Hawaiian Trees at Night

DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
edited November 1, 2007 in Other Cool Shots
I found I liked the potential in these trees at twilight.
Way cool branches & color in the sky between the leaves.
The wind was blowing fairly strong so getting anything was a challange in the low light.
In small moments the wind would scale down.

These 2 photos are straight out of the camera.
I worked the effort over two nights looking for a maybe shot.

Comments and critiques are welcome.



Trees_Hawaii1_8726.jpg

Trees_Hawaii2_8728.jpg
Michael

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 29, 2007
    DaddyO wrote:
    I found I liked the potential in these trees at twilight.
    Way cool branches & color in the sky between the leaves.
    The wind was blowing fairly strong so getting anything was a challange in the low light.
    In small moments the wind would scale down.

    These 2 photos are straight out of the camera.
    I worked the effort over two nights looking for a maybe shot.

    Comments and critiques are welcome.

    Hi there Daddy O ........ forgive me but when I saw these images load I immediately thought of internal organs and the structure of viens that run throught one's body.

    Trees .... veins ..... kinda the same :D
    I like them, they make you look twice thats for sure thumb.gif

    .... Skippy :D
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  • polartownjunkiepolartownjunkie Registered Users Posts: 182 Major grins
    edited October 29, 2007
    yes!

    this is spectacular, i could stare and stare
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  • Bayer-Z28Bayer-Z28 Registered Users Posts: 392 Major grins
    edited October 29, 2007
    STUNNING!!! VERY good use of lighting!!
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2007
    Skippy, polartownjunkie, Bayer-Z28, Thanks for your comments!!!
    Glad to have em'. When you say Spectacular & Stunning how could
    I not? bowdown.gif WOW!

    Skippy, your forgiven. :D Just keep telling it the way you see it.

    The lighting was from Tiki torches. Way better than any flash could have
    done for the effort.

    Thanks, Michael
    Michael
  • SpeedieSpeedie Registered Users Posts: 173 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2007
    Stunning shot - also made me think of internal organs like lungs or something. Was it white or coloured light from the torches?
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2007
    The lighting made the shot work more than anything. Out side of the trees
    being outstanding in themselves. The torches gave off a yellow orange cast
    and I stayed with auto white balance for camera setting. How do you color correct for torches? :D I think the camera did good for what was there.
    Michael
    Michael
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited October 30, 2007
    DaddyO wrote:
    How do you color correct for torches? :D I think the camera did good for what was there.
    Michael

    Shoot a frame of a neutral gray page and use that as a frame for a custom white balance,perhaps?

    Interesting "outside of the box" lighting solutionthumb.gif
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2007
    Thank you Pathfinder. I will give it a try.
    Michael
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited October 31, 2007
    DaddyO wrote:
    Thank you Pathfinder. I will give it a try.

    To me, these pics are appealing because of their abstract, organic quality. I wouldn't worry much about getting the white balance correct here. In fact, I would feel free to completely alter the color if that gave a more pleasing image.

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  • Bayer-Z28Bayer-Z28 Registered Users Posts: 392 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2007
    How you you think a little bit of fill flash would have worked?? I mean twords the ground/bottom of the shot?? Just a jee wiz idea/question.. Add a little bit of tungsten to it..
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2007
    Orignally posted by Bayer-Z28.
    You think a little bit of fill flash would have worked??

    A good suggestion.
    To be honest it never crossed my mind to use fill flash. A reshoot is not
    possible as we were on vacation at this site. Plus, I think had I used flash
    I would likely have lost the quality of the color as Richard has mentioned.
    In another effort like this I will have to remember to break the flash out
    and see what happens. :D

    Thanks, Michael
    Michael
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