This Morning

Went out very early this morning to catch the sunrise on The Roaches in Staffordshire. As usual for me a band of cloud developed just at the wrong time.
I hung around and struggled with cold fingers until there was some light at least, funny how all thoughts of hyperfocal distance and other technical aspects were cast aside whilst I was suffering.

Anyway here are 3 of the shots I took, not that great but would like C&C anyway.

Regards
Steve

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/Roaches-4.jpg[/IMG]



[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/Roaches-3.jpg[/IMG]



[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/Roaches-2.jpg[/IMG]

Well worth the wait, Steve.

1 & 3 for me.

Great sense of depth in #1.

'Course, I'm from frosty Quebec, so #3 is kinda special.

Cheers

Thanks Mac, dont be afraid to knock them though. Best way to learn

No 3 for me, it would have I think made a nice HDR shot.

number 3 for me as well . been up the Roaches too many times to mention.
no 2 the wall seems to split the picture and also leads the eye off the page, IMHO but I am just learning.

Neil

Thanks for the comments. I tend to agree, now I look at No.2 again I don't like it and No.3 is probably the best, but don't you think the light is not so good?

This scene certainly does not need HDR treatment. It's perfect as it is without being ruined by unnecessary processing.

Thanks peter, I am not really in to HDR anyway, though i would like to have a play around with it sometime.

However I have done a bit of Dodging and Burning on photo No.3 and will posy both versions again here, perhaps you could comment on which you prefer?

First so its easy to compare, the original.

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/Roaches-2.jpg[/IMG]



And now the Photoshopped version, literally just a little dodge and burn.

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/Roachescs3work.jpg[/IMG]

I still like the original better. The processed version looks unnatural. Good effort though.

HDR helps with scenes that have extremes of dark and light areas and ideally needs multiple bracketed exposures. Your scene doesn't fit that criteria. It might be interesting to experiment but I doubt the original would be improved.

Thanks for the feedback Peter

DITTO..

same for me the original one.

Thank you guys, the original it is then

#3, I found the sheep on the distant hill to the right rather distracting

Roland,

That's it!

I KNEW there was something about #1 that was throwing me off.

I keep trying to count them and fall asleep every time!

Still like the first shot quite a lot though, I find it has a great sense of space and depth with the cloud shadow in upper left vs perfectly slanted early morning light in lower right.