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Christoph C. Feldhaim

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« on: February 01, 2014, 07:51:34 am »

Seen on Mallorca, December 2013.



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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2014, 08:56:05 am »

Both beautiful and mysterious entanglement. I like the colors and the side-lighting.

Bravo!
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2014, 09:25:59 am »

Terrific! I am seeing a funny artefact around the "tip of the nose" on the right; over sharpening or a jpeg compression? Also, worth considering opening up the blacks just a bit? Otherwise, love the contrast between the hard branch and the beautifully rendered soft colors in the sky.

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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2014, 09:45:50 am »

Thanks Francois and David for the nice words!

I considered opening up the shadows - actually there is a bunch of detail,
but I finally decided to leave it as graphical and harsh as it is when I looked at it.
Opening the shadows takes away that strong impact from the branch working almost as a pure silhouette.
I also pulled at the saturation quite heavy - this is not a subtle edit - there's some heavy handed steelworks behind it so to say.
The halo will need some work in Photoshop should I print it, it comes from some heavy contrast lifting
together with the export to web thingy.

Cheers
~Chris

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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2014, 10:31:20 am »

It's a fine one, Chris, and I like your post processing (except for the halo).
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2014, 10:40:01 am »

It's a fine one, Chris, and I like your post processing (except for the halo).

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