Nikon D-300 1/80 sec f8
ISO200
34 mm
Took this shot in Shenandoah Va. Somehow it doesn't look right to me. Is there someting wrong with the color balance? i have tried to correct color balance with little luck! Can anyone help?
All comments welcome!
Nikon D-300 1/80 sec f8
ISO200
34 mm
Took this shot in Shenandoah Va. Somehow it doesn't look right to me. Is there someting wrong with the color balance? i have tried to correct color balance with little luck! Can anyone help?
All comments welcome!
Hi Bob, I will leave it to the moderators to make the final judgment on a color cast but it doesn't look likea problem to me. I love the layered look to the mountains and you have an interesting sky. The only thing I may change is to open up the shadows a bit on the right. Nice overall image.
I certainly am not a moderator, but wanted to share my thoughts. My first impression was what a great shot it is, expecially of the soft, dreamy distant hills and sky. But like you, I felt a bit uncomfortable and think it is the contrast of the sharpness of the green hill vs that dreaminess. I did a tiny quick playing with it and a crop to try to llet that beautiful distance dominate. Maybe it's an improvement, maybe not. All depends on what your vision is.
Hi Bob,
I like the vivid greens of the FG.....that's why we used Velvia!....but it is strong for some tastes. I took it into PS and in color balnce slid it towards Magenta -7 and -8 on blues.....then did a levels layer on the FG to lighten it again. This did a few things...added a bit of warmth to the sky and knocked down some of the green tinge. I would just patch the greens protruding into bottom of the frame as I like the rocks.
Let me know if this adresses some of your concerns.
Hi Bob, All I did was take Romans repost and cropped it a bit to show another way of presentation. I also took out a few of those plants in the foreground...
I posted the original instead of my cropped version previously
Sometimes Bob if there are no whites to give you the RGB values I sometimes put an image through the photo filters in CS4 at about 10 percent and see which one looks best.
Bob,
To me all the images have a magenta cast.
I took the image Dave posted and selected the sky region and ran it through levels:
red middle input slider to 1.09, green middel input slider to 0.9, blue input slider to 0.5 and blue output to 230.
This removed the magenta cast and put in a tobacco color like a sunset. I'm doing this on an uncalibrated laptop, so hopefully it's not too extreme.
Roger
I grew up in this part of the country, so I am understandably partial to these mountains. Very nice capture.
The posted image looks pretty close to right to me. The main thing that jumped at me was the cyan/greenish
hue in the middle ground of the mountains. I used a selective color adjustment layer to tweak that in the cyans panel:
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Greens (as in foliage) are predominantly yellow, so they can be goosed in the yellows panel of selective color. I was
just aiming to give them a little more of a sunny feel.
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Thanks for all the input ! Lots of things for me to try! Now the work begins......I will begin work on the photo and repost soon.
David Nailed it!
This is my repost after using many of the fine suggestions! Thanks to all!
Some great posts here. GReat shot well done on this. I think i like Dave's PP.