US Marine Corps War Memorial - Sunrise (C&C Welcome)

[harishu]

could you (or anyone) please explain what type of filters would you use and why in this particular situation?

Nice images; did you use a G-ND on these?

 

[Braineack]

could you (or anyone) please explain what type of filters would you use and why in this particular situation?

Nice images; did you use a G-ND on these?

When I tried shooting with a lens without any filters, the sky was a complete wash, and everything looked hazy/blue, and it was incredibly boring and lackluster and none of those shots were any good.

I really needed an GND filter, or any ND filter. The CPL at least removed roughly a stop of light and they make colors pop a bit. A GND filter would have let me reduce the light further in the sky and let me expose the foreground longer and bring out the detail in both the clouds and foreground.

If I ever try this exercise again, it will most likely only be after purchasing an ND or GND filter Kit.

 

[EIngerson]

Very nice! I was lucky enough to be able to visit Iwo Jima and climb Mt Suribachi. The photo with a view of the whole island is from the exact spot where that flag raising happened. One of the more humbling experiences of my life.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ingerson/sets/72157633036326953/

 

[NancyMoranG]

Very nice. As the sun moves through the year, maybe the angle will work better?
Nancy

 

[Braineack]

Very nice. As the sun moves through the year, maybe the angle will work better?
Nancy

Yeah, I really needed to go out in Oct/Nov. The skys were much more dramatic and the sun was much further to the left.

These are some of the first landscape shot I've ever attempted; so live and learn.

 

[EIngerson]

What kind of GND are you looking to get?

 

[Braineack]

What kind of GND are you looking to get?

No idea. I'd probably go with one of the those square ones and a variety of NDs if anything.

Landscape photography is really not entirely interesting and/or inherent to me. I love what other's capture and post here, but it's just not my thing. I have a myriad list of other things I wanna buy before I end up with a GND

I'm going to back to the first image I posted and try to rework it a touch. I dont like the dark area of red next to the sun, and I want to see if I can make the flag cleaner. This is just a stacked image, I don't really have any HDR software, so I didn't quite get the detail out of the foreground I was hoping for at least, but it's been a long time since I've done any composite shot work like this and I rushed the processing.

 

[Braineack]

Edited the first shot: cleaned up the flag since it was a stack, removed the cranes in the background and a few random object in the scene that were bothering me:

 

[memento]

Ive never managed to climb out of bed that early in the am.
All mine are from pm light.

Well done. I really like the black and white one

 

[EIngerson]

Nice work. love the timing.

 

[Braineack]

Today's sky was so much nicer. Wish I was out, but there's a gaggle of tourists out already today for the Cherry Blossoms.