Autumn Pathway

Crispin

Hi All,

I went out today not expecting much as it's a dreary, overcast day.
Using a 81A filter, I managed to get this.

My one concern is that it's two contrasty. :dunno

You like or not like?

WaterfallRich

Nice!
I love the composition with the boardwalk leading into the picture and the carpet of leaves. Looks like there's kind of an 'orangy' color cast to me, tho.

DanielB

have you photoshopped it yet? if you feel its too orangy you can always bring down the Red hues in Curves, give it a USM job, maybe polarize a little? bring out that boardwalk and background more.




EDIT

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this is my version. not exactly what i mentioned above, but i lowered the reds on curves, raised the greens on curves, used the Burn tool to make that boardwalk pop. used lvl's to adjust to taste. and used RGB curves to make it "pop"

this was just done to personal preference:D

illuminati919

I really like what Daniel did with the photo, but I still like the original because it has that mystical feeling. I think it was my first impression of the photo, I definitely like the way the pathway leads into the foggy trees.

Great photo though, try BW and repost it.

1ibandit

I did like what Daniel did to the leaves, but I didn't like what it did to the woods or the pathway. I think it make the pathway to dark for my liking. The woods look to green now.. maybe they should be that way, but I don't care for it.

Good start at a nice picture though.

Crispin

Thanks guys.

I do think the image could do with some PP. Daniel, in my opinion, the trees are too green (Because I was there?) but your leaves look more natural.

Here a black and white one, which could also do with some PP (Today some time:): )


While I like BW I think the colours are nice in the original.

System

hope you don't mind-

converted to b/w and toned-

selective color on leaves--

some blur--

I like the composition of this photo--

george

Crispin

gefillmore wrote:

hope you don't mind-

converted to b/w and toned-

selective color on leaves--

some blur--

I like the composition of this photo--

george

That looks wicked!
Explain, please for a PS novice, how you do that?

System

Crispin-

be glad to-

I'll need to do it this pm--

got to go to work--

talk to you later-

george

DanielB

Crispin wrote:

That looks wicked!
Explain, please for a PS novice, how you do that?

probably used the magnetic lasso tool to outline the walkway and treeline. then cut it out. created a new layer out of it. monochrome/B&W conversion. then probably just curved the leaves layer.

*thats how i woulda done it *

System

DanielB-

nice try but that sounds too hard to me--

converted to b/w with conversion action from photoshop website (will give link later this week if interested-let me know)--

tweaked with levels and curves (I do it like I do cooking--to taste)--

went to grayscale, 8 bits, then duotoned and then I believe used one of the ps quadtones--

went back to the original color pic and picked out the leaves with color range and fuzzied it til I got what I wanted and moved the color selection over to the bw--

threw in some gaussian blur and that's it--

don't pin me down on exactly what amounts etc because do a lot of this to taste as I go (enjoying this too much to be too organized in my work; probably shows but I don't give a rat's ass; will get to that point eventually)--

any more questions ask away and I'll answer best I can--

color selection can be kind of gimmicky but I'm seeing some real nice photos with this (see red lady in top photos and it looks like DanielB does pretty well with it)--

george