ICE TEMPLE

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 7, 2013315 views9 comments

Here is another image from my trip in the Canadian Rockies in Dec 2012.

I posted a repost on my last post with adjustments. Thanks for those valuable comments!!

I finally settled on this composition. I took a few test shots of this scene, and decided that being "eye level" was the best perspective. Being 6'5" I like shooting eye level

Man, being a big guy is a pain in the ass on the ground playing twister!

I do not have much experience working with the moon, so I know that the area around the moon is a bit off. Since I took this shot at 14mm, I wanted to have the moon larger and more natural. I shot the moon at 50mm on a separate image, then used the healing brush in "manual mode", selected the 50mm moon, and painted it into the scene in roughly the same position. If anyone has a better way to do this, please let me know. I doubt what I did would hold up to print!

Any ideas on how to a better job would be appreciated

Nikon D800E
Nikkor 14-24mm F2.8

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Anne K. Rusk on August 7, 2013 at 10:23 PM

Awesome shot, James!! I really like this composition! Everything came together very nicely. Beautiful, chilly scene

Registered on October 10, 2010, 65 Posts, 904 Comments

Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on August 7, 2013 at 10:32 PM

By your description, the mood should look unnatural - but it doesn't. The image as a whole is well composed and well developed. I bet it would look good in black and white too.

Registered on September 9, 2009, 294 Posts, 2006 Comments

Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on August 8, 2013 at 12:13 AM

DIG IT!!

For the moon you can just mask it back in...select and mask. Easy breezy.

Rockin

aF

Registered on October 26, 2009, 399 Posts, 2789 Comments

Comment posted by Zhoen on August 8, 2013 at 2:05 AM

Nice job, love the comp! I find it very interesting and complete that your comp has the appearance of clouds forming a ring around the mountain.

Registered on May 16, 2013, 25 Posts, 188 Comments

Comment posted by Bill Reid on August 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM

Beautiful scene James and the moon looks quite natural to me. I like the lines of the water and th e clouds over the mountain. Well done.

Registered on January 27, 2013, 65 Posts, 2460 Comments

Comment posted by Joseph Campisi on August 8, 2013 at 9:21 AM

I guess there's an advantage to being 5' 7" 1/2 after all James! Great blue tones and leading lines. And the moon looks good. Thank's for the disclosure as well. Technically, that should put this in the realm of photo art, but I won't protest. Well done!

Registered on November 24, 2008, 304 Posts, 3211 Comments

Comment posted by Steve Zimic on August 8, 2013 at 9:43 AM

James,
Beautiful light and comp. Based on the trees I can see the camera was relatively level, but the line described by the break between the snow and trees gives me the feeling the image is tilted. From what I can see in the larger version you did a good job with the moon but it seems a bit to bright for the lighting conditions.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on August 9, 2013 at 2:37 PM

The moon looks about right to me...nice job! Color looks on target too (sky blues maybe a tiny bit too strong/deep) Pretty...

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Comment posted by James Fougère on August 9, 2013 at 2:53 PM

Thanks Stan, it looks right on my end, but everyone has a different monitor calibrated in a different way

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