Im fresh around here. As this community gives you the opportunity to improve and realize mistakes, i would like some opinion about this shot i took when i started to really mess around with photography. As for me it looked quite impressive back in the days, i simply did not had the skills i have today, so basic things such as right exposure, sharpest lens aperture, ideal shutter speed and how to improve this in Lightroom or Photoshop, were a bit messy back there.
Recently tried to "remake" some shots, edit them with the skill i have today (even tho its not much), and came with this, one of the magic shots i took while standing in mid river with half tripod under water, i was more worried with dropping the camera in the water than the actual settings to compose the image so it came a little weird, but still, really proud of that shot. So now i did some adjustments to make it more pleasing, would like to know your thoughts.
Some of the greens are over saturated, I think the original shot holds up pretty well, and could just use some dashes of extra color. Also, you might consider doing a sky replacement here, its usually pretty tricky to recover anything that looks really good from a blown out sky.
Thank you i too do think its a little bit over saturated. Sky is for me the toughest part to recover from that picture especially given the different tonalities in the reflection and the trees.It would take some effort
For my taste a little too much work on highlights.
Lovely image!
Thank you for your critique and appreciation. Highlights were mainly the result of my effort to correct the abusive exposure and lack of sharpness in some areas. Ill keep it in mind next time
i think its a beautiful capture and i agree with Francisco B on the sky a little recovery will do in other to give a little direction to the focus of view. Generally i think this is a beautiful capture.!!
Thank you. The sky seemed to me the big issue in this picture, ill keep it in mind next time.
Suggestion: You can really punch up the drama in a photo with good quality light... golden hour, blue hour, mist, etc.
Ill take that suggestion, thank you
The real beauty of the image is the reflection. Your attempt to improve the color has distorted the sky. What this picture really needs is to be B&W. Then you can keep your sky detail and you have removed the distraction the color is causing (my $0.02, FWIW)
very busy shot a lot going on here with nothing for the eye to lock onto or guide through...try and get at least 3 exposures next time as this will help immensely in post processing especially in regards to highlights and deep shadows.