St. George Temple
Christmas 2017
We are spending a few beautiful days at our little casita in southern Utah. Shortly before sunset there was a pretty boring blue sky, but I decided to go take photos of the St. George Temple anyway. I was delighted when a few minutes later, a few wispy clouds drifted by and then the sky turned a lovely magenta. Lucky me!
7 comments:
awesome! :) ...and straight out of the camera.
Beautiful, and the sky that has colours that last a few minutes or less, this was the moment for you.
Lovely picture for sure!
Karen, an absolutely gorgeous image!
R. Mac, here is an answer to your comment above, that I gave to another photo friend: David made a comment on this post on facebook and asked, "No filters?" Here was my answer: "Long explanation to a short question.....my camera, (Fuji X-T2), has numerous settings that simulate the look of various films. Whenever I am looking to bring out color, most always in landscapes, flowers, & nature shots, I set it to Velvia, which increases color and contrast, and in the past was the standard for landscape photographers using film cameras. After that, I edit to bring out additional color tones and ranges of light values to dark values that my eye saw in a scene but that my camera was unable to capture. Then, I sometimes add my own personal artistic touches. I have no secrets, and give no apologies that almost everything I post has had some editing done... often just a simple crop, exposure or color contrast adjustment, maybe a subtle vignette, but sometimes more. If I do something drastic like combine two photos, or drastically change or alter what I actually saw through the lens, and what I have done is not obvious, I try to give an explanation."
I get the sense you were offended a tiny bit by my joke. None was intended.
No, absolutely not offended at all. But if there is any doubt, I like to clarify because it is offensive to me that there are a fair amount of photographers out there who heavily edit their images and claim they don't, thus being deceptive. Then, instead of viewers just enjoying the image for its own merit, its beauty, message, or emotion, they concentrate on guessing whether it is 'fake' or not. I like people to just enjoy my photography, knowing up front that all my images start with my camera, and my decisions on what settings and lens to use, what composition and perspective to choose, etc. Then I do whatever post processing I need, maybe a little or maybe a lot, to end up with the image I see in my mind's eye.
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