20 Minutes At Sunrise

gbtmcd

I took these about twenty minutes apart. I usually only use one image from a particular scene however this time it was too hard to choose. Both of these were hand held. C&C always welcome. Thanks
Blair McDougall





This one is from a couple of weeks ago.Hope you enjoy this one as well....It was a very cold night after a warm day. The small waterfall was in my back yard taken early morning.



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stirinthesauce

absolutely love that first one!

squirl033

yeah, the first one does it for me as well... the soft pastels really suit the subject...

AndMan

stirinthesauce wrote:

absolutely love that first one!

Eia

Wow this is really beautiful. The light was really working for you here... I appreciate the second one so much because of the first shot. Beautiful!!!

BBiggs

The first photo is really beautiful and must look great when viewed larger. thumb

dave6253

I also prefer the pastel colors of 1. Beautiful Shot!

gbtmcd

Thank-you for your comments.....I appreciate the feed-back.
Blair

Chris H

I hope you don't mind, but I really liked your first image. Just felt it could do with a bit more pop so I added a bit of high pass contrast and tweaked the leves. Let me know what you think.

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gbtmcd

Thanks..

Chris H wrote:

I hope you don't mind, but I really liked your first image. Just felt it could do with a bit more pop so I added a bit of high pass contrast and tweaked the leves. Let me know what you think.

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Hi Chris....Thanks, it really does have more to it. May I ask what you did the high pass with?

senorjax

I'm not sure that I like the sky in the redo, especially the amount of noise that wasn't there before. Not even sold on the brightness, this image has a muted feel that matches the first photo. I don't mind little bit of sharpness and contrast increase on the shrubbery in front of the barn. Very nice image B.

torags

#2 for me, but both nice

senorjax

Well, I guess I lied, I actually do like a bit of light in the sky. At least that's how it turned out when I had a go at it as well. Sorry Blair, seems like everybody wants to muck with your wonderful image. If you'd rather not have my version up here let me know and I'll make it disappear.

The noise was still unattractive to me so I selectively sharpened the vegetation and barn in the middle ground without touching the fg snow or the sky in order to keep the noise down as much as possible. Then I did a serious noise reduction of the sky because it looks gauzy and diffuse anyway, and then a less intense noise reduction of the foreground snow so it retained most of it's texture. This is what I ended up with. Again, I'm sorry for mucking it up; it's always some sort of uncomfortable editing someone else's image.

Doug Solis

Yea I like the tweaks Chris applied, it gave elements in the scene more separation. Nice compo.

Chris H

Sorry, the sky was a bit noisey, I didn't have much time but could probably avoid it with the original photo.

The high pass technique is something I use to create a bit of localised contrast with a lot of control. The workflow in Photoshop is as follows:

1. Hit Ctrl J to create duplicate layer of the original
2. Image > Adjustements > Desaturate
3. Filter > Other > High Pass (I usually leave the radius at around 80 for a 10Mp image)
4. Go to Layer adjustments and select 'hard light'.

It's simply a case then of sliding the opacity slider on the adjusted layer until you get the effect you want.

(works well with portraits by the way!)

Cheers

Chris

gbtmcd

Thanks Everybody
Thank-you for taking the time to comment and play with this image. The things you have said and shown me will help me improve and is very much appreciated.
Blair McDougall

grimace

dave6253 wrote: »

I also prefer the pastel colors of 1. Beautiful Shot!

I agree. The first is my favorite!!