Big Sur Evening


Posted by Jens Peermann on Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:52 pm

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Yesterday evening at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in California.

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by E.J. Peiker on Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:33 am
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Arctic Nevada??? :D

Such a beautiful place and a nice photo with very rich clors in the water and sky. The land on the left (tree) and the top of the ridge on the right seem a bit dark. GND's don't work that well when you have something going to the top of the frame. It does give it a more classic old school look but I think this might have been better witha multiple exposure technique to prevent the top of the land from getting too dense.
 

by Mark Picard on Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:11 am
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Jens - in addition to this image did you happen to take this without any grad ND filters? If you did, it would be an easy fix in something like NIK Vivesa. Each area could be adjusted to your liking using some type of plug-in software like that. I agree with E.J. and I also think that the water is presented much too bright for what the scene actually was compared to the sky (which should have the brightest light). The image also appears to be over saturated to my eye.....all easy fixes to a pretty spot you have found and nicely photographed.
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by John Labrenz on Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:23 am
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A beautiful sunset.
I agree with the comments re the grad and using a multiple exposure technique to avoid darkening of the trees/land masses.
 

by patacao on Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:51 am
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Nice framing, rich and satured colors. Agreed with the GND´s comment, you could have mixed a SE GND with a HE GND, balancing a bit more the exposure.
 

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