Today I visited the World Heritage Windmill Park in Kinderdijk. Although I have lived in The Netherlands (a.k.a. Holland) all my life, I have never seen that many windmills!
The image I am posting is one of my favorites, although I took many others. Image info: Canon EOS 30d camera with Tokina 12-24mm F4 DX lens. Aperture: F14, shutter speed: 1/60 sec. Focal length: 24mm. Slightly cropped to remove a little water tower at the far left of the photo that looked a little bit distractive.
I am hoping that the colors come across correctly. I recently calibrated my monitor and made sure to export the photo as RGB. I hope that does the trick...
Hi Inge,
I like the lines that you have presented in this image and you also have some stunning clouds. I would have liked to see a little more of the right side grasses if it was an island as it would have made a long sweeping u shaped view. You can also alternately clone some of the grasses out to achive the same effect. The mid section of the image with the windmill and buildings is a little dark on my monitor but you should be able to bring it up a little. Overall, a very pleasing image,
Roman
Thanks for the quick replies. I tried to lighten the image up a little without blowing the highlights in the clouds and the grasses. It is a little bit lighter. How do you think it looks now, better? I don't think I can lighten it up much more, unless I can find a way to select only certain parts. I'm not that good at using Photoshop yet. :)
Hi Inge,
I like it better. Try Shadow highlights (be careful that the color correction amount isn't too high as it may make your colors off , so make it zero for comparison purposes) and play with the radius and amount to see if it works better.....but again, much better,
Roman
Hi Inge Gave it a try an worked it Converted to LAB color for the adjustment to preserve the color balance Also selected the clouds and did some local contrast changes (very subtle)
Wow, that looks so much better. I was going to see if I could find some info on the web on how to get an ND grad filter effect in Photoshop. Looks like you already made that happen. :) Now, if only I could figure out exactly what you did. But I'll play around with it a lot more and see what I can come up with. I won't give up until it looks like the version you posted!
World Heritage Windmill Park Kinderdijk
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