Wow, Howard, that is an amazing contrast, and a great subject choice to use to demonstrate. Look at all of the different shades of color in the second one. My only comment that goes in the direction of a criticism is that the second picture does not look real. If you were to witness a scene like that in real life, wouldn't it melt your eyeballs out? So, I am wondering if a modern camera in RAW mode has extra powerful sensitive vision the way that dogs have extra sensitive hearing. Did you actually see those colors with your own eyes at the time when you took this, or did those vivid colors only appear like that when you looked at the photographic image? Then again, I do not work to be outside looking at vistas like this at such times of day. Maybe I am missing out. This looks too rich to be true. Or at the very least, I have never been able to capture the depth and richness of a landscape/sky picture to translate from real life to flat picture image like this so that another person can get the idea of how beautiful it really was. Sorry to blab so much, but it makes me wonder whether it is vital to shoot landscapes in RAW mode to get those colors.
Thanks for your comments. I think RAW improves the color and contract in landscape photography. The actual scene looked more like the RAW. JPEG looked rather dull. I should have taken this same scene in HDR for comparison between the 3...HDR can make the colors richer and if you want more surreal.
When I saw this photo, like Beth, my jaw dropped. I have since shown several other people NOT in our photography class. Where was this taken? What time of day?
Taken @ Chamber Bay (near Lakewood) in Jan after the sunset I think around 5pm from the Golf Club house. There were a half dozen people standing w/ me enjoying the same after glow of the sunset.
WOW! This is so worthy of enlarging and framing. Love the colors on both, but something draws me to the deeper shades of red in the RAW image. This is just spectacular!
Wow, Howard, that is an amazing contrast, and a great subject choice to use to demonstrate. Look at all of the different shades of color in the second one. My only comment that goes in the direction of a criticism is that the second picture does not look real. If you were to witness a scene like that in real life, wouldn't it melt your eyeballs out? So, I am wondering if a modern camera in RAW mode has extra powerful sensitive vision the way that dogs have extra sensitive hearing. Did you actually see those colors with your own eyes at the time when you took this, or did those vivid colors only appear like that when you looked at the photographic image? Then again, I do not work to be outside looking at vistas like this at such times of day. Maybe I am missing out. This looks too rich to be true. Or at the very least, I have never been able to capture the depth and richness of a landscape/sky picture to translate from real life to flat picture image like this so that another person can get the idea of how beautiful it really was. Sorry to blab so much, but it makes me wonder whether it is vital to shoot landscapes in RAW mode to get those colors.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. I think RAW improves the color and contract in landscape photography. The actual scene looked more like the RAW. JPEG looked rather dull. I should have taken this same scene in HDR for comparison between the 3...HDR can make the colors richer and if you want more surreal.
DeleteWhen I saw this photo, like Beth, my jaw dropped.
ReplyDeleteI have since shown several other people NOT in our photography class.
Where was this taken?
What time of day?
Taken @ Chamber Bay (near Lakewood) in Jan after the sunset I think around 5pm from the Golf Club house. There were a half dozen people standing w/ me enjoying the same after glow of the sunset.
DeleteWOW! This is so worthy of enlarging and framing. Love the colors on both, but something draws me to the deeper shades of red in the RAW image. This is just spectacular!
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