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11 Nov 2007 User said:Very nice. Good choice for B&W. You can see details from one side of the frame to the other. You keep raising the benchmark for the rest of us Lyle to work harder!
Debra
12 Nov 2007 BSchirm said:Lyle - I think was a very good selection for black and white. It provides a dramatic contrast. Also, good composition, use of leading lines and anchor object.
12 Nov 2007 User said:Hi Lyle, a real stunner and nicely photo'd.
16 Nov 2007 User said:A beautiful photo with perfect composition and wide range of tonality for B&W. Ansel Adams would have been pleased with your planning the shot so carefully.
16 Nov 2007 Dubes said:Lyle, as you know, I absolutely love your photos, composition is second to none, and I am no expert in photo critiques. But on my monitor (calibrated to 2.2 gamma) the blacks look too deep with little or no shadow detail in the distant trees and the dark spot in the root of the fallen tree. Also the whites in the snow maybe should have been allowed to "burn out" more. Tonal range is good but seem to drop steeply from a mid grey to black. I'd love to hear your opinions as my sole purpose of being a member of the Nikonians group is to learn from more experienced & talented photographers.
17 Nov 2007 Lag said:Hi everyone,,,.
Thank you all for viewing and for your valued feedback,,. I will try to answer the questions in regard to tones and tonal range,,.
It really comes down to the dynamic range in the scene,,and the cameras limitations to capture it,,. The early morning sun in this scene is well below the horizon so the foreground,the lake and that distant tree line are basically in twilight while the distant Mount Rundle is directly lit so the exposure variation in this scene are quite significant,,. The distant row of trees and its reflection are silhouetted against the bright morning sky with perhaps 8 or 10 stops of exposure difference,,. It simple is not possible to over expose any further for the shadow detail without blowing out the hi-lights even with the ND grad,,. I did use a fill flash in the foreground which may have helped bring out some of the immediate foreground detail,,.
I use a calibrated CRT to do my editing and "this image" comes out fairly well to my taste both visually on the display as well as in print,,. The whites are just on the edge,,. I have checked it for hi-light detail in photo shop with the eye dropper and the brightest whites are showing slight grayscale detail,,. I don't believe it is possible to gain exposure in this kind of scene of both the hi-lights and the shadow detail within a single exposure,,,at least not from our current crop of DSLR's,,or 35MM slide film,,,.
Thanks again for viewing,,and I hope this has shed some light on some of your questions,,...
Kind regards
Lyle,,..
17 Nov 2007 Dubes said:Thanks for the response Lyle - hope you weren't offended. I'm still learning and need to judge the exposure latitude capabilities of a digital DSLR camera. I'll play around a little more with some of my exposures using curve adjustments. Just picked up a copy of Dan Margulis' book "The Classic Guide to Colour Correction" - some pretty heavy reading!
17 Nov 2007 Lag said:Hi Richard,,,,thanks again for your feedback!!
Kind regards,,.
Lyle,,.
22 Nov 2007 User said:Lyle, how did you position the fill flash and were you concerned the flash light might spill into the lake? The flash really added to the photo. Mort
22 Nov 2007 Lag said:Hi Mort
I used an on Camera flash and I'm not sure how much of an effect this would have had as this spot was pretty dark with flat light in a vast area,,with the wide angle I'm close to the tree,the foreground rocks and not much else,,. I think that the flash provided a stop or two in the immediate foreground which was just enough to allow me to do bring out the details,,.
I returned to this spot a year later with plans to re-shoot this scene and the tree was gone!!
Thanks for viewing and for your comment & Question!!!
Re
Lyle,,.
20 Jan 2008 User said:Stunning! You are a master with that 12-24mm lens...just a pleasure to view your work. I don't know which photo I like better, this one or Beauty Creek. Well done...as always.
14 Mar 2008 User said:Really like the way everything works here Lyle. Leading lines, reflection. Even the contrast over the treeline as you leave the zone. I'm not a critique guy myself (for lack of experience). But as a viewer, I can see this took forethought, and work.
Nice fill flash by the way.
Mark
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First light,,,one very clear and frosty Fall morning at Two Jacks Lake In Banff National Park,,. I used a two stop ND soft grad to hold the upper hi-lights back and a fill flash to help bring up the foreground details,,,. (use F11 for viewing)
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