Silhouette on the Susquehanna

[mwfanelli2]

Duck silhouetted on the Susquehanna River, Perryville, Maryland. Panny FZ8.

[MarcusK]

The composition is very good... but your colors are all out

Fixing it in PS will do a lot....

1st - Exposure: with Photoshop CS2 and later you can go to Image>Adjustments>Exposure - you will find that a setting of 0.27% is more than enough!

2nd - curves : work the blue channel first, then the overall colors.

3rd- With the Spot healing brush tool (CS2 and later) clean out the spots all across the water...

4th - If you feel like you would like a darker blue then you can go to color balance and add some blue to the highlights....

If you need to see the difference i can post it for you... I personally find it more informative if i try what everyone suggests!

Hope this helps,
Marc

[mwfanelli2]

The composition is very good... but your colors are all out

LOL! The colors were very flat to begin with. The water of the river is never blue,. it's a grayish white, steel-color if lucky. In fact, the color that is in the photo was added after the fact.

I was going for an almost monochrome moody look... sort of a contemplative atmosphere rather than a "jump out and get ya" effect. It won't work for everyone!

Thanks for the comments.

[MarcusK]

well at the risk of blasphemy..... it should be blue....looks better in blue.......

The monochrome is there for sure!!

Cheers