i tried playing with contrasts in NX2, using the slider, but found the dark areas too dark then, but i don't know much about curves, will play around and see what i can come up with
It was probably a low contrast scene and therefore should not appear too contrasty in the photo. You might try some local contrast enhancement but I wouldn't bother. I'm not sure if there is a simpler way to do that in Capture NX2 but it can be done with Unsharp Mask by using a low amount and a very large radius (the opposite of what you'd normally do for sharpening with USM).
The trees all lean to the left. Is that as they are or was the camera not horizontal ?
I like this very much. If you want to add some subtle punch, you could reopen the file in ACR and lower the blue and cyan luminance a little bit. This would add some contrast in the sky. You could also very slightly dodge some of the tree edges. I think I would keep a very light hand on this, though. The subtle contrasts work for me.
thanks for all the feedback.
To Alan, i think you're right... they would look better straight ;o)
To Karl, i am not sure what you mean about the sharpening, if you mean the bright spots in some of the trees (hslo that people get sometimes from too much sharpening), that was natural, the trees were all soaked from 2 days of rain and the bright spots is the sun hitting the drops hanging from the trees, i did a closeup will post it in another post
thierry bordet wrote:
thanks for all the feedback.
To Alan, i think you're right... they would look better straight ;o)
To Karl, i am not sure what you mean about the sharpening, if you mean the bright spots in some of the trees (hslo that people get sometimes from too much sharpening), that was natural, the trees were all soaked from 2 days of rain and the bright spots is the sun hitting the drops hanging from the trees, i did a closeup will post it in another post
Under such conditions when there is diffused light you might get a better result in respect of better contrast when you underexpose a bit. This is not a a dogma only a feeling. Try it out
Karl
