Red rock
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canonbro
Registered: Aug 15, 2009
Total Posts: 25
Country: United States

Happy Tuesday Fred Mirandaers!!

I yet throw another picture for advice and critique. This is an old picture I found from a vacation to Red Rock canyon and it was taken with a 2mp p/s camera. You guys think I can do anything with it? a little crop somewhere?



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Have a great week everybody


AuntiPode
Registered: Aug 05, 2008
Total Posts: 4922
Country: New Zealand

You could try a duplicate layer with the Soft Light blending mode. You could play with a Vibrance adjustment layer. You could crop from the bottom and right side. Such changes would make the image more colorful and less bland, but in the end, to me it lacks interest. If it was mine, I wouldn't bother unless it had some sort of personal or context value.



sbeme
Registered: Dec 23, 2003
Total Posts: 12716
Country: United States

I'm with AuntiPode on this. You could give it a play, but just not enough focal interest to work IMHO.
A more interesting sky, a closer look at the red rock with some additional foreground interest, some objects for better sense of scale all might improve the composition.

Scott



sbeme
Registered: Dec 23, 2003
Total Posts: 12716
Country: United States

Thought I'd give it a try.



AuntiPode
Registered: Aug 05, 2008
Total Posts: 4922
Country: New Zealand

You can make it more colorful, but there remains something missing, to my eyes - something to give it interest.



Kaden K.
Registered: Mar 14, 2008
Total Posts: 3256
Country: United States

Canonbro I think this composition has problems. If the image is about the red rock
concentrate on what matters.



zatomik
Registered: Oct 25, 2008
Total Posts: 33
Country: United States

I think a tighter shot would work for something like these rocks if you don't have the kind of interesting sky that Greg added in.



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