The 19th

Gallery: LandscapePosted February 22, 2010151 views9 comments

Okay, I'm full of brain-farts this morning and can't seem to be able to come up with any titles.

I shot this on Friday morning (the 19th) when my wife decided that she wanted to see the Blowing Rocks. Of course she stayed asleep in the car until well after the sun came up. I'm glad she talked me into it because the sunrise was amazing!

I had a bit of a tough time processing this one. These colors are hard to work with and I actually had to tone them down quite a bit to recover some detail.

Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.

Canon 40D
Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6
ISO 100
1 sec @ f/8
2 stop GND (soft)
Double processed RAW

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Alex Mody on February 22, 2010 at 10:41 AM

Dude, that sky is awesome! I'd be so glad she talked you into it as well. Its so cool how the sky's color is reflecting off of even the sand and rocks. It seems like a bit of the reds in your sky are blown... Did you happen to shoot a darker sky exposure than this one? Good stuff, regardless!

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on February 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Whoa, Thank your wife! I think you handled the sky well. I can see how it would be challenging to get detail in such intense colors. The way the sunrize lit up everything else in the shot is amazing, and your comp and processing emphazise that well. I particularly like the texture and perspective that the clouds add to the sky.

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Comment posted by Rick Gomez on February 22, 2010 at 11:22 AM

Thanks guys!
I honestly can't make out where the reds are blown, even when brightening my monitor. That was my initial problem though... As we all know, digitals don't do to well with reds and yellows.

Do the reds look blown to anyone else?

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Comment posted by mark cillo on February 22, 2010 at 2:41 PM

Beautiful light! I like the textures in the sky

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on February 22, 2010 at 8:06 PM

This looks great Rick. I agree reds and yellows like this are difficult to process. I think you did a great job here. The reds and yellows don't look blown just intense. I have had similar experiences with film due to exposure so I don't think it is due to digital. Did it look like this in person? I have also seen quite intense sunsets in Maine with deep reds and yellows and purples on other occasions. So, it is a matter of what you saw and a matter of taste. Hope thet makes sense and helps.

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Comment posted by Jeremy Kessler on February 22, 2010 at 9:05 PM

Thats one incredible sky. The mid ground does seem a bit dark, perhaps if you lightened that, or darkened the foreground a bit? Great image regardless.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on February 22, 2010 at 10:30 PM

Incredible light. Reminds me of dinosaur bones.

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Comment posted by Verena & Georg Pop on February 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM

sweet. only nit would be the visible GND effect on the large rock. Imo you pulled it down too far. happens to me too quite often and I found out, that I am better off with a hard GND, that I can adjust much better.
georg

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Comment posted by Rick Gomez on February 23, 2010 at 8:04 PM

Thanks for the comments everyone!

Eva, this sunrise looked like this... I'm not big on adding any unnatural effects to my images. No tobacco filters, no red filters, no superimposing and I try not to over-process my images. Although admittedly, I can accidentally go overboard and won't notice 'til I see it again later. As I mentioned with this image though, I actually had to tone the colors down. This composition did isolate the intense area of the sky though.

Georg, thanks for pointing that out... I thought about that last night and now that it is confirmed, I will work on that.

You guys rock!

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