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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 121638" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>Everyone has their own takes on this so I will throw mine into the mix too. First off, I love the blurred water, it has a very etherial effect. In both there are areas which could stand to be cropped out, they do not really contribute to the image, except to draw your attention away from the waterfall. I cropped them out and I burned in some areas which still needed a little toning down. Personally I prefer prints with more <em>richness</em> in luminance, but that is just me. In some areas, the blurred water is blown out to the point where there is no longer any detail. There is not a lot you can do with it at that point, If there is no "data" there any more, you can't add to it. . In the first one there is that blown out area in the upper right corner so I cloned it out to match the rest of the rocks. With waterfall photos, especially if you are going to blur the water, it is best to try to town down foliage around it, especially if it has specular highlights, so as not to draw your attention away from the water. </p><p></p><p>And then for grins, I converted everything to grayscale. I disagree with Paul Simon in his song "Kodachrome", everything looks BETTER in black and white! The conversion to grayscale actually tones down some of the water areas where the tones are off the scale. I also brought the contrast down in the grayscale ones as well.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 121638, member: 12827"] Everyone has their own takes on this so I will throw mine into the mix too. First off, I love the blurred water, it has a very etherial effect. In both there are areas which could stand to be cropped out, they do not really contribute to the image, except to draw your attention away from the waterfall. I cropped them out and I burned in some areas which still needed a little toning down. Personally I prefer prints with more [I]richness[/I] in luminance, but that is just me. In some areas, the blurred water is blown out to the point where there is no longer any detail. There is not a lot you can do with it at that point, If there is no "data" there any more, you can't add to it. . In the first one there is that blown out area in the upper right corner so I cloned it out to match the rest of the rocks. With waterfall photos, especially if you are going to blur the water, it is best to try to town down foliage around it, especially if it has specular highlights, so as not to draw your attention away from the water. And then for grins, I converted everything to grayscale. I disagree with Paul Simon in his song "Kodachrome", everything looks BETTER in black and white! The conversion to grayscale actually tones down some of the water areas where the tones are off the scale. I also brought the contrast down in the grayscale ones as well. [IMG]http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/2.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://scottmurphyphotography.org/images/4.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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