Artistic Shots- Well thought out, framed (positioned), artistic shots only please.

[Lost Canadian]

Peruvian Andes Revisited

I'm still in the process of reprocessing most of my pictures with the latest software, namely LR3. Here are a few from the Andes.

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[MarcEdwards]

Canyonlands, this summer.

 

[AchillesBogart]

I'm still in the process of reprocessing most of my pictures with the latest software, namely LR3. Here are a few from the Andes.

I love good fog/mist shots, the viewable area fading away to grey hints at how immense the land is and how small we are.

 

[pjpvi]

Nothing compared to what the rest of you do, but I've always loved this shot.

Potato Bottom camp - Canyonlands, UT

Phil

 

[loren85022]

low tide in El Gulfo,Mexico.

 

[photoman]

Nothing compared to what the rest of you do, but I've always loved this shot.

Potato Bottom camp - Canyonlands, UT

Phil

Very cool shot and an awesome van.

 

[photoman]

I am not one that does the desaturated post process look very often but the son liked this one quite a bit.

Him blowing up a pile of leaves on his bike.

 

[Tucson T4R]

I'm still in the process of reprocessing most of my pictures with the latest software, namely LR3. Here are a few from the Andes.

Cool shot Trevor. I dud the same thing on some of my past images when I got LR3 and was impressed with how much better it was.

You might try the graduated ND filter in LR3 on a few of those images. You might be surprised how well it works. :elkgrin:

 

[Lost Canadian]

Cool shot Trevor. I dud the same thing on some of my past images when I got LR3 and was impressed with how much better it was.

You might try the graduated ND filter in LR3 on a few of those images. You might be surprised how well it works. :elkgrin:

Thanks Brad. The choice to go really bright with the skies was actually a creative decision and was something I was going for. I could have brought the skies down, and in the past I had tried, but it was not the right choice now that I look back. The darker skies made the images heavy and confused, they lacked balance. So this time I went bright, almost to the edge of blowing out the highlights in effort to create and give each image a little more breathing room by adding some non distracting negative space. Doing so seemed to strengthen the compositions and brought emphasis down onto the main subjects. Effective use of negative space can also be used to bring out emotions and feelings so it didn't seem unfitting to go ultra bright seen as we were high in the Andes walking in and out of these heavenly clouds that were all around us.

 

[Michael Slade]

I am glad you got there on your own. I thought the skies were hot as well, but I know you know what you are doing, so I left my comments to myself.

 

[Tucson T4R]

I am glad you got there on your own. I thought the skies were hot as well, but I know you know what you are doing, so I left my comments to myself.

See us less experienced guys don't know when to keep our comments to ourselves. :sombrero:

I do understand what you were doing now Trevor and your right in those conditions it probably did look a lot like that.

 

[Michael Slade]

See us less experienced guys don't know when to keep our comments to ourselves. :sombrero:

Oh wow, I hope I didn't come across like that. Now that I go back and re-read that I guess I do sound like a bit of a jack-********. :Wow1:

 

[Tucson T4R]

Oh wow, I hope I didn't come across like that. Now that I go back and re-read that I guess I do sound like a bit of a jack-********. :Wow1:

Not at all. I was just saying that a more experienced eye can see the artistic aspects of the image better than someone like myself who leans more on the technical side. No problem Michael. :victory:

 

[theksmith]

 

[Overland Hadley]

Thanks Brad. The choice to go really bright with the skies was actually a creative decision and was something I was going for. I could have brought the skies down, and in the past I had tried, but it was not the right choice now that I look back. The darker skies made the images heavy and confused, they lacked balance. So this time I went bright, almost to the edge of blowing out the highlights in effort to create and give each image a little more breathing room by adding some non distracting negative space. Doing so seemed to strengthen the compositions and brought emphasis down onto the main subjects. Effective use of negative space can also be used to bring out emotions and feelings so it didn't seem unfitting to go ultra bright seen as we were high in the Andes walking in and out of these heavenly clouds that were all around us.

Just remember that the eye goes to the lightest area of a photograph. And can tend to stay there.

I strongly believe in "negative" space in a print, but the "negative" space needs to have balance in itself, as well as in the whole image.

I like the sky in the seventh image.