Gallery: LandscapePosted June 23, 2013285 views5 comments
From recent trip to Arches National Park. This is a work in progress and first process.
C&C welcomed~
Sony a77
15030mm Sigma @ 30mm
ISO 200
f 29
1/20
f29
LR4.1 raw
PS5
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5 comments
Comment posted by Ed Lowe on June 23, 2013 at 11:04 AM
I really like the basic idea for this image, Rick. I do find myself wishing you had stood in front of the tree so it didn't block part of the rock formations. Just my opinion of course. Nice sunstar BTW.
Ed
Registered on February 7, 2004, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments
Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 23, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Great drama with the dominant star burst of light, I think an angel is lighting your way Rick
Cool image, nice work my friend!
Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments
Comment posted by Lon Overacker on June 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Rick,
Great idea and pretty good job of pulling it off. Either you had time and planned to be here, or you found this at the last moment and didn't have time to move around, but I'm with Ed on the idea of getting in front of the tree. I guess it kinda works in framing the scene as the story of course is the sun star through the arch, but in the end I think the tree is a distraction and has little detail anyway. So that gets back to possibly just not having enough time to really get set.
I think you did well with the exposure of the sky, rock and sun star. The sky color is good, as is the sandstone and the amount of exposure on the rock is appropriate for the direction of the light, so you did well there. Not much you could do about it, but the glare/flare or glass issues just around the sun are mildly an issue, through no fault of your own. I haven't tried this, but I believe Marc Adamus and others use this technique. You take two identical exposures, but on one of them your cover the sun with your thumb or some small object. Then you carefully blend the two, eliminating the flares. I haven't done it myself, but it makes sense.
Lastly, the sage?/brush on the landscape has a pretty heavy cyan look to it. Not a big issue and again the sun star is the main subject.
Unless you can squeeze some detail from the tree and trunk at the bottom, you may consider cropping all that out entirely. Just a thought. Be curious to see any further work on this.
Lon
Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Comment posted by Scott Fricke on June 24, 2013 at 7:44 PM
Great to see an original composition from a very popular locale. I agree with the other comments, I'd recommend a crop to eliminate the tree unless you can pull some detail out of it.
Registered on January 19, 2007, 133 Posts, 1448 Comments
Comment posted by Morris McClung on June 26, 2013 at 12:43 PM
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5 commentsEd
Cool image, nice work my friend!
Great idea and pretty good job of pulling it off. Either you had time and planned to be here, or you found this at the last moment and didn't have time to move around, but I'm with Ed on the idea of getting in front of the tree. I guess it kinda works in framing the scene as the story of course is the sun star through the arch, but in the end I think the tree is a distraction and has little detail anyway. So that gets back to possibly just not having enough time to really get set.
I think you did well with the exposure of the sky, rock and sun star. The sky color is good, as is the sandstone and the amount of exposure on the rock is appropriate for the direction of the light, so you did well there. Not much you could do about it, but the glare/flare or glass issues just around the sun are mildly an issue, through no fault of your own. I haven't tried this, but I believe Marc Adamus and others use this technique. You take two identical exposures, but on one of them your cover the sun with your thumb or some small object. Then you carefully blend the two, eliminating the flares. I haven't done it myself, but it makes sense.
Lastly, the sage?/brush on the landscape has a pretty heavy cyan look to it. Not a big issue and again the sun star is the main subject.
Unless you can squeeze some detail from the tree and trunk at the bottom, you may consider cropping all that out entirely. Just a thought. Be curious to see any further work on this.
Lon