Lucky shot or just a shot?

Anselina AdamsAnselina Adams Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
edited October 29, 2008 in Other Cool Shots
C&C is welcome:bow
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited October 23, 2008
    Anselina Adams wrote:
    C&C is welcomebowdown.gif


    Ohhhhhh nice.......birds were right on cue for the sunrise clap.gif
    Got nice clouds too in this shot, I like the colours as well Anselina thumb.gif ... Skippy :D
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2008
    I like it. Great clarity and sharpness, and of course great color. thumb.gifthumb.gif
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 26, 2008
    Nope, this is way more than just a lucky shot. I think its a fine image.

    Probably just my laptop but if its not I think you could pour some more
    "pop" into this image. I bumped the hue / saturation to add even more
    color and bit of brightness / contrast just to see what happens for the
    picture quality. I think it added value. But thats just me. :D
    Michael
  • Anselina AdamsAnselina Adams Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited October 27, 2008
    DaddyO wrote:
    Nope, this is way more than just a lucky shot. I think its a fine image.

    Probably just my laptop but if its not I think you could pour some more
    "pop" into this image. I bumped the hue / saturation to add even more
    color and bit of brightness / contrast just to see what happens for the
    picture quality. I think it added value. But thats just me. :D

    Dear all, thank you very much for your comments. DaddyO, i am not very good in PP, please upload your version hereiloveyou.gif thanks
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  • Anselina AdamsAnselina Adams Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited October 27, 2008
    something like that?
    Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.:ivar
  • HarrymacHarrymac Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited October 27, 2008
    There are never lucky shots. all good shots are made and you have made a very very good shot here, it has everything in it. great capture bowdown.gifthumb.gif
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 28, 2008
    I'm not all that great at PP either. But I bang around anyway. :D
    Sometimes it works out and I still have hair left in a place or two.

    I think it important to maintain the silhouette tree line in your photo
    as much as possible.

    Maybe something like this for result. Bit more pop and foreground
    is maintained pretty well.

    404367830_Ycj5T-L.jpg
    Michael
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited October 28, 2008
    Hi Anselina....Your shot is very well taken. It catches the eye and sparks the imagination.

    Michael....I agree that the photo could use a little more " pop ". I like your version even more than Anselina's " improved " version because you maintained more of the dark area as definable space. The jet contrails do not show in your version as they do in Anselina's darker version. Good job.
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  • HarrymacHarrymac Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited October 28, 2008
    This may spark a little debate here and i appologise if it does but i find that lowering the tones too much in an image causes more noise which causes the eye to be taken away from what the image is about and that is what is happening on the edits here so there has to be a balance found between gaining more impact and noise.
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 29, 2008
    Harrymac wrote:
    This may spark a little debate here and i appologise if it does but i find that lowering the tones too much in an image causes more noise which causes the eye to be taken away from what the image is about and that is what is happening on the edits here so there has to be a balance found between gaining more impact and noise.
    Noise. Thanks for pointing it out.
    On my desktop I didn't notice the noise created as a feature of what I did
    to the image. On my laptop (depending on what angle I look at its screen)
    I see some introduced noise. Brightness set a little too high on the laptop
    probably. :D

    Agreed. In most any final print, after PP & working with the original image,
    of course no noise is generally the goal for a quality result.

    I went back to the original 70K image to work with here and ran it through
    Neat Image. I'll post that result here to see if the noise got toned down
    at all. Maybe a tad got shaved off.

    405135578_6RPSb-L.jpg
    Michael
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