Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: hjulenissen on September 05, 2013, 07:21:31 am
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Comments and critique appreciated
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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
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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.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/9681524853_4998d76e04_h.jpg)
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There seems to be a lot still to be had from other images here too
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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
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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.
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Looks grossly over-processed to me. It really looks as if you got seriously carried away with the tone mapping and color saturation.
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... 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 ;D
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First rule of post-processing: never let someone from sunny Florida to edit images from gloomy Scandinavia ;D
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.
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First rule of post-processing: never let someone from sunny Florida to edit images from gloomy Scandinavia ;D
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. ;D
As to sunny Florida. This year we are over 40 inches above or normal rainfall for the entire year. We call it liquid sunshine.