Taken while on a recent trip through Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Both ends of the tonal range are blown as well as a tad over sharpened. The oversharpening seemed to me to bring out a few more of the highlights in the lower parts of the photo and distract a bit from the blown sun.
50D, 70/200f4 IS at 192mm, 1/1500, f/11, ISO200.
Dave
Dave, this is really beautiful! Even though the sun is blown (it is in 99.9% of photos) it's as good as it can be. Many times I've seen them so blown out that you lose detail in the surrounding sky and that's not the case here at all.
I've had a few images like this where the colors graduate from light to dark within the same tonal range and they are always my favorites - you've captured an incredible moment and darn near did it using the ROT's!
My only negative comment would be to possibly try to eliminate the one or two blurry plants towards the bottom - I think if you wanted to clone them out you could using a very high magnification and a light hand. Otherwise, I'd call this image perfect and I'd blow it up and frame it!
Hi Dave, great image! I love the colors, the backlight and the threetone BG. Don't mind the blowouts and the oversharpening. Only point of critique is that the sharpening led to noise artifacts on the edge between the darkest BG (lower) band and the middle band. Might be the result of compression though.
Kind regards,
Thanks for commenting Jerry. I believe it is noise. I ran Topaz Denoise on the reduced for web sized photo because on larger files the noise was even more noticable. Dave
Wonderful color gradations. As an alternative a crop from the top eliminating the Sun would also be nice. i like it as is but thought of an alternative.
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