Blue Mountains Sunrise Shoot.

[Mr Darcy]

Here are a couple from this morning.
The weather was not kind to photography (it was kind to humans though)
Overcast skies kept the colour at bay, and while the soft lighting would have been appropriate to glamour photography, it was not good for landscape

Andrew kept saying. "Sunlight... Not there I want you over here". He was hoping to get the Sisters bathed in morning light and thrown into sharp relief against the escarpment and clouds behind. This is where the sun WAS shining, just to far away to do any of us much good:


Sunrise as good as it got. I pushed the colours as far as I dared:


and for comparison, a similar view last June. The tree is the same one as in the previous shot, though the angle and distance are different.This is cropped, but otherwise OOC:


I should have taken a photo of the Brekkie Pie, but I was too busy eating it

[gstark]

I like the clouds in the valley in the first of these.

I hope that they're clouds.

I should have taken a photo of the Brekkie Pie, but I was too busy eating it

You may still have another shot at it.

On second thoughts .....

[ATJ]

Greg, I think you have captured the light better in the first shot that I did. You did manage to get some good colour in the second shot.

[surenj]

I like the first one Greg, and I think you can even get more foreground detail by doing a spot of HDR and blending it in. Also try HDR (full effect) and convert to BW then blend.

[Killakoala]

I agree that it's not the best conditions for shooting landscapes. But considering what you did manage to take, I think you have done well. A bit more tweaking with contrast will make them pop out of the screen though.

[surenj]

Greg, I've had another look with my desktop and it looks much better. After playing around the small jpeg, there is much potential in this one. Love that smokey ?mist or cloud in the valley.

[aim54x]

Great to see your images up so quickly...I am just about to have a peek at mine and hope that I have something worth posting.

I did have a great time, thanks for organising. PS that Breakie Pie was quite good..shame none of us thought to take a snap of one

[biggerry]

looks liek a hard day at the office

I am gonna go with surenj here, I think the HDR option might have been worthwhile pursuing on the day, however hindsight from behind the LCD is an easy thing.

After seeign Andrew's images, I think your first needs the same pan style crop to remove all that dead space at the bottom and concentrate on the sunny goodness and the misty valley.

[surenj]

same pan style crop to remove all that dead space

With a spot of HDR, this dead space comes alive!