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Puffin Island & Great Skelligs :: added new panorama
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Hi Folks, was very busy the last few weeks and finally found time to process some new images. This is Puffin Island (N70). First image i took few weeks ago, 3 exposures merged together. second image was taken few years ago on film. Let me know what you think. Not sure about the crop of image 1. It seems kind of unbalanced (heavy on the right) but i can’t cut off the skelligs.
EDIT: i must have been drunk during image processing no 1…horizon slightly off. Will fix that soon ( ;
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Hi Madeleine,
I definately prefer your more recent effort. You always seem to have the most remarkable clouds in Kerry, I wish a few of them would drift up this way!
Steve
Hi Steve, thank for the compliment. I am sure you have the same clouds. A secret for stunning sunset clouds are the cirrus clouds (ice clouds)
Their position is higher than the fat ones and they will reflect the sunset light in a very dramatic way 5-10 min after the sun dissapeared.
So watch out for feather clouds in the sky during the day and bring you in the right position for the sunset and waaaaaait.
There was another photographer at this place and he captured the sun and left immediatly after the sun was dissapearing. He was kind of irritated that i was still waiting because the sky looks kind of boring for 5-10 min…but then the light hit the stratosphere and delivered again ( ;
Actually a great theme for a tutorial: “analyzing clouds”. Thanks for that, will write that soon.
Madeleine
Hi Madeleine.
I like the colours in the first image but to me the second is nicer. I am not sure about the brown mass to the left and bottom of image one. It kind of looks like a dirt patch which does nothing for the image. That is being really critical, especially from my untrained eye, but notwithstanding the above, another two images which have your usual stamp of excellence on them. PS Your website is really creative. Did you design it?
Cheers
Sean
Hi Sean, thanks for feedback and i agree. The dry gras doesn’t do anything for the image. I left it there because i can’t crop the skelligs and i adore the green field in front. it is very kerry – abundance of fresh green grass and the dry one. i will shoot this location again, minding that….1km to the right and it should be out of view.
MadeleineCalaidoWeber wrote:
EDIT: i must have been drunk during image processing no 1…horizon slightly off. Will fix that soon ( ;
Well, it was the middle of the night :)
The sky in #1 is delightful, however I don’t think that overall either is really what
we have to come to expect from you…sorry. As you say, worth another go.Welcome back !
I love the first one, the colours are wonderful but to be picky the purple in
the clouds is a little bit false or cartoony. I still like it.I have an image similar to the second, taken further down that dead end road
but like mine it does’nt really do anything for me. Maybe a square crop!alan
Looking again at the first, the blue house in lower centre I find disturbing; the blue simply is too strong
and competes too much with the other colours — the other blue house is smaller, and not so disturbing. This
insense blue set in a fairly naturally coloured landscape seems wrong.
It might be worth a selective desaturation of both of them to balance the image.But it was skyblue. I’ve got your point but i am a big fan of this blue house….it is a part of kerry habit….rainbow houses everywhere. to soften it a bit, is a good point
very nice the first is my fav love that little movement in the sky nice colours regards aj
Hi Madeleine,
For me the 2nd one works better, you got some black dots on the first photo up in the clouds! Not sure if it’s the sensor that needs to be cleaned or some drops of rain on the lens.
Cheers,
GrgeorYou are right gregor….iam a lense switcher….my sensor has always a hard time with me….thanks. Will clean that image.
Added new Panorama of the same evening. The colours were stunning … still in love with the famous blue house. Cheers M
The new pano is stunning…blue house and all…colours are
great and sometimes when people comment about the
colours of sunrise or sunset shots they have’nt spent the
time like you said to wait around and see what develops.Its amazing how the colours in a sky change in the 30 mins
before sunrise and the 30 mins. after sunset….you just have
to be there !!!Noel Browne.
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