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03/28/2005 11:45:59 PM · #1 |
I kind of like this shot but I am not sure about it. Does it loose too most detail in the grass, do I need to do more dodging and burning to bring it out? Is the composition OK or do I need to crop more? Any advise is a help.
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03/28/2005 11:48:11 PM · #2 |
Oh, that's quite lovely. It feels like you can make the trees pop fromt he BG a little more, and like you can bring more detail into the grass. maybe a little too much foreground is my first reaction also. But a sweet shot.
Robt.
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03/28/2005 11:54:14 PM · #3 |
Thanks for the advise. Now everyone jump in.
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03/29/2005 12:10:06 AM · #4 |
Here's a very quick stab at it, I'd love to see the original...
Robt.
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03/29/2005 12:12:29 AM · #5 |
| Try croping it at the top of the trees and see what you think. It would have been great if the grass was more in focus. Maybe shot with a wide angle. |
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03/29/2005 12:17:22 AM · #6 |
I might pull a bit more color to add to the feel. Colors and Saturation on the left half, Original Post is on the right half of this pic.
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03/29/2005 12:42:12 AM · #7 |
What do you think of this?
Before: After: 
I did a couple of things:
1) I created a dodge/burn layer (i.e. an Overlay layer filled with 50% gray) and then simply filled it with clouds (Filter | Render | Clouds). I adjusted the opacity of this layer down to just 27%.
2) Then I created another dodge/burn layer and used the Lighting Effects filters (Filter | Render | Lighting) and created a long wide spot light from the left. This one I reduced to 39%.
3) Then I did a local contrast USM (i.e. radius of about 60 with an amount of only about 15) and a final USM of 15 and radius .5 to sharpen the tree trunks.
I haven't touched hue/sat, and I didn't use levels or curves. The added "texture" at the bottom came from the clouds (really it affected the entire image but it is most apparent at the bottom). And the lighting filter just added some clarity to the top left and opened up some shadow areas.
Really, most of the changes are fairly subtle, but I thought it kind of "livened up" the picture by adding some lighting texture to the scene.
Anyway, see what you think...
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