50 Shades of Grey

[Saorsa]

I think I posted this from our cruise a while ago. It was almost what I was trying to get but the sun was a bit too close high left and there was a lot of flare the muddied the colors.



I futzed around with various sliders to try and get something I liked but could never quite get there. Finally, I decided that it was color that was the problem so I got rid of it all. I think I prefer this mono version better.

[Barbara Ponder]

Brian, I like the mono better but still the considerable amount of haze for me is too distracting, I like it on the mountains in the background but not on the foreground on the left. This is just a personal preference so others may disagree. Where did the cruise go? Sorry I missed it if you already talked about that.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Brian,

I think I can see posterisation in the sky from centre over towards the RHS, in the second image - have you deliberately introduced this to get the "50 shades of grey"?

I find the crushed shadows on right, which seems to lose the delineation between water and hillside, a bit odd, was there a reason for doing that?

So many questions!

Cheers, Dave

[Saorsa]

Well, the haze is actually the point and trying to use it to get a feel for the depth of the mountain ranges. This was taken near Puerto Chacabuco Chile. The cruise was from Santiago Chile through the chilean channels to Ushuaia, round the Horn to the Antarctic Peninsula, off to the Falklands (where by bride and I spent our 50th anniversary on British soil as it had started) and then to Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

It was a great time but reinforces by feelings about cruise holidays. They take me to places where I probably wouldn't get to otherwise but I have no chance to really stay a few days anywhere. You are there at a specific time and if you think the light might be better at dawn or dusk, too bad, the ship is moving.

This is a shot I keep coming back to but don't expect I will ever get what I saw at the time onto a screen. There just isn't a lot of detail in the shadows to the right, I tried cropping but lost the interesting skyline at the top.

Incidentally, my old monitor died and I need to borrow my photo clubs Spyder to calibrate this one.

[Saorsa]

I think this one looks a bit better. I won't bother folks with other attempts it was just getting a bit frustrating.



By comparison here is the previous