Activity for User 146 - Bob Benson - benson.bob@comcast.net

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26 Aug 19 Comment I like the color palette, rainbow and clouds in this rendition. I agree with your decision to tone down the sky, as it still looks very powerful and ominous. Very nice image. My only suggestion would be to slightly crop the sky to put more importance on the canyon over the sky., so that the image is not effectively divided in the middle. Aug 6th
26 Aug 19 Comment Edited is a big improvement. You had a vision for the image, and I think you basically nailed it. You might either move the light down to the flowers, of clone just a few in the center of it. Aug 2nd
26 Aug 19 Comment Very nice. A panorama in this situation is very powerful. The reflections in the water really help. A few minor blown out highlights, but they are not really bothersome. Would have been good to catch some of the blue hour sky, but as you stated, you would have had too many people in your way to deal with it. Aug 2nd
26 Aug 19 Comment I am a sucker for IR. This has a nice mystical quality. I think the duck on the left helps the image from being center static. I wonder if some vignetting (or more) might help? Also, could you tone down the highlights slightly? (Without making them grey) Aug 2nd
26 Aug 19 Comment Another choice would be to make a selection of the sky. (I used a luminosity mask to get it.) Then you could use curves to darken and add more blue, and possibly add a tad more blue saturation. It would not be a huge difference, but would definitely help. Of course you could then paste in a very light sky with clouds in it, but that means adding the corresponding inverted portion into the water reflection, and that could be a large task. Because the reflection of that portion of the sky is light already, you might be able to get away with not doing that with the right type of light sky. That is what I did here; it still needed some finessing, but could work. I also thought that there might be too much water, and cropped so that the building is in the rule of thirds more. The branch in the lower right seemed out of place, and I removed it, while also using the spot remover to take out some of the dark stuff in the water. Aug 2nd
26 Aug 19 Comment Of course you could crop it more to eliminate the sky entirely. Cropping more severely does put the building in more importance, but I don't think that it is the image that drew you in.
The image does evoke a sense of tranquility.		 Aug 2nd
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