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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: RMW on February 07, 2017, 11:28:19 pm

Title: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: RMW on February 07, 2017, 11:28:19 pm
Southeast La. in Early February.
Hope you enjoy.
Comments most welcome.
Richard   


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Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: thierrylegros396 on February 08, 2017, 03:20:26 am
Nice B/W.

Perhaps I would crop a part of the foreground.

Thierry
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 08, 2017, 09:42:31 am
Nice B/W.

Perhaps I would crop a part of the foreground.

Thierry
It is nice.
I agree with Thierry about a possible crop.
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: sdwilsonsct on February 09, 2017, 10:29:05 am

I agree with Thierry about a possible crop.

There are some reflections in the water that might be brought out with processing. Silver Efex? I like the weird trees.
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: RMW on February 09, 2017, 11:47:53 am
Thank you Eric, Thierry, and SDW.
I tried cropping some of the bottom, but it seems to take away from the expansiveness I was going for. Altho it nicely brings the trees up closer.
And I tried giving the tree reflections a little something extra and so long as it was a subtle edit I liked it. Too much makes the tree line look like a cardboard cutout.
It's so interesting to see how the edits you all suggest make such significant impacts.
I guess I'll have to keep mulling this over.
Thank you all again for helping me to see more possibilities.
The LuLa Forum is such a good help.
Richard
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: brandtb on February 09, 2017, 12:50:15 pm
I don't think this is so successful in B/W it's a bit dull/wan and the eye wanders around...bringing focus to the reflections in water either through contrast or other might be helpful. My first thought was I wondered what the color version was like?
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: RMW on February 09, 2017, 04:56:50 pm
Upon brandtb's good suggestion, here's a quick color version.
Curious to know how it looks.
Thanks.
Richard
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 09, 2017, 05:19:59 pm
The color version looks much more inviting to me than the B&W.
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: stamper on February 10, 2017, 03:47:22 am
The color version looks much more inviting to me than the B&W.


Agreed.
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: francois on February 10, 2017, 04:05:58 am
Color version is more to my tastes… the B&W looks a bit too flat, like an old photo, but it's not that it's a bad image at all.
Title: Re: Winter Sky Over Bayou Desire
Post by: RMW on February 11, 2017, 08:29:23 pm
Thank you Francois and Stamper.
I guess I'm not sure what I like best. (I'll try and give the b&w some more oomph.)
But I do know I'm glad to have all the good support on Lu La.
Richard