twilight and wildflowers

comments welcome.

-Anish

Amazing harmony in colors!

Very nice, soothing and well composed. Focusing is great. I like it a lot!

 

Good use of the Singh-Ray ND-I am a big fan of these filters !

WOW, this is very nice. I have no suggestions other than a top crop to just below the big cloud in the upper right. That would make the flowers stand out even more. Thanks for sharing!

I don't know what kind of lighting you used or if this is a synthesis of two photos. If 100% natural it is a wonderful photo due to its amazing overall vibrant colors and depth of field; especially the combination of foregroundand background is well done.

concentration of flowers pulling eye to left and bulk of mountain pulling eye to right: great compostion.

Wonderful light and composition!

Classic landscape with a wide lens - I can almost touch the flowers - probably that was your intention too. But the colors in all over the frame is also superb. I am not sure of the blank space in loft top corner but wondering how to improve it

fantastic....

I love the glowing pastel tones in your image. Your eye for colour and tone is outstanding. My only niggle (and it is a very, very small niggle) is that I don't like the fact that the cloud in the top left corner is half out of the frame.

Excellent composition; beautiful colours.

Beautiful Exposure, good composition and great time of day to take such a photograph. Well done Anish. 7/7

Beautiful landscape, very good colors and romantic composition.

Regards

thank you all for the comments.

 

Regarding the placement of the horizon, i agree that moving the horizon up would further highlight the flowers, and that is an interesting idea. But i'm a sucker for the beatiful pink/blue twilight transition colors in the sky, and i wanted to preserve that element.

 

Peter, this is not a composite. i used a 3 stop hard edge ND grad and then a nudge with levels in PS to boost the foreground lightness a bit. there is no color manipulation, it's all natural (that is why i love shooting at this time of day!)

 

thanks again to all.

 

-Anish

Anish-congratulations for capturing this beautiful image and sharing with us. I love the composition and colours. Best regards.

Hello Anish,

I really like this image and specially the twilight time that you shot it. The composition is great and I agree about your feelings about keeping the sky. However, I think there is a slight bluish cast, quite understandably because of the light temperature. I took the liberty to make an attempt to correct this. Let me know what you think. Best Regards

That is an interesting interpretation. you are right, there is a color cast. but i normally try to refrain from changing colors in post-processing. i don't use any color correcting filters. i may lighten areas if my 3 stop ND grad is not enough, and i don't really consider this 'manipulation', as i am only trying to bring the image closer to what my eyes actually saw. by manipulating colors, however, i feel that i would be distorting what nature was showing me to a point where it no longer resembled what i saw. to me, there is nothing more beautiful than what nature shows. i do not wish to improve upon it, only to capture it.

 

-Anish

Have to say I agree, and the only color changes that should be made are to make it look close to how nature presented it in reality. Cheers.

Very nice capture, I love wildflowers, and this type of composition. I like the blue cast also.

Anish...great job here.Absolutely wonderful...here you have used the ND filter very well.Well done with the exposure...colors are heavenly and adding to the whole the angle is just fantastic. 7/7

The colors are outstanding and the composition is excellent. . . thank you for sharing your technique.