Coastal Scandinavia

[hjulenissen]

Comments and critique appreciated

[hjulenissen]

I really appreciate comments on IMG_0966 because the scene in person was quite breathtaking, but for some reason I was not able to capture that.

-h

[Chris Calohan]

With his permission, I did an edit on one of the images in this series. Seemed to have a lot more in the colors than he first portrayed.

[Chairman Bill]

There seems to be a lot still to be had from other images here too

[hjulenissen]

With his permission, I did an edit on one of the images in this series. Seemed to have a lot more in the colors than he first portrayed.

Thank you for your suggestions. I think that going for a "rust tone" in what appears to be "rusty" is the right thing to do now that you showed it.

I am not so sure about the sky. It seems a bit over-dramatic (not so sure that I am pleased with my own starting-point, either). Perhaps I am too weary of the dreaded "HDR-look".

What to aim for (and how to accomplish it) when editing (and how appearance seems to depend on print vs display and over time) seems to be a complex endeavour.

-h

[Chris Calohan]

No HDR processes for me. I use extended dynamic range editing in channels and other masks if I want that effect. The sky just didn't have much to work with. It is perhaps a bit gnarly.

[RSL]

Looks grossly over-processed to me. It really looks as if you got seriously carried away with the tone mapping and color saturation.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... Seemed to have a lot more in the colors than he first portrayed.

First rule of post-processing: never let someone from sunny Florida to edit images from gloomy Scandinavia 

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

First rule of post-processing: never let someone from sunny Florida to edit images from gloomy Scandinavia 

I too prefer "plausibly realistic" to "painterly." The original processing is just fine. I might up the clarity a tiny bit, but only if it improved things.

[Chris Calohan]

First rule of post-processing: never let someone from sunny Florida to edit images from gloomy Scandinavia 

Oh poo, I barely touched the image. No tone mapping, just one lights mask (curves) and one darks mask (levels). I went online for other Scandinavian coastal shots and looked at other photos of the area for proper coloration and all. Let's ask hjulenissen as to how close I got?  It may be a touch too popped, but I am still just learning this luminescence masking process and tend to get a touch heavy on some of the sliders, though am very careful in that I rarely get too close to the saturation sliders...mostly. 

As to sunny Florida. This year we are over 40 inches above or normal rainfall for the entire year. We call it liquid sunshine.