Misty sunrise

[Chataignier]

Already late for an appointment, I had no time to set up a tripod, so this was 4 shots hand held : -1 stop compensation for the sun, 0 compensation, +1 stop and + 2 stops for the fields and trees, later combined in LR as HDR.
It seems my aim was quite steady, no alignment problems !

[Urbanflyer]

Already late for an appointment, I had no time to set up a tripod, so this was 4 shots hand held : -1 stop compensation for the sun, 0 compensation, +1 stop and + 2 stops for the fields and trees, later combined in LR as HDR.
It seems my aim was quite steady, no alignment problems !

wonderful sky!

[DanK]

A very nice image. I'm amazed that you were able to bracket hand-held. I doubt I could have.

A couple of suggestions. The first is to play with white balance. It's always a matter of taste how one does sunset and sunrise shots, but this seems cold to me, with a slight magenta cast, which makes the grass look drab. Here's a version with +15 green on the magenta-green axis in photoshop and -6 toward yellow. It's just to illustrate the issue.



You also have some corner vignetting, oddly more on the left than the right. Didn't know whether that's intentional or from not applying a lens correction.

[Chataignier]

Thanks Dan, interesting your idea to tweak the white balance - I'll have a try with the original. As for the vignetting, it's intentional, I generally apply a bit to landscape shots, I find it helps frame the image.

Regarding bracketing hand held, I have trick that works for me : I line up one of the "rule of thirds" cross hair intersections in the viewfinder with a defined point in the shot, in this case one of the fence posts bottom left. That enables me to find the same point repeatedly with a fair degree of success. I find less than 1 in 10 of my hand-held efforts gives alignment problems.

[DanK]

Thanks for the tip. I’ll try it.


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[lovelife65]

While this is a really nice scene for an image, and Dan's edit adds some nice oomph, the blown out sun is so big I find myself looking at it more than what I feel I should. I think it would almost be better with a good crop to take out the sun, leaving the landscape and fog. While I'm just a pure amateur, so take this with a grain of salt

[Polar01]

I like the originals' green field as to my eye that grass has a heavy dew on it.

Cheers: Allan

[Wavelength]

Very nice image; yes, the sky has some interesting constitution of clouds and colours.