Landscape with Nikkor-H 85mm 1.8...

[Peter]

Shot this with my Nikkor-H 85mm 1.8 D700 this past April.
I blended a smooth and sharp texture together to create this image.

Hope you all enjoyed a Happy Halloween.
Pete

[rosko]

Difficult to give a critique about this landscape  picture :

# The framing is good ;

# The B&W conversion is very well done with pleasant contrasts and a wide range of greys ;

I blended a smooth and sharp texture together to create this image.

I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean you sharpened (or blurred) some image areas separately ?

As for the lens itself, I own the same version of this fabulous piece of glass which is in mint condition and I love it !

[Peter]

"Image areas separately"?

Yes mainly softened the church the dark Mountain range and sky in different degrees of softness.
Thanks.
This lens is something special and I haven't used it much it does give off an amber hue so it works in the southwest environment for me.

[Erik Lund]

Looks very strange to me! Not sure what to say,,,

However we do have a thread/trend here for unsharp images,,, so why not a thread with sharp - Unsharp images

[Peter]

Erik,

Thanks for the feedback.

[charlie]

It is a pleasant and dramatic scene to take in though the post processing, the Orton effect as they call it, is distracting and the image becomes more about the post processing than scene itself.

I think it would be stronger with out the soft effect added.

[Peter]

It is a pleasant and dramatic scene to take in though the post processing, the Orton effect as they call it, is distracting and the image becomes more about the post processing than scene itself.

I think it would be stronger with out the soft effect added.

I am going to work on another from my Raw file soon, but what would this look like on a print?
Thanks for your input..

Pete

[Erik Lund]

It would look different since color is build up in reverse of what it is on a display, also it would depend on how big it is displayed/printed and what display/printer

[Peter]

After reviewing the original Raw images I realized why I did the all the post drama.
Using the 85mm as an experiment at a long distance the final image is 150% cropped.
Leaving the sky grainy and a bit unpleasant, original I softened the whole image but decided to just apply this to the sky and building.
Getting physically closer to the building was out of the question it was fenced off so I shot this from 300+feet away.
 I should have used a 135 or 200 to draw the church closer and retained image quality.