Mountain tub

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 23, 2011165 views11 comments

Sunset picture of a steaming tarn. It was an amazing scene with some extreme lights which I wasn't sure how to handle. It's slightly cropped from the left and bottom, but I couldn't completely avoid the blown out area without ruining my composition. I know that it is a NO NO in landscape photography but the picture still look appealing to me (I'm kinda biased

). Maybe I should have chosen a different angle or several exposures?

Canon EOS 40D + canon ef-s 55-250mm @ 74mm f9 1/400s hand held
I used quite a bit of Lightroom "Recovery" and graduated filter.

Thanks in advance for your comments!

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by David Chauvin on February 23, 2011 at 2:28 AM

The color and mood of this image are nice, Andrius. The extremes of light and dark in the opposing corners of the top of the image are a drawback for me.

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Comment posted by Andreas Resch on February 23, 2011 at 7:20 AM

I like the composition and the layers going on in the upper half. The moment shows some great mood. Technically the dynamic range just wasn't able to cover all the tones in there and the highlights in the sky don't look too good. I'd also like to see a hint more detail in the shadows on the right.

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Comment posted by Steve Sieren on February 23, 2011 at 11:18 AM

Great atmosphere in this scene and not overdone at all Andius!

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on February 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Goergeous scene! The layers, from the beautiful foreground to the misty mountains with low clouds create wonderful depth. This is a keeper even with the blown highlights. Next time you can start a new habit of heavily bracketing exposures when shooting high contrast scenes so you will have darker and lighter expousures for blending.

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on February 23, 2011 at 2:34 PM

Very nice image Andrius. I like the layers in the hills which are created by the side lighting. This is a situation where you really have to use your camera's histogram in the field to evaluate the exposure. If you see blown highlights on the histogram (vertical lines bunched up on the right side) you know you need to consider decreasing the exposure or bracketing exposures to be blended later in photoshop.

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Comment posted by Andrius Pašukonis on February 23, 2011 at 3:46 PM

Thanks for all your comments and advices. I really appreciate it

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on February 23, 2011 at 9:58 PM

A bit of odd sky color in the URC, but other than that, I really like the light and layer in this scene. I could see still cropping a bit off the left and still having a fine composition.

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Comment posted by Andrius Pašukonis on February 23, 2011 at 10:02 PM

Sorry Tony, but i have no clue as to what the URC is

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Comment posted by Andreas Resch on February 24, 2011 at 1:47 AM

URC is "Upper Right Corner", LLC is "Lower Left Corner", ... I guess you get the idea ;). We lazy typers use these abbreviations all the time here.

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Comment posted by Andrius Pašukonis on February 24, 2011 at 2:59 AM

Thanks for the info Andreas. Very useful information

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Comment posted by Chris Chamberlain on February 24, 2011 at 7:03 PM

I like your comp, light, the layered landscape, the drama. I don't like the brightest highlites, and the lack of shadow detail in a few places. l like it overall quite a bit, save for the nits about the highlites/shadows. If you could improve those, this would be a killer shot!

Chris

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