"Sweetness of the Vine"

Taken just outside of Paso Robles, Ca. Thanks for any feedback.

Amazing shot - exposition so fantastic, and lines... - best regards!

I know this area and can say you've captured it extremely well. This photo has a very 'painterly touch' to it.

 

I am interested in learning how you got the sky so dark -- split ND filter, HDR capture, toning down the highlights in shadow/highlight filter in Photoshop, curves, or some such, or what. In any case, it's a very, very nice photo.

 

(not rated -- outside of my rating genres)

 

John (Crosley)

 

Amendment: I read the 'details' and have answered my own question. Nice choice of filters.

 

JC

The image looks like an illustration. Nice control of HDR! Regards

Gorgeous place, beautiful photo. Simply stunning! Lucky you to be there :)

Thanks Dina, John, Anthony and Alberta. I appreciate your comments. This is a single exposure from a 16 bit Raw file. I am not the consumate purist in that I rely on Photo-shop to complete my vision. While a split ND grad was used, it still did not convey the intensity of the moment. I simply duplicated the layer, changed the blend mode to multiply and then backed off the opacity of the blend layer. I then made a color selection layer mask to blend the two versions and give this a somewhat HDR effect. Cameras and filters still have limitations. After post processing, this image represents the perception I had of this scene. Thanks so much!!!

Sounds like your post-processing did the trick (although don't you mean 12-bit RAW? I'm not aware of the existence of 16-bit RAW, not on-camera at least).

 

Very nice exposure, and very well framed.

Thanks Andrew. The RAW file is either 12 or 14 bits (I'm not actually sure which my camera's sensor produces but I use the DNG format) and then I export it into Photoshop as a 16 bit PSD (Which is actually a true 15 bits). For the sake of clarity, its a honkin big file compared to JPEG. A syntax error on my part.

Very nice picture.

Excellent and beautiful photo

wonderful photo! in my opinion post-processing is part of photography in general (@Andrews comment) so i don't care if you blend 15 photos in 3 different post-processing softwares... final result is important.

 

regards

 

kikki

You worked this shot really well Mark. An excellent image.

You amaze me! Another outstanding image. You got the "eye" and the talent.

Another outstanding capture! I grew up in the wine country ( Sonoma and Mendocino counties) and this photograph really takes me back in time. Like your explanations on how you got to this final photograph and appreciate you sharing with us fellow PNers. Looking forward to meeting you...RAY

Thanks Ray and Leo! I am really looking forward to our Yosemite excursion. Another side note about this image. Many of the vineyards are surrounded by chicken wire fences to keep people out. When I saw this scene, I was looking through a fence. To deal with it, I placed one leg of the tripod through the fence at an angle that would allow the lens to fall through one of the openings. It takes a few tries to get the right angle. So I guess you could say only my third tripod leg was trespassing. See you guys soon!