I forgot to upload this yesterday so here it is...
The view from our property. It was STUNNING unfortunately my photo is NOT!! What did I do wrong?? I used a tripod. I had the Aperture number high so it would all be in focus but it came out so flat. I fiddled with various shutter speeds. I've edited this but I'm just not happy with it. The sun was setting behind (I was freezing in the shade) and the last of the light was hitting the distance mountains and making them glow pink. There's little depth and it's just not sharp. If only you could have seen this view. It was breathtaking.
This is gorgeous. Wish I could help with the technical stuff. My point and shoot still does better sunsets/rises/flares than my Canon. I can't figure out why. The layers of colour on this are beautiful.
@agima I suppose it looks flat because I'm taking something completely 3-d and making it 2-d. My issues are with the colours and depth. I've seen landscapes on here that feel like you can walk right into them. Are there tricks/tips I should be doing??
@kwind The answer is contrast my friend, contrast. We see in something like 16 different contrast levels, and camera only sees in something like ( (depending on the model). This is why HDR is popular as it fills in the gaps between our eyes and the camera.
Look up S curve to get some more information on how you can do this, but I have did a quick change to your photo and increased the contrast.
@agima@kwind Oh i see a big difference in increasing the contrast and funny thing as you probably can see in my own photo's i kinda steer away from alot of Processing and especially Contrast because i now so little about how it effected the photo..but again you have to realize that i have very poor eyesite also and im not making excuses i just refuse to wear glasses! They give me a headach! :) ..I will be doing more with contrast now! Thanks Brendan! This is all such great info for us novices ! :0)
Kim, I see ribbons of pastels, here. . .the layers are just lovely. Please post it again somewhere if you try out the S curve and get something that pleases you more so we can all see how your "lesson" worked out!
Lovely photo.. looking at the exif info I think your sharpness problem was probably your shutter speed, pretty hard to hand hold at anything under a 60th, especially if there's any kind of breeze...focal length set at 85mm makes it a little harder. f5.6 and 1/100th would have been a better bet.. still a lovely photo though :-)
I think it's a nice shot. It's easy to overuse things like HDR; early in my project I would use lots of contrast and clarity adjustments to give the image a bit of a pop. Lately I've been steering away from these things as I feel the image can easily look over-processed.
I've had a few times like that with my D800 as well, it just does not behave as it should. On a related note, I just discovered today that the 10pin connector on the front has come loose and from some research, it seems to be relatively common. Just thought you should know/check it out as a fellow D800 user.
I haven't read all the answers, btu I think that perhaps if you ahd something in the foreground, like some grass or rocks or something, that would give it depth and stop it from looking so flat. You could still do HDR to get it all exposed properly, but I think that having something in the foreground would help to lift the image. Just my opinion, but having said that I also think I suck at landscapes. Not enough practice is my excuse :)
January 14th, 2013
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KWind a couple of questions for you.
I guess the question is why does it look flat?
What make an image look flat against what we see in real life?
Look up S curve to get some more information on how you can do this, but I have did a quick change to your photo and increased the contrast.
Have a look here:
http://media.brendanmaunder.com/waterway.aspx
Your eye site is very important...