usetobe

I posted this yesterday with 2 other pics and got 74 looks but no cc.

How is the pic? How is the post work...too much...not enough?

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

colors too bland, branch on the right is distracting, reflection is great. looks peacefull. nice photo. post more please.

usetobe

Is this any better? I don't know if the colors are any better, but the branch being gone helps.

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

It's a very peaceful looking place!
The colors are a little flat, and the edit could still be improved upon a little more in that respect (in my non-professional opinion).

Out of a sense of personal curiosity, I took the liberty of trying to tweak it myself. May I share the results here with you? It remains your photo of course... I was just curious if my thoughts would actually improve the photo any.

I did an auto adjust first with Picasa, then adusted the shadows a bit, then made a slight adjustment to saturation. To have sharpened it any would have been too much, however.

I ended with straightening it a bit.

Hope it doesn't look like crap when it gets here. *blush* Monitors DO have a tendency to display differently...

I really like the photo!

your original


tweaked

usetobe

I love what you did to the photo....I will try to see if I can get close to it.

PODM Loc: Central Coast of California

Hi there. I like your photo as it is a beautiful setting. I hope you don't mind but I also re-edited your photo using Photoshop Elements 9. First off I recropped to put it into the rules of thirds. Since you had more water and more emphasis on the reflection and the mist on the water, I cropped one thirds trees to two-thirds water. I then straightened it. Next, I warmed up the ambient light temperature because I the photo to me portrays the warm morning sunrise showing the mist on the water. Then I increased the color saturation to really make the photo pop. I hope you like it.

Before and After

call me rj

my tweak