WORLDWIDE PHOTO WEEK: Part 330 - Landscape

It is so cool to see all the different landscapes from so many different places.

svizzerams wrote in post #17110647
It is so cool to see all the different landscapes from so many different places.

I totally agree. I loved both your pictures, nicely done.

Okay, I took a few crappy pictures (halfhazardly, hand held) and made my first attempt at HDR (using Nik plug-in software). Please forgive me for posting this but I'm not sure if I'll get a chance at any more landscapes.

I think all the landscapes have been good, I really like Unbalanced's photo.
Ohlook, nothing wrong with a G15, I still have a G9 and use it from time to time.
Stina, looks good to me. I had a look at it in lightroom, and I would have added some light to the foreground using shadows slider.

Wow, great landscapes, everybody!

Richard, even with grey skies your landscape images are beautiful! Good to see you again. I miss you when you're not posting!
Stina, I don't know why you are apologising for your image because it's lovely with subtle colours and great depth.
OhLook, your landscape looks fine! I like the light silvery colours and then that band or dark rocks crossing it.

I went out to the countryside this morning, just before dawn. We've been having some gorgeous and spectacular sunrises the last couple of days so the plan was to shoot one of those at the countryside today. Of course there was just a regular sunrise of the non-spectacular type this morning, so I mainly took some shots of the landscape. Files are downloading into the Mac right now. Hopefully there's something half decent to share in a few hours.

svizzerams wrote in post #17110553
I've been trying to document some of the landscapes after the fires we've experienced.

And doing a fine job. That looks bleak and sad, just as you wanted it to I guess.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #17110794
Wow, great landscapes, everybody!

Richard, even with grey skies your landscape images are beautiful! Good to see you again. I miss you when you're not posting!
Stina, I don't know why you are apologising for your image because it's lovely with subtle colours and great depth.
OhLook, your landscape looks fine! I like the light silvery colours and then that band or dark rocks crossing it.

I went out to the countryside this morning, just before dawn. We've been having some gorgeous and spectacular sunrises the last couple of days so the plan was to shoot one of those at the countryside today. Of course there was just a regular sunrise of the non-spectacular type this morning, so I mainly took some shots of the landscape. Files are downloading into the Mac right now. Hopefully there's something half decent to share in a few hours.

Thank you Levina...I really value your thoughts.

I too have enjoyed the different landscapes. As is often the case with this thread the topic is one that I had spectacular shots for last week.....but it is also the strength of this thread, that it raises challenges for us to deliver even when there is little that presents itself.

Like you, I'm downloading as I write this and hope that this evening's walk delivered at least something, as I think it might!

Ricardo222 wrote in post #17110878
.....but it is also the strength of this thread, that it raises challenges for us to deliver even when there is little that presents itself.

No kidding. I have been banging my head against the wall as to when I can find time to peel myself away from the daily grind, and where to go to find some landscape to shoot, never mind shooting anything that comes close to all the great landscape shots I see posted on POTN.

Well, tonight was different alright. These two were taken 10 minutes apart. For a minute or so just after the sun set there was a strange glow over the mountains which I captured in the first shot. The second is just the aftermath...looking south-east.

Stina-I like your attempt at HDR. That's something I haven't played with yet.

Ricardo- Your photos are always so enjoyable. A very photogenic area. You do well.

[QUOTE=svizzerams;1711​0553]An unburned bit of sagebrush steppe - with a thunder storm "off stage" brewing

I've been trying to document some of the landscapes after the fires we've experienced

Nice job on the documentation and the pics. I might add, that in my photo, the top of the mountain, Roman Nose, was burned over in the 1967 Sundance Burn fire. Sometimes these areas don't recover all that well and others seem to recover very well. Keep those photos coming,

svizzerams, The clouds in the coming storm look great, and I like how you included the barbed wire on the ground in the second.

EastBayGirl, we forgive you Glad you could go out and grab one for the topic

Ricardo222, nice... the first one looks like it could be sun reflecting off a lake?

Thanks, everyone!!

Klystron wrote in post #17110770
Stina, looks good to me. I had a look at it in lightroom, and I would have added some light to the foreground using shadows slider.

Thanks, Andy. I am looking at it on my work monitor today and it does look like it could be lightened up a bit. I probably need to bring down the brightness on my house monitor more. I'd never tried this before but I would like to play with it more.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #17110918
Well, tonight was different alright. These two were taken 10 minutes apart. For a minute or so just after the sun set there was a strange glow over the mountains which I captured in the first shot. The second is just the aftermath...looking south-east.

Those are beautiful, Ricardo.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #17110878
Thank you Levina...I really value your thoughts.

I too have enjoyed the different landscapes. As is often the case with this thread the topic is one that I had spectacular shots for last week.....but it is also the strength of this thread, that it raises challenges for us to deliver even when there is little that presents itself.

True, Richard. It is forcing me to be creative in new and unexpected ways, one of the reasons I love this thread.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #17110878
Like you, I'm downloading as I write this and hope that this evening's walk delivered at least something, as I think it might!

I'll say your walk delivered something!! Those are wonderful. Especially the first with the glow is lovely and quite unique.

My yield was not at all impressive. I will process one or two shots though, but I think I've come down with something and am not well at the moment. That's what you get when you're out at 5 am in the rain shooting landscapes!

A bad and boring pic...

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^^^Hey, stop being so critical, you! I can see a lot to like about that picture! (Except the cranky horizon!)

I like the colour, I like the composition, I like that glow of the sunrise, and I really like the fact that you were out there making pictures on a pretty awful morning.

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