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Description
This is a serious crop from a wider shot. I wish I could say it was planned, but I didn’t see it until PP.
What’s your opinion of the colors? I like them, though they’re not natural. They are a byproduct of a color shift from a generous use of Dehaze since I was shooting through a couple miles of atmosphere. Original shot posted for comparison. Should I clone out or crop the bright orange and green trees in the LRC. I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t see them til posting.
Specific Feedback
Any critiques are welcome.
Technical Details
135mm, 1/10 @ f/16, ISO 200, probably used a polarizer but I forget
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Michael, I like the crop in the first post, there’s quiet movement from the way the clouds angle across the frame. Yes, the colors are a bit dramatic, but they contrast well with the white clouds. It might be interesting to try this crop with reduced saturation. Something else to possibly try, assuming you use luminosity masks in PS, is to reduce the Dehaze and then burn the darks in PS. That increases the contrast without as much color change. I’d “fix” the trees in the corner with a desaturation layer masked only to that corner.
I really like the first efforts Michael. The colour looks great and not particularly unnatural to be honest it is not so much the foilage but the near perfectly even yet attractive distribution of the floaty mist that appeals to me so much. It couldn’t have been much better had you daubed the mist on yourself.
Michael, it is easy for we photographers to forget that ultimately the reader is only going to see what we choose to show them. I mean there is a lot that you could do to your cropped post but I find what you’ve presented to be very compelling especially in the way the fog so elegantly frames the foliage. You could soften the image by adjusting the hue and saturation, and bringing down the texture of the trees a bit but really, this works for me.
Hi Mike,
Lots of atmospherics in this lovely autumn scene! The fog/mist is perfectly placed in the image as it creates this wonderful mood while giving the viewer a glimpse of all the lush vibrant autumn foliage on the canyon walls. I could see lowering the saturation by maybe ten points, but IMO the colors are not far off. If we had not been shooting through all that atmosphere I am sure the colors would be pretty close to what you posted here. IMHO you should clone or crop out those orange and green trees in the LRC. Beautifully done.
First, the trees in the LRC do not bother me at all. They do get my attention, but they don’t hold it. The fog and its flow from LLC to URC is what really has my attention and the nice central window peering into the colorful trees . If you had not said anything about the colors I would have thought they were as natural.
Sure, the colours may not be exactly natural but they’re beautiful and make quite an impact! And personally, I think I’d leave the trees in the LRC in. There is enough of them there that they don’t feel intrusive, and they add another layer to the image. Beautiful work!
Mike: I don’t see anything “evil” about this I really like what you extracted and think your processing produced a really nice result. Atmospherics like this are magical and I think you got them just right. Nicely done. >=))>
PS: On the original there are some pretty nasty dust spots. Looks like your crop missed them.
I like the direction that you took this image, Michael. There is serious mood in this image. The colors, although not natural, impart a feeling one might get from watching a science fiction movie. Sort of a beautiful yet ominous look to them. I quite like them a lot. I do find the green tree and the orange tree in the bottom right corner to be out of character for this image. The colors just don’t fit for me. The fog/clouds frame this image so nicely and greatly impacts the ominous feeling I get from this. It’s always nice to see images inside of images like this one. Don’t you just love the crop tool?
I really like what you extracted and think your processing produced a really nice result. Atmospherics like this are magical and I think you got them just right. Nicely done. >=))>