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DSS 86, Monotone Old Sawmill

DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
edited September 29, 2011 in The Dgrin Challenges
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C&C please,

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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    Is it that bad for the challenge?

    :(

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    powderpowder Registered Users Posts: 84 Big grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    Looks lovely to me!
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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    powder wrote: »
    Looks lovely to me!
    Thank you for looking and commenting.

    Don
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    powderpowder Registered Users Posts: 84 Big grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    I think the sepia works well for the subject matter, too.
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    PedalGirlPedalGirl Registered Users Posts: 794 Major grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    I like it. thumb.gif
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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    PedalGirl wrote: »
    I like it. thumb.gif
    Thank you, PedalGirl! :D

    Here is an alternative image:

    Bancroft Tower
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    C&C welcome,

    Don
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    clickin girlclickin girl Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited September 26, 2011
    I like the sawmill best! Other image is nice though!
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    torrbraetorrbrae Registered Users Posts: 203 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2011
    Also prefer the sawmill - especially with the sepia suits the old worldiness of the sawmill.
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    divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2011
    thumb.gif I like the sawmill, although the water looks a little blown-out on this monitor - can you burn out some more detail into it? Also, the upper left trees look like they might have been moving - not a problem per se, but I wonder if you might want to experiment with crops that minimize them? They're so dark against the bright sky that my eye went straight to it.
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    sapphire73sapphire73 Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 1,948 moderator
    edited September 28, 2011
    divamum wrote: »
    thumb.gif I like the sawmill, although the water looks a little blown-out on this monitor - can you burn out some more detail into it?

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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2011
    An alternate pp take:

    Less brown, less blown out. Thanks for the comments! :D

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    billseyebillseye Registered Users Posts: 847 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2011
    Hi Don,

    I really like the composition in this shot, but I'm seeing a very flat tonal range in the upper left diagonal portion (left of the stream line). The colors of the wood structure (brown) are very similar to the greens of the foliage. The effect is that details in the foliage and building are pretty much in the same range and hard to distinguish from each other. I think you might be able to tweak this with some adjustments to individual color channels (assuming you haven't discarded the original color information or didn't use camera level processing to shoot in monotone).
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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2011
    Bill, thanks for the comments. No, have have not discarded anything. These are from raw shots processed in LR3.4.1. I don't tend to use PS ( I have PCS4). I'll see what I can do with local adjustments. :D

    Don
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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2011
    Heres a third version where I did some local corections and rebalancing.

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