Walking the Crosstimbers
OK Morning
Posted by Earnest (Oklahoma, United States) on 19 February 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
Purely experimental.
I hope you enjoyed the viewing... Have a great day!
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
Superb colour! The silhouettes are so strong against that sky...your experiment is a success!
19 Feb 2009 5:26am
Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom
It's ok - spectacular. Marvelous colors.
19 Feb 2009 7:19am
Peter Miller from Lichfield, United Kingdom
Love the bands and swathes of colour in this
19 Feb 2009 9:08am
Eric Fry from Houston, TX, United States
Love these vivid colors, perfect with the silhouetted tree in the foreground!
19 Feb 2009 10:45am
Marie-Hélène Ammor from Casablanca/Paris, Morocco
Wow ...what colors ...superb !! And light too !
19 Feb 2009 11:56am
Marion from Liberty Township, United States
this is spectacular! how did you do that? These colors are out-of-this world fantastic!!!! LLLLOOOOOVVVVEE it :)
19 Feb 2009 2:50pm
@Marion: I've been following Eric Fry's HDR work and decided to start some fiddling with that. The colors are not due to saturation tweaks so much as a combination of contrived exposures and a recombination of the results. This is not a true HDR.
Steven from Chicagoland, United States
I first thought your title was referring to an "okay" morning, when this is actually stunning with the rich colors afforded you. The leafless tree is a nice accent.
19 Feb 2009 2:51pm
Tony Duque from Raleigh, United States
Wow!... what a wonderful shot, Earnest! Your title?... excruciating understatement. Some may claim this picture has benefited from post-processing (say... a little saturation tweak), but I know (or at least strongly suspect) differently: sunrises (or sunsets) can absolutely be that naturally and profoundly colorful. Thanks for sharing your terrific picture!!
19 Feb 2009 3:00pm
@Tony Duque: Great to get a comment form the "sky" expert. Actually these colors are a bit saturated due to a sort of "contrived" HDR experiment. No tweaking of saturation but definitely of the exposure and lighting. Normally like you I try to show the sky as it actually appears but I liked the result of my little experiment.
bm from Budapest, Hungary
stunning colors - did you to any post-processing or were these the natural colors? either way, the result is fantastic.
19 Feb 2009 3:00pm
@bm: This involved a number of replications of the photo using the gamma slider only then a recombination of the six or seven I did at a certain percentage then application of a very little contrast and balancing... I just liked the result though it really is much more colorful than the original.
vu@granby - Wolfgang from Granby, Québec, Canada
Yes, a prairie morning indeed! Sometimes we get lucky as well, and as my house faces east I get to see them.... like here and here!
19 Feb 2009 3:27pm
Marion from Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Beautiful vivid colors. A really gorgeous picture and a fantastic experimental result!!!
19 Feb 2009 5:20pm
Steve from Camdenton, United States
Ahhh...one of my favorites techniques also! Very vivid color.
19 Feb 2009 7:19pm
@Steve: Thanks, Steve.
Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom
I do like vivid colours, as an experiment, this works great in my eyes.
19 Feb 2009 10:20pm
DarkElf from Perth, Australia
amazing vivid and rich colours! i love their transition for light to dark - very nice!
19 Feb 2009 11:40pm
vu@granby Gilles Martineau from Granby, Québec, Canada
Your experiment is a beauty, the tree standing in the burning sky!
20 Feb 2009 3:24am
@martie: Thanks, Martie.
Barry from Kingwood, United States
Hi Earnest! This is absolutely INCREDIBLE! Love the dark contrast of the trees against sky. Take care.
27 Feb 2009 3:45am
@Barry: Thanks, Barry... just waiting for the weather to warm up enough for an old guy to get outside.
