I'm new to this area of the forum and hope my choice of an image fits the forum. It is an image of a very colorful Oak leaf that I took in northern Mn last fall. I basically ran it through ACR and then used NIK color efex 3.0 software to tweak it. I used the Midnight, Glamour Glow and Vignette filters on this image.
I want honest feedback okay.... I think it may be a bit too dark, but thats fixable. :)
High impact and powerful, Mike, and yes, nice first post for this Forum.
Hope to see more of you here :)
09-24-2008, 07:58 PM
Julie Kenward
Mike, I think you got this in just the right place! I've been looking at this and looking at this, trying to decide what it is that's bugging me about it. Overall, I really like it in pieces - like the saturation, like the composition, like the colors against the black BG...
I think I want to see a little more definition - maybe back off the diffused glow just a bit or mask off the center so the main vein of the leaf is really sharp so my eye has a place to land before it heads off to those sweet, soft corners...or vice versa. As it is it feels just a bit too soft - and that could just be me. Let's see who else weighs in.
09-24-2008, 08:31 PM
Mike Lentz
okay... I lightened it and did what Julie mentioned... thoughts?
