Ponte Vecchio

[Eduard]

Snowy and icy day here in Philly is a great time to go back and re-process old images. I went back and re-worked this image of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence (or Firenze as my Italian friends would say) made during a trip in 2009. I literally took this by hanging my camera out of a window in the Uffizi Gallery. This was one of those images that I was unhappy with after post processing with either LR2 or LR3 at the time. Since LR4 does a better job of adjusting shadows, I thought I would give it a try. I've gone back and forth with adjusting the foreground - is the river too bright?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

The river looks pretty good. Could be a shade darker, maybe? Hard to tell. The only thing I would like to see it a little more detail in the building across the river. Not sure if you can pull any more out of it though.

 

[Eduard]

Don, you're right about the detail. Looking at the EXIF, I should have shot it at f/8 and maybe bumped the ISO. As I described, I leaned out of a window to take the shot and really didn't have time to adjust the camera settings. Of course I was asked not to do that by security.

 

[ohkphoto]

I leaned out of a window to take the shot

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Be careful how you lean . . . remember David du Chemin's experience "leaning" over a bridge in Venice?

I, too, would like to see a little more light on the buildings on the other side of the river. For me, the sky is almost too bright. I love the composition and the light on the water. I wonder if you can saturate the sky a little more?

 

[Eduard]

I, too, would like to see a little more light on the buildings on the other side of the river. For me, the sky is almost too bright. I love the composition and the light on the water. I wonder if you can saturate the sky a little more?

Thanks for the feedback. . . made a quick mod with Viveza. Is this more along the line to what you were thinking?

 

[ohkphoto]

I like this version, Eduard. The rosy glow on the sky makes the whole scene warmer and more inviting. Nice work.

 

[Eduard]

Thanks Helene. That Viveza is a great addition to the toolkit. I hope that now that Google owns Nik that the development continues. The recent announcement regarding the end of development of the desktop version of Snapseed concerns me.

 

[ohkphoto]

I hope that now that Google owns Nik that the development continues. The recent announcement regarding the end of development of the desktop version of Snapseed concerns me.

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Me, too. I love their products and hope they continue with the winners they have. But just in case they don't, I recently purchased the Topaz photo bundle.