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Excelente imagen de gran belleza, luz, color y magnifico encuadre saludos cordiales Clayton.

Fantastic mood here and great composition!

 

Home

'Home' is another interesting little spot. That shack, which is literally no bigger than the average person's garden shack was once someone's home. I sort of took a bit of a glance in there and there is a little bedroom and a small kitchen and that's it. Also, it was clear there was no running water or electricity, or insulation for that matter. Just a single wooden wall to protect against the elements. What sort of life that would have been, enduring -40 winters in that little house? The current occupants are a couple of great horned owls. I got about 5 feet away from it when a massive great horned popped out of the window. I don't know who was more startled. I suspect it was myself. Anyhow, I don't think I'll be able to revisit this location much. Whoever owns the land put the gate back up with a brand new 'No Tresspassing' sign (probably in precaution against hunters as deer season is starting up again).

perfect shot

These soft and warm tones give a surreal/onirical feeling to a natural and clever composition: sky, house, foliage, well balanced & put together. I also fancied the brief 'story-telling'.

Beautiful amtosphere in this shot, there's a stillness about it that is most difficult to portray in photography. Nice lighting and great composition!

 

 

Regards

 

FIona

The best picture I've seen in I don't know how long time! And it is home! Best home that can be! My hat down!

 

PDE

I agree... what a great image with a great feeling of impending storm...but home will protect...My only suggestion would be to remove the flair...it's a tad distracting to the rest of this wonderful image...regards! juan

Incredible landscape. Fantastic tones and perfect controlled exposure. I have to agree about the flare, and also I would remove that shadow of the image, maybe use a more classical (white) frame. Regards.

An absolute gem Clay, patience and opportunity have produced a "classic prairie scenic" many will enjoy....cheers...Tye.

I just want to thank everyone who has commented and offered advice on this shot. Thanks for viewing everyone.

Fantastic light and sky. I hope you really explored the area photographically and took a few more shots. It's amlost impossible to go wrong with light like this.

 

Cheers,

Aaron

Sadly Aaron this light lasted about 30 seconds. The sun came out from the clouds very nicely for a couple of seconds, then the lighting went flat again. I was super lucky to get this image. Mind you you've got to be there to get lucky.

Beautiful light and colors, great mood and atmosphere. Congratulation Clayton

Very good composition.

I love your landscape folder, but this picture here is just too much. Perfect.

This is a great shot. Well done. JH

JUST PERFECT

 

Clayton, The exposure in this one is realy good, I look at the light and try to understand how you got so much detail on the right side of the old building. What film did you use for this shot?

I usually just shoot fuji superia 200. Print film. I find it has better colour saturation than kodak gold. Sometimes I shoot fuji sensia, but normally I just shoot print film. Three rolls of superia 200 can be had at wal-mart for less than $10, and I shoot on a budget.

 

How did I get the details on the right side of the building? I always expose for my forground elements (or at least I try). I blow out the sky and try to bring it back with photoshop. Because there aren't many details in clouds and such it is far more subjectable to photoshop manipulation. I know they say you should under expose, but I prefer to properly expose my main subject and blow out the sky. It just seems to work better for me. I shoot film and get jpeg scans, and trying to bring back a under exposed forground image results in a noisey useless image. Maybe it works with RAW images, but for me that doesn't work. So I blow out the sky and select it seperately in Photoshop. 9 times out of ten it can be saved, the times it cannot I swap it out with a sky I shot on the same day.

Excellent image! My favorite of yours. I also wondered how it might look cropped to a more square image, dropping a bit of the foreground. What a chance to get such fabulous light, the sweet spot as we say.

Light is incredible here.

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Clayton ... yeap ... you have a preaty good tehnique I have to say. But ... if you have a clear sky (not like the one in this photo) ... all the sky is burnt, you get #FFFFFF and there is no return from that point. So ... do you use polarising filters ? ... or gradual grey filters? ... or did you just get lucky with the "not so bright, cloudy sky" ? (:

 

Regards.

I don't use a polarizer when the sun in the 'sweet spot' so to speak. I prefer to just let mother nature do all the work when the light is perfect like it was when I shot this one. When it starts to get a little higher in the sky (like it was in 'Stages of Decay') I always use a polarizer.

 

If they sky is just too burnt out or flat out uninteresting I'll swap it out, usually with one that was shot at the same time, same day, same location. I'm not against swapping out a sky that was shot at a totally different time and place, but the times you'll actually get the light to match are few and far between.

 

Oh, and no, I don't use grads. I prefer to just do it in post with photoshop. I do own a couple of grads but I find them cumbersome. I'd rather just blend two shots with photoshop, or just select one part of the shot and adjust that way.

 

edit: Oh, and thanks again everyone for viewing this shot.