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12/14/2004 03:16:27 AM · #1 |
actually, i've been a subscribed member before.. but it expired about a month ago and i just renewed it.. but hey, i see how new members get a lot of attention around here, so i figured i'd give the title a try ;)
anyways, I was hoping for some opinions on my photoshop work (or the photograph itself, of course). I'm trying to learn to recover some of my technically poor photos in photoshop and want to achieve a natural, yet pleasant look. any critiques/criticisms would be very welcome:
original, unedited version:
"quickly" (an hour? that's quick for me) photoshopped version:
my main concern is that the second one looks slightly artificial - perhaps the colors, or perhaps some of my selective change in color balance produced too strong of an edge. did some color balance, hue/saturation, brightness/contrast, leveled horizon, slight levels work, sharpness on mountains only (did not want to accentuate the foreground more than it is already) - not all in that order.
some other things to look at: do the logs attract too much attention? are the mountains too bright? what about the sky?
any comments, photoshop related or not, would be appreciated - but if you have any photoshop tips in particular (or criticisms of what i did), they are especially welcome!
thanks for reading!
Message edited by author 2004-12-14 03:17:22.
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12/14/2004 07:26:33 AM · #2 |
Your right the 2nd looks completely false, water isn't that color brightness in that weather.
Yoiur first didn't need editing looks pretty nice. I would however try to include something in the foreground though to give it some depth.
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12/14/2004 09:10:18 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by jonpink:
Your first didn't need editing looks pretty nice. |
I agree. Though I don't know whether the rotation was the right thing to do. I find it's hard to get interesting colours with grey mountains covered with white snow. The lake is an interesting element, but you did push it's colour to hard. Nice work, I hope we'll see some more like your 'Anticipation' picture in the future.
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12/14/2004 10:05:31 AM · #4 |
Great place for taking pictures. I have two suggestions on this photo, try one, the other, or both.
1. Crop off the bottom of the picture so the water is the bottom of the photo. Currently the foreground seems a little cluttered and distracts from the amazing mountains in the background.
2. Convert to black and white and add contrast. I'm guessing you can make this look very dramatic. |
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12/14/2004 02:41:10 PM · #5 |
jon: i made another revision to the color balance of the lake, maybe it will look slightly more natural (but maybe not - i think what made me go to that extreme in the first place was a picture i have of peyto lake that is extremely bluish in color, even naturally). reflecting back to when i took it (this is before i ever really got into this site or any reading on photography), i think i was trying to make the logs into a subject of foreground interest (and i agree that how i presented them doesn't provide much to look at, but unfortunately i can't reshoot this one :( ).
gloda: yeah, i wasn't sure that the horizon was necessarily in that much trouble - but do you not like the rotation to a level horizon (ie: you preferred the angle/level of the first one)? if so, why is that?
lou: thanks - i wish i could go back and take more - such a beautiful area (Banff and Jasper National Parks in Canada, for anyone who wasn't sure). it was on a family vacation a few years ago, so i guess i'll just have to do with what i have :). i tried the conversion to b/w, although i'm not sure that i like the conversion (i couldn't get the contrast just right, in my opinion - and the clouds look somewhat strange). i also did a crop on the logs, but didn't bring it up as high as the lake because that severely threw off any slight balance that the logs/lake had with the sky.
here are my revisions below - they're still missing some kind of punch - i think all of you have probably covered it though.. guessing lighting wasn't good enough that day (or maybe i just exposed+edited it wrong?) to provide much color/detail, and a larger/more 3D foreground interest could provide the image with more depth and overall interest:
Message edited by author 2004-12-14 14:45:38.
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