One From Yesterday Morning’s Sunrise Shoot
Oct. 16
1:28 am
We got there early enough to get in position for sunrise and that moment when its beautiful light first kisses the front of this wonderful landmark on the beach (click on it for a larger version). INFO: Taken with a Nikon D200 on a tripod, using a Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 lens at 22mm, at f/8, with the ISO set at 100, and the shutter speed set to 1/8 of a second.
I’ll post more when I get a chance but we’ve been just goin’, goin’, goin! (but we’re having an absolute blast). Last night I also did a session where I turned them on to my new “Photoshop 7-point System,” which really struck a chord with the class, big time!
looks good! is it possible that you link the .psd-file for download?
i mean in a “photoshop insider”-blog by a teacher of adobes photoshop is it an elegance way to promote the potentials and the howto
Oooh, that’s a beaut!
Scott not sure how to email you but i found this to be a good site you might want to share.
http://www.retouchartists.com/pages/speedtest.html
Simply Amazing. I’m wondering how much processing was done in LR or PS?
Scott,
Fantastic shot! My wife just loves lighthouse, this will make her day!
Thanks for sharing.
Dennis
Thanks for posting this amazing photo, and for including the “how to”.
As an extension of the “how to” could you give a brief description of what you did in Lightroom or Photoshop to improve the origianal image.
Thanks.
Hi Scott,
Beautiful image … nothing more to add to that … just beautiful
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Regards,
Glyn
Scotty,
I’d bet that the post processing on the image was minimal (clarity, sharpening).
Light really does have a great effect on what the camera sees. I took this image at 8am, just as the sun stated to come through the trees…
http://eboy.awardspace.com/gallery/gallery-1/content/0710_pioneers_park_162_large.html
It is a full color image. The sun ‘painted’ the image you see. The only thing I did was to slightly adjust exposure, increase clarity and to crop a little.
It truly is the golden hour!
Sam
A beautiful shot, and yet there is a certain lack of believability. The front of the house is lit and the right side is in shadow, which means that the light is coming from behind and to the left of the photographer. Yet the pink glow in the sky suggests the rising sun is in that direction. Also, the strong vignetting also adds to the artificiality, even though it does make the photo dramatic. A matter of individual taste I suspect.
It was a blast shooting with you in Cape Cod….and sharing with us your 7 point system…can’t wait for the book. The Florida Contigency Thanks You and Appreicates Your Time and Enthusiasm!
Cheers,
Laurel
Michael,
Moose Peterson got an almost identical shot (http://www.moosepeterson.com/moosenews/), so….
1) They both altered the image in the same way.
2) That is how the camera saw the scene.
I’ll go with #2.
Instead of a HowTo as suggested above, (buy the book!) perhaps you could include a “before” shot as a slideshow that viewers could toggle the original and the finished photo.
From your description of the cloning out the van, that sounds like a good candidate for Kloskowski’s Vanishing Point: Cloning in Perspective technique…not just for skyscrapers anymore.
Next fall, bring DLWS to Martha’s Vineyard before the Killington trip.
Excellent Power Tour seminar in Boston earlier this month! As a graphic designer, it was the first seminar that really made me want to, (be a better designer) go out and buy a D-SLR and start shooting. Inspiring in a kind of “I want to be a Rockstar!” way. thanks
Scotty & Michael… looks like I owe both of you an apology of sorts.