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Bridge over Pristine Water
« on: May 23, 2015, 10:02:22 pm »

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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2015, 10:11:45 pm »

Hi ;)

Just love this shot. Colors, details and the clouds are great.
Thanks for sharing.


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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2015, 10:12:32 am »

I'm interested if others share this opinion that is looks over processed because my wife thinks so as well.

However,

I've never used HDR so far on published photos.  Clarity and or sharpness filters are at 0.
Vibrance is at 22 and saturation is at -5.  Sky is a little bluer perhaps, but I don't think that's what's pushing it.

Edit:  I'm reposting the image with different temp.  I used a Lee 10 ND filter which sometimes plays havoc with temperature and tint settings.
Also I processed the sky differently.


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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2015, 11:03:50 am »

Beautiful, really iconic, photo of a compelling location... But where is it?
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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2015, 01:27:23 pm »

I'm interested if others share this opinion that is looks over processed because my wife thinks so as well.

However,

I've never used HDR so far on published photos.  Clarity and or sharpness filters are at 0.
Vibrance is at 22 and saturation is at -5.  Sky is a little bluer perhaps, but I don't think that's what's pushing it.

Edit:  I'm reposting the image with different temp.  I used a Lee 10 ND filter which sometimes plays havoc with temperature and tint settings.
Also I processed the sky differently.




Hi,

Yes, I also feel it is a tiny bit over processed. Especially in the green colours you see if it is the case, at least I do.

I have a friend here in Mexico and he also has always the habit of over processing and as I have has the chance to get his originals from time to time I have showed him what he is doing and how perhaps it looks more natural.

I also see a very very slight halo at the border between Sky and the mountain top with the trees. >That is normally a sign for pseudo HDR processing

One point to consider is the colour profile you use for presenting your images on the WWW. I downloaded your image and see the image is in the Adobe RGB colour profile. The only browser so far I know which interprets correctly any other colour profile then sRGB is Firefox from Mozilla.

I have made some tests and yes the images can look different ... not much but it can be possible.

OK, but here is a great problem and that is taste and how each person sees colours ... especially men do have more trouble seeing colours correctly, but OK ¿ what are correct colours ?  :)

BTW My monitors are calibrated

Just my 2 cents ...
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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2015, 02:02:49 pm »

I cleaned up the sky a bit and set vibrance to zero and reposted image a third time.
I didn't know about the different color profiles on different browsers.  I'll have to look into that, but honestly I don't want to keep multiple versions of files.  The ultimate copy I want is one that will look good on my calibrated Mac when I show it and for prints.

If it still looks a tad over processed, I can live with it on this particular photo.

Lux - the photo was taken in Cevennes France.
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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2015, 02:10:01 pm »

I cleaned up the sky a bit and set vibrance to zero and reposted image.
I didn't know about the different color profiles on different browsers.  I'll have to look into that, but honestly I don't want to keep multiple versions of files.  The ultimate copy I want is one that will look good on my calibrated Mac when I show it and for prints.

If it still looks a tad over processed, I can live with it on this particular photo.

Lux - the photo was taken in Cevennes France.

Hi,

Thanks, but for a better comparison it would be good to always leave the first version and post the changed version so one can compare the differences

IMHO  :)

You really just need one version of your image and that is the original RAW file.

You process it and save it for the web. Upload it onto the web in *.JPG format and then you can delete the *.JPG file. Day by day as your processing skills improve you will find always better versions and like the last processed image the most until you get to a point where you say " ... here I can not change anything more ... "  ;D

¿ Which program do you use for processing your images ?
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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2015, 03:06:24 pm »

Thanks for the f/b, but, I don't want similar versions of photos of the same shot hanging out on the web.   The photo should stand on its own without comparison, thus I've purposely not included the previous versions of photos.
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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2015, 03:07:32 pm »

Thanks for the f/b, but, I don't want similar versions of photos of the same shot hanging out on the web.   The photo should stand on its own without comparison, thus I've purposely not included the previous versions of photos.

OK  ;D no problem for me, but the point is that if you exchange the first posted image for other versions the comments do not comply with the image which is seen ...
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Re: Bridge over Pristine Water
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2015, 03:24:08 am »

OK  ;D no problem for me, but the point is that if you exchange the first posted image for other versions the comments do not comply with the image which is seen ...


Correct. Under the circumstances I am deleting my comment in Reply# 2.
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