Originally posted by SDW65:
Thank you for your critique. Very helpful. Should I tone down the trees? I did not saturate them at all, that was the natural color straight out of the camera. I like the photo but feel something is a miss.
Again Thank you for taking the time to critique.
Scott W. |
The trees look fine, but the more brightly colored ones look a bit over-saturated (loss of detail). This may be the result of the lighting or just a byproduct of the web-sized image. A look at the original will tell you if it is either, or something else.
On the subject of post-processing, toning it down or not depends on what it was that compelled you to take the picture in the first place. From what I can see of it, I will venture a guess the bright colors had a lot to do with it.
I put it in PS and played around with it for a few minutes and found my initial impression of the dyanamic range was off base -- the sky is not completely blown and very little of the shadows are actually blocked beyond having some detail in them. A contrast mask (or the Shadow/Highlight adjustment) does wonders for it, you might give it a try. Be forewarned however, compressing the dynamic range of the scene to fit the range of the image does take a lot of the pop out of it -- a curves layer with a careful 'S'-shape will make it pop where you want it to while not removing the dynamic range. BTW: if you don't have PS CS, there is a tutorial on this site that discusses a method that while it does not give you as much control over the process, it does accomplish much the same effect.
Sorry if I seem a bit vague, but without knowing what you wanted to capture, I can only tell you my impressions of it -- which I have done. :D
David
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