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11/12/2005 09:25:13 PM · #1 |
To an amateur like myself this is a good photo...
Kerry Beach
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11/13/2005 12:19:26 AM · #2 |
Very nice composition. I really like the reflection.
Looks like the brightness levels of the scene exceeded the dynamic range of your camera as there is a blown out area of the sky and the land mass on the left is completely dark and detail-less. I think this scene could have used a graduated neutral density filter. |
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11/13/2005 01:46:22 AM · #3 |
| If you shot this in RAW and have PS CS or CSII you can probably fix the blown out area. If not, well... |
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11/13/2005 01:50:20 AM · #4 |
| With regard to composition, this is good -- the river and reflection really draws the eye into the frame. Agree that a portion of the sky is blown out, and much of the ground is underexposed. Overall, it's a decent shot but technically could use some improvement. |
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11/13/2005 02:22:54 AM · #5 |
Compositionally it's lovely. But it's unimproveable, basically, at least from the posted example. The luminance range is off the charts. I downloaded it and tried my tricks on it, and it doesn't look right at all. There's detail int he dark areas, but it's so deep down that any attempt to recover it is resulting in muddy tonalities. There's NO detail in the huge sunspot, and a cursory attempt at using healing brush to transfer some tonality over was likewise a failure. I imagine it could be done, but not in the time I'm willing to expend.
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11/13/2005 02:32:08 AM · #6 |
Nice picture, I like the composition.
I did a couple things in photoshop real quick, but it doesn't look much better..
//jonbuder.com/temp/DSC01519_edit.jpg
Message edited by author 2005-11-13 02:35:13. |
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