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Forum: Photo Critique
09-22-2016, 05:49 AM
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From Wikipedia Dodging and burning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dodging and burning are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure. In a darkroom print from a film negative, dodging decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter, while burning increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.[1]
Any material with varying degrees of opacity may be used, as preferred, to cover and/or obscure the desired area for burning or dodging. One may use a transparency with text, designs, patterns, a stencil, or a completely opaque material shaped according to the desired area of burning/dodging.
Many modern digital image editing programs have "dodge" and "burn" tools that mimic the effect on digital images.
In the traditional darkroom this was achieved by the use of masks or even the hands to shade certain portions of the image more than others. Most good editing software will have this function or similar often in the form of a brush tool. What software do you use?
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Forum: Photo Critique
09-22-2016, 01:41 AM
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Tony
Already a better composition. Cloning out branches can be a difficult task and best avoided in the first place.
Other "tricks" in editing are:
- Add a very slight vignette to your landscapes. Very slight, so slight as to be almost unnoticeable. It helps draw the viewers attention in.
- Some selective dodging and burning to certain areas of the photo. Again a very light touch is required. In this image a slight brighten up of the tops of the vines and a slight darkening of the lower parts of the vines. Where the road has a darker centre streak, darken this just a little more to increase the contrast in this area.What this does is to appear to give more depth to the image. A little on the darker patches on the hills as well.
- Selective sharpening especially the foreground elements. The background hills remain soft due to their distance.
- Increase contrast in the hills in the background. Just adds a bit of colour.
How you achieve these things depends on your software. But in all instances a very light touch is needed
I have attached my quick attempt to demonstrate what I mean. Probably a little heavy handed but I hope it gives you some inspiration to explore the possibilities.
Cheers
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Forum: Photo Critique
09-21-2016, 06:10 AM
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Hi again
Like Tas, I endorse the notion a lot of landscape comes down to composition. If you have an opportunity to revisit the site or in a similar position, walk around the scene looking at it from different angles. Here I think the barrel is the foreground object of interest. Look for ways to emphasis it. As Tas suggests place it a 1/3 position of the frame. The vines are the middle ground and the hills and sky are the background. Good that you have little sky visible, perhaps crop some more out. If you are into editing consider some fairly drastic crops as an experiment to see how different views work.
One thing to avoid is to have things poking into the frame or going out of frame. The weed bottom left for example and the vine top right, even the tree sticking out above the horizon can be a distraction. Just little details that are hard to spot in the field.
I have found this video to be of great help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8HZCdieSAo
Keep em coming,
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