[SI] Dusk or Dawn is available mid day!

Tagging on to your outline... I'll delete what I disagree with or am
indifferent about.

Savageduck wrote:
Bowser said:

The Dusk or Dawn gallery is posted, and it's a very healthy gallery...
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/duskdawn

Well, there still seems to be some life in the SI and we had quite a
variety of ideas beyond those typically expected of dusk/dawn shots.

Bowser:
#1; The pano, I like this and the quiet sense of place and time it evokes.

Enchanting scene. A bit of halo hdr effect; I only comment because it
looks like something I'd do and be OK with these results but a little
grumpy and hesitant.


#2; Another nice shot showing us an early morning, fresh & deadly amanita.

Clean. A little too clean to stand on it's own but excellent for
illustrating an article or something.


#3; Fair enough shot, but this one does not work for me. It seems murky
in some way, with composition and crop which is not quit right.

A little jumbled; no clear emphasis but is fine; no clear problems either.


Irwell:
DUSK #1; Nice framing of the shot with the long shadows thrown by the
"Toby" mug and other stuff. I would have preferred to not have the right
of egg cropped.

The crop is a rule-breaker but works OK for me. Good interestingness
quotient.


DUSK #2 & #3; In both of these shots the long shadows tell the story.
Good idea in setting the time of day.

The walking girl with shadow from above is much more interesting.


EricS:
Dawn; A good capture of morning stillness at first light.

Classic and serene harbor.


Dusk; Nice drama, but I think the timing was slightly off. Perhaps if
you had shot a few minutes earlier, or maybe a few minutes later. I
guess you had to be there.
Arctic Circle; The only sense of place comes from your title. I know you
were probably on a ship, but there is no real reference, and it seems to
be more of a snapshot than a deliberately composed shot.

PeterA:
Alpha; I know it was dawn, but this one doesn't really do it. There is
something about the color, contrast, and exposure which doesn't seem right.

I'm tempted to remove the gray bits and take it even further.


Industry; This is the type of shot you have perfected. In this case you
have everything right the sense of time and fitting your theme just works.
Omega; Three lightships in a row. I like it, and like "Industry" you
have everything right. BTW, how common is the use of lightships today?

Agreed, these are the result of practiced intent. I want to be closer
and have a more dramatic foreground but that may be me fighting your
intent. I think they'd work well as enormous prints in a commercial space.


Bob Coe:
#1; ...a closed Nathan's and ice cream parlor?

hmmm ;-) mice dramatic history for a boring parking lot...


#2; Shadows & light again, maybe one problematic blown highlight on the
crest of the flower.

I like the blue moody lighting and composition.


#3; ...the ribbon of filtered light running
across the yellow flower tops makes this one for me.

Captures the sense of place well.


Martha Coe:
#1; Nice depot, I just wish they hadn't turned on the lights, I feel
that there is more potential in this image which could be brought out
with some tweaks to the contrast and brightness.

My immediate thought is to darken it to get the auto-exposure white sky
out and make it look like dusk.


#2; The time of day might be right, but this one does not work for me.
It might be the subject, it might be the composition, it might be my taste.

Pretty good but the cropped ground plane does bug me.


#3; ...and here is your great shot. The subdued tone and fading light in
the greenhouse with the reflection on the wet floor makes this work.

Nice!


Tim Conway:
Duskdawn-old; Nice silhouette and textures sky. Very evocative of the
evening glow.

Great sky but I get lost in the foreground.
Arctic circle is kinda too simple but I guess that's the point.
Sepia bridge is striking!


Paul Furman:
5998; A horn player in the dusk. Forget the fuzziness it is great, I
like it.

I should've just submitted smaller, then I'm happy with it.


DanP:
#1; Different with an interesting effect. The zoom exposure does add to
the overall image, I just wonder why f/14.

To get a longer shutter speed. Well done!


#2; Nice color in the sky for the sunset, but not unexpected for this SI.

Maybe I'd have just stuck with the sky itself or done more with the
foreground?


Otter:
Eye in Sky; Nice. The evening light is just right to demonstrate the
time and yet have the foreground structures identifiable, without having
the stereotypical "golden" or "red" sunset.

Hang this with Pete's harbor shots... I like the magic hour sky and
silky feel of the water.


Savageduck (yours truly):
#1; This is about 2 miles from my place.

I might bump the contrast a bit ;-)


#2; The San Ardo oil field is a Chevron operation along the Salinas
river, about 25 miles North of my place.

I like the low contrast and magic hour sky here!


#3; Down at the coast at San Simeon State Beach, shot from the pier,
with the light filtered through very thick marine layer fog.

Air bokeh! :-)


AlanB:
old; Nice filtered light through the clouds, with the minutes before
dark capturing the vastness of that expanse across the valley.

Foreground doesn't work for me though.


#2; interesting color and reflections on the water.


Peter Chant:
#1 & #2; Both of these capture the feel of the fair in the early
evening. Very nice.

Magical lighting. I like the audience in blue hinting back to the sky
and the electrical amusement cars are framed stunningly.


Peter Newman:
Lighthouse [old]; See, it's not too tough to get it right. Faded light on the
building and golden glow on the horizon.

Perfect postcard.


Sausage & Peppers; "highly post processed" No kidding! It does deserve
the imaginative shot of this SI comment.

Very nice painting!
Lend Pete your color scheme and saturation levels.


Sunset lovers; I get the move to the abstract, but while interesting in
terms of a processing exercise, I just don't see it working outside of
the 1967-69 time period.

This one doesn't work for me but it looks like you had fun anyways.


As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

On 9/18/2011 6:59 PM, Paul Furman wrote:


snip

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/


Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

--
Peter

On 9/18/2011 6:59 PM, Paul Furman wrote:


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Peter Newman:
Lighthouse [old]; See, it's not too tough to get it right. Faded light
on the
building and golden glow on the horizon.

Perfect postcard.


Indeed it is sort of a cliche.


Sausage & Peppers; "highly post processed" No kidding! It does deserve
the imaginative shot of this SI comment.

Very nice painting!
Lend Pete your color scheme and saturation levels.


Actually I did very little color enhancement in post. In other versions
I tried several different color enhancements, but they were far too garish.




Sunset lovers; I get the move to the abstract, but while interesting in
terms of a processing exercise, I just don't see it working outside of
the 1967-69 time period.

This one doesn't work for me but it looks like you had fun anyways.

Fair enough. I did a small posterization to sharpen up the foreground
couple.



--
Peter

PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

Thanks, I actually dropped the exposure almost a stop in post so it
looked like dawn, not a white sky, and a little more saturated.
At full size, you will see some crazy orange and purple star fish I
hadn't noticed in real life g
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...60580/sizes/o/

otter wrote:
On Sep 18, 5:59 pm, Paul wrote:

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Ah, that's nice. What filer did you use?

No filter, just a 30-second exposure at dawn. I did force the ISO down
to 100 from the native 200, for some of the attempts for a longer
exposu http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehill/6159065900/

On 2011-09-19 01:51:52 +0100, Paul Furman said:

PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

Thanks, I actually dropped the exposure almost a stop in post so it
looked like dawn, not a white sky, and a little more saturated.
At full size, you will see some crazy orange and purple star fish I
hadn't noticed in real life g
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...60580/sizes/o/

Stunning. My "Early Mars" image has a sea of water, I should've shot it
as carbon dioxide like yours.

On 9/18/2011 8:51 PM, Paul Furman wrote:
PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

Thanks, I actually dropped the exposure almost a stop in post so it
looked like dawn, not a white sky, and a little more saturated.
At full size, you will see some crazy orange and purple star fish I
hadn't noticed in real life g
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...60580/sizes/o/

Ah! I see now why you dropped the exposure. The building in the
background is distracting. Could some cloning help?

--
Peter

PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:
PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

Thanks, I actually dropped the exposure almost a stop in post so it
looked like dawn, not a white sky, and a little more saturated.
At full size, you will see some crazy orange and purple star fish I
hadn't noticed in real life g
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...60580/sizes/o/

Ah! I see now why you dropped the exposure. The building in the
background is distracting. Could some cloning help?

There aren't any buildings big enough to see; between the large rocks is
Point Bonita headlands 4 miles away and Mt Davidson or Twin Peaks in San
Francisco 10 miles away with a radio tower - lights from the Sunset
District / Ocean Beach SF to the right of the rocks. Maybe San Bruno Mt
15 miles away.

otter wrote:
On Sep 19, 7:15 pm, Paul wrote:
PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:
PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

Thanks, I actually dropped the exposure almost a stop in post so it
looked like dawn, not a white sky, and a little more saturated.
At full size, you will see some crazy orange and purple star fish I
hadn't noticed in real lifeg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...60580/sizes/o/

Ah! I see now why you dropped the exposure. The building in the
background is distracting. Could some cloning help?

There aren't any buildings big enough to see; between the large rocks is
Point Bonita headlands 4 miles away and Mt Davidson or Twin Peaks in San
Francisco 10 miles away with a radio tower - lights from the Sunset
District / Ocean Beach SF to the right of the rocks. Maybe San Bruno Mt
15 miles away.

Paul, I take it you live near there? One of my favorite areas. I had
a friend who lived in Mill Valley that I used to visit some 40 years
ago. I remember going to an arts fair in Sausalito. I think the
admission was free or a couple bucks at most. There was a girl band
playing. Not bad, but not great. Turns out they were the girl
friends of the guys in Quicksilver Messenger Service. The guys got up
on stage and did a 20-30 minute instrumental set that just blew me
away.

I lived in Boulder Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains for about 5
years. Sure do miss the Bay Area, except for the costs.


Been in the city since 88. I was up near Muir Beach all last week... so
peaceful.

On 9/19/2011 8:15 PM, Paul Furman wrote:
PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:
PeterN wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:

As always, thanks to all for playing.

I've got one more I shot with the mandate in mind, after the deadline:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...n/photostream/

Great composition. I particularly like like the rock stacking in the
first Muir Beach. You have captured the mood. Too bad some of the dark
area seems a bit blocked. But, maybe it's the screen.

Thanks, I actually dropped the exposure almost a stop in post so it
looked like dawn, not a white sky, and a little more saturated.
At full size, you will see some crazy orange and purple star fish I
hadn't noticed in real life g
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehil...60580/sizes/o/

Ah! I see now why you dropped the exposure. The building in the
background is distracting. Could some cloning help?

There aren't any buildings big enough to see; between the large rocks is
Point Bonita headlands 4 miles away and Mt Davidson or Twin Peaks in San
Francisco 10 miles away with a radio tower - lights from the Sunset
District / Ocean Beach SF to the right of the rocks. Maybe San Bruno Mt
15 miles away.

What is that bright area?

--
Peter