An early morning in winter. The COLD, CALM and CONNECTION is still remembered. A year old image through old crop gear and kit Lense, touched-up again.
Processed only in PS. Its often considered unimportant (and cliche) to have such sun-rise "picture post-cards". But I think all photographic journey shall pass through these to higher including mine.
Welcoming Critical comments. Thanks.
It's a really great image, but I'm not such a fan of the frame.
I studied the pic for some time and realized the depth that this image has. I like the work.
Thanks Bruce.
I think this is lovely Vijay. There could be some that comment on the moon (or sun?) being burned out but I don't belong to that camp.
For me the scene looks natural and atmospheric, which is why you come back to it. Well done!
Thanks Alan.
Intentionally treated Sun in total highlight. the coloured image had yellow and orange + chromatic abbration which was giving strange tones in BW. Also while trying out different versions, image with only reflections was looking incomplete and it wanted to lead to a strong focal element.
Though am not happy with the rings around the sun. wanted it to fade out more and not the ring. Still looking to learn that.
Cheers.
I like what you did here; I'm enjoying the tones and treatment you did here; though it is the Sun it dose feel like the Moon and a night scene... Which is nice. It's soothing and relaxing to look at.
You mentioned the ring around the Sun, the halo around the Sun? I can describe how I'd remove it in a quick step if you'd like. There is also some extremely minor banding in the sky as well, which can also be fixed rather quickly... But it might also just be compression artifacts from being uploaded to the site.
Hi Joe. Thanks for your comments. Please do share about your ways to deal with halo and sky banding. thanks
Sure thing... In this case id... In Photoshop...
Load the image, and set Image > Mode > 16bit
- Clone the background layer to a new layer.
- On the new top layer use the lasso-tool and select the Sun and Halo, don't have to be accurate at all, just zip around it..
- Then Shift-Delete and Content aware Fill the selection. This will remove the Sun completely from this layer.
- Deselect (Ctrl+d) and Head on up to Filters > Blur, Gaussion Blur. Blur this layer by like 10 or 15 pixels. This will remove the banding in the sky for this image (since there are no cloud details).
- Back to layers create a Mask for this layer and invert the Mask... Now use the brush tool on the softest setting and "paint in" the blurred sky in the sky area. Paint right over the Sun that's back.. (make sure you are on the mask for this layer)
- Duplicate the background layer once again and drag that layer up to the top of the stack. Mask it, and invert the mask.
- Turn off the viability for the Layer in the middle of the stack (the blurred layer)
- Set your brush to the size of the Sun and Hardness around 75~80%.... then Tap where the Sun is located 2 or 3 times without moving the brush.. Just tap, tap, and perhaps a third tap. (make sure you are on the mask for this layer)
Now Make the Blurred later Visible again.
That should do it. Image is still original we just removed Color bit depth banding and the Halo around the Sun.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions. :)
Thanks a lot Joe. Got it.