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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on March 14, 2014, 12:31:54 pm

Title: Clearing in the morning
Post by: sdwilsonsct on March 14, 2014, 12:31:54 pm

Suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking.

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: thierrylegros396 on March 14, 2014, 01:58:17 pm

Third is outstanding !!

Thanks for sharing.

Thierry

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: Christoph C. Feldhaim on March 14, 2014, 04:15:58 pm

I think all three work very well.
The first two will need a lot of space and being printed large.
Very beautiful !
Cheers
~Chris

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: churly on March 15, 2014, 10:04:08 am

Chris is right, the first two come alive when you look at them large.  Simple, clean and expressive of the mood of early morning.  I like #3 a lot but the blue on the top left is a bit too much IMO.
good work.

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: thierrylegros396 on March 15, 2014, 02:13:53 pm

For the third.

A filter + vignette correction may help.

Perhap like this?!

Hope this helps.

Thierry

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: sdwilsonsct on March 15, 2014, 03:42:37 pm

Thierry: I like it. Good suggestions.

Chris, Chuck: thanks! I can probably print #2 big because it is a stitch of three frames. Thinking about a triptych since I have just a little printer.

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: slowframe on March 15, 2014, 05:32:26 pm

Quote from: sdwilsonsct on March 15, 2014, 03:42:37 pm

Thierry: I like it. Good suggestions.

Chris, Chuck: thanks! I can probably print #2 big because it is a stitch of three frames. Thinking about a triptych since I have just a little printer.

I was going to suggest thinking about these as a triptych. Unless there is a problem with how they are displayed on my screen, they're not all three in the same aspect ratio. Could I suggest that you put all three in the same one? Changes in aspect ratio are jarring. That can be used to good effect, but I'm not sure it fits here.

#3 is a lovely image. The abrupt tonal transitions from the illuminated areas to the shadowed areas don't look quite right to me. I think much the same impression could be given with just a slight brightening up of the shadowed regions, and it might make the image a little easier to process visually.

Thank you for sharing your work.

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 16, 2014, 06:43:34 am

Wonderful slivers of light.

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: sdwilsonsct on March 16, 2014, 05:23:52 pm

Thanks, Slowframe and Paulo.

Triptych... I was thinking of dividing the one image into three, arranged side by side. Might work on a light-coloured wall.

Good suggestions on the brightness, I'll look at this some more. On the other hand, I kind of like the big difference which is real when there are thick clouds next to sunlit blowing snow.

Title: Re: Clearing in the morning
Post by: slowframe on March 17, 2014, 11:29:00 am

Quote from: sdwilsonsct on March 16, 2014, 05:23:52 pm

Thanks, Slowframe and Paulo.

Triptych... I was thinking of dividing the one image into three, arranged side by side. Might work on a light-coloured wall.

Good suggestions on the brightness, I'll look at this some more. On the other hand, I kind of like the big difference which is real when there are thick clouds next to sunlit blowing snow.

Ah, I misunderstood. I can see that way of putting a triptych together might also be effective. If you do it, it would be interesting to see.