On 10/21/2011 8:32 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=djm1963&entry=152
Comments and criticisms are invited
There are seveal pleasing aspects to this, but they aren't really
working well together.
Something that I noticed on both this, and the rocket launch photo is
the unnatural looking vibrance of the grass.
I think that this is also suffering from dynamic range issues. The
details in the tree are lost, but the clouds are blown out. This is one
of those shots that I always bracket with the intent of combining for
better dynamic range. I don't mean the crazy tone mapping, just getting
shadow details without blowing out the highlights. As it is, it's a few
stops short of a full palette.
The trailers in the background are rather distracting also.
What is really nice however, is the reflection of the clouds in the
water. I think that you could make a huge improvement with just a square
crop of the bottom of the frame, lighten it up and tone down the
saturation a touch. Or, just a hunch, knock out the saturation all
together.
I think it would have worked best if you had gotten closer to the water
so that it filled a lot more of the image, and exposed to the right so
that the clouds in the reflection were just shy of blowing out.
The top half, trees against the clouds is nice, but not spectacular and
the dark tones of the tree fighting against the cloud highlights is too
big of a technical challenge, one which can't overcome the clutter of
the light poles, fences etc.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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