EDITING CHALLENGE - My Image Your View: Oak Alley Plantation
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Jul 24, 2019 17:09:10 #
[quote=newriverpaddler]
A southern plantation needs horses and a magnolia tree so..........
A southern plantation needs horses and a magnolia tree so..........
Jul 24, 2019 21:08:32 #
Played with colors and other presets. Maybe the butterfly is looking for flowers or a mate. I needed something to follow the path.
Jul 24, 2019 21:18:34 #
Jul 25, 2019 01:00:52 #
nikonuser750
Loc: Monroe, LA
mwsilvers wrote:
I was going for a very lush green and somewhat oversaturated entrance path to the house. I cropped it a bit and removed the people because they were a distraction. I made separate adjustments to the grass, trees and the house itself. All done in DXO PhotoLab Elite. It doesn't support layers, but has flexible local adjustment features. My second image is significantly more cropped to make the house a more prominent element, and to better show the tangled tree branches.
It is a tough choice for me between your cropped one and R.G.'s. I've been there numerous times and it is definitely not south of New Orleans. I tend to think of it as north of New Orleans as you travel the River Road from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. However, if you look at the map, it is west of New Orleans.
There are a quite a few beautiful old plantations along the River Road and weddings are held at several. If you are along that way, another of my favorites is Knotaway just a little further up the road towards Baton Rouge.
Jul 25, 2019 07:11:52 #
newriverpaddler
Loc: West Virginia
Nikonuser 750, you have a mixed bag of replies so I will reply to mine. I stand corrected as to the location of Oak Alley Plantation, It is west of NO not south. We were staying in LaCombe so it seemed south.
Jul 25, 2019 12:20:16 #
This is on my bucket list! So it was fun.
I was struck by the structure of the trees and the walkway and wanted to bring them out a bit. So I took the highlights down, as well as the blacks. The green was a bit TOO..., so I took down the luminosity of both green and yellow. To make the walkway show up a bit more, I took the luminance down of the oranges. That's my first one. Once posted it looked too dark, so I went back and brightened it a bunch. That's the second one. Not really sure I like it any better!
I was struck by the structure of the trees and the walkway and wanted to bring them out a bit. So I took the highlights down, as well as the blacks. The green was a bit TOO..., so I took down the luminosity of both green and yellow. To make the walkway show up a bit more, I took the luminance down of the oranges. That's my first one. Once posted it looked too dark, so I went back and brightened it a bunch. That's the second one. Not really sure I like it any better!
Jul 25, 2019 12:32:50 #
Jul 25, 2019 17:03:03 #
donmikes
Loc: Doylestown, PA
Numerous edits, most important of which were cropping, adding person walking, and adding a bit of mist.
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