Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jonathan Wienke on November 25, 2006, 08:48:24 am
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Here's an image I captured in Trier, Germany recently; constructive criticisms welcomed.
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Here's an image I captured in Trier, Germany recently; constructive criticisms welcomed.
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Johnathan,
The sky looks very rich - don't change a thing. On the village, have you tried a bit of curves to bring up the low tone just a bit to show more detail?
Another thing I would experiment with is perspective control. Plumbing up the verticals might be an intriguing concept. Certainly your 1Ds image has enough pixel to support such manipulation. Just a thought, worth a try?
I think the tint (assuming there is one) suits the material perfectly. Again, very rich and Teutonic.
On a totally unrelated note - how have you been? I sure hope you found that the military is suiting you and delivering the intended returns you were seeking.
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I would also like to see a bit more detail in the shadows, but please keep the sky as is.
The tonalities remind me of prints I used to make in the "wet" darkroom that looked great in the fixer, but dried down, losing shadow detail. I think the shadows can go lighter without losing the rich sense of mystery.
<End Criticism -- Begin Useless Ego Stroking> I like the picture.
-Eric
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The current picture is very bottom heavy, and you lose the lead in line to the church on the right. Lift the landscape with a curve gently brightening its midtones and shadows. Then add a second curve with a graduated mask, darkening the sky. You need to radically darken the sky's highlights - the bright qtr tones should output below half tones, so you have a really steep incline into the highlights. I tried this earlier but only posted after seeing two "leave the sky alone" posts - make more of the sky.
John
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I made some curve adjustment layers for the sky and buildings, and darkened the the sky a little and lightened up the ground and buildings.
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And that's remarkably similar to my version. I also tweaked the perspective.
John
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<End Criticism -- Begin Useless Ego Stroking> I like the picture.
Hey, at least you offered some non-useless feedback to go with the ego-stroking, so I'll let it slide this time...
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I made some curve adjustment layers for the sky and buildings, and darkened the the sky a little and lightened up the ground and buildings.
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Lightening the city helps. Increases the details.
There are a couple of bright spots that capture my eye without reason. I'd tone them down a bit - awing center right and sign(?) lower just right of center.
And it looks like you might have a slight sharpening halo along the city/sky boundary.
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And it looks like you might have a slight sharpening halo along the city/sky boundary.
The sharpening halo is actually more of an I-need-to-blend-the sky-and-ground-adjustment-layer-transition-better thing; sort of like doing HDR blending and making it look natural.