Thanks Kyle, and I did not see those twigs lower right, easy to do. This is like 200 miles from home, so not real easy.
Cainville Butte. Like some critique
- Thread starter Ben Egbert
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Very nice work Ben! It's great that you were able to take a few suggestions and ideas and tweak your photo in a pleasing way.
One thing I don't think I mentioned in the beginning is I like how you composed this scene. Balancing the large brush with the Butte like that is very effective.
One thing I don't think I mentioned in the beginning is I like how you composed this scene. Balancing the large brush with the Butte like that is very effective.
AlanLichty
Moderator
The rework looks much nicer.
Thnaks Guys, I think I will post more for critique in the comming weeks. This has been great.
Jim, I wanted that bush, but man, I had a lot of junk to remove first.
Jim, I wanted that bush, but man, I had a lot of junk to remove first.
Great idea Ben!
rfkiii
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Hi Ben. After reading some of the comments regarding the over-sharpening of the bush, I looked at my own version (Ben and I were standing side by side for this shot). At zero sharpening (I use deconvolution sharpening in ACR only), the bush still "looks" over-sharpened. Have you taken into account how strong that wind was that day? Even though I had a 1/400 SS, I don't think I was able to stop action on this one. I'm going to let the image stand on my Flickr account because other than the dag-nabbit bush, I like the contents of the scene. Here's an alternative crop I was considering but I decided "naw".
AlanLichty
Moderator
This looks more like what my eyes expect to see with this scene.
Looks much better Rick, I could have simply moved in front of that bush and should have. This is looking good and thanks for showing it.
Douglas Sherman
Staff
All of you guys have reworked his scene into a pretty nice image because all of you are wonderful processers. But I think this illustrates the difficulty of overcoming many of the problems of shooting this scene at midday instead of early morning when the light is considerably better. I am not trying to one up anyone here but I thought you might like to see this scene (from a different perspective) as an early morning image. You would still have to work on the twigs and the tracks but the lighting would eliminate most of the other problems.
Ah the magic of clouds at dawn
rfkiii
Well-Known Member
Can't speak for Ben but I was going for that David Muench look except I picked an ugly bush to do it with.
rfkiii
Well-Known Member
Hi Douglas. My problem being that I still work and I live a long ways from my photographic interests. I have 3 weeks a year to shoot the desert Southwest and I get 5-6 sunrises per trip. If I lived in the SLC area like Ben, I'd be in a National Park or something photogenic every weekend. 