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6 Minutes after Sunrise
I was hesitant to include this one, but within the series it represents the transition of light, where direct sun is beginning to light the landscape. It was the bit of blazing colour on the tops of a few trees that caught my attention. Pretty much impossible to really render even close to how it was seen by eye at the time, as tips of the trees were very much brighter and more intense than the rest of the scene. Short of desaturating everything else and making it all even darker than I did I found this to be the best compromise.
It is kind of like the problem of trying to hold colour in a setting sun while still making it appear very much brighter than other elements in the scene.
A wee bit about the area. This pond used to be great to find both beaver and muskrat, but with the very low level of water, out of the frame to the right there are a couple of holes in the bank that are now completely exposed, which I assume were dens of muskrats. Although I have seen muskrats here recently, nothing like the numbers nor with the regularity of before, and can only recall seeing beaver a couple of times here this summer. Having said that, Beaver are clever architects and may figure out a way of making it all work. The tree to the right center with many branches sticking up has only been there a very short time, so maybe they are already at work on a pond reno.
6 Minutes after Sunrise
I was hesitant to include this one, but within the series it represents the transition of light, where direct sun is beginning to light the landscape. It was the bit of blazing colour on the tops of a few trees that caught my attention. Pretty much impossible to really render even close to how it was seen by eye at the time, as tips of the trees were very much brighter and more intense than the rest of the scene. Short of desaturating everything else and making it all even darker than I did I found this to be the best compromise.
It is kind of like the problem of trying to hold colour in a setting sun while still making it appear very much brighter than other elements in the scene.
A wee bit about the area. This pond used to be great to find both beaver and muskrat, but with the very low level of water, out of the frame to the right there are a couple of holes in the bank that are now completely exposed, which I assume were dens of muskrats. Although I have seen muskrats here recently, nothing like the numbers nor with the regularity of before, and can only recall seeing beaver a couple of times here this summer. Having said that, Beaver are clever architects and may figure out a way of making it all work. The tree to the right center with many branches sticking up has only been there a very short time, so maybe they are already at work on a pond reno.