Haven't posted in a while. Work, life, blah blah. Was able to get out a couple times over the last 2 weeks.
2 rare colour landscape images ( mainly shoot B+W ) from Anthony's Cove beach. Great spot, facing south west about 10 mins from the house.
Second pair are from ( no pun intended ) Second Lake. Cool little spot with First Lake being directly behind the viewpoint here, and Third Lake just 500m up the road First and Second Lake are divided by said road
gdanmitchell wrote:
Someone probably has to mention it, but I can't help but see the very bright blue sky in the reflection of...
... a much darker and red sky in the first two.
If you'd rather not have this comment in your post, let me know and I'll delete it.
I definitely don't mind at all, I'm quite open to any C+C and I thank you for it.
I wondered myself actually. I figured it's due to the sky above me was quite blue as the sun had already set? Just standing in a tide pool, 30-40 feet from shoreline.
I tend to do minimal processing, however, I'll have a go at this over the next few days and see if I can match it up. Thank you, again, I appreciate it.
I definitely don't mind at all, I'm quite open to any C+C and I thank you for it.
I wondered myself actually. I figured it's due to the sky above me was quite blue as the sun had already set? Just standing in a tide pool, 30-40 feet from shoreline.
I tend to do minimal processing, however, I'll have a go at this over the next few days and see if I can match it up. Thank you, again, I appreciate it.
It is a pretty common issue in photographs with reflections. There are competing inclinations to balance. We often want the intensity of color in the sky along with plenty of detail of clouds and a nice gradient, all of which suggests darkening the sky to some extend and increasing contrast in one way or another. At the same time we want to see some detail in the foreground reflection, which suggests lightening it.
So some folks end up overdoing the brightness of the reflecting water in comparison to the sky and it often just jumps out at viewers (at least those who are photographers) and does not look right — in fact, it looks impossible.
One approach is to try to lighten the sky at least a little bit. You might do it with a curve of some sort that lightens the brightest parts more than the darkest —increasing the overall brightness of the sky a bit but not necessary losing the intense colors.
Then perhaps don't go quite so far with the foreground. It really should almost never be brighter than the subject it reflects. With care you can push it very close to the same brightness, but you would likely want to keep at least portions looking darker, as they would be in "real life." You can do things like using a gradient that gets darker near the bottom end and/or essentially vignette the lower area.
The color is bit trickier here, since I don't know what your original exposure looks like, but I'd sure like to see the colors of the sky appear in the reflection, too.
By the way, I don't see these issues in your monochrome images, which seem to nicely balance the luminosity of sky and foreground water.
Dan, I thank you for your input. 100% honest, the 2 colour images are barely touched from the raw files... I actually have a screen shot of them. Was wanting to show my dad how little processing I do. I'll post it below.
The selected image always runs a default process when you open it, so pardon how that one looks. I run a preset that sets everything to 0, just didnt click that yet when I took the shot.
