Re: Learning Landscapes - Please post your BIG picture dramatic landscape images
With these two landscapes, I was fortunate enough to have a person to provide a sense of scale. The camera used was a Minolta A1 P&S.
Both from Denali Nat'l Park in Alaska:
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Denali National Park by gmontjr, on Flickr
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Denali National Park by gmontjr, on Flickr
Re: Learning Landscapes - Please post your BIG picture dramatic landscape images
Absolutely gorgeous! The person definitely adds to the sense of scale. I spent a couple of nights in Denali, alas at the time I wasn't serious about my photography. I hope to visit again one day. Gorgeous scenery which you have captured beautifully. Amazing detail.
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Re: Learning Landscapes - Please post your BIG picture dramatic landscape images
Thank you, Christina. What an amazing place.
Re: Learning Landscapes - Please post your BIG picture dramatic landscape images
Christina, I'm not sure if this meets your criteria, and it's certainly not as spectacular as some others.
However, for me it evokes a mood; the lowering cloud, the Loch disappearing into the murky west, the surrounding hills adding a sense of remoteness.
Loch Tay, Perthshire. EOS450D, 17-85mm lens, 1/125 f7.1 -0.7 compensation
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Magog
Christina, I'm not sure if this meets your criteria, and it's certainly not as spectacular as some others.
However, for me it evokes a mood; the lowering cloud, the Loch disappearing into the murky west, the surrounding hills adding a sense of remoteness.
Loch Tay, Perthshire. EOS450D, 17-85mm lens, 1/125 f7.1 -0.7 compensation
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http://i39.tinypic.com/10xerte.jpg[/IMG]
I like it.
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Hi John,
It's a beautiful scene of a grand vista and I think it is very nice. Beautifully composed, and an image I can learn from. Thank you for sharing.
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Magog
Christina, I'm not sure if this meets your criteria, and it's certainly not as spectacular as some others.
However, for me it evokes a mood; the lowering cloud, the Loch disappearing into the murky west, the surrounding hills adding a sense of remoteness.
Loch Tay, Perthshire. EOS450D, 17-85mm lens, 1/125 f7.1 -0.7 compensation
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http://i39.tinypic.com/10xerte.jpg[/IMG]
Re: Learning Landscapes - Please post your BIG picture dramatic landscape images
Just a temporary return back to learning post processing (me) using curves and local contrast enhancement.
Mike and John,
Following are my attempts using the curves tool to selectively increase contrast (in the trees and the clouds), and local contrast enhancement (also selectively)... The first image is a from a darker exposure of the same scene (for the clouds and I also warmed the trees on the right) and the second version is a from a lighter version of the scene. Local contrast enhancement seemed to make the most difference to the image.
1.
http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...editcc-002.jpg
2.
http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...editcc-002.jpg
I can't say that I like either of them but I do think they show improvement that will help me the next time I photograph this scene in better light and with a nicer composition. It was a great exercise in post processing and learning and understanding the curves tool. Thank you to both.
Folks please keep posting your dramatic landscapes. They are a pleasure to view!
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Christina, I am not sure whether these qualify. The first one was taken in the Indonesian islands and I was in a somewhat distressed state having just climbed the hill. The second was taken in Patagonia about 10 years ago with a non-SLR camera. They could be criticised for not being creative, just records of what was there.
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Thank you for sharing.
I think the first image is stunningly beautiful, and that the 2nd image is very nice.
Please Note: There are no criteria or qualifying except that it is a big picture landscape. Keep them coming.
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Christina, I am not sure whether these qualify. The first one was taken in the Indonesian islands and I was in a somewhat distressed state having just climbed the hill. The second was taken in Patagonia about 10 years ago with a non-SLR camera. They could be criticised for not being creative, just records of what was there.
Re: Learning Landscapes - Please post your BIG picture dramatic landscape images
i got myself some Cheepo filters to do some seascape images in March, i'll be going to the coast. and i'll prob suck at it cos i havent taken 1 Image of landscape or seascape ever!!! but...i have dun a little reading, maybe not enuff.. but , from what i;'ve read, (again please correct if i'm wrong) but there seems to be a lack of foreground interest in alot of these images?? i thought thats what land or seascape images need?
In fact..for someone thats not learned in this area..the one image that caught my eye was the one with the 2 ladies (even though u see 1) standing on the beach?
Rod's images i think it is..
Am i wrong? if so..so be it :)
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Christina I see that you took some off the top, when you have big sky as you did the 1 problem I saw from my way of thinking was the very top was uninteresting. All the drama was in the lower 2/3's of the frame, I redid your original post with a crop somewhat like you own, however finished in my reality (6 days ago) but did not post it as at the time you were not going in that direction. This is what my reality would look like with your image.
Cheers: Allan
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Hi Allan,
Thank you for sharing and showing me this. I will visit this place again for another try and your image is very helpful to see. I like your version the best. And when I try this scene again I will have a far better idea of the final image in my head.
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Christina I see that you took some off the top, when you have big sky as you did the 1 problem I saw from my way of thinking was the very top was uninteresting. All the drama was in the lower 2/3's of the frame, I redid your original post with a crop somewhat like you own, however finished in my reality (6 days ago) but did not post it as at the time you were not going in that direction. This is what my reality would look like with your image.
Cheers: Allan
http://i43.tinypic.com/2e0ip06.jpg
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ClaudioG
from what i;'ve read, (again please correct if i'm wrong) but there seems to be a lack of foreground interest in alot of these images?? i thought thats what land or seascape images need?
That depends entirely on the scene. Some beautiful scenes have no or little foreground, so to speak, because of the perspective. Scenes that are expansive indicate their expanse partly because there is so little foreground interest.
You are correct, though, that the foreground can add both interest and a three-dimensional look to the image.
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Here are two more, Christina. Your thread has caused me to realize that I really, really like landscape photography.
This was taken in 2003 in Roy, Utah, using my first digicam, an HP PhotoSmart 618 that my wife had given me for Christmas. A 3.1Mp P&S. Still have it. :)
f/2.4, 1/139s, ISO 100
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2752/4...07a25728_z.jpg
Utah by gmontjr, on Flickr
This one was taken in 2009 on Orcas Island, in the San Juans off the coast of Washington. Mt. Baker is in the background. I used my D90 with the 18-105mm kit lens.
f/19, 1/180s, ISO 200
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2650/4...58c7ff96_z.jpg
Orcas Island, WA by gmontjr, on Flickr
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I know I've seen landscape images that are vast and all encompassing of an overwhelmingly gorgeous scene but for some reason these scenes are difficult to photograph and I can't figure it out.
So I would like to ask those with beautiful BIG picture scenes to share them, with a number of scenes within a scene, ideally with a comment as to why the image works
Such a good question and such a helpful thread. My thought on this is that as far as "number of scenes within a scene" one still has to decide what the subject of the image is - I think it's very hard to have more than one in an image that works well.
This is an example of a "big landscape" in an image where the big scale stuff provides the setting for the frosted streamside vegetation and its reflection, which is the subject. (At least that is what I intended - perhaps did not completely succeed at it). In other landscapes one sees the foreground/near material as anchoring, grounding or setting up the frame for the big vastnesses (landforms, clouds) - so in these cases the near material is subserving and supporting the large scale material.
So I am suggesting, for the sake of my own edification, and may be corrected on this, that one has to decide what the image is of, and try to set it up so that is evident to the viewer when all is said and done.
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