Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Roman Racela on September 24, 2013, 09:55:00 am
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Here's one from the White Pocket area at the tail end of the monsoon season.
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h88/romanwarrior/_MGL9038_zpsbcc7d98a.jpg) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/romanwarrior/media/_MGL9038_zpsbcc7d98a.jpg.html)
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Nice!
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Nice!
It sure is!
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Thanks for viewing guys and the compliment :)
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Sensational! I gotta find that location next spring.
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It's a trippy location. It's like being on a different planet!
Tip: bring a 4X4 truck/SUV or you won't get past the 1st set of sandy trails :)
Sensational! I gotta find that location next spring.
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Very dramatic photo, well done.
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I'll join in the chorus of approval: that's really good.
Jeremy
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Thank you for the approval, Paulo.
Very dramatic photo, well done.
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Thank you, Jeremy. I'm glad you liked it.
I'll join in the chorus of approval: that's really good.
Jeremy
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Very nice and spectacular. It's one of my favorite place.
Bravo!
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Thank you, Francois! It's one of my faves too! :)
Very nice and spectacular. It's one of my favorite place.
Bravo!
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Class - love the line leading in to the frame..
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It's like a big snake slithering into the frame. I think I'll call this image SLITHER. :)
Class - love the line leading in to the frame..
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That's really cool. Wish I had some landscape like that to shoot ;-) well done.
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Thank you, John.
You are just a plane ticket away from this place...and a 4x4 off-road vehicle ;)
That's really cool. Wish I had some landscape like that to shoot ;-) well done.
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Quite tasteful. Not overcooked at all. Well done mate.
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Thanks Alex. I sometimes like to push it to the limit, but not far enough that I overcook the image...but then again what overcooked to others may just be medium rare to me :)
Quite tasteful. Not overcooked at all. Well done mate.
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Your colors are superb!
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Thank you, Daniel.
Your colors are superb!
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Looks like I am the only voice of dissent: grossly overcooked.
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See. What's medium or medium well to me maybe already chewy and overcooked to others.
Looks like I am the only voice of dissent: grossly overcooked.
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See. What's medium or medium well to me maybe already chewy and overcooked to others.
Note to self: never order well-done in Roman's restaurant ;D
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Hahaha. You will be feasting on leather, but I'll give you a nice steak knife to cut it in smaller bite sized pieces.
Note to self: never order well-done in Roman's restaurant ;D
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Looks like I am the only voice of dissent: grossly overcooked.
Yes, I'm surprised there's so little dissent as the image looks blatantly over-dramatized to me.
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Mark - I'll have to blame mother nature and the monsoons for giving me a shitty image to begin with. Nature on occation could be blatant. :)
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h88/romanwarrior/Untitled-1_zpsee5a8d27.jpg) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/romanwarrior/media/Untitled-1_zpsee5a8d27.jpg.html)
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Roman, that's a good riposte, but against the evidence I'm surprised at an out of camera RAW image with such HDR'd and stressed looking clouds together with a well-lit foreground.
For what it's worth I prefer the 'unclarified' image, tho that's still too blatant for me.
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3-stop Split ND Soft Grad Lee Filter does the trick for me. But I hear what you're saying...
Roman, that's a good riposte, but against the evidence I'm surprised at an out of camera RAW image with such HDR'd and stressed looking clouds together with a well-lit foreground.
For what it's worth I prefer the 'unclarified' image, tho that's still too blatant for me.
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Late on this one I know but I think Roman has hit the jackpot here with this shot.
With this quality of image a few interpretations are possible each of which would be magnificent.
Wonderful
Tony Jay
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Who are you and what did you do to the esteemed members of this forum???
It is known to happen on occasion, that an individual member's account is hijacked, but this is unheard of ...that members identities are hijacked en masse.
How do i know? The real members of this forum are known to hate HDR-look, especially its nuclear version, with a burning passion, filling 17 pages with passionate contributions to the thread appropriately named "Do you hate HDR too?"
:P
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Haha. I actually hate HDR too. But I think there are times when HDR is okay, but I prefer dropping an ND filter and exposure blending to HDR. The "problem" with this image is that I didn't do any HDR. What I hate most about HDR is the fringing and haloing that happens when you do it...and that's why I don't even bother with HDR.
As for the question, who am I? I'm just me. :)
Sorry for hijacking member's accounts. I will give you back your login passwords now. :P
Who are you and what did you do to the esteemed members of this forum???
It is known to happen on occasion, that an individual member's account is hijacked, but this is unheard of ...that members identities are hijacked en masse.
How do i know? The real members of this forum are known to hate HDR-look, especially its nuclear version, with a burning passion, filling 17 pages with passionate contributions to the thread appropriately named "Do you hate HDR too?"
:P
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I love the composition, the light and the leading lines etc., but the gnarly clouds not so much.
Dave
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I suppose I could have toned down the gnarly clouds...
I love the composition, the light and the leading lines etc., but the gnarly clouds not so much.
Dave
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I animated a few pics I took before calling it a night. :)
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h88/romanwarrior/storm_zps063cad68.gif) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/romanwarrior/media/storm_zps063cad68.gif.html)
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Amazing image, Roman. The contrast between the clouds, stars and the lightning strike must be enormous.
Tell us how you made this complex animation.
Please? : )
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Thank you. Peter. The process was quite simple. I just created an animated GIF in PhotoShop CS6 using the timeline feature. It probably took me less than 5 minutes to put this together. Anyone can easily do it :)
This animation uses 4 consecutive shots. I had my camera set at f2.8, ISO 100, 25 secs shutter speed with a 30 sec interval in between shots. I used a Canon intervalometer to automate.
It actually rained at White Pocket that night so I was a bit worried being swept away by a flash flood.
Amazing image, Roman. The contrast between the clouds, stars and the lightning strike must be enormous.
Tell us how you made this complex animation.
Please? : )
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Note to self: never order well-done in Roman's restaurant ;D
Double entendre, Slobodan?
I love the image, and yes, the colors of Nature sometimes do pop unbelievably ;D
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Wow, a great image!
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Hahaha. Yeah. Slobodan meant that literally and figuratively. :)
Double entendre, Slobodan?
I love the image, and yes, the colors of Nature sometimes do pop unbelievably ;D
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Thank you, Nancy.
Wow, a great image!
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Roman, great image. What vehicle in the photo handled the road into White Pocket? I have a Subaru Crosstrek all wheel drive. Do you think it would handle the road in?
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Thank you, Wolfman. I have a lifted Toyota 4Runner 4x4. I think the Subaru Crosstrek has enough ground clearance to get to White Pocket.
Roman, great image. What vehicle in the photo handled the road into White Pocket? I have a Subaru Crosstrek all wheel drive. Do you think it would handle the road in?
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As a newcomer to this forum I probably shouldn't comment but I like the image until I see the clouds which look overcooked, I see the ACR shot and the clouds look fine to me. Whatever has been done to them has been applied uniformly and it makes the clouds uniform with little or no sense of depth.
Ken
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... until I see the clouds which look overcooked...
Somehow people assume that if it is OOC, it can not be overcooked. Well, it can. Using a wrong GND filter strength (as it was the case here) results in overcooking at the shooting stage.
Late Galen Rowell was occasionally criticized for that too. However, in his defense, he was among the pioneers in using GND and can be forgiven for being carried away on occasion. Also, given his shooting technique, ie, traveling/running/climbing light, often with just one (smallish) camera and one lens, he can be forgiven for not carrying with him the whole assortment of GND strengths. At the same time, shooting slides, he could not reverse the effect in post-processing as easy as we can do today.
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Ken, it's a free country (if you're in the U.S....well I hope it's still is) so you can voice your opinion. ;)
I totally see everybody's point about the clouds. I'm almost sure I used a 3-stop ND so applying any and all global edits at post affected the clouds. The clouds looked angry already and a 1-stop ND would have worked. I'll play with the image a bit and see what happens.
As a newcomer to this forum I probably shouldn't comment but I like the image until I see the clouds which look overcooked, I see the ACR shot and the clouds look fine to me. Whatever has been done to them has been applied uniformly and it makes the clouds uniform with little or no sense of depth.
Ken
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I appreciate the comment. I agree with you and sometime I do forget that I can overcook an image even at OOC. The 3-stop ND may have been too much. I think I'll play the the image again. I'll edit the RAW file and tone down the sky a bit and then blend the two and see what happens. I'll fiddle with it until it looks...well, around medium/ ;)
I'll post a 2nd edit and see if the sushi lovers will like it :P
Man...you're right about Galen Rowell. The first time I visited his gallery, I was a bit surprised that some of his images were medium well to well done. I was thinking that his slides were digitized and them Photoshopped to give it that look. Like you said, he may have used too much ND back in the day.
I saw some of Tom Till's work at his gallery and he really fries a few of his work to a crisp. But then again, what I think is overcooked maybe not be to him and others...and is making him some good $$$.
Somehow people assume that if it is OOC, it can not be overcooked. Well, it can. Using a wrong GND filter strength (as it was the case here) results in overcooking at the shooting stage.
Late Galen Rowell was occasionally criticized for that too. However, in his defense, he was among the pioneers in using GND and can be forgiven for being carried away on occasion. Also, given his shooting technique, ie, traveling/running/climbing light, often with just one (smallish) camera and one lens, he can be forgiven for not carrying with him the whole assortment of GND strengths. At the same time, shooting slides, he could not reverse the effect in post-processing as easy as we can do today.