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« on: April 14, 2012, 01:38:22 PM » |
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Sunset over the endless, grassy steppe near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
Multi-shot panorama taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
Original, unprocessed image also attached.
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shadowblade
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2012, 01:41:11 PM » |
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Pity about the aliasing when downsizing for web...
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SAMurray
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2012, 05:06:50 PM » |
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Stunning,
I bet this would look amazing on a large print!
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Justan
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« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2012, 08:32:26 AM » |
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Gorgeous.
A tribute to the power of panos. Anyone with auditory synesthesia would be either holding their ears or in a trance after viewing this.
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Walt Roycraft
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« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2012, 03:33:08 PM » |
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Holly crap!!! You got to be kidding me!!!
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« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2012, 04:49:16 AM » |
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Francois
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« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2012, 08:04:33 AM » |
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Compositionally, I'd like to see more at the bottom - in particular, I'd like to see the complete intersection of the two ridges.
However, for my own tastes, it's overcooked.
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shadowblade
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« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2012, 12:48:54 PM » |
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Compositionally, I'd like to see more at the bottom - in particular, I'd like to see the complete intersection of the two ridges.
However, for my own tastes, it's overcooked.
How much more? It'd be easily re-cropped. I tried to keep around 1/3 as land and 2/3 as sky. |
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Enda Cavanagh
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« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2012, 02:41:57 PM » |
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Lovely image but it does look over cooked IMO.The photo has a nice balance with 2/3 given to the sky but maybe just add a wee bit on the bottom so that the bottom 2 contours run into each other with the left counter overlap running on just a wee bit.
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Slobodan Blagojevic
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« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2012, 03:21:11 PM » |
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When "overcooking" is intentional, then it is not overcooked, imho. It appears (again, to me) that the intention was not a forensic, documentary record of the sunset, but rather a strong graphical interpretation of it. And it is precisely that strong graphical interpretation that caused my initial excited reaction: I have rarely seen such a fresh and bold interpretation of the ubiquitous, done-to-death subject. In the HDR era, with its lets-open-every-shadow-we-can-think-of mantra, it is a welcome change to see someone boldly go in the opposite direction. The inclusion of overlapping dunes, the very uniqueness of that pattern, makes the picture and adds that otherworldly, Martian sensation. Despite the overall strong contrast, the transition from the highlights to the darkness appears gentle and gradual. Would it help to see a bit more at the bottom? Perhaps... if for no other reason, than to satisfy the perfectionists, nit-pickers and anal-retentives among us  ... but it is already quite good as-is. |
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« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2012, 02:50:12 AM » |
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When "overcooking" is intentional, then it is not overcooked, imho. It appears (again, to me) that the intention was not a forensic, documentary record of the sunset, but rather a strong graphical interpretation of it. And it is precisely that strong graphical interpretation that caused my initial excited reaction: I have rarely seen such a fresh and bold interpretation of the ubiquitous, done-to-death subject. In the HDR era, with its lets-open-every-shadow-we-can-think-of mantra, it is a welcome change to see someone boldly go in the opposite direction. The inclusion of overlapping dunes, the very uniqueness of that pattern, makes the picture and adds that otherworldly, Martian sensation. Despite the overall strong contrast, the transition from the highlights to the darkness appears gentle and gradual. Would it help to see a bit more at the bottom? Perhaps... if for no other reason, than to satisfy the perfectionists, nit-pickers and anal-retentives among us ... but it is already quite good as-is. Spot on, Slobodan. Apart from the "quite". Jeremy |
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Enda Cavanagh
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« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2012, 04:19:09 AM » |
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Slobodan. Thanks for your "words of wisdom" but I completely understand what the photographer has aimed to achieve and I love the strong graphic composition. However I believe the clouds at the top of the image look overcooked and look far to chunky. From a guess he has possibly increased the structure in Nik software or some similar software to increase the local contrast and I think he has gone a bit too far.
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« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2012, 05:01:33 AM » |
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Beautyfull !
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shadowblade
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« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2012, 08:34:21 AM » |
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I think a lot of this has to do with JPEG compression and downsizing - there was actually no local contrast enhancement applied to the sky, since it looked contrasty enough as it was.
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« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2012, 02:04:09 AM » |
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Stunning, all the pictures you posted here are amazing, I'm drolling... I think a lot of this has to do with JPEG compression and downsizing - there was actually no local contrast enhancement applied to the sky, since it looked contrasty enough as it was.
Looking at your images here, I would say there is a problem with aliasing during the downsizing; just my two cents. |
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« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2012, 10:51:38 PM » |
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And it is precisely that strong graphical interpretation that caused my initial excited reaction: I have rarely seen such a fresh and bold interpretation of the ubiquitous, done-to-death subject. In the HDR era, with its lets-open-every-shadow-we-can-think-of mantra, it is a welcome change to see someone boldly go in the opposite direction.
I don't get the need to always open up shadows. Sometimes the shadow is there for a reason and perhaps should even be darker. Quite often the opening up of shadows with HDR takes away beauty and/or how natural it looks. What I'm curious about in this picture is if it is actually grass mounds or more of the desert and the colour just hides the sand/grass? |
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« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2012, 06:41:18 AM » |
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What I'm curious about in this picture is if it is actually grass mounds or more of the desert and the colour just hides the sand/grass?
Yes, I also would like to know whether the dune lining show actual detail of grass in the full res image. Would it be possible to show a small crop of the full res image? |
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« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2012, 07:35:04 PM » |
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Wow. That's gorgeous! I bet it didn't look exactly like that in person, but I like what you've done with it.
I am also bothered by the lines running out of the bottom of the frame. I'd like to see another 10% or so at the bottom; assuming there's solid black at some point below the lines.
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