I’ve been hearing a lot lately about colorful sunrises and sunsets caused by the Saharan dust in the atmosphere. So, I woke up early the other day and headed to a spot I thought might make a good location. After a so-so experience at the first spot I explored a little and found this location. I wish I had known of this site earlier to catch the sun much lower but ”it is what it is” as people say. I’ll be going back to this spot again. I’ve had a difficult time editing this image. Something looks off to me so comments are welcome.
I like it very much. Looks like a pastel drawing.
I really like the shot. As far as anything "off" all I see is your leading lines are drawing the eye to the large tree. I guess the composition could be better?
Good capture! It must be seen in download to really appreciate. A bit overcooked IMO, but the sharpening and saturation are matters of personal taste and I do not think you will get a single response.
A very pretty scene! I like the composition as-is.
If I examine very closely, I see what appears to be over-sharpening in the corn fields, making it look like noise - unless you under-exposed and the noise is part of an attempt to fix exposure when editing? The white sun might not be my favorite look in this case. One thing you can do is very slightly clone part of the colorful clouds over some or all of that area.
If you are so inclined and/or curious, I encourage you to post the original to UHH's PP Forum with a request for others to edit:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-116-1.html.
It looks to me as if you exposed for the sky, and it is therefore darker than it should be. Looks nice because the colors are richer in the sky. I am assuming you recovered shadows so drastically that the darks have an enormous amount of noise. I also think you cut the highlights a lot, which has made the sun a blob that stands out unnaturally, and robbed the highlights from the vegetation. You have sort of an HDR result that does look unnatural. I think Linda suggestion is good, to clone out the clouds and take the sun out. It has a misty look that is kind of nice.
To me, it seems to have a very slight tilt from left to right. I would also be inclined to crop out the top part of the sky - I don’t feel the color compliments the colors in the lower 2/3 of the scene.
fergmark wrote:
... I think Linda suggestion is good, to clone out the clouds and take the sun out. It has a misty look that is kind of nice.
Not clone "out" the clouds
Use a very light application to cover the sun
slightly.
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raymondh wrote:
To me, it seems to have a very slight tilt from left to right. I would also be inclined to crop out the top part of the sky - I don’t feel the color compliments the colors in the lower 2/3 of the scene.
Thank you for your input.
When you expose for a sunset usually the foreground is darker. It comes only as a natural that if the background is bright the foreground one way or the other will look better to the eye if it is darker. The color is actually in the sky and that is what we tend to preserve when we shoot sunsets. To my eyes the image looks unnatural, practically everything has the same illumination. I do not like the ovoid shape of the sun, that is not natural either.
Try darkening the image, it will work much better.
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