Thanks, Larry. That is EXACTLY the kind of feedback I was looking for!
This is a scene that appealed to me in person, but I could not capture with the camera. I want to go back and try again, and you have given me a lot of good advice on how to get a better result with this difficult subject. Thank, Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) > > -- > 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.
