Need some feedback..

miketaylor01

This was shot this morningand was actually a very badly overexposed shot. This is what I was able to salvag out of the original but I wanted to get some feedback from you all on weather or not I went to far in post processing. I think the blown out sky on the left of the frame actually creates a surreal effect. But im not sure what this means for my photography technically. I know people harp sometimes on making sure every aspect of the image is properly exposed, but sometimes I feel like the rules are made to be broken and I love the effect I was able to create with this shot. Want to hear any thoughts you have on this, good, bad, everything. Thanks for taking a look

ginger_55

miketaylor01 wrote:

This was shot this morningand was actually a very badly overexposed shot. This is what I was able to salvag out of the original but I wanted to get some feedback from you all on weather or not I went to far in post processing. I think the blown out sky on the left of the frame actually creates a surreal effect. But im not sure what this means for my photography technically. I know people harp sometimes on making sure every aspect of the image is properly exposed, but sometimes I feel like the rules are made to be broken and I love the effect I was able to create with this shot. Want to hear any thoughts you have on this, good, bad, everything. Thanks for taking a look

Mike, I like that shot very much. Whatever you did in post was not over done. I think that is the trick in your situation.

On the foreground, could it get a little sharper, or is it part of the post. The sky looks quite natural to me from skys I have seen when the light source is to the side.

Others can tell you more. I am not a purist...........not all the time and not in all things. I am kind of lazy, though. I do have a certain pride in using the full frame of a shot, that is left over from a blk and white seminar. Adding "pop" and other things, well, in that area I am not a purist at all.

Saving a photo in the manner you did, well, I like it. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And you can take pride in that and pride in something else another time.

Cheers, ginger

snapapple

miketaylor01 wrote:

This was shot this morningand was actually a very badly overexposed shot. This is what I was able to salvag out of the original but I wanted to get some feedback from you all on weather or not I went to far in post processing. I think the blown out sky on the left of the frame actually creates a surreal effect. But im not sure what this means for my photography technically. I know people harp sometimes on making sure every aspect of the image is properly exposed, but sometimes I feel like the rules are made to be broken and I love the effect I was able to create with this shot. Want to hear any thoughts you have on this, good, bad, everything. Thanks for taking a look

Mike,
You did a great save here. The light looks good. I notice a few spots and speckles in the sky on the right. That happens sometimes when you use curves or play with the light. A few may be dirt on the lens. Maybe they can be blurred out somehow.

I am also bothered by the bright white specks in the foreground. They could be cloned out. And, I would like to see the chopper a little to the left for a more off center composition. Maybe a crop on left and top?

Possibly some levels or curves on the ground only could increase the contrast, but it's not too bad. It has a misty feeling.

Good job.

tmlphoto

snapapple wrote:

Mike,
You did a great save here. The light looks good. I notice a few spots and speckles in the sky on the right. That happens sometimes when you use curves or play with the light. A few may be dirt on the lens. Maybe they can be blurred out somehow.

I am also bothered by the bright white specks in the foreground. They could be cloned out. And, I would like to see the chopper a little to the left for a more off center composition. Maybe a crop on left and top?

Possibly some levels or curves on the ground only could increase the contrast, but it's not too bad. It has a misty feeling.

Good job.

I agree with a left/top crop. maybe about 20% of the frame.

I like the sky and the muted colors. Very nice image.

pathfinder

tmlphoto wrote:

I agree with a left/top crop. maybe about 20% of the frame.

I like the sky and the muted colors. Very nice image.

I agree with what Thomas has said - move the chopper to the left upper third position or so and lose the left upper quadrant of open featureless sky - This will concentrate the viewer's attention on the foreground and the architecural details. The flat lighting and mono color scheme works well here. Nice image.

mjb

I am a big rule breaker as well

miketaylor01 wrote:

This was shot this morningand was actually a very badly overexposed shot. This is what I was able to salvag out of the original but I wanted to get some feedback from you all on weather or not I went to far in post processing. I think the blown out sky on the left of the frame actually creates a surreal effect. But im not sure what this means for my photography technically. I know people harp sometimes on making sure every aspect of the image is properly exposed, but sometimes I feel like the rules are made to be broken and I love the effect I was able to create with this shot. Want to hear any thoughts you have on this, good, bad, everything. Thanks for taking a look

The rule I almost always break is cropping too tight. In this case I "MAY" have cut the sky, but I think it would be a mistake.

mercphoto

Its better than you feared it was

miketaylor01 wrote:

This was shot this morningand was actually a very badly overexposed shot. This is what I was able to salvag out of the original but I wanted to get some feedback from you all on weather or not I went to far in post processing. I think the blown out sky on the left of the frame actually creates a surreal effect. But im not sure what this means for my photography technically. I know people harp sometimes on making sure every aspect of the image is properly exposed, but sometimes I feel like the rules are made to be broken and I love the effect I was able to create with this shot.

My biggest comment would be to un-center the chopper and next time try a slower shutter. I'd like to see a little blur in the chopper blades. I know this is hard from when I did choppers and planes once before. I was really surprised at just how slowly those things turn, and shutter speeds that you think would have a full rotation of a blade almost look stationary!

I wouldn't worry too much about all the processing. I'm not a big fan of processing images too much anyway so I'm not that concerned if not every scrap of your image is properly exposed or not. That doesn't bother me. I think the sky is lovely the way it is.

miketaylor01

How bout this? I like the composition alot more but the only thing that I dont like is how much I had to crop the image to get this to where it is now. I This may be going farther that I like to go with breaking my cropping rule lol. What do you think?


Also in reference to your suggestiong to try slower shutter speeds I was actually all set up to give this a try with this aircraft after it took off but of course the best laid plans are always spoiled because the two aircraft flew off in the opposite direction from what I was prepared to shoot at. Also the onlyway I would be able to get the fuselage of the aircraft sharp with catching the motion of the blades with a slower shutter speed would be to track the aircrat in flight. Which I just said I was going to attempt to to. Oh well there will always be other day. Here are two more that I got this morning of these two aircraft. I used alot of negative fill light, which is a feature that I have only seen available on Sigma Photo Pro but i know I dont know everything, So this might not be to everyones taste. The original images were pretty boring to me thats why I decided to mess with NFL.

lynnma

miketaylor01 wrote:

How bout this? I like the composition alot more but the only thing that I dont like is how much I had to crop the image to get this to where it is now. I This may be going farther that I like to go with breaking my cropping rule lol. What do you think?

I think moving the chopper so that now it's more in the "rule of thirds" has made all the difference. I really like the shot now.. has a very good feel to it. Congrats on the post processing and cropping
Lynn