A rock with a heart

[Matt.Pauze]

any thoughts on how i could make the rock stand out from the water a litle more? or does it work as it is?

thank you

[jetrim]

This works really well as a cyanotype and I think a color shift to bring the rock out might do more harm than good.

[Frog]

Is it shot in raw format?
What I do with many of my photos is to push the black a few hairs. Seems to give more definition in some cases.

[caleb]

Frog, you can also do it to jpgs. In photoshop make a new adjustment layer > selective color... From the dropdown box choose black and slide black to +5%

For the record, I like it as is. If anything I may make it bluer in some areas

[RyanF747]

I love the depth of field! I wouldnt do much to it, maybe a tad bit more contrast or black in it to really draw the eye to the heart, but otherwise I think this is a great shot

[Matt.Pauze]

thanks all for the replies. Jet, i'm fairly new to photography, what's cyanotype?

[Grandpaw]

Matt, would you mind if I post a edited version, Jeff

[Matt.Pauze]

I don't mind jeff. Anyone who wants to do like you to give me an example of what i could do to improve my work is welcome and apreciated.

[Grandpaw]

I put this in Photoshop and just did an auto levels correction and sharpened it some. So what do you think? Jeff

[Matt.Pauze]

Nice, thanks for the example. I think i might go somewhere in between our two versions, i didn't think of the levels. thank you!

[livin4lax09]

Frog, you can also do it to jpgs. In photoshop make a new adjustment layer > selective color... From the dropdown box choose black and slide black to +5%

For the record, I like it as is. If anything I may make it bluer in some areas

you can also do it to jpgs by opening them with ACR. I have my preferences set to automatically open jpgs with the raw editor, I like it because it's a quick way of batch processing things and saves time over going through levels and curves and saturation, etc. It puts all the things you need at your fingertips.