Looking for critique: Taken with Phantom P4 on overcast day. I thought I'd solicit opinions from the professionals. I did some adjustments in LR and removed some items from the yard in...

Orangebird

Taken with Phantom P4 on overcast day. I thought I'd solicit opinions from the professionals. I did some adjustments in LR and removed some items from the yard in PS.

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mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Orangebird wrote:

Taken with Phantom P4 on overcast day. I thought I'd solicit opinions from the professionals. I did some adjustments in LR and removed some items from the yard in PS.

Please regenerate your JPG with the EXIF data and reattach to this thread so we have more info to work with. Could you also post the original image before you used LR and PS. Was all the foliage really so yellow or was that the result of your post processing?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

You probably should visit the white balance. Auto WB suggested -34 on the temp and -1 on the Tint in LR. That's too "cool" to my eye, but the temp should be adjusted in the -3 to -8 range. You might too add +5 to both the Clarity and Vibrance. Auto against the download suggested also adding +15 to the whites and -4 to the blacks. The relatively minor tweeks to the settings all combine to the finished image. You can toggle back n forth and assess the impact of each.

Joe Blow

mwsilvers wrote:

Please regenerate your JPG with the EXIF data and reattach to this thread so we have more info to work with. Was all the foliage really so yellow or was that the result of your post processing?

I would have thought the yellow was the trees new foliage.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

CHG_CANON wrote:

You probably should visit the white balance. Auto WB suggested -34 on the temp and -1 on the Tint in LR. That's too "cool" to my eye, but the temp should be adjusted in the -3 to -8 range. You might too add +5 to both the Clarity and Vibrance. Auto against the download suggested also adding +15 to the whites and -4 to the blacks. The relatively minor tweeks to the settings all combine to the finished image. You can toggle back n forth and assess the impact of each.

Definitely should address white balance and temp. Can you see all the EXIF data? I can't see any details.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

mwsilvers wrote:

Definitely should address white balance and temp. Can you see all the EXIF data? I can't see any details.

Nothing in LR, but I wasn't focused on the camera / lens where I assumed the "Phantom P4" is a drone. The WB and use of LR were the items that caught my attention.

anotherview Loc: California

Notice the unnatural appearance of the reflected sky in your offered image. The eye expects a value closer to blue in the sky, achieved mostly by moving away from red toward cyan in this area.

I did minimal adjustment of your image in ACR. In the full Photoshop, I called up the Color Balance panel (Ctrl key + B key). There, I moved the Cyan-Red slider more to the cyan side, until the sky looked more blue. I did not use the other sliders to bring balance to other areas.

The eye will detect this blue area as a reference for the perception to adjust the visual sense of the whole image.

I note the presence of over-much magenta in the image. You can adjust for it in the Color Balance panel.

Let me avoid a longish comment by ending with the observation that nearly every landscape photograph requires adjustment to its color balance. Learn the use of the Color Balance panel for more natural and visually pleasing photographs. Your eye has to tell you when your image reaches this appeal in its rendition.

Orangebird wrote:

Taken with Phantom P4 on overcast day. I thought I'd solicit opinions from the professionals. I did some adjustments in LR and removed some items from the yard in PS.

Color Balance adjusted for sky

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Orangebird wrote:

Taken with Phantom P4 on overcast day. I thought I'd solicit opinions from the professionals. I did some adjustments in LR and removed some items from the yard in PS.

Very bizarre color balance... Do you white balance? Use a hardware calibrator and ICC profiling software?

Orangebird

It was actually a still taken from the video roll. That photo was forever changed but the color is definatly off on my adjusted picture. Stay tuned for corrections.

mwsilvers wrote:

Please regenerate your JPG with the EXIF data and reattach to this thread so we have more info to work with. Could you also post the original image before you used LR and PS. Was all the foliage really so yellow or was that the result of your post processing?

Orangebird

thanks all for the feedback. I will make some changes to WB and repost

Orangebird

Well I found the original, top photo I adjusted the Hue/Saturation layer in PS and took most the yellow out. I like it to have vibrant colors.

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anotherview Loc: California

Yes, calibrating the monitor can help with truing up colors when editing a photograph. Yes, Auto White Balance can bring color balance close.

I've found that landscape photographs typically need attention to color balance done to eye. I do this edit near the end of the editing process.

burkphoto wrote:

Very bizarre color balance... Do you white balance? Use a hardware calibrator and ICC profiling software?

Photowiz

Over processed.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Multiply it to darken it.