I was in north yellowstone Sunday morning - little bit of drizzle going on and thought that there would be no colors at all , was almost coming back when saw a little bit of color in the sky for 2 mins. This was taken at Blacktail in North yellowstone.
C&C is welcome, please let me know what I could have done to make this better.
.. and just after the snowfall by the road to North yellowstone
Posted by Jeremy Kessler on September 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM
These look like they have some great potential, love the cracks. I just think they need to be brightened a bit.
Posted by Todd Caudle on September 7, 2010 at 9:38 PM
What Jeremy said on the first two. The foreground is black as night. The third one looks tilted ccw, but is really nice.
Posted by John Mumaw on September 7, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Like Jeremy says, all three of these have potential.
However, they've all been subjected to the limitations of your sensor to capture all of the dynamic range that your eye can see (and certainly saw here!).
#1 was correctly exposed for the sky area just above the horizon while underexposing the rest of the image.
Pretty much the same with #2.
#3 was correctly exposed for the foreground while overexposing the skies.
There are only a couple of things you can do to prevent this from happening. Using a graduated neutral density filter to try and balance the light extremes, or bracketing multiple exposures in order to record all of the light values in the scene and then blending those series of images in Photoshop.
The first two can be saved using the Shadow/Highlight filter in PS to more evenly balance those extremes. There's no recovering data that's been overexposed as in #3, but again the S/H filter can save most of the foreground. Perhaps cropping out as much of the sky as possible (or to your taste) would be helpful.
Again, I think you have some pretty good images here, but you asked what could make them better and that's the first step to getting better images.
Posted by Paul Wegemann on September 8, 2010 at 8:48 AM
I'll echo the other comments regarding the exposures. You have a good eye though, and I really like the potential I'm seeing in these images.
Posted by Jack Garrett on September 8, 2010 at 10:08 AM
Follow Johns Instructions and you have a couple keepers her...especially number 3.
Discussion
10 repliesC&C is welcome, please let me know what I could have done to make this better.
Thanks a lot for looking.
However, they've all been subjected to the limitations of your sensor to capture all of the dynamic range that your eye can see (and certainly saw here!).
#1 was correctly exposed for the sky area just above the horizon while underexposing the rest of the image.
Pretty much the same with #2.
#3 was correctly exposed for the foreground while overexposing the skies.
There are only a couple of things you can do to prevent this from happening. Using a graduated neutral density filter to try and balance the light extremes, or bracketing multiple exposures in order to record all of the light values in the scene and then blending those series of images in Photoshop.
The first two can be saved using the Shadow/Highlight filter in PS to more evenly balance those extremes. There's no recovering data that's been overexposed as in #3, but again the S/H filter can save most of the foreground. Perhaps cropping out as much of the sky as possible (or to your taste) would be helpful.
Again, I think you have some pretty good images here, but you asked what could make them better and that's the first step to getting better images.