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South Island Gateway
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:48 amby MHD
I'm not overwhelmingly happy with this image... while it is pretty, what I saw with my eye was stunning... but also stunningly difficult to capture
The pretty little port town on Picton in the Queen Charlotte sounds
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:50 amby atencati
Did you use a circ pol for this shot, or any other filers? It doesn't look overexposed, just a lot of extra light.
Andy
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:50 amby sirhc55
MHD - I really like this shot as it has shades of a Japanese type print to it. It would be a great shot to do some heavy PP especially with colours - keep them coming
Chris
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:55 amby MHD
no filters... CP would have been useless as the angle of the sun was such that the sky would not have been polarised...
most of the light is scattered "god rays"...
yes I love the layered hills effect in this image and it will be the subject of some playing around...
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:56 amby Nicole
I can sympathise as I had the same sorts of problems. I was thinking about a graduated ND filter. That way the foreground details are retained.
It looks very quiet and peaceful.
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:45 pmby MHD
Yes you are right! A grad ND filter would have worked great in this situation!
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:28 pmby dooda
Man this looks a lot like the Sea to Sky Corridor! I'll have to post some pics to show!
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:04 pmby beetleboy
RE the ND Grad..you could also try taking two exposures in exactly the same spot (assuming you used a tripod) and expose one for the landscape and one for the sky then combine afterwards. I've seen this technique work really well. On the other hand, if you have that shot as a NEF you could get a similar result by processing the NEF twice, once for land, once for sky and then combine.
Liam =]
PS - I'm always telling my old man to use this trick but can never remember to do it myself when I'm out and about!!
Posted:
Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:13 pmby MHD
Main problem: It was taken from a moving boat
But I know what you are talking about...
Shooting NEF only gives you an extra stop either way...
Posted:
Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:41 pmby christiand
Hi MHD
I would crop this picture in such a way that the water only makes up about a third of the bottom part. The line between water and land at the moment runs almost through the middle.
I would also give it a stab with levels in photoshop.
Regards
Christiand
Posted:
Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:29 pmby MHD
Not a neat and in the middle fan
I have one that more closely obeys rules of thirds.... But the sky was quite plain...
Posted:
Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:37 pmby christiand
another thought,
crop it in such a way that the sky (land and sky) is only taking up a third of the photo and the water becomes dominant.
what do you think ?
Cherrs
CD