Heavenly Cosmos

Gallery: LandscapePosted April 11, 2011342 views12 comments

Here is another take on my scene from the other day. I placed the horizon in a more "traditional" spot here, and also included the setting sun.

Blend of 3 images using blue channel masking.

All critique most welcome!!

Techs:
Canon 7D with 10-22mm USM
f16 @ ISO-100

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Craig Myers on April 11, 2011 at 3:00 PM

Really nice composition. Great sky. Also interesting the way the color in the field of flowers at the right in a line that mirrors the cloud edge.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on April 11, 2011 at 3:56 PM

Traditional--but very nice! An interesting mix of colorsin the field (where is this, incidentally?) The brightest hihglites on the clouds at right are on the verge of being blown, but it looks pretty natural to me so no big deal.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on April 11, 2011 at 4:20 PM

thank you Craig and Stan.

Stan, this is actually in South Africa of all places. On our high-lying "Highveld" region, we get into a "cosmos season" every March, in which an otherwise mundane landscape is transformed into these seemingly endless stretches of colour.

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments

Comment posted by Andreas Resch on April 11, 2011 at 4:22 PM

Very powerful clouds and the field of flowers is something too. I find the grass on the right to be a bit of a weak spot here as it's in conflict with the otherwise flawless carpet of blossoms. Maybe cropping a little from the right might be an option.

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on April 11, 2011 at 4:32 PM

Gorgeous color and a pretty sky. The blank area in the LRC is a little bothersome; I wish you could have moved over to the left a little more. Still, a pretty scene.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on April 11, 2011 at 4:39 PM

thanks Andreas & Bill

go back a few shots in the gallery - I posted a version with nothing but flowers in the terrestrial part of the composition.
I wish I could just have composed like I wanted to but I was on the edge of the fence of private land with my tripod straddling the fence, and didn't want to enter the farm land with my person

cropping here would remove the sun - which is what I tried to include here in the first place

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments

Comment posted by Andrei Malashenko on April 11, 2011 at 5:15 PM

Very nice shot. I really like the sky and where you placed the horizon. Best regards, Andrei

Registered on March 18, 2011, 13 Posts, 68 Comments

Comment posted by Floris van Breugel on April 11, 2011 at 7:19 PM

What a marvelous field of flowers! I would love to see a composition that focused less on the sky and more on the flowers.

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Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on April 11, 2011 at 7:55 PM

What a wonderful area Morkel. Beautiful find and capture.
Bob

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on April 11, 2011 at 10:27 PM

Sweet! I like this one eve better.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on April 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM

thanks for the responses!

Floris - I have that kind of shot as well from this session...will have to process sometime.

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on April 13, 2011 at 2:14 PM

What a gorgeous landscape Morkel, amazing looking sky.

Gary.

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