Gone fishin'.

[Toronto iCANd]

Do you guys like this?

[Seb]

Do you guys like this?

I like how your framed the scene. This is a well composed shot and the colours in the foreground are attractive. Unfortunatelly, the sky is totally washed out and there is quite a hot spot in the water. It seems that the difference of luminosity betwen the area from which the picture was taken and the sky/middle of the lake was too big.

Seb

[readingr]

I agree with Seb, It would be nice to see this photo taken with a nice blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

Saying that I do like the composition and the colours of the rock trees and boat.

[Toronto iCANd]

Thanks Seb/Read,
Perhaps it would look good BW?
I really like this picture. I can usually nit-pick my pictures to death, but aside from the sky/reflection, I like it.
Maybe this would be one of those rare occasions when you leave a portion of the picture in colour, and convert the rest, leaving the boat?

[Tuna]

Very nicely seen and composed scene. I checked and found your histogram to be uncorrected. A levels adjustment to bring the right-hand arrow toward the left until it touches the beginning of the highlights hill fixes the exposure problem. Your saturation is great and a very slight curves adjustment to add a little contrast will increase the effectiveness of the bottom half. As for the blown-out sky, not much can be done unless you are adept at adding a sky from another picture OR it does look pretty nice as a contrasty B&W.

Tuna

[readingr]

Toronto iCANd

Hope you don't mind but I am learning to use Photoshop Elements and wanted to try what Tuna suggested.

I did the histogram thingy which made a difference and then copied a sky from another photo into the picture - no clouds just blue sky.

I then took a lighter shade of the blue sky and added this to the reflection in the water (to what I think the reflection shade would be)

Here is the result - what do you think?

Isn't Digital Photography fun!

[Toronto iCANd]

It certainly is.
Thank you for all your suggestions.
To be honest, I don't even know what a histogram is.

[readingr]

Toronto iCANd

I had to go looking for the histogram - in some of the tools you have a histogram.

From the Adobe Help file:

A histogram illustrates how pixels in an image are distributed by graphing the number of pixels at each color intensity level. Histograms can show you whether the image contains enough detail in the shadows (shown in the left part of the histogram), midtones (shown in the middle), and highlights (shown in the right part). You can use this information to make more precise corrections.

The histogram also gives a quick picture of the tonal range of the image, or the image key type. A low-key image has detail concentrated in the shadows; a high-key image has detail concentrated in the highlights; and an average-key image has detail concentrated in the midtones. An image with full tonal range has a high number of pixels in all areas.


Anyway doing what Tuna suggested gave the picture more contrast as you brought the right arrow which is a scale on the bottom closer to the edge of the historgram.

First time I have played with this in Photoshop Elements. Now I need to experiment a lot more with these tools.

[Bepstar]

I really like this image, great composition. It looks beautiful as a black and white too. Completes the drama that is already locked into the image.



Beps