The shot is nice, but you need to back WAY off the saturation slider. You're actually starting to blow color channels with oversaturation here. The purples and greens are fluorescing.
Ian Boys wrote:
I've tried a few options but the answer is "not as good". But i'm up for anyone giving it a go and posting their results, might be interesting.
I’ll give it a go tomorrow. I’m going to be imaging a lab tomorrow, so will have lots of time.
Ian Boys wrote:
I've tried a few options but the answer is "not as good". But i'm up for anyone giving it a go and posting their results, might be interesting.
Here are two versions of the same photo. The first one is of the scene pretty much like I saw it with my eyes and it the way I normally process photos. I imported the photo into Silver Efex and played around with it a little and came up with this using one of the presets (I don''t remember which one). Although this is a departure from how I normally process my images, I kind of like it. I would be interested in your opinions. Is the second one too dramatic/contrasty?
spoupard wrote:
Here are two versions of the same photo. The first one is of the scene pretty much like I saw it with my eyes and it the way I normally process photos. I imported the photo into Silver Efex and played around with it a little and came up with this using one of the presets (I don''t remember which one). Although this is a departure from how I normally process my images, I kind of like it. I would be interested in your opinions. Is the second one too dramatic/contrasty?
Scott, I always hesitate to comment on images as it really doesn't matter what I think. It's all up to the artist whether they like it or not. But, since you have asked, I'll give you my two cents, for whatever that's worth.
I like your conversion but personally, I would have liked to see the water smoothed out more by using a ND filter. And the clouds are a tad bright to my eyes.
leighton w wrote:
Scott, I always hesitate to comment on images as it really doesn't matter what I think. It's all up to the artist whether they like it or not. But, since you have asked, I'll give you my two cents, for whatever that's worth.
I like your conversion but personally, I would have liked to see the water smoothed out more by using a ND filter. And the clouds are a tad bright to my eyes.
And as always...YMMV.
Thanks, Leighton. I appreciate your comments. Believe it or not, I was using a 10-stop ND filter. This was a 5 second exposure, which I though would be plenty to smooth out the water. I guess I was wrong. I should have stopped down another stop or two to make sure.
I agree about the clouds and I'll have to see what I can do about that. According to LR, they are not blown, so maybe I can tone them down.
spoupard wrote:
. I would be interested in your opinions. Is the second one too dramatic/contrasty?
I like contrasty BW but to my taste it is a bit too dark in the darks. I'd try to lighten them up a touch so there is a bit more detail since from the original image I can tell that the detail is there to be had.
rsk7 wrote:
I like contrasty BW but to my taste it is a bit too dark in the darks. I'd try to lighten them up a touch so there is a bit more detail since from the original image I can tell that the detail is there to be had.
Thanks, rsk7. I don't want to post a bunch of variations of my photo so I won't post the change you suggested, but I agree that it definitely helps. I didn't add a great deal of detail, but I did lift the shadows enough to show some of the detail under the pier.
Had an orange color cast over the whole bay area yesterday due to fires to the north. Gave a nice quality to this shot of Carl spying his brother Lenny's tail. I Spy! by lennycarl08, on Flickr
