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SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
edited March 22, 2013 in Landscapes
I reprocessed this image and curious how others see this image with the different processing.

Comments welcomed.

Sam
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  • Hikin' MikeHikin' Mike Registered Users Posts: 5,467 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2013
    Since Yosemite is almost my second home, I get "picky" when I see images from Yosemite. I didn't see the original one, but I think you did a great job capturing one of the icons. Could you show use the original one?
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  • idiotabroadidiotabroad Registered Users Posts: 246 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2013
    Very nice!

    Side note: My amateur eye keeps going to the red leaves on the left.
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2013
    Hikin' Mike wrote: »
    Since Yosemite is almost my second home, I get "picky" when I see images from Yosemite. I didn't see the original one, but I think you did a great job capturing one of the icons. Could you show use the original one?

    Mike,

    This isn't the exact image but taken withing minutes and is more representative to what it actually
    looked like at the time. Overcast post snow late evening cold, calm and serenely peaceful with only one other person to witness this spectacular sight that evening.

    Sam
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  • idiotabroadidiotabroad Registered Users Posts: 246 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2013
    Sam I like the original.
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2013
    Both are good and you did a good job on the first one it brings out detail in areas and makes it pop
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  • byoshibyoshi Registered Users Posts: 353 Major grins
    edited March 4, 2013
    Comp is nice in the OP. Seems to be a bit of a reddish hue comparing it to the other image posted further down. Was that the intent of the different processing, or was the light a bit different? I do like the foreground element tho.
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  • RidgetopRidgetop Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2013
    A lot is going to be on what you want to portray here. The second picture in this post gives a much colder feeler to the pic, which I would assume is what you were going for. Warming up the picture removed some of that "in the middle of the storm" feeling for me.
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2013
    Sam wrote: »
    Sam
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    I like what you have done with the water, there is not anything I can see that needs to be pointed out as a nit imho.
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  • Hikin' MikeHikin' Mike Registered Users Posts: 5,467 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2013
    Thanks Sam. I like the second one. I like the cooler temp and prefer this composition.
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  • EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2013
    Personally I like them both - a lot! I think this is one that depending on my mood which I would choose on a particular day! :D
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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2013
    I also like the second on better. For whatever reason, it is just more pleasing to my eye. I think the first one is a bit too warm IMHO.

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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 5, 2013
    Thanks everyone for your input!!!

    I am still torn, but what the heck, I'll just keep both. I will just make sure not to put them side by side. :D

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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 7, 2013
    Man, those are both smokin' images, Sam. Maybe we need to run out there again sometime soon and shoot some more. :D
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  • W.W. WebsterW.W. Webster Registered Users Posts: 3,204 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2013
    The colour reflected in the water appears to be more saturated than that in the sky which it reflects, which is a little incongruous. eek7.gif
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2013
    W.W. Webster wrote: »
    The colour reflected in the water appears to be more saturated than that in the sky which it reflects, which is a little incongruous. eek7.gif

    Actually I have found that most water reflections are more saturated than the the scene.

    Sam
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2013
    Sam wrote: »
    Actually I have found that most water reflections are more saturated than the the scene.

    Sam

    and contrast behold!:D
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  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited March 8, 2013
    Sam, I like the original, bluer version, but your decision to keep both seems sound. Very good work.
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  • TazZTazZ Registered Users Posts: 52 Big grins
    edited March 16, 2013
    I like both as they both have there own mix of color and mood
  • DonFischerDonFischer Registered Users Posts: 128 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2013
    They both are beautiful but to me, the first is the best. The second doesn't have a foreground that I can see. Of course I wouldn't delete it either!
  • Alpha_PlusAlpha_Plus Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2013
    I prefer the first one - it has a killer foreground! But IMO I would have pulled the crop in from the top right because having the valley down the middle of the shot doesn't sit right with me. I think cropping the top and right a little would give it a little more balance.

    Awesome work tho! I'd love to get to Yosemite in winter.
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  • GrayPlayerGrayPlayer Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited March 21, 2013
    I get a greater sense of depth with the first one. Something between the actual image and the reflection.
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited March 22, 2013
    Sam,

    That's a beautiful shot for sure, and I like both versions, although the version in your opening post is my favorite thumb.gif
    Randy
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