rocky beach

[tegan]

Sometimes scenes give you very little to work with.

Tegan

[Marko]

This shot is pleasant enough. I like the lines and composition.

If this were my shot I'd definitely burn in the 2 rocks in the foreground as they are stealing the scene with their brightness. The colour of the blue sky and water looks good but to my eye a bit oversaturated and overprocessed. Can you describe your post-processing here?

Thanks!
Marko

[tegan]

This shot is pleasant enough. I like the lines and composition.

If this were my shot I'd definitely burn in the 2 rocks in the foreground as they are stealing the scene with their brightness. The colour of the blue sky and water looks good but to my eye a bit oversaturated and overprocessed. Can you describe your post-processing here?

Thanks!
Marko

I tried burning in the rocks but I ended up with an artificial looking grey colour already. Unfortunately there does not seem to be sufficient texture/detail there to make the results look realistic.

[Marko]

I tried burning in the rocks but I ended up with an artificial looking grey colour already. Unfortunately there does not seem to be sufficient texture/detail there to make the results look realistic.

I like the honesty there tegan. It does show that even pros encounter problems in their images that are not 'easily-fixed' in photoshop. I too have enountered this scenario many times and it can diminish an good shot. Maybe add another rock or texture from another image or try Alex's burning in technique... (I'd be curious to see if it works in this image )

"Both Overlay and and Soft Light do have limitations. If you are trying to lighten an area that is almost total black, or darken an area that is almost total white, neither of those modes will have much effect. In those cases I will use a layer with a Normal blending mode, paint with 1%-3% opacity, and then adjust the opacity of the layer to get the effect desired."

Dodging and burning in photoshop

[tegan]

This shot is pleasant enough. I like the lines and composition.

If this were my shot I'd definitely burn in the 2 rocks in the foreground as they are stealing the scene with their brightness. The colour of the blue sky and water looks good but to my eye a bit oversaturated and overprocessed. Can you describe your post-processing here?

Thanks!
Marko

I tried burning in the rocks but I ended up with an artificial looking grey colour already. Unfortunately there does not seem to be sufficient texture/detail there to make the results look realistic. I will have to consider a different approach. I will need to work on my re-creating stone skills.

The water colour is not saturated. As a matter of fact it is too dark and I tried to lighten it a bit in the area closer to the camera. The sky is probably the result of a neutral grad filter on the camera. I warmed up the colour a little because the sand was looking a little too grey. Other than that I also cropped top and bottom.

Tegan

[kiley9806]

this is a pleasant scene - very good depth!

i have to agree with marko, i think its a little heavy on the saturation, and that one orange-y rock in the foreground is a bit too eye-catching.

if you cropped the whole rock & beach part out of the front of the shot, i'm guessing you'd lose some depth, but the water would be more of a main focal point...

just my thoughts...

[Travis]

I'm wondering tegan if you noticed the rock reflection in your view finder....

The reason I ask.... when I was taking those panoramic shots of huntsville I took a few snaps of my dog.... the shot were ruined because of a blistering reflection from this orange rock.... I found it kinda odd because the reflection was definitly not apparent through the viewfinder.... that day was sunny and I had troubles previewing the shots after I took them.... I should have used the histogram... but they were just snaps....

anyways... people should beware of rock reflection on sunny days.... it something that creeps up without you knowing....

in these shots i was expecting clipping in the snow area..... the camera autoexposure was locked for the panorams.... but i didn't expect anything on the rocks...

[tegan]

I'm wondering tegan if you noticed the rock reflection in your view finder...

After the fact, I should have probably had the polarizer on and chosen a different camera angle to try and reduce the reflection on the white rock. Underexposure by 1 stop and the grad filter caused the deep blue in the sky and water.

Tegan

[tegan]

this is a pleasant scene - very good depth!

i have to agree with marko, i think its a little heavy on the saturation, and that one orange-y rock in the foreground is a bit too eye-catching.

Saturation would have the grass a rather vivid green which you do not see here.

Tegan