Wednesday Landscapes, 26 July 2017

You are invited to upload one or more of your landscape photos and, if you’d like, to accompany your image with some commentary: challenges you faced in making the image? your intent for the image? settings? post-processing decisions? why you did what you did? the place and time? or an aspect you’d like feedback on? And please feel free to ask questions of others who have posted images or to join the discussion. If you don’t feel like using words, that’s OK too—unaccompanied images (or unaccompanied words, for that matter) are also very much welcomed. As for the technicalities, the usual forum guidelines apply: files < 1 MB; image size <1000 px maximum dimension.

The late March morning sun had just hit this meadow in Prairie Creek State Park and the dew was evaporating so fast you could almost hear it. The raw file was fairly low contrast due to the pervasive mist, so the Lightroom post-processing was intended primarily to enhance contrast. In addition to the usual (contrast, clarity, and tone sliders), I reduced luminance of yellows and oranges, then added a gradient in the foreground grasses to increase clarity and saturation and reduce exposure and highlights, and I added clarity to the tree with an adjustment brush to make it stand out a bit more. My low-contrast original ended up with slight clipping in both blacks and whites.

I took this one on Canada Day, July 1st, on a blustery grey day at Cavendish National Park beach on Prince Edward Island.

I have visited this spot dozens of times in my life to gaze off across the Atlantic. The shore is primarily sandstone and so continuously evolves as it erodes with each pounding wave. The water is warmed by the Gulf Stream as it arrives from Florida making this a popular vacation destination for thousands each year - and this year the park is free in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary.

I used a D800E and a 50mm 1.4

Somewhere along the Icefields Parkway. Nikon D810 with 70-200

From the spot where this was taken, I'm usually shooting waterfowl, like egrets, great blue heron and a variety of ducks. The clouds were so nice that I pulled out my EF 14mm f/2.8L II, put it on my 5DS-R and took this shot, from in the cattails, hand held.

Cattails And Clouds by David Stephens, on Flickr

Taken with Sony NEX-3 and 18-55mm kit lens. Converted to BW in Silver Efex Pro and Photoshop.

Nikon FM2n, 50mm f/1.8, Kodak TMax 100. Khongor Els, Mongolia.

Mount Jichu Drake in the Bhutanese Himalayas. The mountain is around 6600 meters and as all other mountains in Bhutan it's not allowed to climb it due to the spirit living on the peak.

;)

Grand Canyon- Looking the OTHER way from the south rim

Grand Canyon- Looking the OTHER way from the south rim

 

For me, this has always been a big part of my "Grand Canyon experience." Coming up from the South, you drive through hundreds of miles of this. I can imagine Coronado and his men, walking and riding for days, simply headed North to see what they would see. Then, only visible when you're just a few feet from the rim, the Grand Canyon suddenly opens up. What a sight it must have been!

everyone pls forgive me for asking a question thats off topic

i just selected this thread because its the first one that came up

i used to save any pics that i liked & used them as my desktop background.

i cant do that now.

is there a way to do it or is it not allowed anymore?

Distant view of the Garden or the God's and Pike's Peak - Canon 5D Mark IV - Canon 14mm