It's good to see photographs of people. It's an area where photography excels!
Look through the window...
I always make a duplicate of the original file before I start messing with it no matter what software I use. Photoshop allows you to make changes before you apply them. You can do this progressively as you go, checking with the original or last saved iteration. This keeps the original and/or saved file intact until you apply the changes.
Check me on this but I believe Affinity Photo also allows non destructive editing.
The photos are good, but I'm not excited about the HDR effects.
This is better. I wouldn't do the dehaze filter. It makes the clouds unnaturally yellow.
To me there is more to be done to this photo. But that has to be your job. Also I would start from the original. The photo you showed initially looks like a lot of work has already been done to it -- e.g. too much saturation.
Please bear in mind that these are just suggestions. We cannot be authorities on any work of art except our own.
Good luck.
IMHO darkening the image by one or two stops would be an immediate improvement. I don't know the software you're using however. I do everything in Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Your image also has an odd greenish yellow caste to it -- also easy to fix.
In virtually every recent version of photoshop there are options for converting color to b & w. These options/filters mimic what b & w filters do. Plus there are red, yellow, green, cyan, blue & magenta sliders which you can also use. Usually the yellow and red sliders have the most impact on a b/w conversion.
Since the horse has a lot of red in it and the sky and mountains are mostly blue, you could have made the horse a little lighter and the background a little darker. This would have set the horse apart from the background a little more. Having said all this, your personal interpretation of the conversion is what counts most -- not necessarily some guy who you don't know, passing on technical information which may or may not be useful.
Try shift command 5. It gives you all kinds of options
The answer is 8. It's the only number not mentioned in the sequence from 1 to 9.
1st and 5th images are cell phone.
2nd image is film
3rd & 4th images are high resolution
It's never been about the equipment. It's always been about the photographer.
greymule wrote:
Tour with Navajo Guide was well worth the $$. Started late afternoon, finished at dusk.
Better than average sky replacement or HDR..
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! I wouldn't want to take a lie detector test.
I have mild nystagmus. I have enough problems with people not understanding (in a negative way) about the eye movement. An eye based lie detector would be a disaster for me.