Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanks Ted for your comments, I will work on this and post it later, if I can do it successfully...Steve > Steve Barbour showed: > Subject: [Leica] tetons...the trees > > from a very recent trip... autumn in the tetons > > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-56826.html<<< > > Hi Steve, > Good one! But may I suggest a couple of things. Minor nit-picking. ;-) > > 1/ > I think a slight crop off the bottom to just take the lake? or river? off. > Just come into the land mass very slightly to clean the bottom off. It also > will give you a cleaner base line rather than the shore line against the > hills. > > I know this sounds a bit nit picking but I think because it's a slightly > lighter area at the bottom against the darkness of the rolling hills, it > actually takes away from the sunlit trees. Which by the way, was well worth > shooting as it once more points up the value of understanding and > appreciating light quality for a successful picture. > > 2. > Now this is something you'd have to play with slightly to see how effective > it might be. And that's to increase the contrast to make the sunlit trees > pop out more. Or possibly a slight burning in to just lift them away from > the mountains more so. > > But I'd play with the contrast to see what happens. Sometimes the screen > doesn't show the print at it's best quality. > > Other than that it's very well done and I could see it as a fine-art print > on the wall of office, home or gallery. :-) Good on you! :-) > ted. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html