I prefer the desaturated version by a small margin. The BW doesn't work for me. What I think might be best would be a curves adjustment on your original rendering that brightens the midrange. Paul On Oct 31, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
> Thanks for all of the comments and suggestions on this image. > > Most comments thought that the colours in the image were over- > saturated. The colours *are* strong, but that's due to the rusty > tones and the very warm, late afternoon light. I'm not adverse to > nudging the saturation from time to time but this image didn't > receive any extra. Of course the image might benefit from a > slightly less saturated rendering so the link below has a version > with a 10% reduction (and I took a bit of blue out of the sky as > well). I have to say I still prefer the original which is more > like I remember the scene, and which is also shown for comparison: > > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/Abandoned/index.html > > Also on this page is a black and white rendering - something > suggested by Dave Brooks. It seems to have possibilities but I > haven't nailed it yet and I'm not sure exactly where to go with it. > > The distracting background was also mentioned. It was difficult to > get the right angle with this image. There was a road sign and an > old shack that I was trying to conceal. There was also a large, > hyperactive hound behind a not very substantial fence about 50 > metres away so, bugger the background, I was a bit distracted as > well... :-)> > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney, Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > http://www.blognow.com.au/peso1/ > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/brianwalters > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Free pop3 email with a spam filter. > http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/5 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
