Barnsley Gardens

[Digital]

C&C welcomed. Bruce

[tybrad]

Hi Bruce-
This, and your swan image, hits hard on color saturation-- way too much for my eyes!
It is also enhancing artifacts that detract for me.. like blue bark, and color mushrooming in the tree branches that are against the sky.

Is there a motivation behind the color super-saturation?

[pschlute]

It is a nice image and I like the way you have brought out detail in the walls and floor.....bu I agree with Tyler, way over saturated.

[selig1656]

nice composition, aree with the above, spot metering , focusing on the right side and toning down on staration and increase viberance.

[Digital]

Tyler, Peter, and Raymond - thanks for your comments. I tend to go overboard on saturation.


Bruce

[DanK]

Tyler, Peter, and Raymond - thanks for your comments. I tend to go overboard on saturation.


Bruce

My suggestion is similar to Manfred's, albeit not quite as extreme.. Usually, if things need a bit of a boost, vibrance is the safer option; it adds saturation primarily to areas without much. I do use small amounts of vibrance fairly often as a global adjustment, but I almost never increase saturation globally. In some cases, I'll do local saturation adjustments or increase specific colors, but this is fairly rare.

In this case, it's the greens that really suffered. In the image of the swan, it was the water, which was so blue that it looked more like plastic than water.

In the not too distant past, the PBS Masterpiece show routinely had ads for Viking River Cruises that all had garishly exaggerated color. We started refering to excessive saturation as the Viking River Cruises effect.

[Digital]

Dan, thank you for your comments, and suggestions.


Bruce