Haystack Rock

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 4, 2011113 views6 comments

Nikon D700, 24-120 F4 @ f8. Seven blended exposures. Didn't correct for lens distortion as yet.

My first attempt at blending exposures. This is a shot of Haystack Rock located in Cannon Beach, OR. Didn't take the time to have a interesting foreground object but rather focused on taking bracketed photos that would make a good blended exposure.

All comments welcome and much appreciated.

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by RL Potts on January 4, 2011 at 3:47 PM

I'm not sure how you kept the gulls, dogs, and tourists out of this or how you kept your tripod from moving in the sand between exposures, so I am sure you deserve some kind of award. The green on the rock looks a little weird to me, but that is because I see this monolith all of the time. The tone of the sky and the reflection is what caught my eye this is very nice indeed.

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Comment posted by Barry Vangrov on January 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM

I like the comp. The green on the rock does look a bit off, maybe too saturated. If you used an HDR program for the blend that's probably the cause of it. The rest of the colors look natural.

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Comment posted by Glenn Starr on January 4, 2011 at 4:11 PM

Actually, I used Elements 9 exposure merge and I probably oversaturated the photo a bit to enhance the blue of the sky and over did the greens. My bad. Also, I cloned out one dog and 4 tourists!

Registered on April 26, 2009, 16 Posts, 16 Comments

Comment posted by Guy Tal on January 4, 2011 at 5:17 PM

I like the minimalistic composition. Agree with the others on reducing the green a bit, which will also balance out the rest of the colors in the frame (cyan sky into blue, orange into red etc.)

Guy

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Comment posted by Glenn Starr on January 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM

Thanks much for the feedback. I tend to get too heavy handed with the saturation levels of my images. Here is another copy that has been desaturated. The greens are still a bit dark but there wasn't that much light and haystack rock was totally black against the sky on the light metered exposure.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on January 4, 2011 at 11:19 PM

OK, I guess I like the first one better, though I'm a bit of a saturation junkie. The comp is quite nice with the off-centered rock. The blend seems to have gotten all the tones in check. I'm thinking that a little more processing could bring out some better texture maybe.

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