An Open Invitation - Color Version

[ceeboy14]

This is also posted in the B&W Gallery. I am looking for preferences.

 

[salalone]

i prefer the color. having said that, the neon green grass is a little distracting. can you darken or change the hue of that bit?

 

[cgipson1]

I like the color better also... more definiition. But yes, back off on the saturation or HDR or whatever you did...

 

[ceeboy14]

Hmmmm. I rarely do HDR and didn't so it on this image, and I did actually desaturate a bit at the end of the processing. It does look much better as a large .tiff file. Neon grass...that I can dim considerably...thanks for the head's up on that. I'll check on the color in a few. I think what is showing is the extra SEP2 layer I tossed in so I could get better definition between the lighter and darker tress..may have to go back in and back that down a bit. Good observation, too. You guys are too good...

 

[Rick58]

Hey Ceeboy, you don't need yet another person telling you there's something going on with the processing. Can you post one SOOTC

 

[flow]

I like the color version better. B&W looked darker, less inviting than this one.

 

[deeky]

I also like the color version better. I didn't terribly mind the brighter grass at the bottom. The whole image in color is somewhat surreal to me, and I think the brighter grass matches that ok.

 

[unpopular]

If you're having trouble with saturation and odd colors in HDR, one thing you can do is take the "best" exposure from the bracket (or the original unprocessed version if a tonemapped raw) and apply it to the HDR version in "color" mode, this will retain the tonality of the HDR-processed image but maintain natural color.

 

[ceeboy14]

NO HDR...non, none, not a bit... the area I live in produces a lot of strangulated forest areas with lots of greys, moss greens and almost bluish tones...here is the SOOC image. If anything, I probably took my initial curve adjustment up a bit too much. I am working to correct that now. The trick is to get good separation from front to back and from light to dark...I guess that is true of any shot.