12 disciples

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 14, 20181,086 views10 comments

I took this picture of the 12 disciples at the worst possible time for lighting. It was midafternoon I had to face into the sun. Water was very overexposed and the cliffs were very underexposed. It created a nice silhouette shot however. I recently sat down to the edit the photos from this trip. I dodged the cliffs bringing out some color and saturated the sky to bring in more color. Pretty much left the water where it was' PS- I have posted a B&W version based on Ginnys suggestion

Canon EOS 30D
ISO	160
FOCAL LENGTH	28.0 mm (44.8 mm in 35mm)
APERTURE	f/14
EXPOSURE TIME	0.002s (1/500)

Comments

10 comments

Comment posted by Igor Doncov on February 14, 2018 at 11:59 AM

The composition is really first rate. Even having the wave coming in from the left is great timing because it adds another line to the comp. There is a green cast to all of the cliffs and rocks that I would desaturate to bring out the browns.

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Comment posted by Marylynne Diggs on February 14, 2018 at 12:08 PM

Hi Ry,
What a lovely scene and great composition. I love seeing the monoliths into the distance.

The underexposure made for a lot of noise when you dodged the cliffs. I can also see some noise in the clouds. It would be interesting to look at the underexposed version just to see how much dodging was necessary and whether less dodging would result in less noise so the comp can really shine.

ML

Registered on December 14, 2010, 122 Posts, 1034 Comments

Comment posted by Genny K. on February 14, 2018 at 2:41 PM

Great comp. This might really work in B&W. It is really graphic.
For me, the sky looks a bit odd in this, but am on my phone, so maybe that's it. The diagonal lines are super, though, and the brightness of the waves may work well in B&W.

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Comment posted by Ry Birge on February 14, 2018 at 5:41 PM

Thanks Genny for the suggestion!

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Comment posted by Reno DiTullio on February 14, 2018 at 6:15 PM

MUCH prefer the BW, there's some strange colors going on in the original, ghoulish looking green cast.

Registered on November 14, 2003, 130 Posts, 1644 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Lowe on February 14, 2018 at 9:19 PM

Definitely the B&W version for me, Ry. I think the highlights along with the B&W conversion make for a much moodier image IMO. Looks like it could still use some noise reduction. This image is well worth making a few tweaks on.

Ed

Registered on February 7, 2004, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments

Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on February 15, 2018 at 12:36 PM

I'm with the BW version. It looks like you tried to introduce color and tones to an image with very challenging lighting to begin with. Hence the noise and color casts.. I think the BW version avoids much of those issues.

Registered on September 17, 2010, 304 Posts, 3507 Comments

Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on February 15, 2018 at 6:34 PM

The B&W for me. The color version has some very odd coloration, especially in the sky, that is not working for me. The tones in the B&W are very good, and much more appealing, Ry.
--P

Registered on November 1, 2003, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on February 16, 2018 at 7:32 PM

Ry, The b&w is working better for me. Sounds like it was very difficult light and it is always hard trying to make that back in post processing. It is a really neat looking place and maybe you will be able to return in better shooting light. enlightened

Cheers, Nick

Registered on February 1, 2004, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments

Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on February 27, 2018 at 5:40 PM

I like the BW version better but only because there are such weird colours and artefacts in the original post. I think it would be worthwhile re-processing the colour version as I know the scene to usually work better in colour.

Registered on September 27, 2006, 636 Posts, 10682 Comments