MonoColor

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 17, 2012154 views7 comments

This sunset was taken in Kansas 17Ap12 from my back pasture. 3 photos were melded in Photomatix HDR program and then converted to mono in Nikon's CaptureNX2 and the color selectively reversed by position with the same program.
Seems I'm trying to expand the capacities of digital presentation so would appreciate constructive comments.
Nikon D700, Nikkor f/2.8 28mm lens.
the fisch

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7 comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on April 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Larry, thanks for your comments on my cloud image. This is also a very dramatic sky. The lighting is over the top for me. The lighting is interesting because it is under, over and around the clouds. I might be tempted to try to crop some off the bottom of the image to accentuate the sky even more. Fine image.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on April 17, 2012 at 12:16 PM

An interesting result in your pp efforts. I like it.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on April 18, 2012 at 3:17 AM

Larry,

That's one awesome sky, but I'll have to say that it's a little beyond real for me. But that's not to say that this doesn't work - I think it does, and you're not making any pretense that this is how you "saw" it. Actually Larry, the more I stare at this, the more I think that it's not over the top, just something different than I would expect to have seen if I was standing there. I think I could actually see a sky series with variations of this processing. I think that might work too.

Lon

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on April 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM

Beautiful processing and the light on the grasses is wonderful. I like this, it's different.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on April 20, 2012 at 1:11 PM

I like it, Larry! As one who has seen many KS sunsets, it looks totally natural to me. My only nit is that the fg seems a tiny bit soft--if you could squeeze out a bit more clarity or sharpness i think it would be perfect.

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Comment posted by Larry Fischer on April 20, 2012 at 1:46 PM

Stan,
You were right with the foreground sharpening.
I went to the photo and did what you suggested on the foreground and I do believe it made the photo better.
Thanks for your good and trained eye.
the fisch

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Comment posted by Larry Fischer on May 8, 2012 at 9:24 AM

Thanks for the critiques.
This is not real, of course.
I just wondered what would happen if it was hung on a wall compared with a more natural photo--which one would command the most attention?
I don't know but perhaps the stark contrast would catch the eye quicker.
the fisch

Registered on July 28, 2008, 155 Posts, 874 Comments