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C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
Yup. Camera Raw is the engine under Lightroom's Develop Module. Screenshot is for ACR 13.1. |
Feb 25th |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
I'm using Lightroom Classic (2021) (Version 10.1.1).
In the Develop module, I used the Color Grading panel. |
Feb 25th |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
I'm using Lightroom Classic (2021) (Version 10.1.1).
In the Develop module, I used the Color Grading panel. |
Feb 25th |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Reply |
I like "long winded". Thanks for the explanation. |
Feb 22nd |
| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Hi, Jeff, glad to meet you. What a haunting island image! (I actually misread, at first, the title.) A full minute exposure, even at ISO 50. With the light changing as fast as it does at that hour, it take a leap of faith to commit to a shot like that. The results are great.
The long exposure serves to create a serenity *and* a certain sense of the surreal, which to me is quite fitting for dead trees standing in a (possibly endless) sea of stillness. That's gotta be a metaphor for something deep! It's a really evocative image.
I beg to disagree a bit with Jerry. I don't find top negative space on the left a problem. Neither do I find the little tree in the far distance to be distracting; to me, it repeats the main subject, and reinforces the sense of endlessness receding into the distance. I do find very distracting, however, the tangle of branches which I surmise to be part of a larger tree off-frame to the left.
I took the liberty of "fiddling" with your image, and customized it to suit my tastes (which might not be to your tastes at all). I did the work on Photoshop; I cloned out the messy branches on the left; I did a tiny bit of light-handed dodging in the lighter clouds to the right of the subject tree, toned down the bright orange (just cuz, what can I say), and then masked in a bit of brightening (via curves) in the central zone. Finally, I went with a "letterbox" 16x9 crop; I know, lots of folks don't care for that format, but with this image I enjoyed emphasizing the vast emptiness.
Hope you don't mind my enjoying myself messing with your image …
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Feb 22nd |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
I really like this image; it draws one into itself. I spend a lot of time in my local woodland (which *doesn't* get 75 inches of rainfall a year!), and this place looks very lush, indeed, even late in the season. Would love to spend some time around there.
We human's love symmetry and reflections, don't we? I particularly like the way the trees lean together form an arch, which together with its reflection form a natural tunnel leading us into the world beyond. It's fortunate (or perhaps the result of some careful composition?) that the horizontal log isn't apparent in the reflection, thus leaving the eye an open road. I also like the juxtaposition of the naturalistic, detailed imagery in the top half against the more impressionistic lower half.
I found myself wondering about a narrower crop, and maybe some color grading and local adjustments to further accentuate the middle pathway, so I took some liberty to experiment in Lightroom Classic. I hope that wasn't presumptuous of me. The narrower crop allowed me to eliminate the distracting large tree leaning in on the right, and some of the pretty much uniform (and less interesting) greenery on the left.
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Feb 22nd |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Hi, Michael, nice to meet you. Wow! Heron on Ice. Didn't know that happens. I'm impressed by the subtle, yet very effective, post-processing. I especially like that you managed to lightly soften the background. Dunno if I could pull that off. I like the effect on the ice, too. I've tried toggling back and forth between the original and the final images, and even so I still can't quite tell how you achieved the effect. The, bird of course, looks great. |
Feb 22nd |
| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Hi, Darcy, glad to meet you. The title "Secret Spot" clues me into some of the feelings one might have, coming across a secluded little private place like that, right in the midst of the beautiful landscape. I myself got to go, once, on a kayaking adventure in the woods somewhere in the area of Haynes, and I remember how beautiful it was. Having a special spot all to one's own would certainly be a treat.
Looks like you set yourself quite the challenge with this one. Calling attention to something secluded, almost hidden, has got to be difficult, and I like the strategy you adopted.
I experimented with it a bit myself (hope you don't mind), and I found that I could make the deck pop out a bit more by, first (in Camera Raw), bumping the exposure by about a full stop, pulling down the highlights, pulling up the shadows and blacks, and only then did I duplicate the layer. On the duplicate layer, I fiddled heavily with the orange and red HSL sliders to make the deck really POP, and then converted to B&W, masked, etc.
It's unfortunate that the deck is so high in the frame, but I get it, one doesn't always get a lot of time to try to work out details like that. Did you capture this while setting IN the boat? It would be all I could do to keep from falling in, let alone try to compose a photograph!
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Feb 22nd |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Hi, Paul. Glad to meet you. Very nice image. I like the effect of three different layers, emphasized by the different luminosities. I really admire you folks who can imagine a composite image and then set out to create it. My imagination just doesn't work that way.
I have a couple of thoughts … of course, take 'em or leave 'em … I'd imagine that you tried a variety of placements and orientations for the geese relative to the moon. Did you try flipping horizontally the image of the geese, and maybe rotating slightly so as to be ascending to the right? Often, gestures that flow upwards to the right seem to me to be more optimistic and engaging. Of course, that might not be what you had in mind. I gave it a try (hope that wasn't presumptuous of me) and, while I was at it, I also lightly applied a bit of blue-purple color grading to the shadows to create a little contrast in the sky.
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Feb 22nd |
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| 93 |
Feb 21 |
Comment |
Hi, Jerry, nice to meet you. It's a very nice image. At first I thought it was a long exposure, and then I noticed the clear motion on the landmass lower left. I'm guessing you were very restrained in your motion. I would find that very difficult to do. The bright areas really pull the eye in, of course, but I found I was especially intrigued by the smaller dark areas on the water. I'm guessing those were water craft? |
Feb 22nd |
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