Luminous Dreams

Gallery: LandscapePosted December 1, 2010244 views18 comments

We had an incredible sunset last night and the colors just stuck around for lots of opportunites. This is the first, and this frame stood out from the others with as the quality of light was really nice and the sun became slightly diffused for a few seconds.

Canon 5dii
CZ21
f22 @ 20 sec iso 50 hard grad filter

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Mitch Moraski on December 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM

Sweeeeeet shot Todd. Love the foreground and all around comp. Nice work!

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Comment posted by Marc Adamus on December 1, 2010 at 2:20 PM

Wow. The foreground textures and color contrasts are just amazing. Very nice line out to the horizon also. Fantastic image!

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Comment posted by Jimmy Gekas on December 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM

Cool colors, Todd. I know this place VERY well and you did a great job capturing it. I like how dark and moody the foreground is.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on December 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM

Really love the light and the foreground textures. Oranges and yellows near the sun seem a bit over saturated on my monitor but make for some good colors in the water.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on December 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM

Really nice perspective and I like the textures... yellows look a little hot and oversaturated to me, especially when compared to the reflections on the water but that's minor.

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Comment posted by Rick Gomez on December 1, 2010 at 3:25 PM

This looks great! I love the textures in the foreground.

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Comment posted by Scott Smorra on December 1, 2010 at 4:12 PM

This is amazing Todd. The sky colors and reflected light on the water intensely beautiful.

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Comment posted by Gino Cortez on December 1, 2010 at 5:19 PM

Great colors, nice leading lines, and an interesting foreground! What more does a guy need?

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Comment posted by dean hebert on December 1, 2010 at 7:45 PM

Great shot.Everything here is working great!

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Comment posted by David Cobb on December 1, 2010 at 8:32 PM

Love the foreground and the soft light on the water here Todd.

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on December 1, 2010 at 11:35 PM

Todd,

This is one terrific composition. The reflected blues captured in the cool patterns of the foreground rock are wonderful. The lead-in lines pulling the viewer in to the frame and the proportion of sky is just excellent here.

My only beef is the saturation is a bit much for my tastes. The blue end of things not so bad, but the yellow/red/orange along the horizon is where I see to much saturation. Otherwise, you've got a killer image working here.

Lon

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Comment posted by John Williams on December 2, 2010 at 1:07 AM

Other than the colors being a bit muted

, this is superb. I love that foreground, and the channel leads to the nuclear explosion rather nicely.

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Comment posted by Zack Clothier on December 2, 2010 at 1:53 AM

Superb comp, the red/orange in the sky appears to be a little oversaturated, but still a very nice shot.

Registered on January 28, 2010, 343 Posts, 2257 Comments

Comment posted by Luis Argerich on December 2, 2010 at 10:14 AM

Hi Todd, This is uber-fantastic, the foreground is grogeous and full of detail, the color is fantastic and the flow of the image makes it a pleasure to see. Congrats I like seascapes and this made me smile!

Registered on December 22, 2009, 91 Posts, 1349 Comments

Comment posted by Todd Liotine on December 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM

Thanks everyone, I'll be adjusting the colors for the print file, it does look a little saturated in the compressed file

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Comment posted by Geoffrey Baker on December 2, 2010 at 2:12 PM

The foreground is superb but I'm not too keen on the processing on the sky.
Well captured.

Geoff.