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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: BertramPaul on January 12, 2010, 03:05:36 pm

Title: Mini Landscape
Post by: BertramPaul on January 12, 2010, 03:05:36 pm
With a little imagination, this could be a landscape of big mountains with a lake in Death Valley.
The foreground is a give away  

C&C welcome

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Title: Mini Landscape
Post by: Dick Roadnight on January 12, 2010, 03:17:21 pm
Quote from: BetramPaul
With a little imagination, this could be a landscape of big mountains with a lake in Death Valley.
The foreground is a give away  

C&C welcome
Photoshop might be more effective than imagination - I think that someday I will take a photograph of a naked lady, and make her nipple look like a cairn on top of a mountain, her pubic hair like some scrub in the valley in the middle distance, and her legs like distant mountains... so you can make a puddle look like a lake.
Title: Mini Landscape
Post by: BertramPaul on January 12, 2010, 04:31:36 pm
Quote from: Dick Roadnight
Photoshop might be more effective than imagination - I think that someday I will take a photograph of a naked lady, and make her nipple look like a cairn on top of a mountain, her pubic hair like some scrub in the valley in the middle distance, and her legs like distant mountains... so you can make a puddle look like a lake.

So, I'm not sure what you're trying to say about the picture...
Just in case: Photoshop wasn't used at all. Straight NEF to JPG conversion.
Title: Mini Landscape
Post by: Dick Roadnight on January 12, 2010, 05:22:17 pm
Quote from: BetramPaul
So, I'm not sure what you're trying to say about the picture...
Just in case: Photoshop wasn't used at all. Straight NEF to JPG conversion.
What I am saying about the picture is that photoshop could be used to make the puddle look more like a lake
Title: Mini Landscape
Post by: BertramPaul on January 12, 2010, 06:24:36 pm
Quote from: Dick Roadnight
What I am saying about the picture is that photoshop could be used to make the puddle look more like a lake

OK, I'm willing to try that, because I feel it lacks something. Do you have any suggestions in that way? I.e. layers, filters?
Title: Mini Landscape
Post by: Dick Roadnight on January 13, 2010, 03:46:25 am
Quote from: BetramPaul
OK, I'm willing to try that, because I feel it lacks something. Do you have any suggestions in that way? I.e. layers, filters?
You might try a texture filter on the water, and air brush/healing brush some scrub from the middle distance to the foreground... and paint over the concrete with rock or sand or something.

The composition and perspective lead the eye to the sand on the extreme left... too close to the edge of the picture.