So, hello!
This picture is special for me. To get this i packed a waterproof backpack with all my gear and swam out to a base in the water 100 meters from the beach. And there I stood for an hour and just viewed the sun go down.
This is tree exposures that I merged to one image. One at the cloud and one at the water and forest. Then, just before I packed my stuff to swim home a guy came in that small boat. I took a fast pic just in case. And I'm pretty happe about the result. It's totally impossible to make this in just one exposure, but still, I think it has a good mood.
What do you say about it? What would you change/ make different? :)
A fine image, Gustaf! It looks like a single exposure, which is what you want. Or maybe not, after going to all that trouble... ;-) I like the inclusion of the boat.
Thanks! At a first glance maybe, but the clouds are to sharp compared to the water, and so is the boat. But in some way there is a harmony between the tree exposures. :)
Hi Gustaf,
Great image it creates a really calm feeling. Just my thoughts but I may have wanted to crop the sky in a little (only because I feel like the top part is a little too much negative space), with the boat being more of a focus and the great scenery around it. However, please only take that as what I would have done and Iām certainly not a voice of authority on landscape images!
Great work and thanks for letting us see your work, sounds like you earned that shot š
Thanks, as Adam showed in his example you get a hole new point of view with a more cropped image. I've never looked at it in that way. Fun to get some new perspective! :)
Very nice indeed. You must have been cold! I feel like there's too much 'empty' space. I'd have cropped it more, with the water line at 1/3 from the bottom.
Hmm, maybe that's one way to look at it! It gives the image a hole new feeling. The sky gets less infinite, but the subject gets more in focus. Hmm.. 2 different photos :)
That is an incredible amount of work for an image! I love the soft mood, and the sky turned out beautifully. The cloud matching the slope of the treeline was very fortunate.
I think the boat adds significantly to the image, otherwise, it might fall over to the right slightly. I would consider drawing a bit more attention to the boat, even, maybe by increasing the contrast on it just a bit. That also might be just fine as is. Depends on the result.
I would also agree with the crop Adam suggested, although, I hate to lose all of the beautiful sky, too. If you're not into the idea of cropping, I would brighten and saturate the clouds at the top, to lead one into the blazing cloud -- again, only slightly. The more I think about it, the more I want to keep the feeling of space -- if I had to hang a print on my wall, that one with the space would create more of a calming sense for me.
Just some ideas for what I might try experimenting with, to see if they would work or not. It might be great just as it is. Overall I really like this image!
Thanks a lot for your input ā¤ļø I've done this in Black and White as well and got some more contrast in the sky/clouds. Will probably print the B&W version together with some more b&w shots. :) I think I prefer the space, it make it less intense. There is more to see and more to think about.
I prefer the B&W image. I think it is more interesting as there are soooooo many orange sunrise photos. Good image, well done mate!
Thanks Ralph! Yes, the B&W version I made a week ago or so. I just started a new Instagram and desided to have a B&W theme this winter. So I changed this one to B&W and it went out pretty well. As you say, there are some colourful sunsets on the web already. Did the same with an astro-shot two weeks ago. That one is in my profile :)
Hi, Gustaf. Welcome. Here's a sample edit to make the sky the focal point of the shot. There are a few neat images to be made from your shot. I like your edit that accentuated the water, too.
Thanks, nice to see everyones point of view from an image I've watched so many times :D
When I'm dead... someone might look through all my photo files and think... didn't she know how to find any other location? Haha.
I like what I like. :)
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