Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Learning
Photo Evaluation
Photo Feedback
Working Dogs At Play
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Pierro" data-source="post: 66776" data-attributes="member: 8517"><p>Anything with dogs gets my attention, cos i'm a 110% dog lover, and member/supporter of a UK nationwide stray/rescue home, so this snap is appealing.</p><p></p><p>1) Personally I would have place the dogs a little more to our right in the frame, as 2 of them are looking to our left, and a little space in that direction would be a tad better i reckon. If they were all looking at the camera then for me it wouldnt matter about them being central.</p><p></p><p>2) The saturation looks a tad overdone, not by much though.</p><p></p><p>3) The yellow Labs are almost blown out on their chests and lack detail, but when i ran this through Adobe CS5, it was clear that the detail wasnt really lost. To be fair, such light coloured subjects surrounded by darker ( water, foliage etc ) is not easy to get right, and as you say you took this a few years ago when you were starting out, so i think you did very well to control it to the level seen</p><p></p><p>If its any help to you, here's couple of tweaks i made in CS5, purely to illsustrate what i meant much better than words on the screen. I tried negative on the exposure, but it lost too much pop, and flattened everything so next i tried the gamma adjustment, and this brought the detail out very nicely in the Labs chest, ( which is why mentioned before that those areas on their chests were not actually blown ).</p><p></p><p>But the gamma increased saturation, so did a minor desat, mainly for the grass / reeds which ended up way too yellowy/green, and that brought them back to reality, but then the Gingery/Golden dog lost some of his lovely colour, so i upped the red channel in the Hue layer a smidge. The all over desat didnt destroy the blues in the water, which i assume was reflection from the sky, guessing it was a lovely sunny day. Not something we're known for over here ! So i didnt need to increase the blues channel back.</p><p></p><p>I may have used ISO 400 for a slightly faster SS, to counter any possible shake. AP would have been what I used too, for DOF control</p><p></p><p>This is just my interpretation, and is not gospel by any means, but if its helped ...</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i49.tinypic.com/307mcm8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pierro, post: 66776, member: 8517"] Anything with dogs gets my attention, cos i'm a 110% dog lover, and member/supporter of a UK nationwide stray/rescue home, so this snap is appealing. 1) Personally I would have place the dogs a little more to our right in the frame, as 2 of them are looking to our left, and a little space in that direction would be a tad better i reckon. If they were all looking at the camera then for me it wouldnt matter about them being central. 2) The saturation looks a tad overdone, not by much though. 3) The yellow Labs are almost blown out on their chests and lack detail, but when i ran this through Adobe CS5, it was clear that the detail wasnt really lost. To be fair, such light coloured subjects surrounded by darker ( water, foliage etc ) is not easy to get right, and as you say you took this a few years ago when you were starting out, so i think you did very well to control it to the level seen If its any help to you, here's couple of tweaks i made in CS5, purely to illsustrate what i meant much better than words on the screen. I tried negative on the exposure, but it lost too much pop, and flattened everything so next i tried the gamma adjustment, and this brought the detail out very nicely in the Labs chest, ( which is why mentioned before that those areas on their chests were not actually blown ). But the gamma increased saturation, so did a minor desat, mainly for the grass / reeds which ended up way too yellowy/green, and that brought them back to reality, but then the Gingery/Golden dog lost some of his lovely colour, so i upped the red channel in the Hue layer a smidge. The all over desat didnt destroy the blues in the water, which i assume was reflection from the sky, guessing it was a lovely sunny day. Not something we're known for over here ! So i didnt need to increase the blues channel back. I may have used ISO 400 for a slightly faster SS, to counter any possible shake. AP would have been what I used too, for DOF control This is just my interpretation, and is not gospel by any means, but if its helped ... [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/307mcm8.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Learning
Photo Evaluation
Photo Feedback
Working Dogs At Play
Top
