Nature Photographers Network
This is the preserved archive of the original Nature Photographers Network. The community continues at naturephotographers.network.
Forums · PNWNP

The Ponderosa/Pine REPOST***

Discussion

21 replies
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 9, 2006 at 2:27 AM
Taken yesterday while out shooting around Bend and Sisters.
Posted by Mahesh Thapa on May 9, 2006 at 2:45 AM
Nice shot, man! I love the contrast of the bark and the green pines. Lovely study in composition, texture, and justapositioning as well. :)
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on May 9, 2006 at 2:48 AM
I'm with Mahesh - the rich colors here are the major part of it for me but the comp is overall well done, Rick!
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 9, 2006 at 10:00 AM
Rick, buddy, this is sweet!
Posted by Curtis Knight on May 9, 2006 at 10:23 AM
This even looks nice on my crappy flat panel! :toast:
Posted by eric lee on May 9, 2006 at 11:10 AM
What everybody else said. I'd love to see a print of this.
Posted by Ned Fenimore on May 9, 2006 at 3:30 PM
Really nice, Rick - I like the warm feeling as well as the composition. What a trip, huh?! :biggrin:
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 9, 2006 at 3:46 PM
It was a great trip! Sure wish the other roads were open though...
Posted by Harald Rust on May 9, 2006 at 3:47 PM
Beautiful peaceful image and pleasing colors.
Harald
Posted by Erik Lundh on May 10, 2006 at 1:31 AM
Rick,
The contrast between the trunk and the green tree is really nice. One of the better comps of the ponderosa trunks I have seen.
Posted by John Lehmkuhl on May 10, 2006 at 2:37 AM
Really nice and worth the trip (I hope).... bummer gas prices are so high..... what road did you want to have open? Snow kept it closed ?
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 10, 2006 at 1:03 PM
Rick, is this a bit too yellow?
Posted by Elizabeth Kimes on May 10, 2006 at 1:05 PM
I like the way the branches are embracing the tree, excellent title :cool:
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 10, 2006 at 1:40 PM
Well...I did green it up a tad. Pushing it any more made it look wierd to me. Maybe 1% more is the ticket though.
Thanks for all the comments! :wavey:
Posted by Ned Fenimore on May 10, 2006 at 2:31 PM
Rick - I like it as is, but you might want to try a different white balance setting in RAW. I know that you were shooting cloudy as the conditions suggested, but that may help with the overall yellow look. Just a thought of course.. :smile:
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 10, 2006 at 2:40 PM
I pretty much always use the Auto color balance in ACR. It seems to do a better job than the camera does.
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 10, 2006 at 3:26 PM
I used to shoot AWB all the time...but found my colors to be richer when I used cloudyWB, but especially shooting at the coast. Eric Hahl and my bro were the ones who suggested it, and it seems like that did a decent job.
There's always the argument that making your adjustments in the camera makes for cleaner pixels sometimes (not needing to manipulate as much after the fact)...but I'm no expert and have done no specific testing on this myself. Me, I'm just a hack :jump:
I will go to my saved file and adjust the warmth down a tad...I think it would look better that way. Thanks for the suggestions!
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 10, 2006 at 4:10 PM
Straight Cloudy, no + or - adjustment?
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 10, 2006 at 5:34 PM
The camera setting was straight cloudy...of course, I worked it in lab...mostly for basic color adjustments and sharpening. I also changed the yellow sat a little, but did it with a slight hue adjustment along with the yellow, to bring out more green in the needles.
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 10, 2006 at 6:20 PM
Actually, you could photo with the WB on i.e., fluorescent and then if you changed it to Auto in ACR, there would be no photo degradation. ACR is pretty much your photo manipulation free pass.
Posted by Rick Lundh on May 10, 2006 at 11:57 PM
too green?
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 11, 2006 at 12:11 AM
Hard to see much difference but I like the second one better.