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Forum: Photo Critique
09-23-2016, 07:26 AM
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Hi
The old story, you are there on location and it all looks interesting, you take the shot and when you come home and put it up on screen you are disappointed. Why ? because it is very hard to capture the mood of the location, the smells, the sounds of birds, wind, colours, in short everything that prompted you to photograph what you are seeing and experiencing in the first place. I have experienced this many times and now I don't even attempt to take these sort of shots anymore because I know I will be disappointed. I have learned to identify this and move on.
Still you have this image in the can, lets see if we can rescue something.
Firstly, there is now great point of interest (the barrel doesn't count in my view but it helps to a degree). Secondly the picture is not framed too well and thirdly it was taken under very harsh light and you have not done anything to mitigate this problem in PP.
In my attempt to rescue the image I have reduced the contrast and deep shadows out of the leaves so that the picture does not look so harsh. You must not forget that the human eye is capable to make huge adjustments, so while, when on location, the harshness was probably there your eyes made adjustments on the fly to compensate and therefore "tricked" you to take the photo. That is just my guess of course.
I also cropped the picture somewhat to concentrate the view a bit. But this is probably all I can think of.
Hope I have not upset you.
Cheers
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