Greetings! I have been meaning to dive in for sometime since joining almost a year ago. It’s been really educational reading through feedback on other images, and I’ve finally made the time to sit down and post myself.
This is a small scene I’ve been working on here and there since a trip to GSMNP last spring. I found this stream near one of my favorite trails in the park while hiking with my family and had to come back for another look in the morning before the light got too harsh. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
What technical feedback would you like if any?
Any is certainly welcome.
- This was my first go at the technique that Alex Noriega discusses for removing distracting skies poking through the forest canopy in his Forest Haven tutorial. Thoughts on whether my execution is obvious and/or distracting. (This was done in the RUC)
- Are the highlights in the water too bright? Realizing a there’s hefty dose of personal preference, thoughts on the amount of texture in the water?
What artistic feedback would you like if any?
Composition, of course. Does the image flow through from the foreground to the background falls coherently?
Pertinent technical details or techniques:
(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
Fuji X-T2 with the 10-24mm at 14mm, f/13
It’s a focus stack/exposure blend of 5 images–3 for focus and two to blend in darker exposures for the lightest parts of the image.
Then, I cloned in the sky, dodged some of the moss on the rocks, and toned some of the shadows using the TK panel followed up by a little vignetting as well as spotlighting in the middle.
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