My Image Your View: The Meier Farm
Feb 21, 2022 11:28:49 #
I took this a little over six years ago. This abandoned farm is about a mile away from where I live. This is the SOOC shot. You've got a lot to work with here.
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(Moderator comment - read the post below this one).
Feel free to download this image to your computer. Then you can edit it any way that you think is an improvement. Composites, black and white conversions, textures, sky swaps, inverted images, solarization, or whatever else you think will improve the photo are acceptable techniques for your edit. When you are finished, post your edit in this thread. Edits will be accepted until 9pm Eastern time on Thursday. No edits will be accepted after that time because we will begin voting then. Thank you for your efforts and your participation.
Feb 21, 2022 12:03:21 #
If you have uploaded the above image before this post, check the file size. The original image file was only 442 KB, but that has now been changed for one that's 1.36 MB.
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Feb 22, 2022 02:37:59 #
Thanks for this nice photo and a chance to edit it. Here is my view
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Feb 24, 2022 10:05:13 #
I actually worked on this. It looked a bit muddy to me, and nothing I knew to do would take that away. How does one do that? I upped the exposure and contrast and clarity, but it didn't do enough.
Feb 24, 2022 11:00:59 #
AzPicLady wrote:
....It looked a bit muddy to me, and nothing I knew to do would take that away. How does one do that?.....
The original was dark and you probably added quite a lot of exposure to it but it really needed more. The same is probably true of Contrast and Clarity. I think we have a tendency to be influenced by the starting point, and if it's dark we tend to underestimate how much lifting it needs. Likewise if the starting point is flat, soft, colourless or whatever.
It's a good sign that you underestimated in that way because it shows a reluctance to overdo things. However, restraint itself can be overdone and we can end up not pushing hard enough with an image that needs a lot of pushing. Sometimes I don't realise that I've fallen victim to that tendency until I see other people's edits or until I've walked away from the edit then come back to it. The annoying version is when you don't realise that's what's happened until after you've posted it
. Sometimes I need to push myself to push the edit.Feb 24, 2022 12:12:07 #
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