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Right Time, Right Place


Right Time, Right Place
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Copyright: Emma Taylor (Aramok) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 881 W: 101 N: 1410] (4895)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-10-18
Categories: Trees
Camera: Canon EOS 350D, Canon EF 28-80mm F/3.5-5.6 IV USM, Digital ISO 200, Hoya HMC 85B
Exposure: f/22, 15 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): My Tree, My Sunsets and Sunrises [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-10-18 13:46
Viewed: 1141
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Another beautiful sunrise. Another of my tree from my study window. taken this morning, at 7:20am, making me late for work... but it was too good a sunrise to miss. Its a while since we had a good sunrise here.

Tripod - F/22, 15secs, warm up filter. Cropped, resized, USM'ed, bordered. No colours manipulation after photo taken. Hope you like it.

Tomorrow - without the filter, 20mins earlier... just haven't edited photo to my liking yet.
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  • Merlin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 393 W: 230 N: 340] (1094)
  • [2005-10-18 17:33]

Hi, Emma:
Difficult to express a sunrise when constrained to such a small picture, isn't it? Always had the feeling that somehow the emotional impact could not be transferred into pixels! I would suggest that you add another filter to your collection - a graduated grey filter (square type and holder). With that, and a little practice, you can keep the natural sky colours and preserve more of the detail in the foreground landscape - particularly effective now that the atmospheric misty mornings are here. When the lens is focussed at infinity, F22 and such a slow shutter speed are not necessary, because DOF is unlimited - your lens will give best optical performance at around F8 and a faster shutter speed will give better cloud and branch definition.
Very best wishes, Nigel.

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  • Fisher Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1540 W: 309 N: 2234] (8915)
  • [2005-10-18 17:47]

You truely were.

Excellent shot and well done on the composition and details. Beautiful.
My suggestion would be around F12 an all round good starting point for landscape photography. a polarizing filter is a good choice to enhance clouds.
Usm for an image at 800-600 and at 72 DPI about 90/03/0 for landscape. High USM is suited for animals and birds etc with details.
From my experience.
Fix your camera on a tripod, set the self timer, press the shutter and after the the time has expired you won't have camera shake from pressing the shutter on normal mode. You could also lock the mirror for even more anti shake.

Mike

Lovely sunrise Emma,
Well worth being late for work to get this.
As you say the colours are beautiful. Nicely captured.
Thanks for posting, have a good week.

That a nice colour shot.
Carsten

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  • loot Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5361 W: 591 N: 3590] (9861)
  • [2006-02-17 17:04]
  • [2]

Hi Emma
Although it might be a rather belated critique to this photo I believe it to be well worth the while to stop and present it.
While taking note of and recognising some of the other critiques and advice (there is good stuff there to be learned), I do believe this is another one of your photos that should have had much more credit than what it got.
The scene is great, the colours are excellent, the sky (even with the time exposure) is just super, the impact is "WOW", the composition is good, the detail sufficient, and the pleasure factor well satisfying.
Very well done and TFS.
Regards
Loot

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