First Sunsets of Fall

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Christena

Christena

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yeah it's Fish Lake again but this place doesn't disappoint and I love the challenge of finding new ways of shooting the Lake.

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really like # 1 & 2, but i think i'd be tempted to crop away a lot of the black foreground, maybe up to the bottom of the canoe. the rest doesn't add anything to the photo, and these'd look great in a horizontal orientation... that or try to bring out a bit of detail from the foreground. i pulled the second one down and gave it a 30-second tweak with ReDynaMix, and it really adds to the image... not a lot of detail in the foreground, but not just black, either... if you like, i'll post it
 
squirl033 said:
really like # 1 & 2, but i think i'd be tempted to crop away a lot of the black foreground, maybe up to the bottom of the canoe. the rest doesn't add anything to the photo, and these'd look great in a horizontal orientation... that or try to bring out a bit of detail from the foreground. i pulled the second one down and gave it a 30-second tweak with ReDynaMix, and it really adds to the image... not a lot of detail in the foreground, but not just black, either... if you like, i'll post it
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Yes!! I would love to see them :) I see your point about too much foreground in the first one...maybe it's a difference in monitors but on mine there are a lot of great subtle colors that show off the rocks on mine in the second one....I'm going to make some prints of these so I know for sure....I do need glasses so maybe I'm not seeing things right, so I'm glad I'm not getting any "out of focus" comments ;)
 
I especially like how you have chosen to include either the canoe or the gnarled wood.
 
Thanks Ron and Janice :) I try to find something interesting on the shore so it's not the typical sunset shot.
 
Christena said:
Where are ya Squirl ? :/
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sorry... gone all day yesterday to the coast, didn't get back till midnite... here's the edit i did to bring out some detail in the foreground... basically just a quick pass through ReDynaMix, and a touch of noise reduction... tell me what you think!

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Christena said:
Yes!! I would love to see them :) I see your point about too much foreground in the first one...maybe it's a difference in monitors but on mine there are a lot of great subtle colors that show off the rocks on mine in the second one....I'm going to make some prints of these so I know for sure....I do need glasses so maybe I'm not seeing things right, so I'm glad I'm not getting any "out of focus" comments ;)
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if you're using an LCD monitor, they tend to display things brighter than they actually are, and the brightness is very dependent on the viewing angle. on my calibrated CRT, the second shot had almost no detail visible at all...
 
squirl033 said:
sorry... gone all day yesterday to the coast, didn't get back till midnite... here's the edit i did to bring out some detail in the foreground... basically just a quick pass through ReDynaMix, and a touch of noise reduction... tell me what you think!

FishLakeFall2011049ps_filtered.jpg
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PRETTY!!!! :) Is ReDynaMix a free download? I love how the lighting is brought out in the rocks.
 
Christena said:
PRETTY!!!! :) Is ReDynaMix a free download? I love how the lighting is brought out in the rocks.
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Christena.

it's $16 from MediaChance software. it's a plug-in for photoshop, and i find i use it a lot for tweaking images that need just a bit of help. it can produce much the same effect as a full HDR conversion, but with only one image - no need for bracketed exposures. it can be a bit tricky - sometimes it pulls out a lot of noise - but with a bit of practice, it can produce really nice results.
 
squirl033 said:
Christena.

it's $16 from MediaChance software. it's a plug-in for photoshop, and i find i use it a lot for tweaking images that need just a bit of help. it can produce much the same effect as a full HDR conversion, but with only one image - no need for bracketed exposures. it can be a bit tricky - sometimes it pulls out a lot of noise - but with a bit of practice, it can produce really nice results.
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Do I order online or can I buy it at a store?
 
I really like 5, looks like you thought out the drift wood in just the right place and centered the mountain top in the "driftwood frame" great shooting!
 
I need to get this bit of software. Both Rocky and Bob mentioned it a while back and I forgot all about it. It looks great!!

Ron
 
Snuffy2 said:
I really like 5, looks like you thought out the drift wood in just the right place and centered the mountain top in the "driftwood frame" great shooting!
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Thank you!!! and yep...planned my angles ahead of time. Usually that overturned stump is in the water but the lake and dropped so I was able to walk right up to it..
 
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