Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: shadowblade on January 17, 2016, 11:24:12 am
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Twilight in Lijiang, a mediaeval city in Yunnan, China. Intersected by numerous canals, this is one of the main thoroughfares.
Third draft of this very challenging (for multiple reasons) shot.
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Love the colors, and the balance of twilight and artificial light is great!
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Not sure if I got the contrast/saturation/brightness just right yet. Always very difficult, since none of my wide-gamut monitors seem to reflect what other people see on their screens.
I think the streets/city lights might be a bit washed-out and need greater saturation in the yellows, while leaving the sky alone.
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Not sure if I got the contrast/saturation/brightness just right yet. Always very difficult, since none of my wide-gamut monitors seem to reflect what other people see on their screens.
I think the streets/city lights might be a bit washed-out and need greater saturation in the yellows, while leaving the sky alone.
If you are going to print it then if you can get that right then you have succeeded.
It is a really nice shot and I do understand the issues of shooting cityscapes after dusk and also the subsequent post-processing so both shadows and highlights are believable. I think you have done a good job but for me, as mentioned above, the print is the gold-standard.
Tony Jay
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If you are going to print it then if you can get that right then you have succeeded.
It is a really nice shot and I do understand the issues of shooting cityscapes after dusk and also the subsequent post-processing so both shadows and highlights are believable. I think you have done a good job but for me, as mentioned above, the print is the gold-standard.
Tony Jay
Getting it right in print is rarely the issue, since you have total control over the input and output. What's hard is getting it to look right on screen, since you have no control over the output device.
In this particular case, do the yellows look right to you, or do they seem a bit washed out? I'm not sure - seems to be a very fine line between undersaturation and oversaturation.
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Looks good to me, great shot.
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I really like it. Very engaging. The colors look good on my freshly calibrated monitor.