Bamboo Forest in Kyoto
Bamboo Forest in Kyoto
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danzarate
June 13, 2016
Welcome to the Group. Keep on sharing your beautiful photos! May you have a wonderful day.
bonjoy
August 11, 2016
Your page says you won "HDR Colors Contest". So this is HDR? I usually don't like HDR pictures but this one is very nice.
wojciech_toman
August 11, 2016
Thank you. Yes, it's HDR. Most of my images are in fact but I try to keep them as natural as possible. I use HDR to overcome limitations of camera and not to create some surreal effect :)
Anon_1234
September 07, 2016
What a wonderful image - makes me want to walk right into it and keep going. Very well done!
Blindjustice
April 21, 2017
such beautiful light to guide us down the path. if you will what pp was used?
Savage-Martin
May 02, 2017
Join the conversation. Add a comment or even better, a critique. Let's get better together!
CrystalWolf
January 18, 2019
I'm soooooo surprised that you'va managed to find it so empty. Good timing :).
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Location
I took this photo during my travel to Japan in a place known as Bamboo Grove in western part of Kyoto.Time
It was early in the morning, soon after sun rose (it was around 7 AM). The idea was to avoid tourists as the place is very popular among them.Lighting
Light was pretty difficult. It was early in the morning and it was still very dark in the grove (bamboos are planted very densely not letting much light in). At the same time there were some very bright spots here and there making dynamic range of the scene extremely high. That's why I decided to use HDR for this photo - to balance the exposure and avoid both completely black shadows and blown highlights.Equipment
I used Canon 5D MK III with Canon 16 - 35 f/4 L IS lens. I put this combo on a tripod.Inspiration
I first saw this place in a photograph by Trey Ratcliff many years ago and ever since then wanted to photograph it.Editing
It's an HDR image so yes, I used quite a lot of post-processing. I started by loading my 7 bracketed photos (-3 EV to +3 EV) into Photomatix Pro, where I balanced the exposure making sure I don't have clipped highlights or shadows. After saving tone-mapped image, I opened it in Photoshop where I spent a lot of time perfecting the image. This involved improving colors and contrast using luminosity masks and making some adjustments in ON1 Effects (enhancing details, adding vignette effect and so on).In my camera bag
I always have with me Canon 5D MK III body (and sometimes 50D as backup). I also always have a few lenses with me: Canon 16-35 f/4m, 24-105 f/4, and 70-300. This way I can cover any focal range from 16 to 300 mm. Even though most of the time I shoot at wide angles sometimes it's useful to have some extra reach. I also always have steady tripod with me as well as several filters (neutral density, circular polarizer), a lot of batteries (3 to 4) and a number of memory cards.Feedback
If you want to shoot iconic (or at least popular) tourist attraction make sure to be the first one there. If it's accessible during sunrise - it's even better (bamboo grove is) as you will have nice warm light that will make the place even more beautiful.