For just starting out, I\'d say you\'ve chosen a difficult setting and, with a little more most post-processing you\'re well on your way.
I\'ve never had much luck with mist/fog and sunrises, somehow never convey what I was seeing or thinking when taking the capture.
I prefer #\'s 3 & 4 over the first two: #1 is too \'head-on\', imo, and looking straight into the sun, I think I\'d try either more on a diagonal or looking away from the sun. For me, the condo or whatever in the background of #2, in an image having more snap, is distracting in that it competes with the vines for attention - I guess you could say there is not central subject.
I\'ve taken the liberty of quick re-works on #\'s 3 & 4. In both cases, if you look at the histograms you can stratch the histogram at both ends to both brighten and darken the images. In #3 I bumped the contrast using the LCH curve in Capture NX2 and sharpened; #4 much of the same except I cloned out several poles at the right side and tried to get some color back into the image aside from the sunrise...
If you object, I\'ll pull the posts...
#3
#4
Geesh, that is lovely scenery...
Again welcome, thanks for sharing and we look forward to seeing more posts.
regards
Bob
Oh, it is often helpful to include the Exif data - I believe there is an option to include it in the Flickr upoad process, don\'t recall exactly where.
<EDIT> re-reading your post: f4 give you nice DFO, especially in #3 with both fore- and background being thrown out of focus, a higher f-stop would tend to \'flatten\' DOF which I do not believe would have helped - I think f4 is fine
For just starting out, I\'d say you\'ve chosen a difficult setting and, with a little more most post-processing you\'re well on your way.
I\'ve never had much luck with mist/fog and sunrises, somehow never convey what I was seeing or thinking when taking the capture.
I prefer #\'s 3 & 4 over the first two: #1 is too \'head-on\', imo, and looking straight into the sun, I think I\'d try either more on a diagonal or looking away from the sun. For me, the condo or whatever in the background of #2, in an image having more snap, is distracting in that it competes with the vines for attention - I guess you could say there is not central subject.
I\'ve taken the liberty of quick re-works on #\'s 3 & 4. In both cases, if you look at the histograms you can stratch the histogram at both ends to both brighten and darken the images. In #3 I bumped the contrast using the LCH curve in Capture NX2 and sharpened; #4 much of the same except I cloned out several poles at the right side and tried to get some color back into the image aside from the sunrise...
If you object, I\'ll pull the posts...
#3
#4
Geesh, that is lovely scenery...
Again welcome, thanks for sharing and we look forward to seeing more posts.
regards
Bob
Oh, it is often helpful to include the Exif data - I believe there is an option to include it in the Flickr upoad process, don\'t recall exactly where.
Dec 23, 2008 at 07:48 PM
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