Desert Tree - Comments Please

[KWM]

NIKON D5200
f/10 1/80 18 mm ISO200

Cropped and PP done.

This was the golden hour and the pictures in this time have this reddish golden tint. What shoud I do with the WB settings in the golden hours?

[JBW]

NIKON D5200
f/10 1/80 18 mm ISO200

Cropped and PP done.

This was the golden hour and the pictures in this time have this reddish golden tint. What shoud I do with the WB settings in the golden hours?

auto is good. but if your camera allows you to set it why not shoot a few different settings just to see how it looks .

[Manfred M]

Tayyeb - The beauty (and difficulty) is shooting at golden hour is that you are really shooting in a mixed lighting setting. Mixed lighting is when you have more than one source of light, and the light sources have significantly different colour temperatures.

In the period just after sunrise or just before sunset, on those clear cloudless days you have the rapidly changing colour temperature of the sun (low K values) near the horizon as well as the light bouncing down from the blue sky (high K values). WB is meaningless in a mixed lighting setting, as you can only choose a single value. If you are shooting jpegs, try different settings to see which one works for you and if you are shooting raw you can pick just about any value you like. The daylight, cloudy or shade settings will tend to give you the beautifully warm colours a lot of people associate with pictures taken at those times of the day.

You might want to have a look here as well:

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tu...calculator.htm

[rpcrowe]

Shoot in RAW and then adjust the color balance to anyway you like it in Adobe Camera RAW... Accuracy is not a prime factor. An image that is pleasing to you and perhaps to others should be your aim

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Tayyeb,

I don't think the part bush in the lower right corner is helping the composition, it takes the eye out of the image - personally; I'd have been tempted to either include all of it, or crop it off in PP.

I suspect your composition is determined by the desire to include your (I assume) truck and tracks in the picture, plus of course, having stitched a panorama, it seems sacrilege to then crop half of it off

The truck does give a good sense of scale to the image - I wouldn't have expected the ridge it is on to be that far away!


I can live with the WB you have presented here and others have already given the same advice I would.


Hope those thoughts are helpful, Dave

[daviddowns2000]

I like the interesting juxtaposition of scale of the vehicle and the tree but the vegetation at lower right is a distraction to me. I would crop out the right side of the image to near the right-most branches of the tree. You don't have to be a slave to it, but the "rule of thirds" works for a lot of images. Also, I really think this could be outstanding in B&W!

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[KWM]

Hello,
Thanks for the feedback guys, will try out the suggestions about composition and WB as I have the RAW file available i think.

@Dave this is not a stitched panorama. The panorama was posted in another thread.

Thank you.