Buffalo, NY Finally Sees Winter's Entrance (after unseasonably long high temps.)
by dsterner

Comment by klstover:
Composition is pretty nice although cropping the bottom might help a bit as mentioned. Also maybe a bit looser crop on the right, to include all of the branches on the rightmost tree. Definitely adjusting the contrast would help a ton. First it is normally not so great to see so much gray in a picture, and secondly you want to get brighter tones to emphasize the white "snow-ness" of the image.

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Comment by klstover:
The main thing I notice about this that you could improve is that there seems to be a reddish tint over the entire image and the paper just doesn't seem right. There are multiple ways that you could address something like this - in Photoshop, using levels, curves, hue/saturation, and brightness/contrast will all make some sort of effect. What I would do first, if this were my image, would be to use levels or curves. That gives you a bit more control, I have found, in brightening up the whites - if you look at the shot the white paper doesn't really seem all that white. You could adjust levels as a whole or adjust the red levels separately.

I'd recommend playing around with all the different options and seeing what you like. You could even use adjustment layers (legal in basic if they're in "normal" blending mode and there are no masks), making changes one at a time (hiding each after you do it so that you can make your next change to the original image) and that would allow you to see very easily the differences between the methods (while keeping a copy of the original background layer, which is helpful).

Pinocchio says "I am not telling a lie!"
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Comment by kelbelle:
Brilliant! 8

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Comment by ashleyvonrock:
IRISH DANCERS! I used to be one of those...cool picture :)

Pinocchio says "I am not telling a lie!"
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Comment by Shadowi6:
Nice Idea and looks good I would have preferred less DOF and the branch in the top corner is distracting. But good find.

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Comment by colorcarnival:
Hey Deb - I gave this an 8 during the challenge. I thought it was good use of DOF - even tho - based on some comments I got, I must not totally understand SHALLOW DOF. Oh well lol. Good lighting. Good job!

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Comment by abhinaba:
Nice story.

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Comment by scarbrd:
nice dos!

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Comment by casuist:
The hair is so bad it is good

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Comment by Simpa:
I love this...