June Title - "U.P. Sunrise"

How I did it -

Mostly Shadows and Highlight work due to the extremes in tones.  Taken in Upper Peninsula of MI.

COMMENTS:
 

Carole Kropscot	I grew up in the LP of Michigan. I didn't travel to the UP until I was an adult. The large expanses of land there with all those forests gave you a lovely foundation for your sunset. It's interesting to see the sun so high up. An intriguing picture with lots of atmosphere.
Elizabeth Lautner	Wow! That is an angry looking sunrise. I think I would have run in the opposite direction. "Red sky in morning is a sailor's warning".
David Price	What a fabulous sky and must have been difficult to capture especially with a digital as the sun is only partially obscured. I would be tempted to use this as a background for something else.
Walter Ross	I like the sunrise very much.  I like the way you composed this image.  The work you did on getting the clouds is great.
Barbara Kuebler	Your image is all about light.  I like the low horizon but the colors in the sky are a bit too extensive for me.
Diana Fernandez	I like the almost monochromatic hues of this image. The way the light falls from the sky as a beam is almost surreal. Allowing for a little bit of water and trees to show towards the bottom provides for enough balance to offset the empty middle portion of the image.

Member Bio

Ruth Rittichier - Biography I started photography with my parents' Kodak Brownie and used KODAK 616 film, when I was in high school. My girlfriend and I would process our negatives, and make contact prints in her parents' bathroom. When I had my children, I took photos of them with their dad's 35mm camera, but never did much more until my older son grew up and gave me a Minolta X700 for Xmas. I then joined Toledo Camera Club and other camera clubs, working my way up until I was winning in the top categories. I now belong to 3 local camera clubs, but am competing only in the digital print division, now that they have it, as I don't shoot film anymore. I joined PSA through the camera club, and was active in several of the circuits until PSA started these DI circuits, of which I am a charter member. I love sitting at my computer and making original art out of one of my photos. Now I am learning Painter IX, to be able to make better art from my photos.  I have a Nikon D-200 camera, a Windows HP computer with removable HD, and a 23 inch Apple Cinema monitor. rrrphotog@toast.net