Killarney lakes C&C

Gozo

Hi,

Long time lurker, posted a few comments but never posted any images, so here it goes.

some shot from a trip to Killarney in November

C&C appreciated

Thanks,

Pivot_Al

I think they are both nice shots Gozo- I think the light is better in the first. Think you could crop a little from the sky which would tighten the shot-maybe a little more contrast - lovely part of the world.

ThOnda

I prefer the tonal and colour range of the second one.

AnCatDubh

The colour in the frst is quite nice - the sun picking the colour of the reeds gives a nice contrast to the grey / dull sky. I like the reflections of the second one and the muted tones. The first suffers a little from burn out which can be difficult. How did you meter? It is a difficult thing to do because of the differences in the lighting in the scene. Have a read over here - theres a whole thread dedicated to it. Some great information in there.

Lagnagoushee

I like the balance and natural colour of the second shot.

MartMax

Love the 2nd one - composition and natural colour of it! Especially the reflection on the water...

kjt

Hey Gozo,
Keep on posting up your images! Good pictures for your first batch.

Have you done much to the images in photoshop or anything similar?

I think a tighter crop on both images would make them better, theirs far too much sky in them. If it was an amazing sky with lovely clouds, lots of blue, it might work but seen as it's just grey/white non-detailed sky I think it takes away from the rest of the image. Here's a quick little tweak of the first shot, I hope you don't mind.



Also, you have a few dust specs on your sensor. These threads may help, here, here, here, here and here.

EDIT: just realised I jumped into saying it was your sensor... they could as easily just be your lens. No need to jump the gun.

Gozo

Hi,

thanks for the replies and feedback, appreciate it

regarding the metering, the first is spot metered on the bright area of the reeds and the second spot metered on the dark area of clouds.

There was no clipping in the second photo, i tried increasing the saturation to brighten the reeds and trees as they are quite dull however i decided to revert as this brightened the clouds which i did not want. the dark clouds and reflection in the water was what i was trying to capture.

in the first photo the sky was blown out over in the left, in aperture i used the recovery slider which helped a lot but its all i could get back and there is still loss of detail. ideally i should have used a greaduated filter but didnt have them with me.

kjt, was your change a saturation increase or did you do something else?

good comments about the sky, for the first i could take some away from the top and the second could probably take some from the top and the bottom to try and retain the balance of the reflection

kjt

Gozo wrote: »

Hi,

kjt, was your change a saturation increase or did you do something else?

I added two curves layers, one to darken the sky and one to lighten the foreground. Both using layer masks. Then I adjusted the levels slightly just to brighten the image a tiny amount