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ŤŘĚĚŠ · Posted by *LX60*, 01-15-2009, 01:08 AM

Hello everyone,

Some of my favorite tree subjects.

Cheers,

Jerry

**Damn Brit** · 01-15-2009, 01:24 AM

I really like the first one, it looks like a woodcut.

2, 3 and 4 look overprocessed. 2 looks a bit flat as well, 4 has ghosting around the top of the tree.

5 is a nice picture but it too looks a bit flat and the tree in the top right corner is a distraction.

*daacon* · 01-15-2009, 07:44 AM

Great series - I quite like #3 and #4 the whole series actually.

vievetrick · 01-15-2009, 10:43 AM

Great job. Hard to pick a favorite.

*LX60* · 01-17-2009, 08:36 AM

I agree the first one is probably best. As for over processing on the color, I shot Fuji Velvia many years ago one day and caught the PUNCH THE COLORS UP SYNDROME big time. Ever since I started scanning the slides, Ive had to work real hard at trying to avoid over saturating colors. BTW one cool thing I discovered in PS CS2 or lower anyway, is that if you over saturate a color file and then convert it to gray scale just by the convert image option. They look great, just maybe a little levels and curves tweaking and I'm convinced there's no easier way to convert color files that look so good in B&W.

#3 was purposefully shot with the intention of getting that look. I used a Pentax A 16mm fish-eye with the front built in filter ring set to the red color. I forget the actual filter it is but it always worked great to turn normal sunset skies to a rich red color without effecting the rest of the image to much. It was the only filter I ever used on that lens and a Pentax A 15mm lens that has the same ring setup.

Thanks Gary for constuctive advice. One question I have though, on the images that look flat to you. They were all shot with wide angle lenses that were stopped down considerably. Does a ND filter help?

Jerry

Originally Posted by Damn Brit

I really like the first one, it looks like a woodcut.

2, 3 and 4 look overprocessed. 2 looks a bit flat as well, 4 has ghosting around the top of the tree.

5 is a nice picture but it too looks a bit flat and the tree in the top right corner is a distraction.

*LX60* · 01-17-2009, 08:42 AM

Thanks Daacon,

I appreciate your compliment very much.

Jerry

Originally Posted by daacon

Great series - I quite like #3 and #4 the whole series actually.

*LX60* · 01-17-2009, 08:44 AM

Thanks Vievetrick,

Your compliment helps give spark to my photography.

Jerry

Originally Posted by vievetrick

Great job. Hard to pick a favorite.

*gawan* · 01-17-2009, 10:50 AM

Great set! I like them all equally!

**Damn Brit** · 01-17-2009, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by LX60

I agree the first one is probably best. As for over processing on the color, I shot Fuji Velvia many years ago one day and caught the PUNCH THE COLORS UP SYNDROME big time. Ever since I started scanning the slides, Ive had to work real hard at trying to avoid over saturating colors. BTW one cool thing I discovered in PS CS2 or lower anyway, is that if you over saturate a color file and then convert it to gray scale just by the convert image option. They look great, just maybe a little levels and curves tweaking and I'm convinced there's no easier way to convert color files that look so good in B&W.

#3 was purposefully shot with the intention of getting that look. I used a Pentax A 16mm fish-eye with the front built in filter ring set to the red color. I forget the actual filter it is but it always worked great to turn normal sunset skies to a rich red color without effecting the rest of the image to much. It was the only filter I ever used on that lens and a Pentax A 15mm lens that has the same ring setup.

Thanks Gary for constuctive advice. One question I have though, on the images that look flat to you. They were all shot with wide angle lenses that were stopped down considerably. Does a ND filter help?

Jerry

It's probably due to being uploaded here. Looking at it more closely I'm starting to see more DOF. It's those two trees on the right, it's hard to get a handle on where they are in the picture from a perspective point of view.

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*Andi Lo* · 01-17-2009, 12:43 PM

I personally like the third one the best; maybe my lack of good sunset shots have drawn me to it

but all of them are really good imo.

**Damn Brit** · 01-17-2009, 12:55 PM

To answer your question regarding #2 I think what I'm seeing is a well composed picture but on the right hand side of the picture is the foreground and background and on the left is the middle ground. That seems to soften the DOF slightly.

Oh and I've never used ND filters.

**roentarre** · 01-17-2009, 01:31 PM

Third and fourth shots are very very good. Love the perspective and colour.

*LX60* · 01-17-2009, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by roentarre

Third and fourth shots are very very good. Love the perspective and colour.

Thanks Georg, Andi and James,

Very much appreciate you all taking the time to post positive comments.

Jerry

JMR · 01-17-2009, 03:01 PM

These images look pretty good on my monitor. If had to guess what is causing the saturation, my money would have been on the polarizer, and if a scan from Velvia, that explains everything. Over polarization removes spectral light from a scene at a right angle to the light source. If you remove too much spectral light, the subject will take on a cardboard cut-out look. But many people love the saturated colours. I had to learn not to remove too much spectral light myself. I suits some subjects but not others. I have in the desert it is must because there is too much spectral light.

To my eye, the first image looks a little dark (underexoposed), but it may have a dark overcast day for all I know. It is very good and powerful image of winter, however.
NO-2 looks to me to have lots of depth. the extreme darkening blue as it nears the edge of the frame is a typical and characteristic of a polarizer.
If no-3 was shot at a small f-stop and yet appears unfocused, it could be the slide was not flat what it was scanned.
No-4 is evern more caharacteristic of over-polarization as it looks flat due to all the spectral light being removed. Some people love this, others hate it.
No-5 is not abd and can be cropped as Gary suggested.

JMR

Jewelltrail · 01-17-2009, 09:56 PM

I think the third one is fantastic--could enchant the cover of a great horror novel.