Mount. Three Sister

Gallery: LandscapePosted November 10, 2010288 views11 comments

This is my first picture in the NPN. I took this picture from top of Mount Cheing Dao, the third highest mountain in Thailand and located in Cheing Mai. I use the wild flower which can be found in this area as a foreground with Mount. Three Sister as a background. As the wind was too strong, I have to use two shots for this one. The first one, I use the F 3.5 to gain high speed shutter to freeze the flower and F 16 to control the depth of field for the second one. Then I combined these pictures in PS.
Canon 1 Ds MK III, 16-35 mm MK II and Singh Ray GND 5 stop were used.
Please feel free to critique this picture.

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Paul Duval on November 10, 2010 at 9:15 PM

Naret,

Compositonally this is really nice the S-curve of the ridge really leads you eyes through the image. You didn't make it easy on yourself. There's a great breadth of dynamic range here. One flower in your blend in motion blurred out of focus . I'm finding the lefthand mg ridge just a tad dark on the shadow side with the bright fg flower. This image has a ton of potential, but it's beyond my PS skills to explain exactly how to make it come out the way you intended I'm sure.

Paul

PS Welcome aboard.

Registered on June 30, 2009, 508 Posts, 1907 Comments

Comment posted by Nicolaus Wegner on November 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM

Welcome to the forum Naret. This is a beautiful image. Nice flow throughout the photograph to the sun. I personally do not feel the slight movement in the flower detracts from this image. Beautiful shot of an area I have not seen in Thailand. When I go back I need to stop by here...

Thank you for sharing.

Registered on February 21, 2010, 133 Posts, 1509 Comments

Comment posted by Eva McDermott on November 10, 2010 at 10:27 PM

Welcome again to NPN. This has some great light Naret. The flowers and the lighter trail of foliage are a great lead in to those fantastic mountains and sky. While the upper flower is fluttering in the wind, I do not think it detracts from the scene. Beautiful work.

Registered on January 4, 2009, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments

Comment posted by Dietrich Gloger on November 11, 2010 at 1:03 AM

Hi Naret, weclome to the ESS forum! A very nice image! I like the composition a lot. It is a very interesting combination of subjects. There is a good zig zag line from near to far which creates a good flow in this composition.

Registered on January 26, 2007, 360 Posts, 9876 Comments

Comment posted by John Williams on November 11, 2010 at 1:24 AM

Welcome Naret. Very nice flow from the front to the back of this, and lovely foreground flowers.

Registered on September 6, 2007, 221 Posts, 5985 Comments

Comment posted by Krunal Janani on November 11, 2010 at 2:29 AM

Nice composition this Naret, if this were my image i'd clone out the small white flower? on the lower left side of the image

Nice first image

Registered on September 16, 2010, 60 Posts, 1370 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Gomez on November 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM

Welcome to NPN, Naret!

This is no doubt a beautiful scene. I happen to be one of the few who would perfer for the flower to not be blurred, but then again it emphasizes the windy conditions and gives the viewer a sense of what it must have felt like to be there.
Though I can't see anything wrong with your depth of field, I personally would have kept the f-stop at about 8.0 for the foreground flower and bumped the ISO up a little bit for shutter speed. This is only because I think it would be easier to blend, but it looks like you did a great job here.

Registered on March 3, 2007, 206 Posts, 1853 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Overacker on November 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM

Naret,

Welcome to NPN and the ES&S Gallery! this is a fine first landscape posting here. The nicely lit plant and flowers make for a very good foreground element anchoring a grand landscape view and a great sky and sunset/rise. The midground is a tad dark, but it adds greatly to the mood and atmosphere of this grand scenic.

I think you did well with crafting this and your exposure blends. Nice job.

We look forward to your images and participation in the forums and galleries.

Lon

Registered on November 24, 2006, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments

Comment posted by Jason Kim on November 11, 2010 at 9:52 PM

Definitely a nice composition of a seldom seen area. The motion blur in the upper left flower is somewhat distracting, if you're able to do some more blends to change that. I really like the S-curve from foreground to the mountain in the background, with the sun placed over that little notch. Very nice.

Registered on July 1, 2006, 60 Posts, 1233 Comments

Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on November 12, 2010 at 10:00 PM

Excellent technique, Naret, to get a non-blurred flower. My only thought is to crop some of the sky above the sun. Welcome. Looking forward to seeing more images from you.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 364 Posts, 22328 Comments

Comment posted by Naret Visesvongsa on November 15, 2010 at 1:31 AM

Thank you very much for all of your comment.

Registered on November 10, 2010, 6 Posts, 73 Comments