Sunrise on the Farm - pick one

Phil U.

Saw this beautiful sunrise developing on my way to work a few days ago. Had to make a stop.

Please pick your preference with a quick reason - I'm going to drop one of them into the Whipping Post for further abuse.

TristanP

I like the first. The wider scene and larger color gradient in the sky does it for me. Very nice!

Dixie

Phil,

I tried to send you an e-mail but your server rejected it for spam. It seems that BellSouth.net is on your service's blacklist for spam. I know it's not your fault, but I really find it ridiculous that a service blacklists a whole domain that services millions of users because there are a few bad apples in the bunch.




Here is most of what was in my e-mail:

Hi Phil,

First off I want to tell you that I really like your galleries. One photo in particular I fell in love with and that is:

http://philu.smugmug.com/photos/5255380-L.jpg

You made the following post on DGrin and I just wanted to send you a couple of treatment ideas for them.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=24450

I am somewhat leery about posting reworked images without permission so here is what I've worked on so far as some new treatments for your barn photos (image attached).

If you are interested I can give you the workflow for them.

Dixie

Richard Atkinson

I'll post the treatments and workflow later with your permission.

Shakey

Number one delivers the KNOCKOUT PUNCH!
:jawdrop Dam good work

Cheers
Tim

Phil U.

Dixie wrote:

I tried to send you an e-mail but your server rejected it for spam. It seems that BellSouth.net is on your service's blacklist for spam. I know it's not your fault, but I really find it ridiculous that a service blacklists a whole domain that services millions of users because there are a few bad apples in the bunch.

I'll post the treatments and workflow later with your permission.

Thanks for the comments everyone - keep 'em coming.

Richard - I sent you a PM about the email issue. Feel free to post back any modifications with workflow - I never mind such things as it'll help me and may help others that read it.

illuminati919

Number one is spectacular. Wow.

binghott

the first one is tremendous, i love it.

grimace

I agree with most of your viewers. #1 is my favorite.

Phil U.

Cool - thanks all! It looks like #1 is it then.

Art Scott

:jawdrop Number one really nice.....something I have read about but have not had a chance to try yet......exposing one shot for the sky and then another for your foreground...in this case your barn and barn yard....I read this is how some get those spectacular landscapes that we all wonder how it was accomplished.....
I do however really like both of these shots.....the colors are awesome.

Michael Allen

I really like no.1 also. It gives the farm feeling. No.2 gives the barn feeling and the pwer lines distract too much for me.

Phil U.

ART SCOTT wrote:

:jawdrop Number one really nice.....something I have read about but have not had a chance to try yet......exposing one shot for the sky and then another for your foreground...in this case your barn and barn yard....I read this is how some get those spectacular landscapes that we all wonder how it was accomplished.....
I do however really like both of these shots.....the colors are awesome.

: Yup - very effective technique. This is actually multiple exposures developed from one RAW image and blended. The nice part of doing it this way is it can work with handheld shots and shots with motion/people (otherwise you need a still scene and a tripod). You need to have a good balanced exposure at the time of capture because you only have so much RAW latitude but it works. I probably could have gone further with it to bring out the barn more but hand envisioned it this way.

Thanks!

Phil U.

Michael Allen wrote:

I really like no.1 also. It gives the farm feeling. No.2 gives the barn feeling and the pwer lines distract too much for me.

Ah! Farm vs. barn. I hadn't thought of that - good point.

Art Scott

Michael Allen wrote:

I really like no.1 also. It gives the farm feeling. No.2 gives the barn feeling and the pwer lines distract too much for me.

Power lines removable fairly easy.....

ginger_55

#one, why are you going to have it abused?

ginger

Phil U.

ginger_55 wrote:

#one, why are you going to have it abused?

ginger

Thanks Art & Ginger. I just want to get the more critical view to spot and hopefully work out any little nit-picks.