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Ram Ramkumar

An African sunset

Sunsets in Africa are quite dramatic - the colours change every few seconds and they are simply lovely to capture
I have two versions - one with the tree centered and the other has the tree off-center

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Kjell Vikestad May 23, 2019 - 5:28 am

Nice picture with warm colours in the sky. I'm not sure if I like the senter position of the big tree, but its a beautiful scenery.

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Ruth Carll May 23, 2019 - 6:04 am
Kjell Vikestad

Agreed. But i love the alignment of the three trees. I think if you cropped this in the gap between the two shrubs on the right this image would go from good to great. You could add a crop to the original post which would let them be viewed side by side. It would be great to see!

Nice work Ram!

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Ram Ramkumar May 24, 2019 - 11:58 am
Ruth Carll

Thanks very much for the feedback Ruth - i was torn between keeping the tree in the center and pushing it off-center. I must try the crop like you suggested.

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Ram Ramkumar May 24, 2019 - 11:57 am
Kjell Vikestad

Thanks for the feedback Kjell - appreciate it. I must try the crop to get the tree off-center

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Shawn Mahan May 23, 2019 - 5:59 pm

Great picture and it definitely screams Africa. I am looking at the tree and see a bit of a halo. Were you using a brush to bring up the exposure of the tree since it was backlit? If so, look to use a masking feature to only affect the tree and not the sky.

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Ram Ramkumar May 24, 2019 - 12:01 pm
Shawn Mahan

Thanks very much for the feedback Shawn. I did not use a brush. I lifted shadows globally in Luminar

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Shawn Mahan May 26, 2019 - 3:25 pm
Ram Ramkumar

I only use Lightroom. Maybe there is something similar. ?

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Ruth Carll May 25, 2019 - 8:15 am
Shawn Mahan

Thanks for the tip Shawn. It helped me too!

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