Taliesin West 5.0

Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and

school in the desert, the design was an organic response to a

combination of driving factors. To every one that loves great

architecture out there, this is an incredible place to visit. Your

comments on this picture are highly appreciated.

After seeing your image, Taliesin West has been added to my places-to-visit list.

 

Cheers.

Fine composition, color, clarity. Beautful image.

Indeed, a fine image. Warm vs cool colors, the shapes fit together like a fine puzzle. The exterior lights give it sparkle, but the whole exposure is balanced with the artificial light complementing the twilight sky. Congratulations on a great capture.

As much as I like this photo I must say in all honestly being bothered by the too high degree of noise removal giving the infamous watercolor effect. So, I wonder how high ISO you used originally, and if you tried any lower NR setting before uploading. Further, my Firefox has to shrink this Larger version down to 86% to see it without scrolling while the Smaller version, done by PN, has terrible JPG artefacts. What are your personal thoughts about noise removal in general, the all too clinic result that might rise it's head? I'm all ears, Juan Carlos. ;-)

First of all, I want to thank you for the attention given to my photo; the question you raise is quite interesting.

First of all, to put the image in its precise context, I must tell you that I was shooting handheld so I had to resort to a very high ISO setting (1600)

In the past (for past I mean my days before digital) film grain didn't bothered me at all, I even liked it and assumed it to be just another useful tool in our reach to express something; however digital came and changed all that, noise being quite different to grain IMO.

As for the noise reduction tool and its result, since it is something rather new to me, I'm amused by the usual results and must admit that is not of my dislike at all; of course that may change with time. Even so, your comment makes evident something that I feared but weren't ready to admit....I believe I over did it.

Thanks for your detailed answer. I just forgot to ask you which software you are using? I checked some three years ago while using my camera cell phone. Now I'm stuck to ISO 160. Maybe your tool allow better advanced control over color vs luminance noise removal - whenever you feel ready for it, that is?

No habia visto que fuera de Wright pero me ha llamado la atencion nada mas verla.

un gran edificio y una gran foto.

 

saludos.

 

RN

Estupenda toma, magnifica composicion y exposicion.

I've been using Nikon Capture NX, and so far have find it quite useful, however in this particular case I tried a different software called DXO Optics, which has great tools for distortion and perspective correction. Very seldon do I use Photoshop. Do you have any experience with those? What are you using?

The composition, colours and light are fantabulous!!!!!! Excellent work. Regards.

Juan Carlos, This latest offering of yours has all the important elements nicely balanced but what I like most about it is the balance between the ambient incandescent lighting and that from the evening sky. You really hit the sweet spot there! I agree that the warm and cool light provides a great contrast. Use of a tripod would only have improved this one. Even though the rather 'smudgy' look of the wall on the right side suffers from rather flat lighting (texture concealing) I'm sure the finer details available there would have been enhanced with the steadiness using one would have provided plus enabling the use a smaller (& thus sharper?) aperture. A Keeper in any case. Best, LM.

Muy buen encuadre para un punto de vista interesante. Para mi gusto le falta algo de espacio al borde inferior del estanque, ahora bien como digo es un asunto de gusto personal.

Side note, hay quien dice que en digital nunca por encima de 100asa.

Thanks for telling about your editing software. I thought you maybe used a dedicated NR software. I'm using PhotoShop Essential 5, and for optics and perspective distortion PTLens plug-in. So nice to work on 14-bit RAWs before converting them to 8-bit JPGs. I had trial of DxO too, but it didn't do a thing on my R1 distortions. I got an prompt trying it. My camera was on the supported list, but no co-operation. For four years ago I tested some NR software and found two sites comparing various alternatives.

Beautifull light and colors. Strong composition too

Wow!

Thi simage has it all, sharp detail, nice lines and angles, beautiful color and contrast and a great composition. Congrats on a really fine shot! Regards Katherine

This photograph, for me, captures a great sense of presence with lovely attention to detail.

 

Thanks for seeing it so well and sharing it too!

 

Pete

Magnificent light and color, Juan. Lovelu, lovely exposure.

Un color soberbio lo mismo que la luz.

A beautiful composition with very nice lighting and colours, Juan Carlos!

beautifully composed, nice hues, brown and the complementory blue. It is a great place , I will put this on my "wish to visit places" list. Thanks , cheers Jana

I enjoyed reading the conversation this image generated. The thumbnail GRABBED my eye because of the Juan Carlos saturation treatment. Wonderful composition.

 

Quite often in my travels I am stuck without a tripod when I really need one. I use a cram-jam technique of cramming and jamming myself and my camera against something sturdy and using the timer. Something else you might want to consider is using your EV compensation dial to underexpose. I have found that if I underexpose images, even as much as -1.67, I still have enough info. to recover the shadow detail in PS3. This gives me the opportunity to operate at lower ISO's and still keep my shutter speed within an acceptable range.

 

Just a thought and something to try.

Thank you Drew, honestly I don't know what to say about the "Juan Carlos saturations treatment", I'm overwhelmed.

Often in the field, I find myself in similar situations as yours; unfortunately sometimes there just isn't a good place to do what you suggest, at least not one that works with the composition you want ;)

Once again, thank you for your advice and comments on my work, I really appreciate them. Cheers!