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Thank you so much, Ralph and Bill!

Kurt - I'm not telling! ;)

Thank you very much, Malcolm - In my art, I try to bend toward the emotional feel I had at the time, rather than be bound by the actual reality. I think all the best landscape photogs do the same hehe (e.g. Albert Dros explicitly talks about "fairytales" wrt his editing process).

Cheers!

...Dave...
 
beautiful image but when I went to flickr they asked me for an account which i don't have

Hi Rich - that is odd - it should take you directly to the page with this image (then you click to enlarge it to the res I posted). If you use an incognito window that should fix it. Cheers and thanks for the nice comment!

...Dave...
 
Thank you so much, Ralph and Bill!

Kurt - I'm not telling! ;)

Thank you very much, Malcolm - In my art, I try to bend toward the emotional feel I had at the time, rather than be bound by the actual reality. I think all the best landscape photogs do the same hehe (e.g. Albert Dros explicitly talks about "fairytales" wrt his editing process).

Cheers!

...Dave...
Hey Dave, You nailed it. I aspire to more art / less science myself. Having said that, you did well to capture the radiant sun combined with the mist .
 
Hey Dave, You nailed it. I aspire to more art / less science myself. Having said that, you did well to capture the radiant sun combined with the mist .
Thanks, Malcolm! I captured a bunch of exposures for this, but only ended up using two - the ground (f/8 iirc), and the sky/sun (f/22 to get the sunstar effect), then hand blended using luminosity masks to help (Lumenzia is good for that)...then a lot of hand waving in PS haha. I often put more description, and backstory over on Flickr, if you click through - some there appreciate it.

When I do wildlife, I keep it much more reined in, and "true to life", although sometimes I have to use a fairly heavy hand to make it work - e.g. the "Sparkling Great Blue" heron shot was _severely_ backlit, with crazy bright specular highlights off the water, so I had to really work on bringing up the heron's features/face/eye, and tamping down the water highlights to not distract. The end result is much closer to what I actually saw than the RAW capture SOOC.

Cheers!

...Dave...
 
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Thank you so much, Ralph and Bill!

Kurt - I'm not telling! ;)

Thank you very much, Malcolm - In my art, I try to bend toward the emotional feel I had at the time, rather than be bound by the actual reality. I think all the best landscape photogs do the same hehe (e.g. Albert Dros explicitly talks about "fairytales" wrt his editing process).

Cheers!

...Dave...
Reality is much overrated.
 
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