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[didymus]

Upper Kananaskis Lake



It's an older photo, but I am just learning to use PS.
Cropped (just the top and bottom), sharpened, and a little touch of color correction.

[didymus]

Waterton Lakes Boundary



Cropped and adjusted

[Klickit]

I have been neglecting this thread and came to see what was going on. Gary - that Waterton Lakes is beautiful. Lovely tones and composition and a stunning sky.

[didymus]

Thank you Kit!
I think I over did it with the color enhancement though. I should tone it down a tad.

...and I don't know why the Subject is Re: Rock... crazy!

Mod comment: because you need to click Go Advanced and change the post title - or it picks up the last post's title or whichever post you clicked Reply button in, and uses that, it catches a lot of people out, even me. This default title inheritance works for discussions fine, but is less suited to these threads, easy to fix when you know how

[Peter Ryan]

Bleak Place

5 image stitch redo from canon 10D with 28mm prime.



Oh yes Burton Washlands Cherry Orchard.

Nice one Steve. I like the split leading lines. It would loog good large.

[Peter Ryan]

Waterton Lakes Boundary



Cropped and adjusted

Hi Gary,

I did elaborate on this image under the triangles post. I did not comment on the saturation there but I do agree it is a little overdone but a great shot. I would love to see it larger.

[Peter Ryan]

Upper Kananaskis Lake



It's an older photo, but I am just learning to use PS.
Cropped (just the top and bottom), sharpened, and a little touch of color correction.

I do like this shot Gary. Some years back I did a 9-day pack horse ride from Lake Louise back to Banff. Great trip and this scenery was all around. I have very fond memories of the area. I find I go back all the time to old shots and rework them as my skills improve. Its amazing what you can retrieve.

[bfkimball]

Captured just last weekend.




enjoy.

Enjoy I did. This really caught my eye. I love the combination of rocky detail with the blurred water. This is also a nice break from the over-saturated forests in which most motion-blurred streams are featured. Nice job.

[didymus]

Peter, have a look at this version:

[didymus]

I am very fortunate to have this scenery only an hour away!
I grew up in Jasper, Alberta and the mountains never cease to leave me in awe!

[Donald]

... and the mountains never cease to leave me in awe!

And this shows why. An excellent composition, Gary

[Benbro88]

Hi, a landscape I would to contribute

It was taken on an evening in Kruger National Park

bad/good?

[David]

Hi Benbro88 - welcome to CiC. I think the image needs to be a larger to be fully appreciated. Check out how to upload images in one of the other sections. From what I can see, the blues and salmon pinks of the far distance look remarkable.

Cheers

David

I think this is where you need to go:

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/thread5745.htm

[Benbro88]

Ok sure (sorry about that, I'm new to the forum!)

Here's another version:

[Donald]

Goodness me, that's gorgeous!

At first those two branches sticking up irritated me. But with a longer look they add important context and depth. The tone of the foothills going back to the mountains is spectacular. And the sky's not bad either.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Benbro (or is it just Ben?),

Nice scene, as Donald says, the depth is great,

Cheers,

[David]

Hi Benbro - Looks much better now. Here are two suggestions that may give a slightly enhanced image. (When I say this I do not know whether it will be better, it's just what I might try if I were working on the image.)

First, a technique that I learnt here from Colin Southern's tips - try altering the format of the image so that it is twice as wide as it is high - a 2:1 format. In this case you could do that by cropping off about 1/5 of the sky and a small amount of the bushes in the foreground. The reason behind this technique is that the image shows wide open spaces that have interest across the scene. So, to emphasise this you crop to a wide format.

Second, while the colours are fine, there could be more to be made of sharpness in the image. You could bring out some detail by using what is known as local contrast enhancement (LCE). There's a splendid tutorial by McQ on this in the Tutorials section. Basically, it's easy to do: use an unsharp mask and set the radius to a large number, say, 40 pixels, and the amount to a low value, say 0.3, (depends on what editor you are using). Apply this and see what happens. Vary the parameters until you like what you see. A lot of the "wow" factor in images is created by this technique.

Anyway, these are just suggestions.

Cheers

David

Update:

I thought I'd just do it to show you, hope you don't mind. The LCE parameters were 40 pixels and 0.4 for amount using the USM in the GIMP. Note how the tree in the foreground stands out a bit more and some further detail is seen in the mid-ground.

David



I forgot to say that this editiing took about 90 seconds - so you can try these things without wasting too much time.

D.

[Dave Humphries]

~ The LCE parameters were 40 pixels and 0.4 for amount using the USM in the GIMP.

Hi Benbro,

David's figures translate to 40pixels and 40% for the USM in Elements or Photoshop.
GIMP 1.00 = PS 100%

Cheers,

[Antonio Correia]

Hello everybody !
Sorry but I have been away for some days. Thank you for keeping this thread alive and posting here your images.
I re-start posting. To begin with I show you an image from Mount Bromo in Java, Indonesia.

[Benbro88]

@David:

Wow thanks that looks great . I always wondered why so many "wow" pictures look so wonderfully sharp. Really helpful!