Last Light

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 6, 201056 views7 comments

The last rays of the sun illuminate the grass dunes on the island of texel.

I had several versions of this image, with the foreground ranging from pure black to very well visible, in the end I found the current version the most appropriate but I'm looking for more opinions, especially if the fg should be a tad lighter or not.

All comments and critique's welcome of course!

Thank you for looking!

Tech: Canon 7d & 17-40 @ 17mm, iso 100 1/10th & f/22 for the sun. Post with Tk's actions/layers

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Bruno Silva on May 6, 2010 at 10:46 AM

very nice, Jorne! great light and colors. love the gold and blue tones here a lot. I feel you could lighten the lower left and right corners in the fg, just a hair. wouldn´t mind seeing a bit more fg in order to give some more room to the sunstar, any version with more fg? once again, nice capture!!

Registered on May 6, 2009, 132 Posts, 1406 Comments

Comment posted by Dorin Bofan on May 6, 2010 at 1:16 PM

I really like it as it is, Jorne! I think you choose very well.

Registered on April 30, 2007, 122 Posts, 3086 Comments

Comment posted by Paul Duval on May 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM

Jorne,

Great use of the sunstar. it allows the extreme highlight to expand across the image and save a blowout. The dark foreground doesn't bother me, in fact I'm fond of them If I'm trying to emhasize the sky.

Paul

Registered on June 30, 2009, 508 Posts, 1907 Comments

Comment posted by Rudy Ruberti on May 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM

Very nice sunset image, simple and effective. Like the sun star, too.

Registered on October 28, 2008, 179 Posts, 1875 Comments

Comment posted by Kenn Leonhardt on May 6, 2010 at 8:11 PM

While I do like this, it doesn't really hold my interest for very long. I'm not 100% sure whether a brighter/darker FG would change that, but I have an inkling that being able to see more detail in the FG would add some more interest.

Registered on March 29, 2008, 27 Posts, 1710 Comments

Comment posted by Jorne de Bruin on May 7, 2010 at 6:10 AM

Thank you all for the comments, very helpfull. I agree it is not the most spectacular image (sadly not many spectacular to work with around here in Holland), I'll try and lighten the fg some more. Thanks again!

Registered on June 26, 2008, 178 Posts, 2136 Comments

Comment posted by Walt Sterneman on May 10, 2010 at 3:05 PM

Very nice Jorne. I agree with the idea of lightening up the FG a tad.

Registered on March 24, 2010, 73 Posts, 1268 Comments