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Very lively shot! I love the variety and harmony of the postures
Just a family of German tourists exploring the sand banks uncovered by the low tide – but who knows what wonderful treasures could be hidden in this boundary region suspended halfway between the sea and the land… While looking at this scene I felt the thrill of a dawning adventure, the beginning of a journey of discovery which belongs to all human beings. And I thought that this story would be worth telling…
Hi! This is my very first LightStalking challenge…
House of Light (Calella, Catalunya, Spain)
Incidentally, blending modes are essential even to get great black and white images from your colour originals (through the Gorman-Holbert method for black and white conversion). Details on how to achieve this may depend upon the software you use, but the results are wonderful!
Enjoy the world of image processing (lots of things to learn everywhere)!
Well, I accept and understand. In making such remarks one tries to make her experience useful to others (and I hope to receive the same contribution from others).
Moreover, I am very sorry to have completely got wrong the forum – I am a newbie in Lightstalking, mainly interested in the Shark tank. I was in that forum and I thought that the box “These Posts Need a Reply!” included only posts in the Shark tank – so I was honestly thinking to make a contribution to that forum for a photo I found interesting. I recognized my mistake only after having read your reply.Have a pleasant day
Didachus67Hi @caimi, the subject of this photo is undoubtedly interesting and I don’t know what doubts you have about it. However, here there are my personal thoughts.
As to the composition, I feel that it would be more interesting and would give more importance to the hollow log if it would not be in the dead center of the image. I would have put it more on the left of the composition, perhaps leaving a bit more background on the right (which cannot be tested, unless this picture is a cropping of a wider one). A greater aperture could have improved the blurring of the background (here it could be useful to have some exif data), improving the atmosphere and highlighting the log – this could be tried in post-processing (I have never done a similar trick, though…)The thing I mostly regret about this photo, however, is the grain – don’t know the ISO, but it is there. This is a matter of personal taste, I always try hard to not have noise. I would try a balck and white / toned processing: it could result in a better scene, and often the grain adds to the beauty of bw pictures 🙂
Well, in principle for an AE bracketing it is not mandatory to have a fixed aperture, but changes in the dof would prevent an HDR procsessing – so using aperture priority means a wider range of processing possibilities.
I began using The Gimp some months ago, and I have never really used Lightroom and Photoshop; the general principles, however, are the same. There are lots of tutorials in the web, so you could advance your processing competence in a step by step fashion. If it can be useful, I can suggest you this nice tutorial on the blending modes, which are an essential part of processing.
Hi @pkrohn, this two experiments are both fine to me. I have a bit of experience in HDR by now, and I tend to prefer the HDR because of the better detail in the shadows, as @tobiepsg has already highlighted. But your focus is on the water and I find that this two shots are equivalent in this regard. When it will come to a more complex subject, and in more difficult light conditions, HDR would well be favoured. Consider, though, that deep shadows can be an important element in a composition, so HDR is not an universal solution: your artistic aim could sometimes be hindered by HDR.
My advice is, shoot many AE-bracketings (with a fixed setting of f, this is important if you would process the bracketing as an HDR), so you will have elements to decide whether to get one of the single shots, or process the bracketing as an HDR, or – last but not least – consider a manual processing by blending parts of the single shots as you like (moreover this could be a valuable choice if your HDR contains ghosts – they are hard to get ridden of!).
Hope this can be useful.I thank you very much for your comments; I will try a slight lighting of the background as soon as possible.
I would suggest you to try a bit of HDR, it is a technique which can give many satisfactions. Not always so easy, though, but good things always come at a price 🙂Hi @Lunac73, I have uploaded just one photo up to now…
I will visit your album asapHave a good night (here in Italy it is 11 PM)
