Wetland Sunrise

Wiren

Snowgirl

The second one is very powerful!

wirehunt

For me they both are. Well impressed.

redleash

I like both of them, but I prefer the first one. I like the panoramic view, and the BIF makes the shot for me. Lovely colors and mood in both shots. Nicely done!

Lauren

Eia

They are breathtaking. The first one is my favorite; I like the pano and the undisturbed look! Really lovely!

DeeCajun

the first one, the birds make the shot.. I feel like I am there...

Chrissiebeez_NL

very nice, subtle!

Wiren

Thank you everybody, appreciate the comments. One of those lucky shots of being at the right place at the right time, totally unplanned as I went to shoot wildlife in the golden hour, after I got out of the car and saw the sun rising, switched camera settings quickly to nail that first shot and have been getting rave reviews.

Sometimes the shot unplanned is the fan favorite

Again, thanks for looking and all of the nice comments.

R.Jay

Hi, the first one is a real 'wall hanger'

Cheers, Richard.

dave6253

Lee,

Both shots are wonderful, but #1 is my favorite also. Great captures!

dlplumer

I love the first , but the soft/blur vignette is a bit over done in my opinion.:D

Dan

acowan

Lee,

I like both shots a lot but #1 edges out #2. Something with the small piece of lands and geese(?) in the foreground see tilted upward, but the silhouettes and orange lighting is great!

Wiren

Thanks again for the comments.

Dan, there really isn't any soft blur/vignette that I added. This was the scene as is, the clouds were grayish, a lot of mist was rising up out of the waters and the air was foggy, the sunrise light coming through it all gave it the soft blur effect, I added just a little, but not much to that effect. I didn't do any vignetting at all to the image, that is the natural effect of the darkness and the sun being bright enough for the rest of it to appear vignetted.

For PP, I raised the EV by .25, Clarity = -20 and that's it, the rest is straight out of the box.

Thanks for the warm glowing comments (pun intended)

dlplumer

Wiren wrote:

Thanks again for the comments.

Dan, there really isn't any soft blur/vignette that I added. This was the scene as is, the clouds were grayish, a lot of mist was rising up out of the waters and the air was foggy, the sunrise light coming through it all gave it the soft blur effect, I added just a little, but not much to that effect. I didn't do any vignetting at all to the image, that is the natural effect of the darkness and the sun being bright enough for the rest of it to appear vignetted.

For PP, I raised the EV by .25, Clarity = -20 and that's it, the rest is straight out of the box.

Thanks for the warm glowing comments (pun intended)

My apologies. Sometimes a flower is so beautiful that it almost looks fake. Your photo is very beautiful

Wiren

No apologies needed Dan, no offense was taken. I have gotten this response a lot of this photo. I was amazed at it myself when I loaded it into Lightroom.

Unbeleivably lucky to have gotten there at the right time for this shot and I can assure you that seeing the place in reality is nowhere near as beautiful as the photo makes it seem, doesn't it figure

Again, I appreciate you looking and always appreciate comments on my photo's, hope I didn't come across as defensive, not my intent.

Good light to you sir

Lee

Darren Troy C

Absolutely amazing scene/s! I LIVE for days like these! Might I suggest a slight horizon straightening in each...they both seem to lean a bit "left".

Wiren

Thanks Darren, I also live for days like these, they don't come often enough do they?

As for the horizon tilt.......I tried it, and don't like it, look at the trees, they are straight, the way the water feeds back into the land makes the POV look tilted when it's not. But as there has been so much interest in the PP and the "tilt" (more so on other forums than here) I will post the original and one cropped one with at tilt.


Ok, here is the original, Straight out of the camera shot.



I didn't like the contrails at the top of the image, nor the grass at the bottom.

I used a 3.75 x 8 crop to save as much of the good parts as possible and rid the rest of what I didn't like.

This is a "tilted" shot with the following PP. I forgot to tell you Dan that I did clone out a small sunspot amidst the trees. I changed the WB from 4350 to 4800, + .20 EV, -20 clarity. As requested, I added (in LR2.6) 5 clicks of clockwise tilt. To my eyes, this looks off, your mileage may vary.



Anyways, The one I posted in the original post is what's on my website, just figured as there was interest and this was a learning forum, I would post different results for all of us to discuss if we felt like it - you won't hurt my feeling by any C & C, so have at it

redleash

I prefer the original you posted. I didn't sense any tilt, but when I looked closely after all the discussion I can see why the image caused that comment. However, when I look at your "corrected tilt" version I get the sense of a downward tilt, just barely. I think it is because of the way the water reaches into the trees, just as you said.

IMO, the original, with your crop, is the best.

Lauren

torags

wow #1 is great, what color, supurb....

Wiren

Thanks Lauren for your comment. I posted the "corrected" tilt version to see if I could get an idea of what other folks thought just in case my mind was seeing what it wanted to see. I appreciate that you see what I saw during post, but am willing to listen to other opinions. Since this is a wallhanger for me, I want to be sure the final edit has a good feeling for the general public and not just to me.

Thanks for the comment Rags.