Mesa Light T[h]ree
Nov 10, 2020 07:33:28 #
Cany143 wrote:
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Fantastic!!!! Beautiful
Nov 10, 2020 08:18:53 #
Hi Jim,
I always look forward to your photos and they never disappoint. Excellent! Take care & ...
I always look forward to your photos and they never disappoint. Excellent! Take care & ...
Nov 10, 2020 09:34:28 #
I have enjoyed your series tremendously and just wanted to say thanks for sharing your very professional shots along with a great commentary. Looking forward to the next series!
Nov 10, 2020 09:48:40 #
I've looked at all of these. I think the framing on this one is the best. On my computer they all look a bit dark. Is that intentional?
Nov 10, 2020 10:42:04 #
Cany143 wrote:
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I like how you framed the scene with that dead tree.
Nov 10, 2020 10:58:19 #
Nov 10, 2020 11:39:35 #
Nov 10, 2020 13:09:48 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Your positive comments have pleased me greatly, folks, thanks for taking the time and making the effort. Thank you.
When I got home and downloaded the several Gb's of images I'd shot in the space of a few hours, I was pleased to see I'd seen/shot the sort of stuff that makes me want to use a camera, or a brush, or nothing more than my eyes and my being in the places I went. Storm clouds had been building throughout the day. By late afternoon, conditions and circumstances coincided, but there was no way to know whether my expectations would materialize. But I knew that if I didn't go --in particular, to places graced with sufficient elevation to see above and beyond the confines of this valley, I'd never know for sure, and never find out.
There've been a couple of comments about the seeming 'darkness' of this image (and/or others) in this three post series; this I'd like to address. Naturalistically, for all but a few fleeting instances when the sun would break through a space in the western sky, it was simply dark. But it wasn't just cloud dark shady, it was that ominous sort of dark, like the soul-sucking dark that occurs only under black and threatening skies. It wasn't an Ansel Adams dark; rather, it was more a Biblical dark. And though I know far more about the former than I do the latter of these, I recognize the difference between the two. Photographically, if I'd shot intended only for SOOC, there'd have been no contrast, and everything in my immediate surroundings --with the exception, at times, of unfiltered light in places far off-- would've been uninteresting murk. But I don't shoot to try to recreate reality. If I did that, I wouldn't bother with cameras or lenses or software; I'd just go and see, and experience or enjoy --or disregard as a result of being somehow otherwise distracted-- whatever the time and place(s) presented. But when I have a camera in hand, I have no distractions. Other, that is, than those commonplace distractions (exposure, composition, etc.) that either rise to the surface or lie hidden in the memory of all that's come before. Training, experience, perception, experience, education, experience, and whatever other predilections I might visually have.
In retrospect, having now had some space in time to think about it –as the English poet Wordsworth put it, ‘memory reflected in tranquility’—I’d have titled the image in this post:
Laocoön
When I got home and downloaded the several Gb's of images I'd shot in the space of a few hours, I was pleased to see I'd seen/shot the sort of stuff that makes me want to use a camera, or a brush, or nothing more than my eyes and my being in the places I went. Storm clouds had been building throughout the day. By late afternoon, conditions and circumstances coincided, but there was no way to know whether my expectations would materialize. But I knew that if I didn't go --in particular, to places graced with sufficient elevation to see above and beyond the confines of this valley, I'd never know for sure, and never find out.
There've been a couple of comments about the seeming 'darkness' of this image (and/or others) in this three post series; this I'd like to address. Naturalistically, for all but a few fleeting instances when the sun would break through a space in the western sky, it was simply dark. But it wasn't just cloud dark shady, it was that ominous sort of dark, like the soul-sucking dark that occurs only under black and threatening skies. It wasn't an Ansel Adams dark; rather, it was more a Biblical dark. And though I know far more about the former than I do the latter of these, I recognize the difference between the two. Photographically, if I'd shot intended only for SOOC, there'd have been no contrast, and everything in my immediate surroundings --with the exception, at times, of unfiltered light in places far off-- would've been uninteresting murk. But I don't shoot to try to recreate reality. If I did that, I wouldn't bother with cameras or lenses or software; I'd just go and see, and experience or enjoy --or disregard as a result of being somehow otherwise distracted-- whatever the time and place(s) presented. But when I have a camera in hand, I have no distractions. Other, that is, than those commonplace distractions (exposure, composition, etc.) that either rise to the surface or lie hidden in the memory of all that's come before. Training, experience, perception, experience, education, experience, and whatever other predilections I might visually have.
In retrospect, having now had some space in time to think about it –as the English poet Wordsworth put it, ‘memory reflected in tranquility’—I’d have titled the image in this post:
Laocoön
Nov 10, 2020 13:17:43 #
Cany143 wrote:
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That on is really beautiful! Just amazing.....!
Can you share settings and pp?
Nov 10, 2020 13:22:16 #
Nice work, Cany. You captured and portrayed the spirit of the scene with this one.
--Bob
--Bob
Cany143 wrote:
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Nov 10, 2020 13:29:36 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
neco wrote:
That on is really beautiful! Just amazing.....!
Can you share settings and pp?
Can you share settings and pp?
Nikon D810, 24mm Nikkor. ISO 64, 1/100th, f/10. Hand-held the three images shot and planned to compile as a focus stacked composite. Bulk of the processing took place in Lr and Ps (almost equally), with additional tweaks using (the old freebie version of) Google Viveza 2 and Aurora HDR. The majority of adjustments were made selectively on individual parts or portions of both the individual images and the coming toward finalization layer-flattened image. There's no way I could describe each separate step, much less list the number of tweaks.
Nov 10, 2020 13:44:37 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
rmalarz wrote:
Nice work, Cany. You captured and portrayed the spirit of the scene with this one.
--Bob
--Bob
Hah! The image posted here is the one I was working on when we spoke yesterday evening, Bob! After two previous iterations beforehand, I'm sufficiently satisfied with this third go at it. Regardless, if for some reason I decide to pick it up again next week or next year or whenever, I have little doubt that it'll look considerably different. Not because of anything anybody'd said, but because I'll see it differently at that time.
Nov 10, 2020 14:00:22 #
Cany143 wrote:
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Awesome! cany
Nov 10, 2020 14:28:06 #
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