Originally posted by RM Barker Dear Schraubstock, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Thank you.
I have been able to replicate, very closely, what you have done using both Lightroom and Photoshop Elements and I do agree that your version improves the photograph. You blue is somewhat more definite than I have been able to replicate but that has more to do with my level of skill using photo-editing software. As I recall the actual scene, I think the shadows were, in fact, deeper than we are allowing them to be, which, photographically-speaking, is the correct thing to do - the deep shadows were practically obliterating any detail of the shubbery in the background.
Thank you, again.
Originally posted by RM Barker Dear Schraubstock, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Thank you.
I have been able to replicate, very closely, what you have done using both Lightroom and Photoshop Elements and I do agree that your version improves the photograph. You blue is somewhat more definite than I have been able to replicate but that has more to do with my level of skill using photo-editing software. As I recall the actual scene, I think the shadows were, in fact, deeper than we are allowing them to be, which, photographically-speaking, is the correct thing to do - the deep shadows were practically obliterating any detail of the shubbery in the background.
Thank you, again.
Thanks Robert for your kind reply.
You write: "As I recall the actual scene, I think the shadows were, in fact, deeper than...
and "... the deep shadows were practically obliterating any detail..."
Allow me to pass an observation.
In my 50 odd years in photography I believe I can safely say, without any desire for self praise, I have learned a few things here and there. I have learned and come to appreciate the fact that ones memory can be severely tested when trying to recall what was on display at the time when a photograph was taken. I struggle with it even today. Particularly when trying to recall colour for example. There are two factors that can move you away from reality.
At the scene where you take the picture the natural light is different to that what the electronic light source of your monitor can produce. On top of that your peripheral vision out in the open catches light which your brain will assemble differently then as it would when working with a monitor display.
The second factor has to do with emotion. One can be totally overcome by the beauty of subject matter. One wonderful example of this is the ever popular sunset. You can observe this when people totally oversaturate colours in such a shot. In other words the desire to make the sunset more powerful is a temptation very few of us can resist. And of course with modern software it is so easy to do. The result, a totally unrealistic image. Try to convince people otherwise and they fight you tooth and nail. They want to make a picture prettier than nature has provided them.
As I said, now with modern software we all have a chance to manipulate a photograph. (Much easier than in the old film days.) When I work with an image I want to correct in PP and I cannot recall what was on display originally ( or I work on someone else's) I try to take a cue from certain parts of the photograph and deduce from that what might have been. In your image I took the cue from the little bit of blue sky that can be seen which immediately tells me that the strong yellow rendering is hard to reconcile.
You can now see where I am leading to when you make the above comment about shadows. The human eye is actually quite colour and light sensitive and I bet you probably saw more than what is in you memory. And I bet there was more light then you thing, otherwise the camera would not be able to capture it so clearly. And to bring it out in PP in such a way without introducing grain proves it.
I did not mean this to be a lecture but merely something you may not have thought of.
Greetings
Edit: No explanation for the repeated quote, gremlins I suspect.