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The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: Hans Kruse on August 06, 2018, 02:26:24 pm

Title: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: Hans Kruse on August 06, 2018, 02:26:24 pm

Shot in Scotland on Isle of Skye in September 2017 on a workshop that I was leading at the time.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1811/43888831811_5bacf8fa7c_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29SiJCK)Morning light (https://flic.kr/p/29SiJCK) by Hans Kruse (https://www.flickr.com/photos/hkruse/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on August 07, 2018, 05:21:01 am

Excellent light indeed.

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: stamper on August 07, 2018, 06:05:43 am

I am not a fan of flare but it doesn't spoil a fine image!

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: francois on August 07, 2018, 06:32:19 am

Nice and lush landscape and here, I'm not bothered by flare although it doesn't bring anything positive to this shot.
Well done.

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: JNB_Rare on August 08, 2018, 08:46:58 am

Sends a bonny breeze up m'kilt.

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: MattBurt on August 08, 2018, 10:05:50 am

Ooh so lush. Nice shot.

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: Chris Calohan on August 09, 2018, 09:13:29 am

The flare is so easy to omit, and I am sure you could do it if you felt it diminished the value of the image, but in my humble opinion, it does not.

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: Hans Kruse on August 10, 2018, 12:15:23 pm

Thanks very much to all for the comments. About the flare I did (as you guessed) consider removing it either in Lightroom or in Photoshop. But somehow I liked the line it created to the hill.

Btw. if any are interested. If I can't remove a lens flare in Lightroom using the clone or healing tool, I will open the RAW file as a smart object in Photoshop and add a layer where I then use typically the cloning tool with the color and luminous options to remove the flare and if I need to go back and edit the raw file I will then open the smart object and edit the RAW using ACR. It does creat a 10x larger file, but then it is still fully editable.

Title: Re: Morning light in Scotland
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on August 10, 2018, 05:15:16 pm

I like the image as is, with the flare line.