Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton NP, Wyoming

DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
edited January 20, 2006 in Landscapes
Sept. 2005 - Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited January 18, 2006
    A lovely scene capturedd with your usual skill.

    I hope you knee continues to improve. Do you plan to continue riding your Gold Wing?

    If I had processed this image, I think I would have tried for a darker, more saturated water surface and and a darker mountain side as well, and shifted the foliage a little darker and less yellow green. But maybe I just prefer darker, less high key images.ne_nau.gif
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  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2006
    pathfinder wrote:
    A lovely scene capturedd with your usual skill.

    I hope you knee continues to improve. Do you plan to continue riding your Gold Wing?

    If I had processed this image, I think I would have tried for a darker, more saturated water surface and and a darker mountain side as well, and shifted the foliage a little darker and less yellow green. But maybe I just prefer darker, less high key images.ne_nau.gif

    Thanks for the comments, Path. I'll have to check the shot on my normal computer. I am working on my notebook so I can sit with my legs up so the color settings may not be exactly the same. I tend to like dark as well when I post process.

    Knee is doing fine and I will be on the Gold Wind for the Run For The Wall in May which will be 7,500 miles for just that trip. I probably won't get back on it for at least two month to give the knee adequate time before really stressing it.

    I'm planning on hitting both the Grand Canyon and the Zion National Park on the way out for the Run For The Wall - regretfully before everyone else will be getting to Zion. :cry
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  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2006
    pathfinder wrote:
    A lovely scene capturedd with your usual skill.

    I hope you knee continues to improve. Do you plan to continue riding your Gold Wing?

    If I had processed this image, I think I would have tried for a darker, more saturated water surface and and a darker mountain side as well, and shifted the foliage a little darker and less yellow green. But maybe I just prefer darker, less high key images.ne_nau.gif


    Path, here it is somewhat darker.

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  • erich6erich6 Registered Users Posts: 1,638 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2006
    I like the darker one better Dixie but it seems to have gotten blurier in the process. It's a beautiful landscape. Glad to hear you are recovering well.

    Cheers,

    Erich
  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 19, 2006
    erich6 wrote:
    I like the darker one better Dixie but it seems to have gotten blurier in the process. It's a beautiful landscape. Glad to hear you are recovering well.

    Cheers,

    Erich

    Erich, I was lazy and just darken the one I had already framed and reduced in size so I lost some quality. I did, however, reprocess the full-size original - no shortcuts there. :D
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  • steelephotography.comsteelephotography.com Registered Users Posts: 81 Big grins
    edited January 19, 2006
    Another Perspective of this Great Location...
    Taken August 2004, was there for one day and the weather was not very cooperative...

    Different time of day as well...

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited January 19, 2006
    Dixie wrote:
    Path, here it is somewhat darker.

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    :): Mo' Betta!!thumb.gif
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  • TristanPTristanP Registered Users Posts: 1,107 Major grins
    edited January 19, 2006
    Great scene, Dixie. Nicely captured.
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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    Lovely landscape. I like the second rendition much better.
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    Beautiful!
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  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    steelephotography.com wrote:
    Taken August 2004, was there for one day and the weather was not very cooperative...

    Different time of day as well...

    DS

    Actually, I think that yours does open some possibilities.
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  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    Thank you's to Path, Steve, Gubbs and Tristan.
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  • steelephotography.comsteelephotography.com Registered Users Posts: 81 Big grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    That looks great Dixie!
    Can you share what you did to improve it...

    Thanks...

    DS

    Dixie wrote:
    Actually, I think that yours does open some possibilities.
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  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    steelephotography.com wrote:
    Can you share what you did to improve it...

    Thanks...

    DS

    Hey DS,

    I used both the nik Color Efex Pro Brilliance/Warmth Filter along with the nik Lighten/Darken Center Filter for the start and then added about 12 points worth of Saturation to the master using PSCS2 Hue/Saturation tool, and then increased brightness/contrast slightly (maybe 3-5 points each).

    BTW, I don't call them improvements - just different treatments. Some treatments work better than others so I just play around until I get what I like. None are really good/better or bad/worse as that is all in the eye of the beholder - what looks good to one may look bad to another.
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  • wingerwinger Registered Users Posts: 694 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    Oh man you make me long to go back to yellowstone!!!!!!

    I am like this close to making the call.
  • DixieDixie Registered Users Posts: 1,497 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2006
    winger wrote:
    Oh man you make me long to go back to yellowstone!!!!!!

    I am like this close to making the call.


    Winger,

    The Grand Teton/Yellowstone combo is hard to beat for diversity. Try to get to the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, MT as well. It's well worth the entrance fee which goes to a good cause and with some careful framing you can get some winner wildlife shots up close of grizzlies and wolves.

    Outside of Yellowstone there is the Chief Joseph and Beartooth drives - really great photo ops with both.

    The problem with the area is that there is so much to shoot and so little time.
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