Bombo Quarry

[dervish16]

Went to Bombo Quarry this morning for a sunrise and at first the sunrise was poor but got better later on once the sun got through the lower clouds. I started off by using my ND Grads but was too hard to hide the grad line and wanted to try something different, so took two images with a difference of 4 stops of light between them and blended them in photoshop. It took ages to blend becuase of the sudden step in light and did my best to hide it but I know it is still visable. Which one do you prefer out of the two? They are pretty similar just taken at different times and one has a wider crop.



Camera - Nikon D90
Exposure - Varied
Aperture - f/10.0
Focal Length - 11 mm
ISO Speed - 100



Camera - Nikon D90
Exposure - Varied
Aperture - f/10.0
Focal Length - 11 mm
ISO Speed - 100

[BBJ]

Chris, i like them both and well done but i do like the 2nd with the sun and it's rays and the water on the 1st is bit more distracting for me but love #2, well done.

Cheers
BBJ

[zafra52]

I also like both of them, but I prefer the second. It has
more vibrant colours.

[surenj]

Hi Chris, Kudos for getting there at an early hour.

While these are overall ok, I think the lack of detail in the cliff (which occupies a significant amount of realestate) detracts from the overall feel somewhat. If you look at the left upper of the images you will see what I mean. #1 suffers worst in this regard.

Nice timing of the sun in #2.

[aim54x]

I find enough detail in those cliff faces, any more and you will be bordering towards that overcooked HDR/CGI look.

The main question for you Chris is if you are happy with the images? Do these portray what you want to portray?

I love the sun and the rays of light in #2, but I do like the foreground and motion in #1....

[surenj]

My apologies! I believe my monitor must be packing it in. I do see enough detail with a friend's monitor!!

[aim54x]

My apologies! I believe my monitor must be packing it in. I do see enough detail with a friend's monitor!!

Hope it isnt a monitor that you have only had for a short while. I was wondering why you were saying things were dark on a few different images.

[surenj]

Hope it isnt a monitor that you have only had for a short while

No. it's about 4 years old. my calibrator doesn't do brightness, just color. I find that if I turn it up too high, then prints appear quite dark...

[PiroStitch]

The second one is stronger out of the two, the first feels a bit too dark.

[aim54x]

Hope it isnt a monitor that you have only had for a short while

No. it's about 4 years old. my calibrator doesn't do brightness, just color. I find that if I turn it up too high, then prints appear quite dark...

Well now you have a good excuse to get something new....I thought you were using a Spyder 3.....they do an ambient light reading and calibrate for display brightness as well (unless the express version misses out on that...I can never remember)

[dervish16]

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you everyone for you kind words. I agree with you all that image #2 is better overall as it has a better exposure, more interest and vibrance.

That's not good that your monitors brightness is out surenj. My laptop screen is completely different to my monitor which is really annoying but I have checked and my monitors colours and brightness isn't too bad so I always edit on my monitor.