Salida del Sol Sobre El Volcán Arenal
by glockguy

Comment by Kirito:
Lovely shot! Nice work

banana
by glockguy

Comment by Leo:
10. Must be your prelude to the banana challenge ;)

River-w-Milky-Way
by glockguy

Comment by glockguy:
Hey there!

Thanks so much for the input! You know how after you stare at a photo for so long, sometimes you can't see it anymore?

Anyways, I cannot lie, that is a composite of two different photos. I took the sky in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta and I took the river shot in Ya Ha Tinda, also in Alberta.

I thought that the river shot was what the Milky Way shot i already ha needed...

I LOVE what you did and will be further editing it when I get back to my home CPU....travelling for work all the time takes its toll on my ability to satisfy my photography obsession....

In any event, thanks again, and I will share with you my next iteration....if you have the time, I would love some more input. I plan on printing this for display in my great room at home...

TTYL

Al

River-w-Milky-Way
by glockguy

Comment by bassbone:
Al, first off...that is one amazing sky! Where was this taken?

Things I see about the image:
1) the sky is the real subject of this image IMO and I think it needs to have more than 25-50% of the real estate. Did you take any other images where the sky is a much bigger portion of the scene? This iamge seems to be looking straight ahead up the river bed, and I think some looking up more would even be more dramatic.

See the recent Blue Ribbon winner for what I am talking about - the sky is the star - and the horizon is very low indeed.


2) As with many landscapes, centered horizons seem to be give a very static look. Placing the horizon at the bottom third would help out with point 1.

2) the foreground seems a bit cluttered to me. I can see why the logs are of interest to you, but the bottom of the image is distracting to the overall scene. One way to fix this would be to crop the bottom of the image a bit. This might also help you with removing the centered horizon.

3) I do like how you framed the sky and edges of the scene with the pine trees on each side. , but it seems like there was even more 'height' in the trees that you could have used to extend it up to the sky more.

4) The image is quite a bit underexposed. A minor adjustment of Levels (see below) can bring a lot more finish to the image, allowing the foreground to be seen while preserving the night time feel.

I hope you don't mind but tried a quick edit on this by adjusting the levels (moved the midpoint from 1.00 to 1.15 and whites from 255 to 200.) This allowed the stars in the sky to be a bit brighter and the foreground to brighten as well. Second, I tried a crop to frame the sky with the pines even more and cropped out the low foreground to move the horizon down a bit. And third, I added a bit more sky into the image to show see what it might look like with a higher perspective. The crop isn't great and it is a bit elongated in the horizontal direction, but it gives you the idea.



Message edited by author 2012-09-09 06:53:02.

Fire Over The Badlands
by glockguy

Comment by Gordon_1:
Good composition too get this effect from the stars ...nicely done ..

Fire Over The Badlands
by glockguy

Comment by blindjustice:
Like Kokopelli or some similar spirit dancing in the night sky.

Fire Over The Badlands
by glockguy

Comment by sophiawood:
We are breathing some of this smoke this month. Beautiful shot - 10

Helmcken Falls
by glockguy

Comment by antje1777:
That's beautiful!Ansel Adams would be proud of you... :)


Message edited by author 2012-08-24 01:57:08.

GO CANADA
by glockguy

Comment by Gordon_1:
Nice composition i dont feel its as sharp as should be i like the colors they work well

Memphis Belle
by glockguy

Comment by Art Roflmao:
One of my top picks. Great job, excellent finish.