The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
After five days of overcast and rain, the sun finally came out during our workshop at Yellowstone last week. The evening light on the Grand Prismatic spring was just gorgeous. This branch felt to me like it was reaching out for help.
Specific Feedback
Any comments welcome. Do you see weird colors at the top? It was quite bright and I brought the highlights down. Any artifacts visible?
Technical Details
On a tripod, not focus stacked.
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I like this composition. I do see some possible green and magenta up there. It’s definitely too bright up there. I bet a linear gradient tool with a wide feather to reduce exposure and reduce saturation, although I tried this on your low res version and it did not work well!. If it shows up strongly enough , you might able to use the dropper tool to reduce the green and red. I think then that the entire image could e darkened a bit, keeping those brighter veins in full effect.
Hi Bonnie,
The diagonal placement of the elements in this image work very nicely and add some visual tension to this scene. I too can notice a little green and magenta along the top edge. I do not notice any artifacts. For my tastes I could see the brightness brought down a little more as my eye goes up there and stays there. The light on the rest of the scene looks perfect to me. The branch does seem to be aking for your help. Nicely done!
Bonnie: Knowing the broad spectrum of colors in this pool I don’t mind the top. I do agree with Ed that it’s a bit of an eye grab but the subject brings me back into the frame. Nicely done. >=))>
Bonnie, I like how the lines in the pool fit with the lines from the branch. Yes, there are some “extra” colors along the top right, but those may well be legitimate, given the location. As an alternative to burning-in the top, you could try dodging the bottom half for more even lighting top to bottom.
There was a faint amount of warm light coming in from the top that I had tried to keep, but it clearly didn’t work so well. I had a linear gradient coming down from the top originally, so I edited it to cool it and reduce exposure even more. Rework posted. Thanks for the input.
I recognize this, and I like your composition a lot. My only suggestion is to consider burning the bottom part of the image, maybe with negative dehaze, to balance the bottom and top half of the image a bit more.
