2jbourret
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Yes, in fact stacked grad filters, both 3 stop, plus just a touch of graduation applied in LR. Have I overdone it?Very nice. Grads, I'm assuming?
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Yes, in fact stacked grad filters, both 3 stop, plus just a touch of graduation applied in LR. Have I overdone it?Very nice. Grads, I'm assuming?
Not at all. I think some in the forum may argue otherwise, but I think it looks good. Same for the saturation. It's clearly boosted to rather lofty levels, but I'm a fan of that, anyway.Yes, in fact stacked grad filters, both 3 stop, plus just a touch of graduation applied in LR. Have I overdone it?
Graham,Just received my new Phase One 28mm lens so took it out this evening for a whirl. Low light & breezy but Mr Heron turning up was a bonus!
P40+, 645DF, 28 f/4.5 2s f/11:
Darn, busted again.Now how much did you say these plastic poseable Herons cost?
Dave (D&A)
Good framing and timing. Though, I have a couple of technical observations to share. Your white balance is pretty cold; necessarily, this has imparted a rather blue cast to much of the image. Additionally, I would guess it's in part of the wb issue, but the greens appear both desaturated, and rather gray.Just received my new Phase One 28mm lens so took it out this evening for a whirl. Low light & breezy but Mr Heron turning up was a bonus!
P40+, 645DF, 28 f/4.5 2s f/11:
Pixel Peeping version here:
http://www.grahamwelland.com/MultnomahFallsHeron/index.htm
Sorry, but since you brought it up I have to disagree. On my calibrated monitor, Graham's version looks very nice -- slightly saturated and relatively neutral WB. By contrast, your posted version looks very warm, yellow to almost where the darker greens have muddied and almost up to Velvia type saturation -- your log jam is red-orange and not wet-wood brown...Your white balance is pretty cold; necessarily, this has imparted a rather blue cast to much of the image. Additionally, I would guess it's in part of the wb issue, but the greens appear both desaturated, and rather gray.
For the hell of it, here's my version of the same (not taken with MF, sadly):
Well, maybe this is a taste/monitor calibration thing. I'm not a fan of yellow greens as they don't match my view of reality. The WB was set as daylight and pretty much matches what I saw. With respect to gray greens, that may also be an effect of downres of the original image with contrast/sharpness at this size. I don't see that in the full size image at all.Good framing and timing. Though, I have a couple of technical observations to share. Your white balance is pretty cold; necessarily, this has imparted a rather blue cast to much of the image. Additionally, I would guess it's in part of the wb issue, but the greens appear both desaturated, and rather gray.
For the hell of it, here's my version of the same (not taken with MF, sadly):
Funny, Here I was thinking this was a photography forum...Wouldn’t a single bird of the Heron genus be called a *heron*, as Graham does in his last post?
Great shot, but.
I'm with jack here ... on my display Graham's image looks great, and the other is much too warm.Sorry, but since you brought it up I have to disagree. On my calibrated monitor, Graham's version looks very nice -- slightly saturated and relatively neutral WB. By contrast, your posted version looks very warm, yellow to almost where the darker greens have muddied and almost up to Velvia type saturation -- your log jam is red-orange and not wet-wood brown...
That said, I respect that WB and saturation are matters of taste. And FTR I usually prefer a touch warm and a touch saturated myself, so would add maybe 400K temp and 1 point of tint (in C1 terms) and leave saturation as-is to Graham's version if it were mine.
Well, the poster of the second image was doing exactly that when he posted it and critiqued Graham's choice of WB ... so comparing them is completely fair. While Graham's might be a little cooler than I might choose, the second one is far too warm to me, in contrast to the opinion of the poster (sorry, don't know the name since there is no signature in the post). I feel Graham's tones capture the mood of the location (i've been there and have images from a couple of decades ago), as I mentioned the tones getting cooler as you get down deep in the image.I actually don't think it is fair to compare these two images on the basis of color balance:
Actually, I wasn't "comparing." As prefaced by my comment, "for the hell of it." I was simply posting a similar image I'd taken. While the two are obviously comparable, I wasn't intentionally saying, "Mine's right, yours is wrong." So, yeah, we can possibly move on from this nonsensical line of dialog.Well, the poster of the second image was doing exactly that when he posted it and critiqued Graham's choice of WB ... so comparing them is completely fair. While Graham's might be a little cooler than I might choose, the second one is far too warm to me, in contrast to the opinion of the poster (sorry, don't know the name since there is no signature in the post). I feel Graham's tones capture the mood of the location (i've been there and have images from a couple of decades ago), as I mentioned the tones getting cooler as you get down deep in the illymage.
That doesn't make the second one wrong ... I just disagree with the critique.