Posted by Randy Hanna on April 10, 2006 at 1:04 PM
My first posting so bear with me:
After three days of wet wet wet weather, I was granted about 4 hours of sun on Friday am. This shot was one of the few keepers out of that sunny window. With something like 25-35% of the tulips fully open I had to work hard to generate the feeling of a full field. Using a lower profile was the only way I could keep from showing all of the bare spots. Having looked at this shot for several hours, I think a tighter crop at the bottom and slightly on the left side would work wonders, but I wanted to get something out there so others could comment on my processing.
Saturday, I met up with Dave Forster and shot with him and two other folks from the Pacific Northwest Nature Photographers group - great people. Thanks to Dave for getting this together. I will be shooting the Skagit area again next weekend if anyone would like join me. Next year we will have early and late hour passes for Tulip Town. This coupled with Dave's contacts at Washington Bulb will make for a great event.
This shot:
Nikon D2X
105mm Macro VR F2.8G
1/60 f22
A little push in green saturation and a slight temp change.
Posted by Randy Hanna on April 10, 2006 at 1:08 PM
Folks: Sorry for the pix size. I got the dimentions all wrong. I'll do better next time.
Randy,
Nice shot and processing. It looks like there might be alot of CA in those trees. I'm looking forward to seeing more. BTW, fyi 640(longest side)x480 is the max size for posting. Pano's are 720x360. We'll let it slide it this time.
Posted by Tim Goodspeed on April 10, 2006 at 6:29 PM
Randy, welcome to NPN. I like this image. The field looks full to me. I like the few open areas in the foreground.
Wow the field looks almost full :) welcome to the forum.
Posted by Tom Guffey on April 10, 2006 at 10:55 PM
Randy,
Welcome! Nice shot in the fields, even if the weather and the lack of color worked against you. I looked at this, and there's a second shot in there. Do a little CW rotation, and crop down to almost the top of the barn -then crop up from the bottom, to about the middle of the field -into a panoramic! IMHO
Posted by Randy Hanna on April 11, 2006 at 1:50 AM
Thanks Tom. It is all about learning to LOOK.......which I am always learning.
Posted by Mark Hudon on April 11, 2006 at 11:29 AM
I'm not much for tulip shots, Randy, but I like this one. I like Tom's crop idea but I wouldn't crop out all the green in the foreground to make it totally tulips.
Discussion
7 repliesAfter three days of wet wet wet weather, I was granted about 4 hours of sun on Friday am. This shot was one of the few keepers out of that sunny window. With something like 25-35% of the tulips fully open I had to work hard to generate the feeling of a full field. Using a lower profile was the only way I could keep from showing all of the bare spots. Having looked at this shot for several hours, I think a tighter crop at the bottom and slightly on the left side would work wonders, but I wanted to get something out there so others could comment on my processing.
Saturday, I met up with Dave Forster and shot with him and two other folks from the Pacific Northwest Nature Photographers group - great people. Thanks to Dave for getting this together. I will be shooting the Skagit area again next weekend if anyone would like join me. Next year we will have early and late hour passes for Tulip Town. This coupled with Dave's contacts at Washington Bulb will make for a great event.
This shot:
Nikon D2X
105mm Macro VR F2.8G
1/60 f22
A little push in green saturation and a slight temp change.
Nice shot and processing. It looks like there might be alot of CA in those trees. I'm looking forward to seeing more. BTW, fyi 640(longest side)x480 is the max size for posting. Pano's are 720x360. We'll let it slide it this time.
Welcome! Nice shot in the fields, even if the weather and the lack of color worked against you. I looked at this, and there's a second shot in there. Do a little CW rotation, and crop down to almost the top of the barn -then crop up from the bottom, to about the middle of the field -into a panoramic! IMHO