Straight from the camera

[Michael K. Carberry]

No post at all.Well?

 

[Asher Kelman]

No post at all.Well?

Michael,

An photograph with a lot of mood that gets ones interest immediately. I commend you for sensing this scene would be so impressive with the long shadows marking out the features in such an effective way. This is a satisfying experience and, as you say, it's right out the camera. Kudos!

Now what's next, the work of making this into a strong image for printing?

The question I have, (besides the obvious ideas one might have on the extraneous cable above the setting sun), is this. Do you really need the sky above the sun? IOW, just the part that's red and a tad more give the idea of the sun going down on this scene and the 3/4" above that seem to me to take away from the scene itself as the blue does catch ones eye. However, does it do anything for the dynamics of everything below. I don't think so.

Thanks so much for sharing.

Asher

 

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

No post at all.Well?

Hi Michael,

To me it demonstrates that we need to help most images with some postprocessing. All technicalities about composition and color aside, here is a very crude attempt to bring out more of the shadow and landscape structures and letting the light sculpt the terrain:

Image Copyright Michael K. Carberry, postprocessed by BvdW​

The processing is a bit over the top, and of course based on your posted JPEG, just to make the point clear that postprocessing can dramatically change the way an image looks. I only adjusted the tonality an some sharpening.

Cheers,
Bart

 

[Michael K. Carberry]

Well here's where I went with it.It was shot with a Nikon Coolpix 4300 in sunset mode and the post was done on my iMac with iPhoto5.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Well here's where I went with it.It was shot with a Nikon Coolpix 4300 in sunset mode and the post was done on my iMac with iPhoto5.

Michael,

A bold step indeed! You have clearly put the focus on the undulating ground lit by the shallow angle of the fading light. I might have keep just another tiny tad of sky to allow a band to go across as opposed to an almost thin line. It's generous for you to share the original picture as shot.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

All technicalities about composition and color aside, here is a very crude attempt to bring out more of the shadow and landscape structures and letting the light sculpt the terrain:

Image Copyright Michael K. Carberry, postprocessed by BvdW​

Bart,

This s a perfect example of the truth of the matter that we need to not rely on what the camera delivers when we take pictures unless we are shooting for product catalogs or a wedding where there's a standard workflow that one's lab can efficiently do according to one's tried and true formula. For artistic work, we should be able to process the potential image following the ideas we can imagine.

Here is a clear case where the feelings we experience can be altered just be changing the distribution of shading. I believe that if one does not invest n thinking about this for each image, one loses a lot.

Asher