,
Dale
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#1 for me too. Great composition and use of light. I echo the comments of others' about the neon green in #3: too much for my eyes.
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Darkened the green tones on the third one - how does it work now?
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Slobodan made a really good point. It's rather neon-ey
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Slobodan made a really good point. It's rather neon-ey
Is it the hue, saturation or brightness of the green? I've already had to tone it way down from the in-camera version. Thin, semi-transparent green leaves filtering bright, subtropical light seem to make for very green tones.
Although, in Photoshop, it looks a fair bit more yellowish and less saturated.
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I would play with the saturation and luminance. Burning that area little bit might help, too. Another thing is the green cast on the "aisle" makes it a little weird to me.
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... in Photoshop, it looks a fair bit more yellowish and less saturated.
I think it matters more how it prints. Would probably need a careful selection of printer/paper/process to get just the right balance.
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I would play with the saturation and luminance. Burning that area little bit might help, too. Another thing is the green cast on the "aisle" makes it a little weird to me.
It looks green in Firefox, but more yellowish (with a slight green tint) in Photoshop.
I never know which one to believe, since I don't know what other people are seeing on their computers.
Darkening the green highlights just turns it into a dark, dim forest, which it certainly wasn't - there was a lot of light coming through the canopy. Reducing the saturation does much the same. Warming the green areas by applying a yellow filter seems to make it look much less green, but doesn't really reflect how it actually looked after the sun came up.
Just doing a quick Google search, a lot of photos of Arashiyama seem equally green when placed side-by-side - much more cool-toned than a typical Australian or North American forest, or even a north Asian/Scandinavian coniferous forest. More towards the cyan end of the spectrum rather than the yellow end. Perhaps it's a case of unfamiliar places looking alien rather than the camera lying.