The Tree sunrise...

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Two images from Saturday mornings sunrise at a local dead tree....it was quite an atomic sunrise, and this first shot has been toned down a lot. The second image is probably my favourite image from the morning...

The Tree sunrise by Martin Steele, on Flickr

The Tree by Martin Steele, on Flickr
 
Maybe it's flickr, but I feel that you've pushed these just a little too hard to make them pop & recover shadows, Martin. Potentially nice pics though.
 
Both stunning images my friend ! In their own rights ....
 
holty said:
both images are lovely
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ihasa said:
No. 2 for me.
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Mark twiglet said:
Both stunning images my friend ! In their own rights ....
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jpgreenwood said:
I am in Awe!! That is all!
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Thanks folks :)


SFTPhotography said:
Second one. Better and simpler composition
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I wholeheartedly agree mate, cheers :)

ancient_mariner said:
Maybe it's flickr, but I feel that you've pushed these just a little too hard to make them pop & recover shadows, Martin. Potentially nice pics though.
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I'm not sure where you're seeing signs of too much shadow recovery? Yeah they have been lifted a wee bit on the first image, I was shooting right into the light after all, but there's certainly not too much...the grass is toned down (still working on hitting the greens right since the switch to Sony, as they always seem to come out almost toxic) which looks like it was recovered maybe? It wasn't pushed either, it was actually desaturated as it was an extreme sunrise to say the least.

The second image had minimal shadow recovery, had +9 on vibrance and then just worked with contrast, it certainly hasn't been "pushed" to pop though, not by a long shot :)

I'd be interested to hear more if you care to Toni? Thanks :)
 
Number 2 for me but both are up there,
any chance of sharing the location as I'm up north in a few weeks and still looking for a few more tree for my ARPS
 
Thanks for explaining Martin. In the first image I'd have expected a significantly darker foreground for a sky with that intensity of colour, and the colours of the sky look *to me* like they're over-saturated to lose detail. In the second, the main tree trunk is oddly pale compared to the branches and the green grass & pink cloud together looked like a slider had been pushed a bit too far.

This is my perception: others have commented quite differently. You were there and know what the scene looked like, so are in a better place than me to assess how best to process. FWIW I found with Sony that my natural inclination was for a brighter, more colourful image, while with Nikon I tend to generally feel happier with a softer image. Hope this is useful. :)
 
ancient_mariner said:
Thanks for explaining Martin. In the first image I'd have expected a significantly darker foreground for a sky with that intensity of colour, and the colours of the sky look *to me* like they're over-saturated to lose detail. In the second, the main tree trunk is oddly pale compared to the branches and the green grass & pink cloud together looked like a slider had been pushed a bit too far.

This is my perception: others have commented quite differently. You were there and know what the scene looked like, so are in a better place than me to assess how best to process. FWIW I found with Sony that my natural inclination was for a brighter, more colourful image, while with Nikon I tend to generally feel happier with a softer image. Hope this is useful. :)
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Much appreciated Toni, thank you. The foreground was slightly darker on the first image, to which I lifted it a quarter of a stop in post. The sky itself, there's been no vibrance or saturation added, and no detail loss as it was quite a soft sky but with masses of colour.

The second image, I see what you mean about the branches looking darker than the trunk, and the smaller size of image posted doesn't help that, in fact it seems to accentuate it, where the full size image the branches are significantly lighter as you can see more of it, if that makes any sense at all. The only colour saturation in this image was I added about +10 in both the reds and magentas to make the cloud just that slightly bit more saturated. The greens weren't touched in this image (see my comment earlier about greens looking almost toxic lol).

That's an interesting point you make from Sony to Nikon. I switched from Canon and find that the Sony produces much less vibrant images than the Canon ever did. Thanks again, much appreciated :)


zeb said:
Number 2 for me but both are up there,
any chance of sharing the location as I'm up north in a few weeks and still looking for a few more tree for my ARPS
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Thank you Trevor, I'll send you a PM :)
 
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