Photo of the day for 05/13/13

[cassidyrose]

Photo of the day for today: Calm. Another from Joe Decker's Tidepool and Trails workshop last December. I went in a different direction with this one than I typically would with the processing and while I am unsure about it I keep coming back to it and I like it, so it makes the cut

Comments

[zahraa]

It looks really interesting, but it also looks a little overprocessed. Maybe I wouldn't think that if I didn't know what the light was really like that day, but the end result bears little color resemblance to what I know you must have started with. It's almost like the puddles in the lower left look too bright next to the rocks. And the moss looks really GREEN.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

It is actually pretty close to the original in terms of color. I bumped the vibrance and saturation a bit, and the colors now are less dull, but they are not vastly different, at least in my estimation. I left the brightness alone and took down the lights and highlights, so the puddles are pretty much the same as the original, and are certainly not brighter. I realize I forgot to work with the white balance and that may be what is giving it a bit of an "off" sense.

It was a long exposure shot and looked a bit surreal and odd to begin with so I went with it and added negative clarity. Perhaps that is what you are reacting to in terms of the processing? As far as the moss, that may certainly be a monitor variation as it just looks like green moss on my machine, but it certainly may look greener on other machines and my monitor is not calibrated (Something I really need to do). I would have to print it to know if the moss was actually too green with what I did with it, but the greens and yellows were there as shot, I just made them a bit more saturated and a bit brighter.

I am on the fence about the photo myself. I definitely took it to a place a bit more outside the realism of a lot what I do, but that was intentional. Still not sure I love it, but I do like it. I may need to work with it more.

Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it.

[zahraa]

Interesting. Maybe it's the saturation. Maybe I need to work more with longer exposures (that annoying tripod thing again) and get used to how they look. Maybe now that zyxwvut is working consistently, I could get a better tripod. (How is ptor's situation in that regard?)

How do you calibrate a monitor?

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I find that people who do long-exposure really, really well are often able to make the photos look other-worldly without really looking over-processed. It may indeed be the saturation you are responding to, and like I said, it may look *way* more saturated to you on your screen than me on mine. You calibrate with a tool and color card, I do believe...I will try to find a link to it...it was explained in my Lightroom book.

[metaphortunate.livejournal.com]

I like it! It looks like a landscape on imaginary Mars.