so today someone from the group taught me a few tricks about detail. much thanks and a shout out to Thorsten Westheider. down below are a few shots of an image i took last week. the original edit i did as a jpeg, an image edited as raw... now that i know how to do that.. and a composite to make things a bit moodier. let me know what you think.
This is a nice image. You might try to brighten up the forest portion of the shot just a bit. Parts of it almost disappear. I'm a fan of 'silky water', so that part is quite nice.
thanks David
Like I said in a PM to you, this is a win-win situation because me giving critique makes me think about my own compositions. Which is always a good thing and helps me improve, too.
I'll tell you how to avoid clipping in PS tonight, you still run into that trap so maybe a little trick will help you stop doing that.
i just read up on clipping in photography...are you referring to the whitewash area?
That would be white clipping - I'm referring to the dark patches, so black clipping.
Imagine a B&W image, where the tonal range is represented by numbers 0..255, with 0 being black and 255 being white. If you underexpose, dark greys will be recorded as 'black', i.e. 0. Now you have a problem, because you can't tell actual black from dark greys anymore and lightening up the greys will pull the blacks with it.
Ahhhhhhhhh......ok I have been so concerned about blowing out the whites that I forgot the other tonal range I will dive into that tonight
Lighten up the whole image, then darken the water. Nice shot. Argh I see you did that, love the rock in the foreground
thank you. the rock in the foreground is the reason i trekked through the fast paced creek i love the rusty color it was giving off all the others were a bluish gray i felt it added the warmth the scene needed