Arches National Park

ReInvented2012 · Apr 9, 2015

I have so many pictures from traveling and I am finally taking the time to learn editing (on my own). Any tips and feedback is welcomed.

480sparky · Apr 9, 2015

Ya got some very serious CA goin' on there.

BrickHouse · Apr 10, 2015

Nice shot! I would definitely knock down that CA as much as possible though. What a place! I'd love to get the chance to explore that area.

JimMcClain · Apr 10, 2015

I always find it difficult to provide feedback when there is no information about the picture - camera, settings, lens, etc. - and how it was processed (since you mentioned processing specifically). The picture has potential.

funwitha7d · Apr 10, 2015

no expert but like the composition but would have perhaps cropped to feature the 2 main rock formations, remove a little off the left, its such an amazing place, never been but wow what an outlook

Mark Upfield · Apr 10, 2015

More than happy to have a play with this image if you want to send me the raw via e-mail and can talk you through what I have done fully free of charge, pop me a message if you want me to

ReInvented2012 · Apr 10, 2015

JimMcClain said:
I always find it difficult to provide feedback when there is no information about the picture - camera, settings, lens, etc. - and how it was processed (since you mentioned processing specifically). The picture has potential.

The camera and lens I use is in my signature. The picture was taken at sunset. It was taken so long ago I dont know what the settings were and I am not sure if there is a way to find that out. I used PS to process and just adjusted settings such as Hue/Saturation, Vibrancy, Exposure, Shadows/Highlights, etc. I didnt add layers or anything, I am not that far along in PS yet, but working on it. Thanks.

waday · Apr 10, 2015

Like others said, agree with the chromatic aberration.

IMO, I'd change the composition a bit. I'd crop out the rock formations on the very left, and just keep the two main ones in the shot. This would also take out that cloud, which I find pulls the eye a bit too much.

ReInvented2012 · Apr 13, 2015

waday said:
Like others said, agree with the chromatic aberration.

IMO, I'd change the composition a bit. I'd crop out the rock formations on the very left, and just keep the two main ones in the shot. This would also take out that cloud, which I find pulls the eye a bit too much.

Took out as much CA as I know how at this point and changed the composition. Thanks for the help, I think it looks better.

fjrabon · Apr 13, 2015

I think this is definitely a shot that would have looked better with some non-tonemapped HDR. You got some pretty serious banding around the blown out sun. With HDR you would have gotten a much smoother highlight compression like you get with film.

MikeFlorendo · Apr 13, 2015

I would allow people to do edits if you want advice on post processing. I might have dropped a GND filter in camera RAW to soften the sky. Again if I could do edits I would know better how to advise you on what I feel how I would post process.