Coming to Life

Lovely shot Anish. Great timing, great color show.

+Lalit

Lupines at Joshua Tree NP. Comments welcome.

Anish, I like this photo a lot. Very nice colors! My eye goes from the purples to the sky and then from the patch of green to the darkest hills on the right. I think this all works very nicely together. Great shot!

Perfectly timed. The last rays of light causing the lupine to glow is well planned. Very nice Anish!

beautiful image anish.

Anish,

 

This is an excellent image. Beautiful colors. Although, I would like to see that brush in the center maybe a bit more to the right. But, it seems like this is probably something you couldn't avoid if you wanted the right composition with the immediate foreground and the great colors from the clouds. So, as long as I can maneuver my eye around that brush there, It is certainly a wonderful image. Mind if I ask the exif on this one? Thanks a lot!

 

Jake

Thank you all for the comments. Jake, the contrast range was about 5 stops, so I used a 3 stop split ND, but still had to combine 2 exposures. The foreground was 1 second at f8, focal length about 12mm on my 30D (20mm equivalent). The frontmost flowers are not sharp, but with the low light and almost constant breeze, I had to compromise DOF a little (I should've just bumped the ISO up, but I didn't think about it). The sky was f8 and 1/4 sec. I processed each RAW file separately, bumping the color temp on the foreground considerably as it was quite cool as captured, then blended the 2 exposures manually in PS.

And regarding the brush, it's like you said. everything else was where I wanted it, and time was not on my side!

Thanks again,

 

Anish

Flowers are great, and after reading your work on this I'd say you did well. My niggle is the dark hills on the right - dead give away of GND - do you think you could have blended another even darker exposure and done away with the grad?