On the way taking Isaac to school. I have a color-shifted version which "looks better" but I wanted to submit the best natural capture I took this month.
-Noise reduction with PictureCooler
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH=7
-SaveAs JPEG at quality level 10/10 = 135kb
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Hi. You've some lovely processed color images in your portfolio so you must have found a good way around the color-blindness :) Very gracious of you to ask to see what I did with your photo. Thank you. I guess the subtle color changes might not do too much for you ;-) The cropping is drastic, I guess... hate to lose that nice big slope but I really wanted to make the tree be more prominent.
Thanks for providing the incentive to play and good luck in the challenges :)
Hi again... you know, there are some lovely magentas and reds that could be brought out a little in this shot... I actually played with it a bit and pulled out a nice pastel, realistic-looking sunrise (IMO, haha). Just used curves, selective color adjustment, and hue/sat. Cropped a bit to let the little tree shine.
I can't believe you shot this blind from a car... that's remarkable!
Thanks! You're welcome to post your alternate it you want -- if you're short on space email it to me and I'll post it in my portfolio.
I have a common red-green type of color-blindness, so messing around with curves carries a greater-than-usual risk of ending up "un-natural-looking" -- for example, this very early entry of mine:
Hi again... you know, there are some lovely magentas and reds that could be brought out a little in this shot... I actually played with it a bit and pulled out a nice pastel, realistic-looking sunrise (IMO, haha). Just used curves, selective color adjustment, and hue/sat. Cropped a bit to let the little tree shine.
I can't believe you shot this blind from a car... that's remarkable!
... If a different composition or a better defined/esthetically-pleasing tree were not available, I'd probably do as you did and mess with the sky color/texture, although not quite as extremely. Better luck next time ;-)
Thanks! I was kind-of stuck as far as compositional choices go, since this was taken from the middle of the freeway at 60 MPH, without using either the viewfinder or the video screen.
I guess I thought that getting this quality of framing, lighting, timing, and (almost) focus under the circumstances was an accomplishment which deserved the opportunity to stand on its own. Someplace I have yet another version which has tonal adjustment but not the radical color shift of the currently-posted alternates -- I'll post that one too.
I applaud your inclination to go natural. I wish photos didn't have to be radioactive to get a decent score on this site. The yellow in your alts seems like a little too much (to me), however, the submitted photo does appear to need some oomph. Not enough going on. If a different composition or a better defined/esthetically-pleasing tree were not available, I'd probably do as you did and mess with the sky color/texture, although not quite as extremely. Better luck next time ;-)
Paul, I am sure your alternates would have done better just on the color wow factor alone. But I like this one better. Perhaps if you did a little more work with the sky. The darker clouds almost look like a defective/dirty area here. This is one of those that would do better with some more sky detail--the clouds are very faint here. Maybe they could have been brought out with PP, maybe not.
I guess I should have submitted one of the "enhanced" versions instead of this virtually unprocessed one, which I thought was my best "pure photograph" of the month.
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