Cloud Age Photo
16/365 Who Knows How Much Further We'll Go On
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Hey its been awhile since I've taken any photos with my wide angle lens, and today seemed like a good day to go wide. You know considering how nice sunset looked today, well at least I thought the clouds looks pretty cool today. So simply because of that notion I went out for a walk today with a location already in mind. This hill is actually a large mound excess of dirt piled up near my neighbourhood from the construction workers as they expand this little suburb I live in. I got to the location a little late (because I realized I forgot my tripod halfway) so by the time I got there the sun was actually JUST behind the mound. The light was still nice and all but I wonder how it would have turned out with the sun directly behind me. Also after I got off this pile of dirt my shoes were caked on with mud, really should have wore my boots but to late now.
So this photo is actually a combination of two photos one exposure for the sky and the second for myself and the ground. I simply masked myself and the ground in and spent who knows how long playing with the colours. I always have trouble colour grading landscape photos, never looks right or that good to me but this was the best I could do. Also as you can probably guess the ground was also fake tilt shifted out of focus, cause frankly the dirt and plants on that mound looked more distracting than anything. I also helped exaggerate the curvature of the mound in post as well by warping it a bit to make it more round. Another fun fact, its hard to see but I'm holding my old Minolta Maxxum 7 + Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8 lens in this photo. Also its still winter, no snow but its cold but I didn't like the shots I took with my jacket on and opted to freeze a little bit and just wear my shirt for this shot. Either way fun times and I'm pretty happy with this shot.
The title for todays photo comes from the song "The Longest Time" by Billy Joel.
16/365 Who Knows How Much Further We'll Go On
Press L to view larger and on black!
(in fact just click here if you want to see a higher res version of the shot)
Hey its been awhile since I've taken any photos with my wide angle lens, and today seemed like a good day to go wide. You know considering how nice sunset looked today, well at least I thought the clouds looks pretty cool today. So simply because of that notion I went out for a walk today with a location already in mind. This hill is actually a large mound excess of dirt piled up near my neighbourhood from the construction workers as they expand this little suburb I live in. I got to the location a little late (because I realized I forgot my tripod halfway) so by the time I got there the sun was actually JUST behind the mound. The light was still nice and all but I wonder how it would have turned out with the sun directly behind me. Also after I got off this pile of dirt my shoes were caked on with mud, really should have wore my boots but to late now.
So this photo is actually a combination of two photos one exposure for the sky and the second for myself and the ground. I simply masked myself and the ground in and spent who knows how long playing with the colours. I always have trouble colour grading landscape photos, never looks right or that good to me but this was the best I could do. Also as you can probably guess the ground was also fake tilt shifted out of focus, cause frankly the dirt and plants on that mound looked more distracting than anything. I also helped exaggerate the curvature of the mound in post as well by warping it a bit to make it more round. Another fun fact, its hard to see but I'm holding my old Minolta Maxxum 7 + Carl Zeiss 135mm F1.8 lens in this photo. Also its still winter, no snow but its cold but I didn't like the shots I took with my jacket on and opted to freeze a little bit and just wear my shirt for this shot. Either way fun times and I'm pretty happy with this shot.
The title for todays photo comes from the song "The Longest Time" by Billy Joel.