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High Desert Morning
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Uploaded: 11/10/09 6:03 PM GMT
High Desert Morning
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This digial image was created in Vue 8, and was inspired by morning sunrise in the Mojave Desert. We see the sun through the LA smog haze that sadly drifts way into the desert.
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Hello Peter! How nice to see your creation! When I got this in the VB I actually thought it was a real photo. And now that I see it's your creation, I can see why there is such reality. You're improving more and more, not that you ever needed that, but I can see the types of things you are using to make your computer creations. This is so lovely. That invading cloud fills the whole thing with such drama, and then the desolation of the desert, and yet that blazing sun heats all things. Would be nice if it would scorch away the smog. Very very ingenious creation Peter. Verena
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke
. . . and Peter said "Let there be light". The warm glow you've created is very soothing to the soul. Looks like mother nature has some competition in the sunrise category.
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some pictures say a thousand words... others speak silently to the soul
Hello Peter,
High white clouds... sigh... not that no one knows, but things can be so very subjective; ok, what i like about the image: i like the fact that you've given the clouds more than half the width of the frame and something like 1/4 its height, portraying them as high, to center, and above the focus subject, the tree (a Joshua tree?).
It seems to me that there are 4 elements to this composite (it is a composite isn't it?): 1. the foreground, 2. the sun and its sky, 3, the tree, and 4. the clouds.
The sun, its sky, and the foreground are not only in opposite extremes of light, those extremes obscure mostly absent detail in their domains, open sky and ground.
What say... a significant fraction of the image given to obscuring extremes mostly without detail?
What does that do to one's impression of the tree, and those clouds?
Taking a copy of the image I cropped it from about the "i" in the word "morning" in the image's title to about 3/4's of the frame's height from the top. Doing so excised most of the overbearing extremes of light, and doing that raised the light (or my impression of it) from both the tree and clouds.
Doing that also balanced the clouds and tree in something of an off-center opposition, revealing more of each by drawing to each in turn, or to each as one - so it seems to me.
I am going to keep the copy I cropped. Ok?
Regards,
Alan
High white clouds... sigh... not that no one knows, but things can be so very subjective; ok, what i like about the image: i like the fact that you've given the clouds more than half the width of the frame and something like 1/4 its height, portraying them as high, to center, and above the focus subject, the tree (a Joshua tree?).
It seems to me that there are 4 elements to this composite (it is a composite isn't it?): 1. the foreground, 2. the sun and its sky, 3, the tree, and 4. the clouds.
The sun, its sky, and the foreground are not only in opposite extremes of light, those extremes obscure mostly absent detail in their domains, open sky and ground.
What say... a significant fraction of the image given to obscuring extremes mostly without detail?
What does that do to one's impression of the tree, and those clouds?
Taking a copy of the image I cropped it from about the "i" in the word "morning" in the image's title to about 3/4's of the frame's height from the top. Doing so excised most of the overbearing extremes of light, and doing that raised the light (or my impression of it) from both the tree and clouds.
Doing that also balanced the clouds and tree in something of an off-center opposition, revealing more of each by drawing to each in turn, or to each as one - so it seems to me.
I am going to keep the copy I cropped. Ok?
Regards,
Alan
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sometimes all it takes is everything;
sometimes its worth it.
taynsn, thank you for the interesting analysis. Actually if you look closely there is a lot of subtle detail. This image actually has 37 million polygons in it. Plus you'll notice the shading even in the open spaces. You certainly have the extremes right and the clouds to add a bit of drama of what's coming. The tree is an old juniper. I'm going to try your crop suggestion. This is a single render with no...repeat no post work...this is exactly how it came out of my render engine.
Verena...always good to hear from you.
Verena...always good to hear from you.
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Okay, Alan, I cropped it and It's lovely but it's a different message. It puts the focus on the sun and I want it on the tree and the feeling of desolation. If you blow it up full size you'll see there is no area in the image that is absent of detail, even the sky...check it out.
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What I like so much is the rich 'eggyolk' colour! That makes the whole creation fill my eyes with such warmth. I don't know a lot about what 'taynsn' wrote, but I know I would not have cropped it, the tree is a wonderful focal point. I'm ready for another of of your creations!! V
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Ah, now I see... form and content; one would think that after all this time that I'd not trip over something so fundamental. Thankfully I don't see that happening again.
Alan
Alan
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sometimes all it takes is everything;
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"Another silly caedes member who has put their photo in the wrong gallery..."
Whoops! I guess not! Very convincing render!
Whoops! I guess not! Very convincing render!
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-Everyone is entitled to my opinion-
How very lovely, Peter! I missed this one when it went up....(my mom was hospitalized at the time)....so glad I fell upon it today as I took a few minutes to peruse the permanent galleries! Wen
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