What does this need? (Page 2): :sm02: :sm02: :sm02: Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing any small pleasure craft during that cruise. George...

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

Buildrt wrote:

A sail boat

Come to think of it, I don't recall seeing any small pleasure craft during that cruise.

George

mvetrano2 Loc: Commack, NY

After the dehazing, I would try to brighten the exposure to make it a bit brighter, and nothonng further. Don't over post process the photo.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

It looks flat to me. My suggestion is to forget the histogram and process it the way you like it to look. Most of my better photos, the ones I have pointed well with in contests, have skewed histograms. To me, so-called “perfect” histograms are grossly over-rated.

Bayou

jaymatt wrote:

It looks flat to me. My suggestion is to forget the histogram and process it the way you like it to look. Most of my better photos, the ones I have pointed well with in contests, have skewed histograms. To me, so-called “perfect” histograms are grossly over-rated.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

kpmac wrote:

Looks like it needs haze reduction.

I agree.

Stan

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

Have you tried the clarity slider? I don't know if it's available in the program you're using. I find it does a lot of good in such scenes when combined judiciously with contrast. I had a similar shot that I really liked, but I had to do a lot of work on it dodging and burning sections to make it look like I saw it. It's a nice shot, by the way.

Abo

gmontjr2350 wrote:

According to IrfanView, the histogram shows a properly exposed photograph.
I suspect Contrast is an issue, as well as the shadows needing a lift.
Am I on the right track? I don't want to keep using Auto-Adjust.

BTW, this is a shot taken from a cruise ship in Alaskan waters.

Thanks!
George

Sensational subject... I can see what compelled you to shoot.

Framing... ie pointing the camera in the right direction. You needed to point the camera up more...
(and use the extra -50mm at the wider end of your lens) so where the sky meets the mountains was 1/3 from the bottom of the frame, not the water as you have it... because the large flat expanse of water is "repetitive" (boring).
To achieve that I "stretched" the sky vertically and cropped the foreground water.

Others suggested dehazing which is the exact opposite of what your image needs!
Haze produces depth, particularly when you have mountains behind mountains.
What needed to be done was adjustment of light levels so that each depth
(of the mountains in the distance) can be defined... giving the image a 3D appearance.
I did that by decreasing contrast, increasing local contrast and slightly decreasing saturation.

Another small matter... your camera was unlevel when you took the shot by about .98 of a degree
which is enough to repel a viewer. so I straightened that.

Go to full screen with the "F11" button if you are not already there and hit download to see the result.

(Download)

Nalu Loc: Southern Arizona

cahale wrote:

After PP. Dehaze, sharpen, adjust color levels. All done with Elements and peripherals. Lowering ISO and slowing shutter speed would have helped.

Way too blue for my taste.

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

Abo wrote:

Sensational subject... I can see what compelled yo... (show quote)

That's what I'm looking for!
Thank you! I have a bunch of similar scenes to work on. Now I have a plan.

George

gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ

AzPicLady wrote:

Have you tried the clarity slider? I don't know if it's available in the program you're using. I find it does a lot of good in such scenes when combined judiciously with contrast. I had a similar shot that I really liked, but I had to do a lot of work on it dodging and burning sections to make it look like I saw it. It's a nice shot, by the way.

Thank you for taking the time to offer some advice!

George

Abo

gmontjr2350 wrote:

That's what I'm looking for!
Thank you! I have a bunch of similar scenes to work on. Now I have a plan.

George

You're welcome.

Alan

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

That third version is WAY to overcooked for my taste! I think some contrast and some color balance away from blue is the key...gently grasshopper!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

gmontjr2350 wrote:

According to IrfanView, the histogram shows a properly exposed photograph.
I suspect Contrast is an issue, as well as the shadows needing a lift.
Am I on the right track? I don't want to keep using Auto-Adjust.

BTW, this is a shot taken from a cruise ship in Alaskan waters.

Thanks!
George

Its just a low contrast kind of day, easily adjusted in PS. A uv filter will do nothing!!

tpelczy

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dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I see the alterations others have made and I like them but what the photo really needs in my opinion is a point of interest. Yes it is a lovely lake but is that it? There are many lovely lakes out there, hundreds of thousands of them in fact. But if there was a sailboat on the lake, a deer or moose at the edge of the water, ducks on the water or just landing, something else to look at besides the lake it would be a much better photograph.

Dennis