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03/25/2005 03:21:30 AM · #1 |
How to improve this image? I have a feeling that there is something wrong here, whether there is too much contrast here, or lack of details in the trees. Any ideas? Please.
How would you score it in AA challenge?
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03/25/2005 03:29:40 AM · #2 |
personally i like this image a lot - i would have scored it an 8 in the challenge - great job - oh, and about the contrast - doesn't look like you overdid it, looks just fine.
Great shot
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03/25/2005 07:32:22 AM · #3 |
It is a pleasing, well composed landscape and it is contrasted nicely in the AA style. I like it.
The sky is noticeably pixelated in the darker clouds, particularly on the right hand side. You might have to apply the smudge or healing tool in PS to smooth that out since it looks to be significant in the original out-of-camera file. This is especially important if you are going to print it.
The fine detail does not seem as crisp and sharp as it could be. That is always a problem with digital images. David Sidwell used a fascinating technique with 2 additional layers he added and applied the watercolor and crosshatch filters on his entry in the AA challenge. It has similar detail to yours that you might try. His is crystal clear. He describes what he did in the image comments for his picture, "Willard Knob":
Lastly, the trees appear to lean toward the left indicating that either your horizon is not level or there is image vignetting. If you care to have the trees (Except the noticeably leaning ones) nice and vertical it is correctable in PS using "Free Transform".
It is a very nice landscape. I like it a lot.
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03/25/2005 08:27:09 AM · #4 |
I too thing it is a great shot. I see wat stdavidson is talking about with the pixelation on the clouds. Other then that is is very good. Could have straightened the falling tree, he he
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03/25/2005 03:00:40 PM · #5 |
I was inspired by dsidwell's picture from the AA challenge to work on the mountain landscape picture I took last week. This actually is my first attempt to work with layers (thanks to an online course I heard about on DPC.) I noticed some pixelization in the clouds in the picture after I converted the image to b&w in chanels. I didn't follow the exact protocol dsidwell desribed, but I am going to try it this evening. I don't know why, but some set ups when working with chanels make more or less visible pixelization. I tried to run it through neatimage but didn't like the over-processed look of the mountains. So far, I don't know how to precisely separate the ski from the mountains to be able to work only with the sky in neatimage.
Thanks a lot for the comments, I appreciate them greatly.
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03/25/2005 04:26:29 PM · #6 |
When a portion of the image is comprised od several different colors in combination, using channel mixer and heavily favoring one channel over the other (like red channel) will sho woixelation in that area. If you use red channel dominant in a pale blue sky, it will pixelate. I haven't found the workaround yet. It works fine for deep blue sky. See the sky in my AA entry to see the same problem there, I reduced it as much as I could with neat image without overprocessing and making the clouds too smooth
Robt.
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03/25/2005 06:35:10 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by artvet:
I was inspired by dsidwell's picture from the AA challenge to work on the mountain landscape picture I took last week. |
I am not surprised. Dsidwell inspires many with both his photographic talent and technical skills.
With all due respect to those finishing above him, myself included, I felt his "Willard Knob" image was the class of the AA challenge. Every time I look at it I'm reminded of what I aspire to achieve.
I used his technique to improve the print version of my own.
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03/25/2005 07:58:12 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
Originally posted by artvet:
I was inspired by dsidwell's picture from the AA challenge to work on the mountain landscape picture I took last week. |
I am not surprised. Dsidwell inspires many with both his photographic talent and technical skills.
With all due respect to those finishing above him, myself included, I felt his "Willard Knob" image was the class of the AA challenge. Every time I look at it I'm reminded of what I aspire to achieve.
I used his technique to improve the print version of my own. |
Technically, it may very well have been the best AA entry for sure. I've applied the process to my own, and improved it quite a bit. But of course we aren't just judging on technique, and the highgher-ranking pictures are lovely in their own right, surely?
Robt.
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03/26/2005 08:41:31 PM · #9 |
This is another picture, taken that day. I spent an hour or so on dsidwell's technique. I don't think it worked very well for me. Maybe I screwed up something. I'm not sure what he meant by "cleaning things up by blurring the A and B chanels in Lab color".
However, I won't give up, seeing as I have a few more landscape pictures that I want to work with.
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