Liguria landscapes

[marcocarmassi]

Some weeks ago I was driving to Genua and I stopped by some fantastic places in the east coast of Liguria, not far from the northern border of Tuscany. The weather was amazing, the colors so brilliant and I took some photos. Here are examples of what I shot in Tellaro, Portovenere and Vezzano Ligure.

[Rob C]

I like the subjects but I do not like the colour at all. Nothing looks convincingly real, and if for fantasy, not sufficiently in that direction either. Lost opportunity; poor (IMO) processing decisions? I'm sure it's all recoverable.

Rob C

P.S. I do have the "three-week flu" at the  moment, so perhaps it's just me. ;-)

[RSL]

+1. Pushed color saturation is for itinerant photographers who sell in "art fairs." It can spoil a picture for anyone with eyes to see.

[shutterpup]

I agree with Russ and Rob about the color on this one. More is not always better.

[francois]

Yep, saturation is too much for me. Tone it down a bit and you'll have very nice images…

[popnfresh]

Yup, the colors are too amped-up and garish. However it's easily correctable, even with these jpegs. I opened them in Photoshop and applied Snap Neutral Midtones. It made a substantial improvement--much more natural color. In Photoshop CS5 it's under Image\Adjustments\Curves\Options. Try it, you'll like it.