The Gift + REPOST 2

Gallery: LandscapePosted June 3, 2012241 views7 comments

The Gift - Engadin lakes, Switzerland.

Last week I went to the mountains and this was the best sunset on my birthday.
I used a 6 stop ND filter for the 2 minutes exposure.

I know that the shadows a bit dark, it is a single exposure and got 1 stop underexposed.
It is not easy to calculate the correct exposure with the 6 or 10 stop ND filter.

In the reality there was a very big difference bitween the sky, the ground and specially the vegetation in the shadows. I can try to balance out a little, but then I lose from the contrast.
There is some small detail there in the raw file.

Thank you for your comments!

Shantikara

Canon 5D markII + Ef 24-105 f/4 at 40mm + 6 stop ND filter
single shot, 2 minutes at f/13

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Paul Marcellini on June 3, 2012 at 5:59 PM

Great light show. I don't mind the exposure as it. If anything, maybe a bit more on the water but otherwise, it is looking good.

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on June 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM

Nice slow shutter effect. The shadows are indeed a little bit dark. Sometimes I add a GND in front of an ND to balance the light ratio.

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Comment posted by Kyle L. Krause on June 3, 2012 at 8:13 PM

I like the mood and the beautiful light in the clouds. The hint of color in the water is nice, great job.

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Comment posted by Tom Hilton on June 3, 2012 at 9:38 PM

What a beautiful place.
Excellent capture.
I agree w/ Paul maybe the water could be a touch lighter.
This will make a stunning large print.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on June 4, 2012 at 9:52 PM

Beautiful light. The blur/orange contrast is really sweet. Personally, I'm not partial to this level of blur. It feels a bit more OOF than intentional long exposure.

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Comment posted by Shantikara Valuska on June 6, 2012 at 8:23 AM

Thank you for your comments!
I tried to make some changes, to lighten a bit the shadows, balance out the lights and darks. I am still not satisfied with the results, either I stuck at the same point or losing too much contrast, which I don't like. Also when I post something it always looks darker than on my monitor (although I have a calibrated NEC MultiSync 2090 UXi monitor)

Registered on July 25, 2011, 38 Posts, 451 Comments

Comment posted by Shantikara Valuska on June 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM

one more repost, some small changes, e.g I removed some magenta cast.

Registered on July 25, 2011, 38 Posts, 451 Comments