I like the shot. I think I prefer the original, the color is very good. The sepia is nice, but I wonder if a cooler tone would suit the picture better. I definitely prefer the original orientation, and it took me a minute to figure out why -- I think it's because the water flow maintains the natural z-path that the eye wants to follow when moving through a page.
I like the original color shot better than the sepia ones. I think it is possible that I just don't like sepia treatments, in general... Of the sepia shots, though, I think the one with higher contrast is much more interesting. The flipping doesn't matter to me.
I really like how the water looks, the way it is kind of licking the shore... Is that just how it looked, or did you do something to get that effect?
The original shot might be better if you could do something to get a bit more color differentiation... The greenery could be a little greener, maybe? I think the real problem is that the sky is so white -- I think this could have been a better shot with some blue in the sky, but I understand that you don't have control over that. :-)
Maybe the idea of going to b&w was to make the lack of color differentiation not matter (or matter less)? What does it look like in b&w without sepia?
I also like the original betterdrwexJanuary 10 2012, 17:12:21 UTC
My personal opinion on sepia-toning is that it's overdone and for little value. There's some value to photo-aging an object so that it looks like an old object, but generally aging a photo so that it looks like a photo... meh.
In the original I think the white balance is somewhat off. The sky appears quite bright and the foreground rock dark. I would probably cheat in some virtual fill light and damp the sky.
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I really like how the water looks, the way it is kind of licking the shore... Is that just how it looked, or did you do something to get that effect?
The original shot might be better if you could do something to get a bit more color differentiation... The greenery could be a little greener, maybe? I think the real problem is that the sky is so white -- I think this could have been a better shot with some blue in the sky, but I understand that you don't have control over that. :-)
Maybe the idea of going to b&w was to make the lack of color differentiation not matter (or matter less)? What does it look like in b&w without sepia?
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In the original I think the white balance is somewhat off. The sky appears quite bright and the foreground rock dark. I would probably cheat in some virtual fill light and damp the sky.
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