Everything the light touches is our kingdom....

brvheart

So I went out shooting the other day, I capture this Sunrise

And while I was out - I captured this as well - I have a bunch of other shots - sifting through them slowly. This one reminded me of the Lion King quote - "Everything the light touches is our kingdom"

Hikin' Mike

Maybe a bit over-processed for my tastes, but I like the composition.

brvheart

Thanks Mike - it is HDR I really didn't think it was too extreme though. What part of it do you not like out of curiosity?

Hikin' Mike

Mainly the obvious halos and the sky has that gray-ish look in the clouds. My preference to doing HDRs is layer masks. You can read about it in my sig below.

brvheart

Let me take another stab at it....

kdog

Yeah, definitely overdone, but super potential. Looking forward to seeing the rework.

brvheart

after going back and looking at it again - I really am not sure I am going to take another stab at it - I like where it ended up and it is what my eyes saw when I was there. I know about layer mask etc just not sure if I am going to rework this one or not. Though the wonder what side of me will get the best of me and I will probably redo it again anyways lol.

ront

I also agree that it is a bit overdone, but not by a lot. There is some halos as mentioned and also some dust spots I think. I really like HDR, but try to keep it very natural. I would try to redo it, even though you have said that you like it this way. I really think that you can make it a little better, by toning it down just a bit.

All that said. It looks like a beautiful morning to be out taking pictures and you did a very nice job on the composition!

Ron

brvheart

Thanks Ron - like I said at some point it will likely get the better of me and I will go back and try again.

chrisdg

Nice shot. Pretty morning that's for sure!

The winning element in this shot is how the light rays ramble over the foreground turf. So to highlight that, I wonder if you considered cropping this into a long & narrow 1:3 pseudo-panorama, putting your horizon near the top-third instead of the bottom-third? Then re-post it BIG!

brvheart

Hey Chris - I did consider the crop, but did not follow through with it - no real reason why - but I will and re-post

Having said that, if I crop the top and that will take out most of the trees/sky - is that the crop you are thinking as well?

chrisdg

brvheart wrote: »

Hey Chris - I did consider the crop, but did not follow through with it - no real reason why - but I will and re-post

Having said that, if I crop the top and that will take out most of the trees/sky - is that the crop you are thinking as well?

Yes, that's what I was thinking. It may not work, but would be interesting to see if you can really bring that foreground into play more. I was thinking crop the entire top off starting right about where that longest diagonal streak of cloud ends (which puts the sun somewhere around the top 1/3rd line), and then take a little bit off the left of the image as well to remove that distracting skinny left-most tree trunk, which makes the biggest tree trunk your left-most anchor point.

brvheart

interesting and might work - I will give it a crack tonight if I get a chance

And I will also try to re=process when I get chance for the others that mentioned it was a little over done.

novicesnapper

I have to say, the pinkish Sunrise over the lake #28, just stopped me in my tracks. Just stunning, so serene! I so agree with the caption. Thanks

brvheart

Hi Novice - I humbly thank you for such kind words and compliments. Thank you for taking the time to view it and more so for commenting on it.

zoomer

Bottom half works, top half is to much.
Crop it right down the center horizontally and it looks Amazing.