Sunset above the fog

WOW....

What beautiful colors...as only Velvia can give!!!!

Makes me want to be there!!!!

Cheers,

Mark in Austin

Not only the colors, but also the texture of clouds are breath-taking.

Simply stunning Dan!

A grad might have made it even better as you say but its a pretty darn awesome shot as is

Intense colors, beatiful clouds. Foreground is a little dark, but it's a great image none-the-less.

I agree about the 1-stop grad, but what a sky! Gorgeous color and pattern.

See, I even knew before the image came up that it would be stunning. And I was right. I love the colors in the sky and the moody landscape below.

Dan,

Wonderful, as always!

I agree with the grad suggestion. In its absense I would consider cropping a tad off the bottom to loose some of the dark area.

Anders

A truly amazing sky. Well done.

--Kerry

Dan,

This is the second time I am viewing this image. The first time was on an unclibrated LCD screen so I did not want to comment on it. NOw that I see it on my monitor, WOW I love the dramatic light and the very interesting cloud formations. It has a lot of interesting stuff going on in it, yet it all seems to wrk together perfectly. Really captures the environment well.

Dan,

A ND might make it different but it looks great the way it is. The colors and the layers all combine perfectly.

Wow, what intense colors!

Dan, this is outstanding. One of the things I am discovering with LF photography is the incredible detail in clouds. It seems like a silly thing, and of course I am always taken by the detail all over the LF transparency, but for some reason the huge difference in detail in the *clouds* really took me by surprise.

Now that you know how I feel about LF clouds, you can guess that I like this shot . I think this is one where the detail would just be awesome, and you can even see it here in the web size. Terrific!

The sky is amazing. Have you tried dodging the foreground to see if you can pull more detail?

Guy

Guy Tal wrote:The sky is amazing. Have you tried dodging the foreground to see if you can pull more detail?

Guy

Thanks. I selected the foregournd and created an adjustment layer. In lightening it I started to loose the blacks of the trees and such. I need to work on it some more.

- Dan.

Very cool

Dan,

This is phenominal and impressive. It must be a relatively new shot, since it is on your 4x5, but I haven't seen it before. You mentioned using a 1 stop GND, but you should be able to pull 1 stop worth of info out of the shadows. That sky is a killer and much bolder than anything I have seen in your coastal shots. Are these coastal hills, or is this up in the mountains?

John

John Zinn wrote:Dan,

This is phenominal and impressive. It must be a relatively new shot, since it is on your 4x5, but I haven't seen it before. You mentioned using a 1 stop GND, but you should be able to pull 1 stop worth of info out of the shadows. That sky is a killer and much bolder than anything I have seen in your coastal shots. Are these coastal hills, or is this up in the mountains?

John

Thank you. It is recent. I shot it last week. I already lightened the foreground here. I worked on it some more and I brought out about a stop or more in the fog. I never bothered to repost it since the photo was getting near the bottom of the page. There's a lot of detail in those 4x5 transparancies. I never would have thought I could get so much out of it.

This was shot facing northeast. I don't know what the sky was like in the west because a couldn't get a vantage point above the fog facing west. These are coastal hills facing east. We usually don't have cloud formations like this but it was odd weather. It was also quite humid for the west coast.

- Dan.

Dan,

Thanks for the info. Way to just be there, not knowing what you might get because of the fog. I still can't get over the colors in the clouds and the sky!! Here in the East, I have seen sunsets like this but have never captured one. This shot embodies many "mental photographs" I have. It must truly blow you over on the lightbox. I would love to have this one with my other 4x5's.

John