Wyoming Sage Brush (my first post)
May 21, 2020 17:01:45 #
This was taken not at the ideal time of day, midday but the muted colors so capture the sage brush around here. Shot with Fujifilm X-T2 and 56mm. Always open to critical feedback
May 21, 2020 17:14:43 #
May 21, 2020 17:26:13 #
May 21, 2020 17:38:41 #
mqo wrote:
This was taken not at the ideal time of day, midday but the muted colors so capture the sage brush around here. Shot with Fujifilm X-T2 and 56mm. Always open to critical feedback
The back round is very distracting ! - you could: use the clone stamp to darken the high lights.....
OR, you could get low and try to put as much of the sky as possible as a back round
OR, you could get high and shoot more downward - putting more of the "natural" back round in the view.
I would also crop out the tilted horizon line ....
May 21, 2020 17:49:22 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
I'm sorry but that doesn't look like sage brush to me. Maybe I have just not seen one before that looks like that.
May 21, 2020 18:17:29 #
mqo wrote:
This was taken not at the ideal time of day, midday but the muted colors so capture the sage brush around here. Shot with Fujifilm X-T2 and 56mm. Always open to critical feedback
Welcome to UHH. Hello from San Diego.
May 21, 2020 18:17:52 #
Bigmike1 wrote:
I'm sorry but that doesn't look like sage brush to me. Maybe I have just not seen one before that looks like that.
Mountain big sagebrush - or Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana - is a sub-species of big sagebrush that is found in primarily at higher elevation and colder, drier sites between the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades and Sierra Nevada.
May 21, 2020 18:51:54 #
mqo wrote:
This was taken not at the ideal time of day, midday but the muted colors so capture the sage brush around here. Shot with Fujifilm X-T2 and 56mm. Always open to critical feedback
There's a lot that's actually in that photo. Keep studying post processing and you'll start to get it. Here's what I found in it. Keep working!
May 21, 2020 19:04:37 #
Welcome. If you would like to keep the muted colors I would say use a blur filter on the background to make it less intrusive. I like the composition.
May 21, 2020 21:37:03 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
DanielB wrote:
Mountain big sagebrush - or Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana - is a sub-species of big sagebrush that is found in primarily at higher elevation and colder, drier sites between the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades and Sierra Nevada.
Thanks for the update. I wasn't aware that that there were different species of sage brush.
May 22, 2020 03:45:57 #
May 22, 2020 09:17:11 #
Wow, a few folks went off on your sage. Muted color IS the color. I can smell it so I know you got it right.
May 22, 2020 09:58:39 #
May 22, 2020 10:59:03 #
brucebc
Loc: Tooele, Utah
Bigmike1 wrote:
I'm sorry but that doesn't look like sage brush to me. Maybe I have just not seen one before that looks like that.
I grew up on a ranch in Wyoming and saw lots of sage brush just like this. Good soil and water and it will grow 6 or so feet tall and be 3 to 5 inches trunk diameter.
May 22, 2020 11:46:55 #
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