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Posted by Anders on Fri Sep 05, 2003 11:45 pm

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This image was taken just after my previous post which focused closer on the intimate details of the sunlit fog. Here I zoomed out to capture the bigger picture.

As always, I greatly appreciate your honest critique which helps me learn, so please hammer on! Reposts welcome.

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by Campbell on Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:19 am
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WOW! I mean exactly WOW! Excellent photo.
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by Ken Cravillion on Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:27 am
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Nice. I would crop a bit of the empty sky though.
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by robert hasty on Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:35 am
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Sorry all, but im just going to add another huge WOW :shock: !!!!!

Anders, my favorite of yours yet. This is very nice, i wouldnt touch it, seems perfectly symetrical cropped or FF as is!! Congrats!!

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by Roger Rouch on Sat Sep 06, 2003 8:26 am
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Beautiful! We don't get too many scenes like this out my way, and it is pleasant to see. By my eyes a crop to the upper portion would crowd the sun. Did you use a GND for this?
 

by Rich S on Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:17 am
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Hadn't seen your prior post and just checked that one out as well. Very, very different moods in the two shots. Both very well done. Wouldn't change a thing here. Cropping at the top IMO would move the sun and clouds too high. When the image first started to appear, my thought was "airplane shot." I think keeping the clouds low in the frame really sets this one off. You don't expect a wonderful sunrise with an open field AND looking down on the clouds. Only suggestion would be if you could just slightly darken those distant moutains.

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by Anders on Sat Sep 06, 2003 11:25 am
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Thanks a lot for the comments this far. I really appreciate them, as I struggle a lot to objectively assess my own images.


Roger,

I did not use an ND filter. I found from the histogram in the camera that I could cover the whole tonal range with one exposure (well, almost - a smaller part of the sun was hot, but I figured that would be ok).

In PS I did however apply a mask to the area above the clouds which allowed me to darken that area selectively, so there is a bit of ND effect present in the image.

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by E.J. Peiker on Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:22 pm
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This is really cool. Very nice shot!
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by Kerry on Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:08 am
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Very, very nice. I wouldn't crop this either; I find the blank space here actually serves as an apt contrast to the fog/cloud layer and the details below. Excellent work.

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by Bob Ettinger on Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:16 pm
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Anders,

No nits here, great one.
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by Dan Baumbach on Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:31 pm
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Very nice. I'm getting tired of all this coastal fog we're having. I was in Tucson this weekend and it was nice to shoot something else. Supposedly it will be clear by the middle of the week. I'm going to shoot some seascapes.

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by thapamd on Sun Sep 07, 2003 10:42 pm
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My goodness, Anders...now that is a shot! Breathtaking...the light is absolutely perfect!
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by Lillian Roberts on Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:07 pm
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I like this a lot! It works for me cropped or not.

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by T Williams on Tue Sep 09, 2003 8:08 pm
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This is excellent! I like it as is, and would also like a cropped version too. This is really very nice.
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