The Water Wheel

[jkriminger]

A shot from Rock City up on Lookout mountain.

[Charles Hess]

Great viewpoint. The colors appear a bit too saturated, and it could be just a tad lighter, IMO, as a lot of detail is lost on the insides of the wheel.

[jkriminger]

The background was overexposed in original. I could try and bring the wheel out in PP..something I didn't work on here. Time of day did not allow me to expose for the wheel here..straight from the camera was dealing some very blown out areas in BG. Thx for commenting. Saturation here is straight from the camera however.

[Addies Granddaddy]

all in all, this is real good, Rod. I think the foreground growth and background balance this out nicely.

[jkriminger]

Heres a retouch..

[Greg McCary]

The second edit works better. It looks as though it is tilted left and I think you should clone the two weeds in front of the lower portion of the wheel. Do you shoot in RAW format? You can really bring some home that would normally be hard to edit in Jpeg.

[jkriminger]

no greg, I shoot in buckshot jpeg.

[jgredline]

Personally, I am partial to the original. I do see it over saturated at all on my calibrated monitor.

[jkriminger]

thx for comments Javi..did you say oversaturated or not. heres a different pic.

[Frog]

second edit does it for me

[jgredline]

Sorry, Rob. I meant it is NOT over saturated. Still the first is the one I like, although all three are nice.

[gahspidy]

Rod, great subject and a pretty good shot overall. I do think it could benefit from a better lighting from a different time of day etc. Maybe a slightly looser crop, especially on top. All in all though a very nice photo.
Good work

[jkriminger]

thx Frog and Gary for your comments. i have another perspective coming up.