Here's one from last Thursday with Rick. Little bit of blur on the FG flowers but I think it is still passable. Evening unfolded beautifully regardless of having a camera it was awesome to just be there.
Gotta love that sky and the sunburst effect. The slight motion blur in the flowers is no big deal. I believe I can see the grad line in the trees and there appears to be a slight CW tilt (may just be an optical illusion due to a gently sloping landscape?). Nice stuff.
Thanks Mark. Yeah the tilt is more due to the slope of the land than camera tilt. As to the grad line, maybe, I zoomed in and dodged what I thought needed it, but it could be I missed it...? I'll have to check. Thanks again.
Nice one Jeremy - you guys did well.. I think once the couple of items are addressed it will look perfect.. I should have ditched work and came along - of course a certain manager would have had to keep his mouth shut!
Looks great! That sunburst is perfect. I do think that if you had moved your camera/tripod a few feet to the left there would have been a more full foreground. I agree with Mark, I don't think the blurry flowers are too big of a deal, better than having a real grainy image as a result of a high ISO. Nice work!
Here's a version withthe fix on the grad line. I'm pretty positive there is no tilt on the horizon, everything there kinda sloped to the right. I think after working on stuff for a while you kinda start to see things as normal. Thanks for the call on the grad line.
Very nice, Jeremy. Thats one heck of a balsamroot carpet. You guys are making the gorge high on my "to do" list for next spring.
I think everything works pretty well here. The grad line was a bit evident, but not an issue now. The only other thing that I think might improve this is a crop off of the top, so the dark clouds run right to the corners. Everything above the highest glowing ember cloud isn't adding much, and the focus of the shot would be directed down to the flowers better with that section of the sky snipped off. Just a thought...
Thanks Aaron, I'll give it a try. I kinda that higher wispy cloud above the gray ones. Also it might center the horizon a bit too much, but I'll definitely try it. Thanks.
Let me know if you're up this way and want to go out shootin'.
Yeah, I thought about the centered horizon, but since there isn't a super defined line - like in a seascape, it works for me on this shot.
I'm actually up that way all the time. My girlfriend lives in Portland, so I'm in the area a lot. I just don't get much pho-toggin' in while I'm there. If I ever have some spare time I'll give you a holler. I still have high hopes for getting some Gorge waterfalls in this spring.
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I think everything works pretty well here. The grad line was a bit evident, but not an issue now. The only other thing that I think might improve this is a crop off of the top, so the dark clouds run right to the corners. Everything above the highest glowing ember cloud isn't adding much, and the focus of the shot would be directed down to the flowers better with that section of the sky snipped off. Just a thought...
Let me know if you're up this way and want to go out shootin'.
I'm actually up that way all the time. My girlfriend lives in Portland, so I'm in the area a lot. I just don't get much pho-toggin' in while I'm there. If I ever have some spare time I'll give you a holler. I still have high hopes for getting some Gorge waterfalls in this spring.
NIce image in all respects... was there on Sat but didn't have your clouds!
Wonderful shot.
JG