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A 5 minute gap in the inclement weather.Mount Cloudmaker. Kanangra Boyd Wilderness. The Southern Blue Mountains.
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Featured on my Main Page & Journal [link] Great shot!
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G'Day Warren,
I hope you're doing well. I've been away for a lot of the time but that was just work.
Seeing the colour I was wondering how you got it, and I'm amazed to read that it was just like it was. You live in a wonderful place.
Eric
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Mate, I've been going through my mail and I have now read this note. Please cut me some slack and accept my sincere apologies for my late reply.
The Blue Mountains are normally blue because of the Eucalyptus oil in the air working as filter altering the wavelengths of white light. The original image was very blue ... too blue.
Because it was a freezing cold and heavily frosty day (image shot well before sunrise) I wanted the coldness rather than the blueness of the shadows and the warmth of the light illuminating the clouds took away from the hardship feeling of being there.
I made two identical images, both were correctly toned and coloured in the digital darkroom. The second image was converted into a black and white. I then made a layered composite of the two images and made the b/w image the dominant layer. The warm colours remaining in the clouds, I captured by carefully putting a capture tool around the clouds and removed the last of the colour by completely desaturating the last of the colours.
This is the result.
I'm fond of square formats, as you know doubt tell. Sometimes I just squeeze the image into a square shape (if it doesn't look too odd), at other times I trim the image to suit the square format.
This shot I just squeezed it up into a square format, and it looks totally surrealistic ... I'm very happy with this result.
Eric, It is very good catching up with you Mate.
As always, all the best Mate.
Warren.
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Thanks for all these thoughts, Warren! I don't often ask questions like this one, but here it really intrigued me and we can all learn from each other's postwork!
Likewise, Warren and all the best to you!
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Gerado, I pleased that you like this image.
I'm overawed of the Kanangra Wilderness each time I visit. There is just so much to see.
Each time I stop to take a photograph, I see that a few hundred metres further on could make an even better image. When I get to anew spot, just a few hundred metres on is an even better possible image, so I don't take a shot then and move on ... and that is how Kanangra is. Very difficult to decide what to photograph.
So when you see an image of mine of Kanangra, it is only because I've been too weary to walk. Being unfit has its advantages in an awesome place like the Kanangra Boyd Wilderness.
Warren.
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This is my favourite colour (This kind of indigo - blue), and of course, the land is so much beautiful. It must be so peacefull to be there.
Congrats for this photo!
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Gerado, thank you for waiting for my return mail. I spent 10 days in hospital after being bitten by a spider and have been instructed to take it easy and then this week I'm spending time just recouperating.
Thank you for your interest in the shot. I'm plesased to read your comment about your liking for the colour. It is usually that the colour or the lack of colour that attracts me to an image. I then compose the shapes to emphasise the colour or the lack of colour.
No doubt you have noticed that many of my images are very simple in the use of colour. I think a lot about the colour.
I took a very simple shot of a person standing in the rain that is about complimentary colour ... I'll post the shot.
Cheers Mate.
Warren.
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I had an excellent time taking the photograph. I was walking in the dark to where I took the shot, on the edge of a cliff and then sat for an hour waiting for the sun to rise and to see what was below the cliff ... nothing.
The sounds of the bush when it was waking up were magic. The calls of the Currawongs through these ranges is fantastic. I wish I could add sounds and smells to these images.
Warren.
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The experiences behind the photographs are often so much ricer than the pictures themselves. If only the artist could capture that outside of their memory.
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DW, I guess we are capturing what is outside our memory. The moment we click the shutter ... a new memory starts.
I think photographers tend to be too subtractive unlike painters who are additive. Photographers are always trying to simplify the image and this seems to carry over even into their replies to mail.
I'll say why I like an image and and a bit more and why i collected a fave and all I get on this site is ... "Your welcome" and "No problem." Hardly welcoming and obviously a problem sharing the special knowledge.
That is why it is a pleasure talking to you.
Warren.
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I do what I can. Sometimes, I do just send out the 'you're welcomes', but that's usually when things are hectic. I'm trying to slow down more and smell the roses.
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Marina, Hello.
I took the shot this morning before sunrise. It is good that the camera has an auto focus function, because at the time it was too dark to manually focus the shot.
The colours are somewhat faithful to the original scene at the time. It was raining slightly, which has also added to the subtlety and unusual colouring.
What has made the image more 3-D is it is an HDR made from 3 exposures to extend the dynamic range because the original image was atouch flat in tone.
Warren.
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Don, G'day again.
The shot was taken before sunrise and is an HDR image made from 3 RAW exposures, +/- 1.6 stops between exposures. The colours are faithful to the original scene with its, much doom and gloom.
The RAWs were converted to an HDR image in the Photomatix Pro 3 programme.
Then the HDR was tweaked in Arcsoft ... to darken some of the values, particularly on the edges of the frame.
Very few of my images are SOOCs, straight out of the camers. There is much post processing done.
Warren.
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It's almost a figure/nude shot of a landscape. It's as if you taken the shot like a figure photographer takes a shot of the figure to look like a landscape. Brill.
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Passion? ... but don't ask me to choose.
Warren.
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xutomu, Thank you. I'm pleased that you like the shot.
Kanangra Boyd is an amazingly beautiful and rugged place and one only has to point their a camera at these mountains and the image will be very spectacular.
Warren.
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Thank you Skyflyer2. I'm about to post another image from my trip ... in about one minute from now.
I took the photo this morning before sunrise, while it was very gloomy and dark. I was deciding while I was taking this shot, if I should abort a walk in the mountains that I was doing.
It had been raining for two days, making the photography very difficult ... and I was freezing and soaked througha nd having trouble keeping my camera dry.
I'm pleased that I took this shot ... then I returned to the car.
Warren.
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Hello Warren,
well it's really beautiful and your gallery is great too.
You are one of the first persons that writes a longer comment. Usually people here just answer "thank you", when I wrote some comment.
I would like to visit Australia too, Hope one day...
Skyflyer
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Skyflyer, I'm a bit old school when it comes to replying, that's probably why.
I'm always interested to read a bit more about why an image happened or how it was inspired and what an artist was thinking ... so I'm guessing others are too.
If you do visit Oz I hope you are able to take your time. I think that the natural heritage here is extraordinary our cultural heritage is over marketed ... and totally false. That is our tourist trap.
Warren.
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well i like it very much.
As i said it can be really disappointing if people always only answer with an Thanks.
And I'd often love to know as you said why and how a picture happened.
The place, details about models, or in my case infos about the art, like colours, size, etc.
so you're old school..how old are you Warren?
good night (here is night 
Skyflyer
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Good morning.
" ... how old are you Warren?"
I'm having trouble remembering.
Warren.
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hihi 
And you have humour...what would the world be without humour...
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... "what would the world be without humour"...
We would all be war mongering US Republicans?
Warren.
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