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Good Morning & The Cattle Threat
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I was sitting in that field, waiting for the sunrise and having an eye on the cattles.Guys never forget the cattles ( ; !!!
For me the foreground colours are spot on, lighting is prefect and the diffraction of the sun is just right, but I feel the background is disconnected from the foreground and feels artificial.
What filtration did you use?Thanks
DarraghIt’s a nice wake-up call for a rainy morning here. Good to see the cattle did not attack. I can’t see any of the in the picture, should I?
The foreground seems quite saturated compared with the mountains in the background, have you tried desaturating it just a little?
Always make sure there is no bull with the cattle… :shock:
Aedan
Hi guys, thanks for the comment:
This was a sunrise during the foggy week in Ireland. That would explain why you have such a difference in the saturation of fore and background. it was very dizzy until the sun climbed the mountain. The grass was wet und sunrise lightening is very intense and turns green to this saturated citrus-green. I used hdr to balance the harsh light situtation – no filters at all. I think that the result is very close to this what i saw. Here are some details. Funny because i thought, that i never came so close to the real light with my processing like with this image.aedan: i forgot to say….the cattles were behind me…not a nice feeling. i did not try to chaise them away…i tried it ones and then they chaised me… :shock:
Madeleine: Cows are generally more curious than evil but there are exceptions. Bulls are a different matter, don’t take any chances with them at all.
Yes, I can believe that is what you saw. Sometimes I think we look at HDR pictures and rather than expecting them to look like reality we expect them to look like the non-HDR pictures we have been looking at all our lives. I’ve met this problem once or twice with my own poorly done HDR attempts.
Aedan
I will never forget the “cattles”, i’ve been chased to many times to ever forget about them. The evil they are capable of producing has been burned into my head.
I’m not to keen on the foreground of this image, it’s nothing to do with the the HDR which is done well, i just find that there seems to be to much going on compositionally, it’s not pleasing to my eye. But what i do absolutely adore are the mountains in the background, they just look so incredibly majestic with that beautiful light over them…
take care,
AlanAedon, great description, i agree.
Alan, yes the foreground is not overexciting, i agree.
So then we can summerize the cattle theme:
“never be so stupid like i was, ….entering a field with 15 young bulls :shock: :twisted: …i thought they were female cattles :roll: “
AND: stay away of mother and child. Last year, a farmer was killed by an angry mother cow. She broke his back, surprised him from behind and pushed him into a river. He was lying there for 3 hours and died in the hospital…
Bullocks (young bulls with, well…lets just say non-functional bulls). You won’t see more than 2 “complete” bulls in the one field.
Funnily enough I like this image Madeleine because of the foreground and the element it gives to the image. Obviously the sun is just peeking over the mountain and it’s lighting the foreground but the mid-ground is still in shadow and this gives the image the depth it needs. I initially thought the tuft of marram grass to the left if centre was unnaturally well exposed but it does help to give the foreground a starting point for the eye.
Alan.
Alan, i will proof that…will check out where the young bulls are now and take a pic ( ; Maybe kerry paddy is very creative…
Well the foreground by itself is not exciting but the image attracted me because I expected this light situation and it is good to have something in the front which catches the light! The light works beautifully together! Thanks Alan.
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