Taken on the first night of a photography workshop that @Taffy found for us. We'll be posting a lot of similar photos as we were often standing side by side. Still, it always surprises us how differently we capture the world, too! I especially liked the angle from which you see the flow of the tree's branches draping down to the sand. Light painting done by instructor James Brandon with a red head lamp. FIRST Lightroom processing, but very minimally. I initially thought SOOC was great, but James had me bump up the exposure, contrast and saturation by two little clicks each, and of course, it vastly improved the final image even with such subtle edits.
Stunning shot of the Milky Way! Your workshop sounded fabulous. I would love to do one like that. Do you know if the photo workshop offers other
courses in California?
This is such a cool shot. Looks like hands reaching up to this amazing sky full of stars. I am so in awe of Taffy's work and look forward to seeing more of yours as well. Sounds like a fabulous workshop. So this tree was there but you just changed it up in Lightroom? I would get so lost in a workshop like this, I am still mostly using Auto on my new camera and doing nothing to my photos. FAV
This is really gorgeous! Very interesting to hear how you did it. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your pictures from this workshop. My husband and I frequently take the same subject with the same lens and end up with very different pictures. It's always interesting how individual each photographer's vision is.
This turned out really gorgeous....FAV, of course! Really interesting to hear of this workshop and see your Milky Way shots right after I attended a seminar with another photographer who does the same kind of work. Ours was a classroom format without the field instruction, but it was still fascinating to hear about how he scouts the sites, how he does the light painting of the foreground objects, what camera and lenses to use, and how to post process them. It was amazing to see him just tweak the contrast a bit, and get the MW to become so much more vibrant. Great work....looking forward to more of yours and Taffy's photos.
this is beautiful! what a stars!! like that you noticed the fact that a camera can look great sooc and whit just a few adjustmens in LR can be even better ;)
fav! Stunning image, looks like star dust, so pretty. I commented on Taffy's shot that she didn't have noise and nor does your shot. How do you manage that? Or is it simply that your camera handles noise much better than mine?
Congrats on TT. I don't understand why your photo came in at number 20 when you had more faves than others. IMO should have been much higher in the rankings!
Sincere thanks for your comments and favs -- I was so surprised when Taffy texted me today to tell me I made it to TT . . . me??? Well, thanks to my good workshop teachers James Brandon and Brian Matiash and to this supportive community for viewing it, commenting on it, and having it. What I did best was to choose this particular angle from which to photograph this tree, but it was done with James doing the light painting! Thank you for appreciating the effort.
Well if it didn't land in the TT I would have been very surprised. It's an excellent shot. You placed the tree where you did and it worked! Congrats! :)
Wow.
Awesome shot.
Great to see how little light pollution there is in the background. And at only 30 seconds I feel like I can try this without the need for a remote timer.
FAV.
courses in California?
Sincere thanks for your comments and favs -- I was so surprised when Taffy texted me today to tell me I made it to TT . . . me??? Well, thanks to my good workshop teachers James Brandon and Brian Matiash and to this supportive community for viewing it, commenting on it, and having it. What I did best was to choose this particular angle from which to photograph this tree, but it was done with James doing the light painting! Thank you for appreciating the effort.
Awesome shot.
Great to see how little light pollution there is in the background. And at only 30 seconds I feel like I can try this without the need for a remote timer.
FAV.