Changing Seasons
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thrice
Registered: Jul 10, 2008
Total Posts: 3035
Country: Australia

In Western Australia the season is changing too, but instead of nice yellows and reds in the trees we're getting yellow grass and red dirt. Spring lasts about one month here and usually brings a few storms, some quite dangerous and deadly. Luckily on the West coast they're not too bad.

Here's a shot I took today:
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And here's one I took on October 4th
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The colour on the second one is due to stacking two nd-grads with a warming polariser. The first one is actually a 3 shot vertical pano, no special filters used. It's my first time posting in the Landscape forum so be nice



Will Patterson
Registered: Nov 06, 2006
Total Posts: 4063
Country: United States

Man I'd love to go to Australia some day...

The first shot is awesome, I love it.

The second one is great too. The only thing that I was instantly distracted by is how the grass in the foreground goes from one exposure to another, it's obviously where you brought the ND's line down to. If it were up more closer to the horizon it would have masked it better. Great colors tho!



thrice
Registered: Jul 10, 2008
Total Posts: 3035
Country: Australia

Thanks Will! I'd love to come see Colorado, Oregon, NYC and Arizona soon (maybe mid next year).

I agree completely with your comment on the second shot, it was even worse until I went to great effort to reduce how noticeable the transition was in post processing. The wind was almost blowing me over and trying to take the ND out of my hands so I was rushing. Big hills behind me and basically flat to the coast (30km or so) means strong winds in this area.



Will Patterson
Registered: Nov 06, 2006
Total Posts: 4063
Country: United States

thrice wrote:
Thanks Will! I'd love to come see Colorado, Oregon, NYC and Arizona soon (maybe mid next year).

I agree completely with your comment on the second shot, it was even worse until I went to great effort to reduce how noticeable the transition was in post processing. The wind was almost blowing me over and trying to take the ND out of my hands so I was rushing. Big hills behind me and basically flat to the coast (30km or so) means strong winds in this area.



haha, I hear you.

Ever used Lightroom 2? When I saw this shot I thought about how easy it would be to use the selective adjustment brush and get rid of that transition.

Here's a quickie job, I also played with the saturation and contrast some, hope you don't mind:

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thrice
Registered: Jul 10, 2008
Total Posts: 3035
Country: Australia

Thanks Will, looks good I will try and replicate your changes here.



Ashish Aleti
Registered: Dec 01, 2006
Total Posts: 775
Country: United States

Lovely, I like them. I really like the colors. #1 is really a pretty pic

Ashish



Al B
Registered: Jan 17, 2004
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Country: Canada

I like Will's revised version as well. The 1st image though is my favourite here. Perhaps you might consider cloning out the lot # shown in white. It's a bit of a distraction for me. l


Al B



ltr03
Registered: Feb 07, 2005
Total Posts: 3224
Country: United States

#1 is my favorite, great compostion and colors. I would also like to see it with the sign cloned out.



JimFox
Registered: Jan 11, 2005
Total Posts: 28735
Country: United States

Welcome to FM Landscape!

These are some very nice shots. Very nicely done with those clouds, very moody looking and good job on using the road as a lead in line. I like Will's mod of your 2nd shot too.

Jim



theroadtaken
Registered: Feb 03, 2006
Total Posts: 596
Country: United States

Great captures, I really like the angles combined with the beautiful skylines.

Chris



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