Morning Canopy
jmphotocraft
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An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
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Good sprin shot with tender green
Personally, I would have removed the small red flag.
Yeah that would be easy and normally the right call. However this shot was taken for a local conservation society who maintains this property and these trails, and that is one of their trail blazes.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
This is mesmerizing, I like it. Awesome sun star. Tones seem a bit compressed, maybe a slight boost in contrast might make it pop more.
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IMO, this looks over-processed. I don't know if you did it this way, but it looks like heavy HDR compression, heavy enough that it makes me wonder whether the perfect sun star was also an add-on. Sorry to sound like such a grouch--I'm not a landscape photographer so perhaps I've got this all wrong. I do like the shot; I just would like to see a more natural rendering.
Lovely capture!
Thanks folks. I like how this looks. It reminds me of what I see when I walk this trail in the morning. These are spring leaves, so they are especially chartreuse. I think it would be impossible to take this picture and not process it significantly in order to get any kind of pleasing result. Certainly in film days I would have no way of doing that without a color darkroom and lots of time on my hands. So I'm not sure what standard you're holding this to, Richard, but to each his own. Settings were f/16, 16mm, so the sun star is what it is, and what I was hoping for.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
Tend to agree with Richard and kdog re processing. I'm no landscaper, but I've certainly taken a fair number of backlit duckpix - and combination of sun's position / strength and type of shadow detail on tree trunk rear faces also makes me wonder about extent of post tweaking.
(Incidentally I use exactly this sort of (backlit) scenario to obscure unwanted bg features / detail)
Not as bad / excessive as that sometimes seen on landscape pics where under bridge shadows have been taken (more than) one tweak too far though.
I'd also consider slicing a tad off the bottom - which'd still leave enough of the trail for job remit - about halfway between current base and LH foreground tree's trunk intersection with ground.
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