Awakening

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 30, 201074 views8 comments

I bought a cable release and wanted to try some longer exposures so I headed to a location I thought would have some good morning light. This was pretty blah in colour so I converted it to B&W and played with it a bit. I'm not thrilled with the quality, and the BG mountain is too far away, but other than that I like the way it turned out. Any thoughts or comments?
Xsi,10-22@10mm,70sec@f16,ISO 100, converted in canon's digital photo pro and adjusted in cs5.

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8 comments

Comment posted by Stan Rose on October 30, 2010 at 7:31 PM

Looks like a cool spot! I like the comp, how the stream leads deep into the distance--thats nice. My only nit is the sky looks a bit noisy.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on October 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM

This doesn't necessarily wow me, but the light is perfect and so is the B&W. Very easy image to look at and enjoy.

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Comment posted by Jim Greenwood on October 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM

I don't necessarily agree that the mountains in the background are too far away. However, a suggestion to reduce this perception would be to crop the sky to get to a 4x5 format and then enlarge the image back up to a height of 720 pixels. This would make the mountain appear slightly larger within the image and would also have the added effect of achieving the "classic" rule of thirds compositional technique with respect to the placement of the horizon.

Registered on November 9, 2003, 229 Posts, 1523 Comments

Comment posted by Greg Maklae on October 31, 2010 at 5:59 AM

The conversion to b/w was a great idea, works really well here. I like the FG and the mountain, but feel there is too much sky. I would try cropping off about 2/3 of the sky.

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Comment posted by Eric Good on October 31, 2010 at 2:22 PM

Yep, at 10mm (@16mm equivalent) anything in the bg is going to shrink considerably. But I don't think that is too much of an issue here, because the bright distant water reflection makes for a great contrast and pull my eye there anyways. I'd favor a crop off the top to a maybe more 4x5 ratio and call it good. Nice work!

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on October 31, 2010 at 3:58 PM

Yep, I like the mood here. Nice conversion.

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Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on October 31, 2010 at 7:34 PM

Other than a little graininess in the sky, this is great. It's a nice conversion, has nice light and mood. Very effective shot IMO!

Chris

Registered on March 13, 2007, 500 Posts, 8365 Comments

Comment posted by Barry Vangrov on October 31, 2010 at 7:50 PM

Although there's some really nice light in the sky, I agree with others that cropping at least 1/2 of it will strengthen to comp.

Registered on September 1, 2009, 148 Posts, 749 Comments