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08/24/2005 02:24:27 AM · #1 |
Herring River Marsh, near sunset; skeletal remanants of drowned trees, hanging on. Haven't worked with duotones for some time, so tried this. Colors were kind of not-to-my-taste, dark green and yellow-green.
Comments?
R.
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08/24/2005 02:33:36 AM · #2 |
| nice shot bear. I like the duotones a lot - but am curious what the original looks like. |
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08/24/2005 02:42:59 AM · #3 |
| I like this, left a comment. |
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08/24/2005 11:25:33 AM · #4 |
That's a very cool shot bear. Left a comment.
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08/24/2005 11:30:45 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
nice shot bear. I like the duotones a lot - but am curious what the original looks like. |
RAW capture resized;
Robt.
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08/24/2005 11:35:44 AM · #6 |
That's nice too (in color), but I like the duotone MUCH better.
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08/24/2005 11:41:21 AM · #7 |
It's an ok shot bear, but I find the snag is overwhelmed by the background of evergreens. I think the issue I'm having with this shot is that the middleground (snag) doesn't seem to detach itself enough from the background (evergreens), thus creating an image that feels "flat" to me. I also realize that repositioning yourself by getting closer to the snag and using a wider lens was probably impossible due to the wet terrain.
Message edited by author 2005-08-24 11:48:07.
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08/24/2005 11:53:26 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
It's an ok shot bear, but I find the snag is overwhelmed by the background of evergreens. I think the issue I'm having with this shot is that the middleground (snag) doesn't seem to detach itself enough from the background (evergreens), thus creating an image that feels "flat" to me. I also realize that repositioning yourself by getting closer to the snag and using a wider lens was probably impossible due to the wet terrain. |
That was exactly my problem with shooting it, and is why I made the duotone; everything is merging together too much. I hoped to pop it out with the duotone. I have another version I'm working on now. And yes, you're correct: I got like 200 feet of open marsh between me and that tree. Even if I wanted to wade it, it's not allowed; it's a preservation area.
Robt.
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08/24/2005 01:15:40 PM · #9 |
Well I love working with duotones ... what colors are you using?
With such deep shadows in the BG, you essentially have the bright streaks in the BG mirroring the lines of the snags, which is good (repeating pattern) and bad -- as has been pointed out it makes it harder to separate the subject from the BG.
What about a little dodge/burn on the brighter BG and/or the snags to separate their tonal values a bit more? |
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08/24/2005 01:20:19 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Well I love working with duotones ... what colors are you using?
With such deep shadows in the BG, you essentially have the bright streaks in the BG mirroring the lines of the snags, which is good (repeating pattern) and bad -- as has been pointed out it makes it harder to separate the subject from the BG.
What about a little dodge/burn on the brighter BG and/or the snags to separate their tonal values a bit more? |
Warm Gray. Already have done some highlight burning as suggested, tried more extreme version and not good. May have gone about as far as I can witht his, it's maybe doomed to be blah.
If anyone wants to have a crack at it from the color version, be my guest. That's unaltered except the RAW processing and resizing.
R.
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