Two Jack Lake / Mount Rundle

[russ]

Here's one...

[mbrager]

Impressive picture. The perfectly calm lake reflects the mountain perfectly, except for the foreground geography. Made my eyes pause and stare to take the whole picture in. Love the mountains. Thanks for sharing this.
Mike

[Marko]

Wonderful composition here for sure but the entire shot looks soft to me. The shot would also sing louder imo with a contrast boost.

[russ]

Thanks for pointing out the softness issue Marko, maybe this will look better...

http://russhillis.zenfolio.com/img/v11/p714885050-4.jpg

[Marko]

MUCH better! This is very good sharpness in the top mountain; you could still go sharper if there's room but not by much.

The contrast boost is better but it could still go higher as well. You're getting close to "slap a frame on that puppy and hang it on your wall" :D

[Bambi]

MUCH better! This is very good sharpness in the top mountain; you could still go sharper if there's room but not by much.

The contrast boost is better but it could still go higher as well. You're getting close to "slap a frame on that puppy and hang it on your wall" :D

yes I completely agree. The difference is amazing!

[russ]

amazing what a bit of unsharp mask & a high pass filter will do. I'm also going to get a calibration puck so that I can win my arguments @ walmart har har (as if!)

[Iguanasan]

The second one is definitely a much nicer shot. Love the reflection here. We don't really have mountains in Nova Scotia - they call some of them mountains but they're really just big hills - and I've always liked seeing them in photos.

[Bambi]

The second one is definitely a much nicer shot. Love the reflection here. We don't really have mountains in Nova Scotia - they call some of them mountains but they're really just big hills - and I've always liked seeing them in photos.

well in Cape Breton there are mountains.....

[Fortytwo]

There is just so much potential in this picture, it just begs to be photoshop. I just couldn't help myself...

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4781/p7148850504.jpg

I've messed around with levels, brightness, contrast, vibrance, saturation and colorbalance. Just quickly, but it should give kind of an idea of what is possible with a picture like this...

[Yisehaq]

I love the picture. Amazing job FortyTwo. How did you know this was hiding inside the first picture ;(

[russ]

which reminds me, I forgot to change one of my settings. My bad, but while we're at it, the mountain just isn't that green and the water was the same colour as the sky.

[Fortytwo]

I love the picture. Amazing job FortyTwo. How did you know this was hiding inside the first picture ;(

You'll have to know which elements can be fixed in photoshop. Things like low contrast, dull colors etc. Most things however cannot be fixed. Bad composition isn't going to be fotoshopped correct. When you look at a picture, just think what isn't speaking to you. The original image was suffering from a bit low contrast, low colors, little lacking in sharpness. But the rest is amazing: composition etc. The things that were "bad" can be fixed in photoshop and the rest was very good. That's how I knew. ;)

But keep in mind that all I did was reveal a bit more of the great picture that was already taken by Russ here. He's the one deserving the credit... :)