sunrise over mountains

kdog

Since my last pano got beat up for having "terrible lighting", I thought I'd try to redeem myself with some more interesting lighting.

This shot is 1700 pixels wide, so you might want to make your browser as wide as you can. Those of you with wide-screens may appreciate this.



Thanks for looking.
-joel

Jeffro

kdog wrote:

Thanks for looking.
-joel

You're welcome....."orange" you glad you tried another..... (It's early).

kdog

Jeffro wrote:

You're welcome....."orange" you glad you tried another..... (It's early).

Thanks, Jeffro. Evidently this one isn't very popular.
No accounting for taste I guess.

Cheers,
-joel

drdane

You definitely have some nice lighting in this one. I think I'm looking at a tele shot of mountain ridge or clif edge with a very rough sea & backlit clouds/fog. How's that?

Looks like you did a pretty good job of blending the frames, but there might be a faint hint of a diagnonal line in the water on the right - if that's the case, it's very hard to tell. Looks like it would benefit from some sharpening, as the water looks slightly OOF.

Where was it shot? Thanks for posting it!

Andy

jwear

very nice you shot this on the trip to la ? pm me when you post josha tree

kdog

drdane wrote:

You definitely have some nice lighting in this one. I think I'm looking at a tele shot of mountain ridge or clif edge with a very rough sea & backlit clouds/fog. How's that?

Looks like you did a pretty good job of blending the frames, but there might be a faint hint of a diagnonal line in the water on the right - if that's the case, it's very hard to tell. Looks like it would benefit from some sharpening, as the water looks slightly OOF.

Where was it shot? Thanks for posting it!

Thanks, Doc! That's the Hualapai mountain range in Kingman, AZ. There's no water there; that's all sky. The cropping gives an interesting optical illusion.

Regards,
-joel

photographix

nice pano.
sun rise light rakeing very cool good shots to ya rick

kres

Your right, this shot has great color, and a very dramitc exposure contrast...

However, I'm having a hard time finding the subject point of the composition. I'm not saying that it's a bad shot - not at all - it's just that it seems to lack any one spot that really captures my eye.

Regardless, of my prattlings, it's a lovely image.

kdog

Andy wrote:

Thanks Andy!!!

-joel

kdog

jwear wrote:

very nice you shot this on the trip to la ? pm me when you post josha tree

Thanks, Jeff. No, I shot this one the other morning from my yard.

I put teaser for Joshua Tree in my post in the nature forum.

Cheers,
-joel

kdog

photographix wrote:

sun rise light rakeing very cool good shots to ya rick

Thank you, sir! Good shots to you as well.
-joel

kdog

kres wrote:

Your right, this shot has great color, and a very dramitc exposure contrast...

However, I'm having a hard time finding the subject point of the composition. I'm not saying that it's a bad shot - not at all - it's just that it seems to lack any one spot that really captures my eye.

Regardless, of my prattlings, it's a lovely image.

Thanks, Kres!

As for the center of interest, try looking at jagged "torn paper" line of the mountains against the firey sky. That's what does it for me.

Cheers,
-joel

Ted Szukalski

Sky on fire - simply Awsome.

schmoo

Yeowsa! I love this photo... what's that about no subject point? The whole sky just draws the eye.

kdog

Ted Szukalski wrote:

Sky on fire - simply Awsome.

Thank you very much, Ted.

-joel

kdog

schmooo wrote:

Yeowsa! I love this photo... what's that about no subject point? The whole sky just draws the eye.

Thanks, Schmoo! Yeah, I guess you're right.

-joel

PS: Hey, I just checked out photo site. You have a whole gallery of excellent sky shots.

drdane

kdog wrote:

Thanks, Doc! That's the Hualapai mountain range in Kingman, AZ. There's no water there; that's all sky. The cropping gives an interesting optical illusion.

Regards,
-joel

Wow - faked me out big time! Very cool - that probably explains why the "water" looked like it could use some sharpening!:D

Nice pano, Joel - are you using any special pano gear or camera, or doing it the way I try to do - with a level camera overlapping shots?
Dane

kdog

drdane wrote:

Wow - faked me out big time! Very cool - that probably explains why the "water" looked like it could use some sharpening!:D

Nice pano, Joel - are you using any special pano gear or camera, or doing it the way I try to do - with a level camera overlapping shots?
Dane

Thanks again, Dane. The shot was taken with my Canon 20D and 100-400mm lens set at 100mm. Handheld with a healthy amount of overlap. I don't have a tripod good enough for this setup yet, although I want one. Even though I eyeball the shot and plan my panning in advance, I still lose too much real estate due to skew between frames. I've done several panos this way now and am really having fun with it. Check 'em out here if you like.

Cheers,
-joel

schmoo

kdog wrote:

PS: Hey, I just checked out photo site. You have a whole gallery of excellent sky shots.

Heheh yes, that was back (a) before I had a real DSLR and (b) before the city built a new develoment of houses to block that view. But eh well, half of photography is situational luck, right?

davidryan

Am I missing something? It looks like the bottom half of the photo is not there.

kdog

davidryan wrote:

Am I missing something? It looks like the bottom half of the photo is not there.

Thanks for your comment, David. Although, perhaps I don't understand. The shot features the sky over the tops of the mountains because that's what's interesting. Are you saying you would prefer to see more of the mountains? Basically, that would just add more black to the bottom of the image because there is no light there. When taking pictures, we typically show enough of the scene around a center of interest to give it some context. In this case the mountains add context to the firey sky.

It's fine if you don't "get it", or don't like the shot. It's definitely a bit different.

Regards,
-joel

davidryan

kdog wrote:

Thanks for your comment, David. Although, perhaps I don't understand. The shot features the sky over the tops of the mountains because that's what's interesting. Are you saying you would prefer to see more of the mountains? Basically, that would just add more black to the bottom of the image because there is no light there. When taking pictures, we typically show enough of the scene around a center of interest to give it some context. In this case the mountains add context to the firey sky.

It's fine if you don't "get it", or don't like the shot. It's definitely a bit different.

Regards,
-joel

Joel-- no no...the title just mislead me, I think. When I think of the sky over the mountains, I expect to see the sky..but also the mountains b/c otherwise, it is just sky. Get what I'm saying? Now that I know that you intended to get just the sky, it all makes sense :-) But for a sky, it is pretty neat looking.

kdog

Oh. Never mind...

I probably could have chosen a better title, but at least I put the word Sunrise before Mountain.

Glad you liked the shot.
-joel

Jeff Fillmore

Fine photo.

annnna8888

Wow, great colors! In Slovenia we say at sunsets like this that Santa is baking cookies.

Ana