Sunday Morning Sunrise: May I ask for another honest CC. This three-shot pan from the day before Untitled No.1.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

May I ask for another honest CC. This three-shot pan from the day before Untitled No.1.

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Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

Well done. Just a touch of blown areas in the sun but not a deal breaker. Can't decide if I'd like more shadow detail or not.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Frank2013 wrote:

Well done. Just a touch of blown areas in the sun but not a deal breaker. Can't decide if I'd like more shadow detail or not.

Thank you Frank. If you like houses you may like more shadow detail. ;-)

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

For me, the posts in the water detract from the image - a barrier to feeling part of the gorgeous scenery and moment.

I might crop a bit from the right to keep the interest in the color and also to be able to see the tree silhouettes more easily.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Linda From Maine wrote:

For me, the posts in the water detract from the image - a barrier to feeling part of the gorgeous scenery and moment.

I might crop a bit from the right to keep the interest in the color and also to be able to see the tree silhouettes more easily.

I agree, the piles will be gone. The docks they anchored were removed several years ago anyway. :) And the mountain is not very noticeable either. Brings it down to a two-shot pan.

OK, couldn't bring myself to remove the mountain - just cropped a little.

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Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

neilds37 wrote:

May I ask for another honest CC. This three-shot pan from the day before Untitled No.1.

I call that a beautifully accomplished panorama with skillful handling of the dynamic range and spectrum! Beautiful hues.
My only suggestion, the next time the opportunity arises for a repeat at that site, try a lower camera perspective to assure that the vertical poles break the horizon and carry into the sky...it would tie your horizontally divided distance zones together nicely.

As is, a lovely scene!

Dave

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Uuglypher wrote:

I call that a beautifully accomplished panorama with skillful handling of the dynamic range and spectrum! Beautiful hues.
My only suggestion, the next time the opportunity arises for a repeat at that site, try a lower camera perspective to assure that the vertical poles break the horizon and carry into the sky...it would tie your horizontally divided distance zones together nicely.

As is, a lovely scene!

Dave

Thanks for the kind words Dave. The only way to get a lower camera angle would be from a boat. I was over halfway out on City Pier at the time. Also, if you scroll down is a modified pan. I took out the piles and cropped some off the right side. It does leave quite a large expanse of water, and a crop up would take off some of the major reflection. I could put a moored sailboat in there (where it was when I took its photo back in the Minolta Z1 days.). May have a lighting conflict tho.

photosbytw Loc: Blue Ridge Mountains

I would have left the pole but would have moved to the right trying to match up the poles with the sunset........

neilds37 wrote:

May I ask for another honest CC. This three-shot pan from the day before Untitled No.1.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Its all down to personal taste here. To my mind its needs no more detail in the shadows. Would not improve the image.
The posts are what makes it different from the other zillion sunset photos around. Its foreground detail giving interest to a pleasant but not spectacular sky.
Would be nice if they were higher and can be done in PP but it aint easy!
Nice handling of the situation I thought.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Billyspad wrote:

Its all down to personal taste here. To my mind its needs no more detail in the shadows. Would not improve the image.
The posts are what makes it different from the other zillion sunset photos around. Its foreground detail giving interest to a pleasant but not spectacular sky.
Would be nice if they were higher and can be done in PP but it aint easy!
Nice handling of the situation I thought.

Thank you Billy. No problem making the piles taller - select, copy, paste, slide them up. Not sure how they would affect the scene, but it won't cost anything to try. Personally I'm with Linda, and don't find them particularly attractive. If they still had docks attached to them they would make sense, but as you say they do fill a large void of water.

Chuck_893 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

neilds37 wrote:

I agree, the piles will be gone. The docks they anchored were removed several years ago anyway. :) And the mountain is not very noticeable either. Brings it down to a two-shot pan.

OK, couldn't bring myself to remove the mountain - just cropped a little.

Losing the pilings is good. Keeping the mountain is great. I think you are on the right track, but I prefer Linda's crop. I'm just a little bothered by the land splitting the frame right down the middle, and I'd rather lose a little water than any of the sky. I realize that's kind of a rules thing, but I think it works better. I'm inclined to think that symmetry works best with a symmetrical subject. :-)

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Chuck_893 wrote:

Losing the pilings is good. Keeping the mountain is great. I think you are on the right track, but I prefer Linda's crop. I'm just a little bothered by the land splitting the frame right down the middle, and I'd rather lose a little water than any of the sky. I realize that's kind of a rules thing, but I think it works better. I'm inclined to think that symmetry works best with a symmetrical subject. :-)

With the pilings gone I completely agree with you Chuck. The equal splitting doesn't bother me, but the space of empty water does. Just hate to lose that sky reflection at bottom left. I'm getting a table full of 8 x 10's of three different shots that I'm trying to reduce down to one each for the album. Mostly minor variations between them.