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 07/30/2005 01:44:54 AM · #1
A couple from Provincetown Harbor today...





Robt.
 07/30/2005 02:50:38 AM · #2
WOW...STUNNING pictues bear. I mainly photograph landscapes so they are of particular interest to me. But this one just blows them all away! A truly gorgeous scene, expertly executed. Wonderful job on this one, I'm adding the first shot to my favorites.

Message edited by author 2005-07-30 03:13:59.
 07/30/2005 09:39:10 AM · #3
Thanks, Justin. And bump for the day crowd...

Robt.
 07/30/2005 09:46:30 AM · #4
Both are great pictures but #1 is my favorite. The lines grab my attention from the U shaped rock formation to the S shaped water trails. The color is great along with lighting. The sky is great with the wind swept clouds and I love the wide angle with consistent focus.
 07/30/2005 09:47:33 AM · #5
very cool shots!
 07/30/2005 11:39:31 AM · #6
Add another from the same series, slightly different location. Shot with 70-200 f/4.0 at 70mm.



Robt.
 07/30/2005 12:10:29 PM · #7
Nice shots Robert. That first one would have been great for the Leading Lines challenge. Not sure about the vignetting though. It works with the lines, but I think the image would have been better without it. Did you add that on purpose?
 07/30/2005 01:10:47 PM · #8
Originally posted by micknewton:
Nice shots Robert. That first one would have been great for the Leading Lines challenge. Not sure about the vignetting though. It works with the lines, but I think the image would have been better without it. Did you add that on purpose?


If you mean the change in tonal values of the sky upper left, that's a natural by-product of the extreme wide angle. The sky's significantly different across the full width of nearly 100 degrees of angular coverage.

Here's a similar shot framed vertically at 17mm instead of 10mm.



Robt.
 07/30/2005 03:15:01 PM · #9
Left a comment and a question.
 07/30/2005 04:38:08 PM · #10
Originally posted by jbsmithana:
Left a comment and a question.


He was referencing this image:

The comment/question was: "Gorgeous Bear! Love the tonal range in this. Any special processing or filter use?"

The image was processed from RAW to tiff: here's the original tiif:

Care was taken that the raw conversion to tiff had full tonality throughout. It was saved as a psd file to edit. The entire sky was selected and the selection was saved. Sky and foreground were edited separately, with levels and hue/saturation. Sky was given substantial additional contrast and saturation, and also the blue/cyan channels were darkened in hue/saturation.

The foreground hue/saturation adjustments included heavy saturation of red and yellow channels, then lightening of the yellow channel and darkening of the red channel. A neutral-to-transparent overlay gradient was applied to the near foreground and faded to burn down the values there and contain the image.

USM was used at the last stage, and the image was resized for web.

Robt.




07/30/2005 04:41:46 PM · #11
Astounding shots. I was in Provincetown last year and my eye never saw anything as stunning as this. Well done.
 07/30/2005 05:50:29 PM · #12
Thanks for the details Robert.
 07/30/2005 05:56:24 PM · #13
Bear, don't you just love your Canon 10-22mm? I know I love mine...
 07/30/2005 06:28:39 PM · #14
Amazing shots. Thanks for posting the before picture... it's seeing that kind of stuff that helps me the most.

Message edited by author 2005-07-30 18:28:53.
 07/30/2005 06:46:02 PM · #15
Just Awesome. I love those shots.
 07/30/2005 07:18:51 PM · #16
Beautiful Robert. Thanks also for posting the processing. Question: how are you doing the selections? The sky by color? The ground by a simple rectangular selection? Do you always do those particoular color adjustments, or just in a case by case basis? (If not, I am just curious how you decided what to do!)

07/30/2005 07:55:48 PM · #17
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Beautiful Robert. Thanks also for posting the processing. Question: how are you doing the selections? The sky by color? The ground by a simple rectangular selection? Do you always do those particoular color adjustments, or just in a case by case basis? (If not, I am just curious how you decided what to do!)


Magic wand selection on the original, applied twice left and right, sufficed to get the horizon nice and clean. Rectangular marquee added everything else to the selection of sky. Foreground selection was simply the inverse of the sky selection. Feathering was 2 pixels. This was an eay one to do the selection on; sometimes it's a lot harder.

In general, I work on all my landscapes with a sky selection and an inverted sky selection. When there are trees, it gets much more difficult to do precisely.

Robt.
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