The old and the ancient (Page 2): Thank you abc. I think with the right sort of landscapes and the right sort of editing it's hard to go wrong. Flat lighting can be easily fixed in PP.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

abc1234 wrote:

You take such interesting pictures of such difficu... (show quote)

Thank you abc. I think with the right sort of landscapes and the right sort of editing it's hard to go wrong. Flat lighting can be easily fixed in PP.

In your edit I think you got the vividness just right by taking it up to the point where any more would have been too much. Knowing when to pull back is essential for getting that sort of pushing to work. I think that's one of the shot's problems - the gable needs something to make it stand out but the rest of the shot isn't so tolerant of the extra processing that the gable would need.

People photography would be a whole new ball game for me. I'd have to work on my people skills in a big way. For me landscapes are the easy option.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

jaymatt wrote:

I like it.

Thank you John.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

R.G. wrote:

I hadn't thought of going darker with the gable and darkening only some of it. It does seem to be a move in the right direction. I think you're right - the background to the right of the gable is bright and the background on the left is dark, so separate adjustments are required. Thanks for posting, Neil.

I didn't intend to only alter half the gable in the final - just showing the difference between the original and the altered. I'd make the whole gable the same. So many ways to look at things... Nothing is "right".

R.G. Loc: Scotland

neilds37 wrote:

I didn't intend to only alter half the gable in the final - just showing the difference between the original and the altered. I'd make the whole gable the same. So many ways to look at things... Nothing is "right".

Going dark is something I hadn't considered. If I re-work it I'll probably give it partly adjustments and partly cloning over the stony parts of the beach next to the gable.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

R.G. wrote:

In my quest for foreground elements I came across this gable end.

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RG this one doesn't seem to work for me. I feel like I am looking at two pictures at the same time. My eyes keep bouncing back and forth between the mountains and the gable. A crop can be made one focusing on the mountain. The other on the gable. I hope that makes sense to you

R.G. Loc: Scotland

NJFrank wrote:

RG this one doesn't seem to work for me. I feel like I am looking at two pictures at the same time. My eyes keep bouncing back and forth between the mountains and the gable. A crop can be made one focusing on the mountain. The other on the gable. I hope that makes sense to you

Thanks for commenting, NJ. One of the things that I liked about the scene was that the shape of the gable was echoed in some of the peaks of the mountains. Again that's something that was clearer to me when I viewed it first-hand. Maybe with a re-shoot with better light for the mountains and some of the gable outlined by the sky.......