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Jan 12, 2019 14:38:57   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
SpikeW wrote:
Linda from Maine
Its funny how I have come to notice the horizon level line in photographs. I think this is an UHH thing that I look for first. I don't say this is right but it has grown on me. I noticed what first appeared as a tilted horizon line then I noticed the tree and the mountain, both straight. I guess sometimes it needs more that first glance. Nice
Hi Spike, are you talking about my first photo, posted on page 1? Or someone else's? We're up to nine pages in this thread

I do know what you mean about little niggling irritations such as sloping horizon lines!

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Jan 12, 2019 16:34:19   #
RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thanks for your further information, Richard. If you're curious, here are the two:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-572855-1.html
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-572750-1.html

FYI - I only followed for about 3 minutes


Thanks

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Jan 12, 2019 17:45:53   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
MinnieV and I will be co-hosting this thread. She is responsible for first introducing me to the joys of textures

Please share one of your favorite "heavily processed" landscapes and talk a bit about your vision and how you created the result.

Many thanks for your participation!

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Here's one to start. I changed the reality (photo #2) from warm sunrise to explore more mysterious and moody. Is there a sense that this is nighttime and moonlit?

In my raw editor I changed white balance to custom and this faded blue. In Nik Color Efex I used several filters in varying modes and strengths: contrast color, low key, duplex. I created bottom half of sun (which is obscured by a ridge line in original), added a great blue heron from another photo (they are very common in the pastures catching rodents the cattle stir up). Final touches included some softening and cloning of fog and lessening of background details.
MinnieV and I will be co-hosting this thread. She ... (show quote)



I have a few other examples of "altered" landscapes. I'm starting with this one because it is not that far from what I saw on scene. I did enhance the colors in the sky and the lake with the use of the color sliders in LR. I chose not to pull any detail from the trees. There was no detail to the naked eye at that hour of the day. (about fifteen minutes before sunrise). One of the things I love about digital processing is how easy it can be to enhance what we saw without changing the essential qualities that attract us to the scene in the first place.
Erich


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Jan 12, 2019 17:53:43   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
ebrunner wrote:
I have a few other examples of "altered" landscapes. I'm starting with this one because it is not that far from what I saw on scene. I did enhance the colors in the sky and the lake with the use of the color sliders in LR. I chose not to pull any detail from the trees. There was no detail to the naked eye at that hour of the day. (about fifteen minutes before sunrise). One of the things I love about digital processing is how easy it can be to enhance what we saw without changing the essential qualities that attract us to the scene in the first place.
Erich
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Thanks so much for this glimpse of an exquisite time of day many sleep right through Very lovely work, Erich.

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Jan 12, 2019 18:34:04   #
gsmith051 Loc: Fairfield Glade, TN
 
Very nice photo Erich. My favorite time of day for getting out and watching the day come alive. Thanks

George

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Jan 12, 2019 18:35:36   #
RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia
 
ebrunner wrote:
I have a few other examples of "altered" landscapes. I'm starting with this one because it is not that far from what I saw on scene. I did enhance the colors in the sky and the lake with the use of the color sliders in LR. I chose not to pull any detail from the trees. There was no detail to the naked eye at that hour of the day. (about fifteen minutes before sunrise). One of the things I love about digital processing is how easy it can be to enhance what we saw without changing the essential qualities that attract us to the scene in the first place.
Erich
I have a few other examples of "altered"... (show quote)


+1 for very nice.

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Jan 12, 2019 18:49:18   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
MinnieV and I will be co-hosting this thread. She is responsible for first introducing me to the joys of textures

Please share one of your favorite "heavily processed" landscapes and talk a bit about your vision and how you created the result.

Many thanks for your participation!

--

Here's one to start. I changed the reality (photo #2) from warm sunrise to explore more mysterious and moody. Is there a sense that this is nighttime and moonlit?

In my raw editor I changed white balance to custom and this faded blue. In Nik Color Efex I used several filters in varying modes and strengths: contrast color, low key, duplex. I created bottom half of sun (which is obscured by a ridge line in original), added a great blue heron from another photo (they are very common in the pastures catching rodents the cattle stir up). Final touches included some softening and cloning of fog and lessening of background details.
MinnieV and I will be co-hosting this thread. She ... (show quote)


One of the things that I've been working on lately is long exposure landscapes. I use 4,6, and 10 stop ND filters. Added to that, I often go out early in the morning before the light is very strong. So these exposures can vary go from 30 seconds to over 5 minutes. I use an external times that plugs into my camera to allow accurate bulb exposures longer than 30 seconds which is the max my camera can do by itself. The first shot is a black and white conversion. I like how the sea and the sky merge. The second shot is a long exposure using ND filters. The exposure time was rather long so that the surf in the ocean would be flattened which give the water an interesting look and creates some "mist" where the waves were crashing on the rocks.
Erich


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Jan 12, 2019 18:53:06   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
ebrunner wrote:
One of the things that I've been working on lately is long exposure landscapes. I use 4,6, and 10 stop ND filters. Added to that, I often go out early in the morning before the light is very strong. So these exposures can vary go from 30 seconds to over 5 minutes. I use an external times that plugs into my camera to allow accurate bulb exposures longer than 30 seconds which is the max my camera can do by itself. The first shot is a black and white conversion. I like how the sea and the sky merge. The second shot is a long exposure using ND filters. The exposure time was rather long so that the surf in the ocean would be flattened which give the water an interesting look and creates some "mist" where the waves were crashing on the rocks.
One of the things that I've been working on lately... (show quote)
Though this thread was created to share pp editing ideas, I'm grateful you posted these stunning long exposures, Erich. I'm trying to not make a joke about whether they would be considered SOOC You have really found your signature look. Inspiring work!

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Jan 12, 2019 19:25:31   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thanks so much for this glimpse of an exquisite time of day many sleep right through Very lovely work, Erich.


Thank you, Linda. It really was a wonderful place and time to be there. Having the camera with me made it that much better.
Erich

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Jan 12, 2019 19:26:00   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
gsmith051 wrote:
Very nice photo Erich. My favorite time of day for getting out and watching the day come alive. Thanks

George


I'm with you about the time of day.
Erich

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Jan 12, 2019 19:26:27   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
RichardTaylor wrote:
+1 for very nice.


Thanks, Richard. Glad you liked it.
Erich

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Jan 12, 2019 19:30:37   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
Though this thread was created to share pp editing ideas, I'm grateful you posted these stunning long exposures, Erich. I'm trying to not make a joke about whether they would be considered SOOC You have really found your signature look. Inspiring work!


These images are definitely not SOOC. Especially the black and white conversion was highly manipulated in post. The long exposure effect is done in camera, of course; but that really is just the beginning. I'm working on finding other locations besides the beach that will make this technique work. Fast moving clouds would be one idea. I'm sure that kind of photo would require a lot of work with post processing. I'll keep looking to see if I can come up with some other ideas that fit the thread more specifically.
Erich

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Jan 12, 2019 19:41:42   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
ebrunner wrote:
These images are definitely not SOOC.
I can see I'd better abandon my dream of becoming a stand-up comic Regarding clouds, earlier in this thread is a different kind of cloud motion idea, if you're curious: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-573142-4.html#9765514

Thank you again, Erich. Greatly appreciate your time and inspiring talent!

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Jan 12, 2019 19:53:47   #
ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
Hi Spike, are you talking about my first photo, posted on page 1? Or someone else's? We're up to nine pages in this thread

I do know what you mean about little niggling irritations such as sloping horizon lines!


This might be more of what you are looking for. I took this photo on a cloudy, misty morning. I knew that there was little of interest in the actual landscape, so the sky over the landscape became the whole show. I changed the color saturation and then added contrast so that the clouds would stand out. It looks like a composite; but it is not.


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Jan 12, 2019 19:57:35   #
RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia
 
ebrunner wrote:
One of the things that I've been working on lately is long exposure landscapes. I use 4,6, and 10 stop ND filters. Added to that, I often go out early in the morning before the light is very strong. So these exposures can vary go from 30 seconds to over 5 minutes. I use an external times that plugs into my camera to allow accurate bulb exposures longer than 30 seconds which is the max my camera can do by itself. The first shot is a black and white conversion. I like how the sea and the sky merge. The second shot is a long exposure using ND filters. The exposure time was rather long so that the surf in the ocean would be flattened which give the water an interesting look and creates some "mist" where the waves were crashing on the rocks.
Erich
One of the things that I've been working on lately... (show quote)


I like the ethereal nature of these.

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