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I saw an early post of a Bluebell wood , so I thought I post these three. soft focus filter used in the second one. C&C welcome as usual. Thanks
There’s almost an over-saturated look about the third that, for me, works really well. Wonder if you could post it larger?
I’m not big into moody soft focus shots, but that’s just me.
Yes 3 nice shots.
The soft focus works well in the second and as
BM stated above the oversaturated look about
#3 works.#1 is a really nice image also but is suffering IMO
from too much contrast. The flash indeed might be a bit
too strong but the figure is actually well illuminated too
so with a bit of work on the processing it could be a
stronger image.Thanks for yer comments guys
aoloain how would you suggest I process no 1. shot was taken with exposure for the sunlight and fill in flash to light foreground and I tried to balance the two in PS is too contrasty? I just noticed that no 2 & 3 were taken from nearly the same spot its funny how you can show a scene differently.
Joe
I would use some exposure blending to reveal some detail in the shadows
or a light mix of some HDR again just to lighten those darker areas.The flash seems to have created a lot of shadows in the foreground
giving that sense of high contrast.I dont like flash meself.
#2 is beautiful, the real blue bell forest as I’m still looking for but haven’t found yet… but I don’t like the post processing to be honest, too hard contrast and too strong colours, that’s a pity
Thanks schoffie, actually very little porcessing was done for no2, exposure was 8 secs f27 iso 100 with a soft focus filter and a Polariser filter so it blended the colours together, only a little curves and very little contrast done after. Other shots I took the girl did not stay still enough, and who could blame her. No 3 was 6 secs f27 so slight movement and long exposoures give that contrasty feel I think?
Joe
I’m sorry, I meant #3 as the beautiful image, not #2 … and to be honest I’m not really convinced about the postprocessing, long exposure does not alter the contrast, only, in this case, the depth of field. Maybe you should see the difference between the RAW shot and the final JPG, I think the contrast loo is because the too strong curve, especially in the higher-middle part (high tones). Maybe if you flatten the curve a little in the light part the total picture will look a little darker but less contrasty and more natural (with still strong colours)
#3 for me, definitely. I like the hyper-saturated look, but I think the tones are a bit too contrasty for my taste.
Otherwise, fantastic.
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