pretty pictures Juniper Point

Unlike my previous post, this one is usually very popular - vibrant

sky, sunset colours, dramatic tree, pleasing ocean colours...

This has it all. It's both a great lone tree as well as a great sunset shot Ad to that wonderful color and this a truley a rare shot.

 

the impression is almost supernatural - as if you would have arranged and lightened a tree a sunset a stone and sea in the studio - interesting!

Yes, it has all what you say, and more, it is a remarkable composition.

Eye catching. Good stuff.

good composition 7/6

This has that characteristic light open feeling which is unusual in the sunset shots that I've seen. I don't know how you handled the exposure, and if there are layers involved, but it's very well done.

Thanks everyone. Carl - I probably used a graduated neutral density filter, but I still had to significantly lighten the foreground. This is an older photograph of mine. If I was photographing this scene today, I'd take two exposures and blend them together. I have issues with blocked up shadow areas :).

Heh, nice...kinda funny but I have almost the exact same shot but in BW. I like your clouds.

Good job!

Very pleasing composition, simple but very very beautiful to me. Great shot, congrats!

I like the mood and colors. Congratulations! I would be tempted, though, to crop about half of the blue part of the sky. This way it would be closer to a thirds composition, and the horizon wouldn't be running through the middle of the frame.

Nice light...and the place is just wonderful!!Great picture!

This is really great. It really inspires me...

Awesome sea colours, dramatic sky, for the unnitiated, where is it? To my eye`s its a 7/7

Great composition and wonderful colours!

Very aesthetic shot indeed, the ingredients are there as you stated correctly. I like the way you play with aesthetics on a meta-level, organizing your work in "pretty pictures" and other folders with more individual shots as "squiggly lines"

Terrific color and lighting. Unusual composition that works well, still. Would it be even better had you framed it so that the tree top breaks the horizon line?

Great capture, but the processing and manipulation of colors and levels is what really makes this stand out for me.

Very special with the light aquarel-like colors. Reminds me some japanese painting

Thanks everyone.

 

To answer a few querries: the location is Juniper Point (as the names suggests) which is in Lighthouse Park (if memory serves correctly) near the city of Vancouver, B.C.

 

As for the composition: I worked hard to not have the tree break the horizon line which resulted in the centred placement of the horizon. Cropping from the top results in a better balance, but it does lose some of those dramatic clouds. I probably should have tried some with the tree breaking the horizon for comparison. But I didn't. Maybe another time.

 

Thanks,

Eric

HI! I love your portfolio, just my opinion, but I think I would leave out the bit of the hill coming into the horizon line, it would give it a serene and complete look.