mozgur

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your comment and suggestion.

I had looked at the contrast in sky carefully. I had few different variation on this piece. One thing I'm fearful is to have too much contrast. It is too easy to go overboard in these kind of adjustments. After looking printed variations for few weeks, I settled on this one. BTW, there may be some difference between the print and what's seen on the monitor. I go with the print tests to finalize my work.

Hi Chuck,

Thanks for the comment.

Frankly I don't mind lack of comments that much, but things are certainly different at PN for a long while now. I think this is the new normal.

The lower traffic in the website bothers me more.

Enjoy life,

-m.ozgur

Glacier NP

thanks for comments and suggestions,

enjoy life.

First piece from the "Rise and fall series"

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-m.ozgur

Thank you for the comments.

On unrelated topic, I have to say that the most recent changes, here, at the photo.net have managed to dimiinish its value drastically. This site used tobe a top-100 site as far as internet trafic. In just few years, the changes managed to lower the trafic so much that it is now ~2500th in the trafic ranking.It is still trending downward.

It's sad, I hope it achieves what the management is looking for.

cheers,

Another simple b&w study.

Thanks for comments and suggestions,

Enjoy life,

Thank you for all comments.

For years, I've been working with stitched images only. This is a ~180Mpixel image. I haven't printed it yet, but it has plenty of detail. All source images are captured handheld with 5DM2. The exposure is adjusted to assure max shadow and highlight detail.  If you do see something not right, that would be entirely my fault.

The tone-mapping issue keep coming, so I'll repeat again. I don't use traditional HDR processing. The way I make my images traditional HDR is not effieicnt.  In addition, for handheld captures, it is doubtful how well HDR works.

It is also clear that it is impossible to satisfy all different camps in art of landscape photography. IMHO, regardless of the method, it is important to record, and if necessary adjust details in all areas of the scene.  I always considered the process of the tone adjustments very personal. I don't try to emulate or match the reality. (Reality is often a 12 fstop scene, What you often print is a 2.5 fstop  representation of that reality. )

Finishing touches are being applied to the Mistaya creek that

eventually dry as the ones in Southwest.

Enjoy life,

Neil,

thanks for the note. I don't know what attracts attention nowadays, and even I did know, it would have been difficult for me to do something other than what I like.

Along one of the side canyons in Grand Canyon.

Thanks for comments and suggestions,

Second of millions of visits, and one of billions of shots.

As long as the ring flows, it will awe us all.

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A new composition I've been working for a while.

Thanks for comments and suggestions,

Enjoy life,

In honor of World Cup 2010, for all football players and fans around

world.

Enjoy life.

m.ozgur

Isn't what you get when you use ND grad? (bright areas a lot darker and dark areas a lot brighter?)

BTW, your reasoning without knowing to real geology and topology of the canyon is also overreaching. The cliff face on the right is relatively bright because it gets major reflection from the cliff on the back. You can think of as very large reflector on my back.

I may have burned the trees on the left bottom a bit, sorry to disappoint, this is pretty much the way it was captured, 

I agree that the sky require a bit more work, and I'll work on that in the next iteration.

However, cropping out the sky completely is a bit too extreme. not only that is easy way out, but also the most common approach. In the final version of this piece, I do intent to keep the sky, and maintain the same aspect ratio.

Thanks Herma.

Now I understand why the reception to this image so poor. People has seen so many bad HDRs now, they look all images with great suspicion.

I guess most of the people thought this was an HDR image and rated as such.

I'm sorry to say that this was NOT a software HDR image in the way you think.  There is nothing to back off.

I'm curious, would you consider use of ND grads "acceptable" HDR photography, but "software HDR"  not acceptable?

It seems that there is inconsistency in landscape photoraphers views on acceptable specific techniques that end up yielding the same result. One is cheered as a masterful techique, the other one is sneered down as a cheap trick.. go figure...

Thanks for comment and suggestions.

Enjoy life.

-m.ozgur

I didn't... That's why it looks a bit strange.

57th image int he series.

enjoy life.

My interpretation of this famous view. Almost missed my flight while

looking for this spot.

(Some pictures are loaded with strange reminders. I could have easily

stopped with almost no regrets. Instead I stressed, and stumbled my

way to this. At least I know what I should do next time. )

Enjoy life.

Andrew,

Not a fish eye lens. This is a stitched piece. That is why I can print 40inch @300dpi.

On personal note, the watermark is included not to add, but subtract something from the image. I'm glad you noticed.

~1sec exposure @100ISO f/6.3.

One would need a stable support for sure. In many places tripods are not allowed, so you would have to rely on the existing support at location.

A difficult piece to work due to limited space, time to capture the

data, and also processing issues. I've recently decided to release

40inch print version.

Enjoy life.

PS: Selimiye camii is located in Edirne, Turkiye, and considered the

masterpiece of Mimar Sinan. It was completed in 1574 and still

actively used.

My interpretation of the valley of the six glaciers.

Thanks for comments and suggestions.

Enjoy life.