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    Mt. Moran a little later

    Sun up just before packing up tripod.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    EOS,

    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.

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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    Nice edit.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    Nice edit, I like the second one...
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.

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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    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.
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    Re: Mt. Moran a little later

    Quote Originally Posted by EOSThree
    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.

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