Not A Car!

[dandaluzphotography]

I was at a botanical garden in NJ and caught this. Thoughts?

Thanks,
Danny

 

[KongKurs]

Nice colors!

I think the treetops against the sunlight catches quite a bit chromatic aberration.. Easily corrected in Lightroom 4, try it out!
If I shot this, I maybe would have added a bit of vignetting and blur around the edges, just to direct focus towards the flowers and the "gate" in the middle..

 

[dandaluzphotography]

Thanks for the feedback. I didn't notice the CA. I'll try the vignetting to see how it looks and repost.

Danny

 

[KongKurs]

Thanks for the feedback. I didn't notice the CA. I'll try the vignetting to see how it looks and repost.

Danny

My Tokina wide angle lens aberrates pretty much, so I really see it everywhere now

 

[vipgraphx]

Greens are a little bright electric. I would adjust those. You have a few blown spots in the sky and the rock steps/pathway has a blue hue to it. The sun looks like could use some warmth (yellow) its bright white. Underneath the greenery there is that structure and it has a magenta hue in the dark areas.

Composition I would have got more of the bath leading you into the picture.

Looks like a cool place to shoot.

here is an edit I did so you can see the difference.

First I started out by removing the CA in the sky and leaves. Very simple use your selection tool in photoshop and select the area. Then go to image/adjustment/hue and saturation. Select the magenta in the drop down menu and drag the saturation to the left and also the slider that says lightness. ITs gone. Then I adjusted the greens by using a hue and saturation layer and selceted the greens.. Next I duplicated layer and added some warmth with a selective color layer. I adjusted the reds and yellows. I made that layer a mask and then brought back the back in the original yellow for the flowers. then flattened. Next duplicated layer and selected the area beneath the leaves of that structure and went to image/adjustment/hue and saturation and adjusted the blues and magenta colors. Flattend. Next I worked on the steps and created a selective color layer and moved adjusted the white and blue so the steps got that blue hue out of there. Using nik color effex I selected brilliance and warmth and a tiny glow to give it a little more warmth. Flaten layers. Next created a selective color layer and adjusted the neutral and black colors and flattened and saved.

I used photobucket which makes the image a little less sharp. Original file is sharp. I do not like to use flickr and mix in with my photos when adjusting others photos.


I trust that this helps!

CHeers

 

[Bynx]

Much better. Try using tinypic.com

 

[dandaluzphotography]

Greens are a little bright electric. I would adjust those. You have a few blown spots in the sky and the rock steps/pathway has a blue hue to it. The sun looks like could use some warmth (yellow) its bright white. Underneath the greenery there is that structure and it has a magenta hue in the dark areas.

Composition I would have got more of the bath leading you into the picture.

Looks like a cool place to shoot.

here is an edit I did so you can see the difference.

First I started out by removing the CA in the sky and leaves. Very simple use your selection tool in photoshop and select the area. Then go to image/adjustment/hue and saturation. Select the magenta in the drop down menu and drag the saturation to the left and also the slider that says lightness. ITs gone. Then I adjusted the greens by using a hue and saturation layer and selceted the greens.. Next I duplicated layer and added some warmth with a selective color layer. I adjusted the reds and yellows. I made that layer a mask and then brought back the back in the original yellow for the flowers. then flattened. Next duplicated layer and selected the area beneath the leaves of that structure and went to image/adjustment/hue and saturation and adjusted the blues and magenta colors. Flattend. Next I worked on the steps and created a selective color layer and moved adjusted the white and blue so the steps got that blue hue out of there. Using nik color effex I selected brilliance and warmth and a tiny glow to give it a little more warmth. Flaten layers. Next created a selective color layer and adjusted the neutral and black colors and flattened and saved.

I used photobucket which makes the image a little less sharp. Original file is sharp. I do not like to use flickr and mix in with my photos when adjusting others photos.


I trust that this helps!

CHeers

Hey Vip. Thanks a lot for taking the time to go through all those steps. I'll definitely remember these when I process the next image!

Danny