This is one of the last shots I took during my recent trip to Oman, the sunset at the Jabel Shams resort. It was a beautiful place and definitely somewhere that I'll try to visit again.
On a totally different matter ...
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Bulgaria (or the UK), but for those of you that do, have a great day :)
captured camera lens focal length aperture shutter speed shooting mode exposure bias metering mode ISO flash image quality RAW converter plugins (etc) cropped?
comment byROB at 04:36 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
One thing that really surprised me was how natural the image looks. Was then again surprised then I check the "original". Great representation of how you saw the scene.
comment bynavin harish at 06:18 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
Awesome shot, great colours. The clouds are looking amazing
comment byCarlos Garcia at 06:56 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
Beautiful results David. Love your artwork on this image.
comment byTom C at 06:56 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
Oh my! Awesome colors and this totally blows away the original! As Rob noted above this looks so natural the way you processed this. Well done Dave.
comment byPau Blasi at 07:36 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
Beautiful. I envy your color treatment. I'll have to re-read your tutorials... ;)
comment byMat at 08:35 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
I'd love to see this as a mini PSD. I'm really surprised at the change from the original. Was the original so bland because you deliberately exposed to the right? Or did you deliberately tone the image rather than recover what was already there?
comment bydjn1 at 10:39 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
Mat: OK, I'll post this one as next week's Mini-PSD. As for why I toned it this way: I titled this one 'sunset at Jabel Shams', but it was actually shot quite a while after the sun had gone now, hence the cold colours and lack of contrast. And yes, I did expose to the right, but even if I hadn't have done the image would still have needed quite a bit of work.
comment byDavid Anastácio at 11:54 AM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
Great photo, love the colors, the post processing is really good.
comment byDan Kaufman at 05:38 PM (GMT) on 25 November, 2010
As noted above--and again here, excellent work on the toning. It tells the story very well.
I'm looking forward to the mini-PSD for this one, but having "been taught well" through the Chromasia tutorials I can foresee the masked toning-curves already!
...and, while Thanksgiving is primarily an American holiday originating from an historical event, I think (hope) that many will agree that the spirit behing Giving Thanks is one that can be celebrated world wide. And so, Happy Thanksgiving Nightingales, Bulgaria, ...
comment byJason at 06:25 PM (GMT) on 26 November, 2010
Beautiful :) Really wish I had taken this one...!
comment bybeeveedee at 01:11 PM (GMT) on 29 November, 2010
This is beautiful. Love your post processing which brought out these colors!
comment by Kate at 10:22 PM (GMT) on 5 December, 2010
This is one of the last shots I took during my recent trip to Oman, the sunset at the Jabel Shams resort. It was a beautiful place and definitely somewhere that I'll try to visit again.
On a totally different matter ...
We don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Bulgaria (or the UK), but for those of you that do, have a great day :)
camera
lens
focal length
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
flash
image quality
RAW converter
plugins (etc)
cropped?
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
125mm
f/8.0
1/20
aperture priority
+1/3
evaluative
100
no
RAW
ACR
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2x1
One thing that really surprised me was how natural the image looks. Was then again surprised then I check the "original". Great representation of how you saw the scene.
Awesome shot, great colours. The clouds are looking amazing
Beautiful results David. Love your artwork on this image.
Oh my! Awesome colors and this totally blows away the original! As Rob noted above this looks so natural the way you processed this. Well done Dave.
Beautiful. I envy your color treatment. I'll have to re-read your tutorials... ;)
I'd love to see this as a mini PSD. I'm really surprised at the change from the original. Was the original so bland because you deliberately exposed to the right? Or did you deliberately tone the image rather than recover what was already there?
Mat: OK, I'll post this one as next week's Mini-PSD. As for why I toned it this way: I titled this one 'sunset at Jabel Shams', but it was actually shot quite a while after the sun had gone now, hence the cold colours and lack of contrast. And yes, I did expose to the right, but even if I hadn't have done the image would still have needed quite a bit of work.
Great photo, love the colors, the post processing is really good.
As noted above--and again here, excellent work on the toning. It tells the story very well.
I'm looking forward to the mini-PSD for this one, but having "been taught well" through the Chromasia tutorials I can foresee the masked toning-curves already!
...and, while Thanksgiving is primarily an American holiday originating from an historical event, I think (hope) that many will agree that the spirit behing Giving Thanks is one that can be celebrated world wide. And so, Happy Thanksgiving Nightingales, Bulgaria, ...
Beautiful :) Really wish I had taken this one...!
This is beautiful. Love your post processing which brought out these colors!
Juicy. :)