Oasis

[yairh20]

Took this on a class trip earlier this year, just cleared some space on my HD And loaded it today...



C&C welcome!

[yairh20]

It's a lot more saturated in the original... Donno why it lost it's color.

[Trevor Ash]

It's a lot more saturated in the original... Donno why it lost it's color.

Make sure to convert to sRGB before posting to the web. If you use Photoshop (CS2 and above I think) then the Save to Web option will do this automatically for you.

[cm_mtb]

It's a lot more saturated in the original... Donno why it lost it's color.

It could also be your internet browser. Firefox and another browser (Opera maybe?) don't preserve color space.

You can test to see if it is your browser by dragging the photo onto your desktop. If it then looks like your original photo, then it's the browser that causes the change in the way your photo looks.

(For me, the image looks very dull in Firefox, but in Safari, the colors are much more vivid)

[SmartWombat]

Only Safari works with weird colour spaces.
Otherwise the standard for upload to the web is sRGB and Gamma 2.2

[GB1]

Works in some ways but doesn't in others. This one is slightly odd in that unlike many landscapes that have a nice background but are missing a foreground subject, its foreground is OK and background isn't all that interesting. Maybe with a was a nice sunset or patchy blue sky...? Also, it is way too soft for a landscape, especially a wide angle shot where everything should be in focus. Did you use a tripod? And a small aperture? Got to on landscapes.

I have the same issue with my shots - esp in Photoshop. They are much, much more saturated there.

G

[yairh20]

Tripod
f/22
1/2 seconds (I had an ND filter on the whole time, because there were a lot of waterfalls there and I'm too lazy to take it off...)
I couldn't see softness but if there is, it's because of movemernt)

[Asmarlak]

I think your shot has too much blue and looks too cool for an outdoor shot. The shadows are also too dark. Softness sometimes is an advantage. I shot this one accidently handheld at f/22 and when I uploaded it to my computer and post processed it, I saw that softness made this image special and was impressed by the result and thought I should use the f/22 for landscape shots more often.

[Trevor Ash]

I think your shot has too much blue and looks too cool for an outdoor shot.

That's an interesting observation. I was trying to figure out what it was that was causing me to object a little to the photo and you've figured out what it is. I think the composition is great for the scene.

[yairh20]

How's this?



I fixed the srgb problem while I was at it...

[GB1]

Tripod
f/22
1/2 seconds (I had an ND filter on the whole time, because there were a lot of waterfalls there and I'm too lazy to take it off...)
I couldn't see softness but if there is, it's because of movemernt)

Still seems soft to me, but hard to tell if the background is softer than the foreground (I think so).

Some possible reasons:

- Are you sure you set up your hyper focal distance correctly?
- f22 is usually not as sharp as middle-range f stop settings. They say a lens is sharpest at 3 stops smaller than the max opening. (But someone told me that this isn't a big deal on the newer lenses.) But if you need f 22, gotta use it.
- Lens quality can also affect the sharpness.
- So can filters, esp if they're not clean.
- Did you sharpen a bit after resizing it in post processing? You normally need to.

Gb