Burning Off

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 1, 20171,396 views12 comments

Oops, I somehow took a wrong turn and ended up in the Landscape gallery.

Here's a shot from my Great Bear Rainforest trip in September. This was primarily a wildlife tour, but the coast of BC is so beautiful that it's impossible to discount the scenery. Even this animal photographer is happy shooting landscapes once in a while up there. enlightened

Our group had endured four days of rain leading up to the final morning of the trip... which is when the sun finally peeked through. It was hard to ignore the great shadow lines filtering through the trees on one of the many islands we were floating past, so I grabbed my big lens and snapped a few quick shots before the clouds burned off completely.

Canon 1DXII
Canon 600mm f/4 IS
ISO 400
1/5000th
f/4
(Hand-held)

Max

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Igor Doncov on December 1, 2017 at 1:14 PM

Wonderful image of this type, Max. A pattern of trees with well defined parallel angular rays. I like the break in the pattern in the upper right but I would burn in the brightest area just a tad maybe. You could introduce a greater hint of color which should warm it up more although a cooler effect may be better. I like the light gradient from top to bottom. I wouldn't dodge the darks on the bottom, certainly not enough to remove that gradient. Great image.

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Comment posted by Ronald Murphy on December 1, 2017 at 1:25 PM

Great image. I didn't think of it before but I agree about darkening the bright area a bit.

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Comment posted by Ed McGuirk on December 1, 2017 at 2:40 PM

Superb image Max, very dramatic light, and very dynamic scene with all the diagonal rays. I would burn the bright highlights in the upper right just a small bit. But I also might consider slightly dodging the highlights on the left side of the image, to bring the highlights on both sides of the image a little more in balance. I agree with Igor, this image might benefit from a slight warming of the color temperature.

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Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on December 1, 2017 at 3:05 PM

My kind of image - dynamic, a little abstract, powerful lines and lighting. Fantastic, and hand held! I was trying to handhold the new Tamron 150-600mm, no luck with sharp images at the far end (on tripod or hand held) so I give you big props for such a nice sharp shot. I could stare at this for a while.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on December 1, 2017 at 7:38 PM

Max,

I'm feeling a little lazy... so

My kind of image - dynamic, a little abstract, powerful lines and lighting.

Thanks Harry, my thoughts exactly.

Seriously, and that was serious, this is a wonderful, graphic image. the strength of the rays are tempered nicely by the fog and the darkness of the forest. Other than perhaps burning down the brightest fluff of fog, this is just a fantastic image.

The obvious comment is - you should shoot landscapes more often!

Lon

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Comment posted by gary phillips on December 1, 2017 at 9:22 PM

Excellent, Max. You should explore your landscape side more often. Very well done.

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Comment posted by Kathy Barnhart on December 1, 2017 at 10:05 PM

Wow, Max, you're also a great landscape photographer! This is wonderful and I'm glad you could catch this moment. Have never seen such amazing diagonal lines in this type of photo. Very cool!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on December 2, 2017 at 10:17 AM

Love the angled, crepuscular rays and the scattering of trees showing here, Max. This looks great.

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on December 2, 2017 at 12:13 PM

I appreciate the feedback, everyone. I love the detailed suggested improvements as well... it's obvious that the mindset on the processing side of things is often very different between landscape and wildlife photographers in terms of complexity. You all deal with a lot more details and adjustments on a regular basis than I do. Either that or I'm just lazy. enlightened

Max

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on December 2, 2017 at 12:49 PM

Beautiful image, Max!! No nits here, I very, very much like it!!

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Comment posted by Dave Dillemuth on December 2, 2017 at 8:47 PM

Wonderful image. Incredible atmosphere and lighting. Processing looks spot-on. Great work!

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on December 5, 2017 at 1:08 PM

Love this shot, Max. Wonderful capture and work! devil

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.

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