Got out to West Marin the other day just as some beautiful clouds were passing. Trying to use both polarizer and neutral density to get a little longer exposure. Tell me what you think, Does it look real?.....Craig.
p.s. does anybody else think their images suffer when editing in Photobucket?
Craig
It looks real enough at the posted size. Hard to tell the small details. It looks like a pretty, and balanced shot. A bigger look would help. For a landscape aspect, up to 900 pixels would be ok. Others will say 800, but think portrait aspect.
A nice composition, though it looks rather dark overall. Adjust either the levels or curves to bring the brightness up in the whole shot. Also I am not sure why you would want to use a ND filter and a polarizer on this. Unless you are getting an exposure into the length of about 2 minutes or so, you probably won't see much difference in the clouds, all you will do is induce softness in the trees, bushes and reeds as they move if there is any wind at all. I think that effect works much better at the beach or at a location where there aren't a lot of tree's and branches to get soft.
It's certainly good to play around and experiment, but I am not sure a long exposure is the way to go here for this type of a shot.
I like the pretty scene, overall, Craig. I do agree with Tim. I think you could post between 800-900 p wide, 750 tall for portrait versions.
And also with Jim.....the image seems a bit dark. Don't know if that's Photobucket or not. Polarizer should have been all you need for this lighting, and not any more water than you had.
Keep at it! I look forward to more!
Thanks guys. Jim you are right I was playing around trying to see if I could get some interesting effects by blurring the reeds and bushes in the wind while keeeping everything else sharp. I will lighten it up to see if that helps.
Barry and Tim I think I will try and resize these before I send them to photobucket. It seems like they get a little compressed as I send them. With storms forcasted for the rest of the week hopefully I can get some more shots. Thanks for the encouragement...Craig.
