2016 Project 52, Second Quarter by Joe/ Joebranko

[bnnrcn]

Hi Joe I don't see any problem with the blurred reflections. Very nice colors and I can feel the gloomy winter day. I would lift the shadows on the log a bit if possible as the darks draw my attention.

[joebranko]

Eerie Erie.



The water in Lake Erie was unusually calm this afternoon, allowing some reflections from this strange shaped tree.

ISO 100. f8, 17mm, 1/160"

[Urbanflyer]

Great concept! Interesting composition. If maintaining the aspect ratio is important to you, then burning in the building and shoreline in the far right would keep that brightness from competing with your wonderful tree. If aspect ratio is not a deal, then cropping from the right might work.

[IzzieK]

I like your work here, Joe. I have nothing to contribute to its beauty.

[CormacD]

Beautiful, Joe. I really like the composition with the tree coming out of the bottom left hand corner, then leading the eye over to the shoreline on the right, puts the tree image into context with the surrounding countryside. Somebody might comment on the branch hanging down into the top right hand corner, but from my point of view what you've got is what you've got. The waterway reminds me of where I live down here (and the funny tree that like to hang over water)...Lindsay

[Shadowman]

Nicely done.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Joe,

Somebody might comment on the branch hanging down into the top right hand corner, but from my point of view what you've got is what you've got.

... and that 'somebody' would be me

Even before I read Lindsay's words, I was holding my hand in front of my monitor in that top left corner thinking: "I'd clone those out"

However, a bigger question is why have a lot of the branches 'up there', and from the main trunk, been 'monochromed', along with the sky either side of them? (Need to view in LyteBox at 100%, but once seen, hard to ignore)

I see you processed in LR6.5 - whatever the problem was Joe, I'm sure there's a better way to tackle it - perhaps we can help identify that?

Cheers, Dave

[joebranko]

Great concept! Interesting composition. If maintaining the aspect ratio is important to you, then burning in the building and shoreline in the far right would keep that brightness from competing with your wonderful tree. If aspect ratio is not a deal, then cropping from the right might work.

Thanks Judith. I'll have a look.

[joebranko]

I like your work here, Joe. I have nothing to contribute to its beauty.

Thanks Izzie.

[joebranko]

Beautiful, Somebody might comment on the branch hanging down into the top right hand corner, but from my point of view what you've got is what you've got.

Thanks Lindsay. Somebody has commented on the overhanging branches. See Dave's comments. I decided to leave them as I thought I would make a mess trying to clone them out.

[joebranko]

Hi Joe,



... and that 'somebody' would be me

However, a bigger question is why have a lot of the branches 'up there', and from the main trunk, been 'monochromed', along with the sky either side of them? (Need to view in LyteBox at 100%, but once seen, hard to ignore)

Cheers, Dave

I felt you would Dave and thanks for noticing. I decided to leave them as I did not think I could remove them cleanly, and I did think they were taking away as much as a botched job of cloning would.
Re the' monochromed' areas; I did have a problem with colour fringing around the small branches, and did a lot of fiddling around with sliders trying to get rid of it. I through I had done a good job with that but not enough to fool your eagle eye! 🙄 ! Not sure what caused the fringing to begin with. Tonight I will look at the shot SOOC to see if it was there or if I caused it in pp. I would appreciate help in identifying a better way of handling that problem.

[Dave Humphries]

Re the 'monochromed' areas; I did have a problem with colour fringing around the small branches, and did a lot of fiddling around with sliders trying to get rid of it. I through I had done a good job with that but not enough to fool your eagle eye! 🙄 ! Not sure what caused the fringing to begin with. Tonight I will look at the shot SOOC to see if it was there or if I caused it in pp. I would appreciate help in identifying a better way of handling that problem.

The colour fringing may well be a lens issue (CA = Chromatic Aberration), but should clean up far better than that using the proper tool for the job - on the Lens Correction panel's Color tab. I don't believe using that would have caused what we see above (Eagle eyes permitting).

If I do resort to doing it manually, I use a feathered edge 'desaturate' brush in PhotoShop - I'm not sure if you have PS and I wouldn't know how best to attempt it in ACR/LR. Of course the knack is to zoom in sufficiently (e.g. 100 - 200%) when making the brush strokes and only use a brush that enough to do the fringe on one side of the branch at a time.

[Manfred M]

+1 to Dave's comments.

Joe - while I tend to work in ACR rather than Lightroom, the two work identically and I automatically check both the "Correct Chromatic Aberration" and the "Enable Profile Corrections" as part of my work flow.

Ever since I started doing this, Dave has not nagged me about the CA in my images. I can't say I've found any downsides to doing this.

[joebranko]

Hi Joe,





I see you processed in LR6.5 - whatever the problem was Joe, I'm sure there's a better way to tackle it - perhaps we can help identify that?

Cheers, Dave

Hi Dave,
I looked back at the exposure on my sd card and here it is :-


Not sure if chromatic aberration is here of if I added it during my pp.
Your comments would be most welcome.

[CormacD]

This has been an interesting conversation about CA on your branches as I did not even notice until it was mentioned and I went back and blew the image up a bit. I don't think it was your lens it looks like it is only on the PP version.

[Wavelength]

Excellent works; please continue....

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Joe,

I definitely see CA on those trees, so it is the lens.
What we see on the PP'd version is where you have desaturated everywhere that had the issue - I used to do that too.

Subsequently I discovered it is easily correctable in LR or ACR, assuming you shot RAW.
(and if you shot jpg, the camera should have already fixed it)

There are several good YouTube videos showing how, I recommend watching a selection, as each adds a tip or trick, or better example photo and having an overview is better than anyone particular method.

I'll look them out and add them here for future reference shortly.

Cheers, Dave

[joebranko]

This has been an interesting conversation about CA on your branches as I did not even notice until it was mentioned and I went back and blew the image up a bit. I don't think it was your lens it looks like it is only on the PP version.

Thanks Lindsay. I really don't know if I can recognize CA.

[joebranko]

Excellent works; please continue....

Thanks Nandakumar.

[joebranko]

Hi Joe,

I definitely see CA on those trees, so it is the lens.

(and if you shot jpg, the camera should have already fixed it)

There are several good YouTube videos showing how, I recommend watching a selection, as each adds a tip or trick, or better example photo and having an overview is better than anyone particular method.

I'll look them out and add them here for future reference shortly.

Cheers, Dave

Thanks Dave. I look forward to seeing them.