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Rule books are paper they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. --Ernie Gann-- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. --Oscar Wilde--
I like the Symmetry here. Brilliant colours in the trees. There's also a multi distance thing going on in this photo that i like. we got the foreground then a little further back the trees on teh left, then the trees on the right then the further trees until finally the great mountain in the background. I think all these layers leads the eyes pretty well through the photo.
The only thing that bothers me is the brownish cast that's over the photo. If u got photoshop u can go to the levels then pick the white eye dropper and click on the white part of the mountain, that should remove the cast.
good shot still.
Liban
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have." Nelson Mandela
I don't usually play around with someone else's pic but thought I'd give Leels suggestion a try just for my own edification.
He's right but make sure you click on the whitest snow at the top.!
Nice shot, anywho.
Anselish except for the color.
Like this, maybe a little too cold? My eyes remember the light being very warm that morning, I picked the most white snow I could find and this is what the custom WB came out like.
Rule books are paper they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. --Ernie Gann-- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. --Oscar Wilde--
Just shows the sensors have a long way to go to match the eyeball.
I think the edit is much better but you need to select the trees and up the sauration and possibly adjust the levels to make it look like the memory.
I really like the composition.
Roger
"I hope we will never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass."from The mind's eye by Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I like the second edit. I do see a small tilt left. Level it or skew it and you will have a stunning wall hanger. I see nice detail in the shadows and I still like the mist on the left. Very good work. Print it large.
I am like Barney Fife, I have a gun but Andy makes me keep the bullet in my pocket..
Hi EOS, I like the edit. I think you got rid of the cast pretty well. I hear you about the cold though. I agree with Roger, the human sensor is about a billion years ahead of any cam out there.
What i would usually do after i set the white point and get rid of the cast is give it a quick auto levels. That usually fixes the contrast and punches the colours out a bit more.
Liban
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have." Nelson Mandela
I set the WB in my first edit and didn't like the very cool cast to it so I went back to the original WB. I personally think I went too far with this edit, but everyone else seems to like the second take better. The light was very warm that morning, everything had an orange cast to it.
Rule books are paper they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. --Ernie Gann-- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. --Oscar Wilde--
I hope you don't mind but I wanted to see what would happen if you boosted the saturation in certain areas so I downloaded the pic and did some adjustments, and this is a stunning photo if you then adjust the levels, boost the saturation in the autumn trees, and the saturation of the mountains but a little less.
If you want the settings or the psd file I can e-mail them to you if you want them. I will delete the file in 4 days time if you don;t respond.
Roger
"I hope we will never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass."from The mind's eye by Henri Cartier-Bresson
My Web Site: www.readingr.com DSLR
Canon 5D; EF100-400 F4.5-5.6L IS USM; EF24-70 F2.8L USM 50mm F1.8 II; EF 100 F2.8 Macro Digital
Canon Powershot Pro 1; Canon Ixus 100
Go ahead Roger, I am always trying to learn PP techniques, I am not very good at it. I usually try to get it absolutely right in the camera so I don't have to do too much PP.
Rule books are paper they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. --Ernie Gann-- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. --Oscar Wilde--
Go ahead Roger, I am always trying to learn PP techniques, I am not very good at it. I usually try to get it absolutely right in the camera so I don't have to do too much PP.
EOS,
I sent you an note to ask where you want the psd file (4Mb) sent so that you can see what I did in PSE6.
Here is what I ended up with.
Roger
"I hope we will never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass."from The mind's eye by Henri Cartier-Bresson
My Web Site: www.readingr.com DSLR
Canon 5D; EF100-400 F4.5-5.6L IS USM; EF24-70 F2.8L USM 50mm F1.8 II; EF 100 F2.8 Macro Digital
Canon Powershot Pro 1; Canon Ixus 100