Evening Glow (Best Viewed Large)

This is how the islands began hundreds of thousands of years ago. I

took this shot not very long after my Lava Dreams image, as the last

rays of daylight were leaving. The blues of that image were replaced

with the fiery reds and yellows. I used a tripod and cable release.

No filters were used for this. Another possible title is "Island

Beginnings". As always your opinions are appreciated. Aloha.

This is a lava glow.. Very nice

I was sure I'd seen this shot before. It's a very striking image with the shutter speed making it more so. For me, the colours are a bit too saturated though. That may be natures fault though!

It is an excellent capture. Your previuos photo about the same subject was more attractive than this one because of colours present. Why are colours so different in these two photos?

Hi vincent. I find this version to be as attractive as the other, perhpaps little bit better. a somewhat muted,warmer feel due to the colors in this, and the comp is imo a bit better. Well done! Regards!

wow. red hot Lava .. superb!

Biliana

Power and elegance in great capture. Very good.

better than your last lava image ..

WOW! AMAZING!!!!!

very nice exposure, cong.

"Why are colours so different in these two photos?"

 

This is within perhaps 15 minutes after the other. The lighting does change dramatically. Very similar to the way it changes in a sunset. The chief light source in this image is from the lava itself (though there is still a small amount from the horizon) therefore more dominant reds in this one. In the Lava dreams image there is quite a bit of natural light remaining allowing for the blue hues, which perhaps makes that image a litle more original, since the window of opportunity for those colors was literally only minutes. After this set, I had to go down to the beach and strictly shoot closeups. The lighting for those is even more harsh, but still works in a few cases. Thanks for your comments. Aloha.

 

Excellent! 7/7

Awesome. 7/7 thanks for posting this!

Vincent, if you are saying this is natural colour then it is a truly amazing image.

great colours !!!7/7

Excellent work again..It is hard to pick which one I like better. I love the fiery reds reflected in the water. But, overall I think I prefere the blue one better for the simple fact that blue of the water being complementary colors with deep rich yellowish/red of lava makes the lava flow stand out from background. Then again, I am analysing this too much...has know to happen quite frequently. :-))

I like em both too Vince. Maybe the nature of velvia also explains the colour diff, very finicky stuff. Like to see this larger, would be a treat.

Vincent I love this one, a great variation on the earlier theme, and in my opinion a better one.

fabulous

Simply amazing!

As Jay mentioned, I like the extra glow of the lava with this one giving more color and attention to the lava, but prefer the other one for the composition, exposure, contrast and water patterns. There is a darker red spot that seems to draw my attention to the left of the upper flow and yes Velvia seems to bring out the colors in ways which other capturing methods cannot. My vote definitely goes to the other one, but both are very good of course.

i'll second Atle about the composition. Both are excellent, similar yet so different. Regards,

Again a very nice capture. Colors and mood of the picture is great. I think all what is missing here is perhaps the heat coming from the image... lol.

 

Well between the two pictures what I find in this image is the rather softness and lack of presence of mid tones which were very well captured in the Lava dreams. The shadows are soft and not as detailed also.

 

This picture has slightly different mood and envirinment. Overall an impactful picture and I liked this one too.7/7

Very nice capture of (for me) very unusual subject - the hot fiery lava. It's very powerful, but as Jay noted, the blue version is a tad better, simply because of the colors and what they represent - yellow and red is the fire of new things born, blueish of the nature waiting to get hold of the new... Here in the violets, the difference is much slighter... Jiri

I do appreciate all of you for stopping by to give an opinion. I find it somewhat interesting that many of you have wanted to compare the two images directly with each other, which is quite fine with me. Both images seem to have a fair amount of supporters. Although taken from the exact same location only 10-15 or so minutes apart (from what I recall) I believe they are capable of each standing on their own IF the actual prints turn out as hoped for, they are unique enough in my opinion. My first set will be here tomorrow.

 

When I first looked through all of my originals the very first time, this one here perhaps had the most promise in my mind. Actually there were four others very similar to this. Since I always bracket, I believe this was one of the brightest originals of the set. There is just enough detail left in both the water and rocks here. Plus the fact that fiery reds and yellows appear to be what people generally expect to see when looking at volcano photography. It is also just dark enough that you have an illuminated feel, or glow as I see it, therefore the title "Evening Glow" which is certainly not set in stone quite yet either.

 

However after looking at the Lava Dreams original quite a few times when deciding which ones to send for scanning, did I start to really appreciate how unique of an image that one truly was. NONE others (of the 14 rolls) had the blue/lavendar/pink hues like that image as well as a few others taken at the same time. It also helps that I had more daylight which allowed for a shorter exposure on that shot which clearly displays more movement in the water, giving it more of a lava/seascape dual appearance. I was also able to catch that image as the water was receding, showing even more shoreline. In this case with the Evening Glow image, the exposure is much longer which is why the water has flattened out in comparison. It still works fine I think, and actually succeeds on it's own because of the longer exposure, but less of the lower rock is exposed which I would liked to have after seeing that in the lava dreams original.

 

What remains to be seen is how will the buying public react to having both of these in the same print line?? Or even possibly one of the closeup more abstract images which I've yet to even select for scaning? Perhaps even both. In the end, it's not a bad problem to have, eventually it will get figured out.

 

Mahalos for all of your feedback. Here are both side by side. And for anyone that has not seen that link, here it is:

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3000171