# Early Winter Morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Critiques\ **Tags:** landscape\ **Created:** [December 5, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/early-winter-morning/31997 "2022-12-05T18:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andrzej\_Muzaj](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/andrzej_muzaj/32/15508_2.png) [@Andrzej\_Muzaj](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Andrzej_Muzaj)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/early-winter-morning/31997/1 "2022-12-05T18:17:39Z")
![Early Winter Morning](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/a/0/a0ab1b1a18e1211f50b8e3259839b81e03b2501b.jpeg) I took this shot on one of the early morning during last winter. At first, I wasn’t even sure why I took it, but later on, during post-processing session I discovered a subtle nuances of light on the trees. Some of them were much more in the shadows, and others stood out and bathed in the light. In post I wanted to enhance this contrast between subdued light of the “sleeping” trees and the one “waking up” from the long winter. ### Specific Feedback Requested Colors are always hard for me - even with such subtle scene with next to none saturation. Composition and tonalities are also important factors for me when I post process my images. ### Technical Details ![image](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/4/b/4be008efe08b7f713b53f4ccdb17f64631c077df.png) Image was further cropped to meet 2:1 ratio ---
**Author:** ![David\_Thompson](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/david_thompson/32/45868_2.png) [@David\_Thompson](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/David_Thompson)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/early-winter-morning/31997/2 "2022-12-07T04:07:34Z")
Andrzej You’re are bringing something nice and chilly to the critique session! Burrrrrrrrr 🥶 I can feel the cold in this image! Your composition is fine. I do see what you were saying with the colors. Early morning soft light like this and snow is a challenging mix in post. The snow can take on any color, and with any type of contrast adjustments it can throw the colors off. The first thing I would consider doing is darkening the background or the entire scene. This will put more emphasis on the foreground tree, and give the scene a more mystery. Next consideration would be to pull the some of the magenta out of the scene. The overall scene feels kinda purple. I would tackle that in ACR or LR by just adjusting the tint in the white balance. Shift more towards green. Lastly I would desaturate the blues and purples. You can adjust in ACR or LR with the HSL sliders. This will give the snow more of a neutral/white look. It’ll feel a lot more natural. Sample image attached…again, just some thoughts. Hope this gives you a better idea of what I was seeing. DT ![a0ab1b1a18e1211f50b8e3259839b81e03b2501b-1](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/9/a/9a95936c81b1944cb652287327dc64643b006c40.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Andrzej\_Muzaj](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/andrzej_muzaj/32/15508_2.png) [@Andrzej\_Muzaj](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Andrzej_Muzaj)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/early-winter-morning/31997/3 "2022-12-07T17:16:51Z")
Hi David! Thank you very much for your critique. I aimed for a slightly dreamy look and I might have gotten overboard with the colors. I’ve desaturated the blues & magentas, as you suggested, as well as pushed overall tint more to the greens. Although I think not as much as you did - I wonder if you still find image more on the purple side? As for contrast - I didn’t want to loose all the details in the deep shadows, so I lowered exposure and some highlights contrast everywhere else (with proper luminosity mask). This versions is closer to what you’ve proposed. Thank you once again! 🙂 ![Trees-in-winter-1600px-sharpened-redux](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/4/9/495100fbca83d1f17ebacc7f03b1127789f43d92.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![David\_Thompson](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/david_thompson/32/45868_2.png) [@David\_Thompson](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/David_Thompson)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/early-winter-morning/31997/4 "2022-12-08T01:05:59Z")
Much better Andrzej! I would probably like to see this a little darker to bring that tree out some more 😊 but the edits do help out a lot here!