Old Riverside Snake Rail Fence

PixelRabbit · May 8, 2013

Took this shot today for about the bazillionth time, I've tried and tried to shoot the river out front but I can't seem to get it right. Today the sky and light was yummy with small storms rolling through and I took this one. It was close so I tonemapped it a bit and I'm pretty happy with it.
Would love to hear your thoughts, before I edit a couple more, thanks for taking a look!

Steve5D · May 8, 2013

Get rid of the bridge in the background and maybe sharpen it a hair and this'll be real nice...

PixelRabbit · May 8, 2013

Haha thanks Steve, and I tried so hard to get that bridge lined up ! I'll take a look and see if I have anything that eliminates/minimizes the bridge for the next edits.

Steve5D · May 8, 2013

PixelRabbit said:
I'll take a look and see if I have anything that eliminates/minimizes the bridge for the next edits.

I've always found the clone tool to be rather handy in such situations...

PixelRabbit · May 8, 2013

Steve5D said:
I've always found the clone tool to be rather handy in such situations...

Well what a novel idea! I'll try that

PixelRabbit · May 8, 2013

Ok Steve, no bridge! I think it leaves the focus on the fence and no longer draws the eye up away from it

Thoughts?

squirrels · May 8, 2013

I have to say, I like it without the bridge. Makes me want to sit there in the grass with a good book. My eye is still drawn down (or upstream) and away from the fence, but I can't tell if it's because I knew you'd done some clever cloning there. I like the tonemapping a lot.

Light Guru · May 8, 2013

Not a vary good cloning job, but that aside the image just looked over cooked, tone back your processing.

And maybe try it as a B&W

Rick50 · May 8, 2013

I like the tonemapping too. Plus it's just a great scene. Good one!

manaheim · May 8, 2013

The colors and textures are decadent. Is this a HDR?

PixelRabbit · May 9, 2013

squirrels said:
I have to say, I like it without the bridge. Makes me want to sit there in the grass with a good book. My eye is still drawn down (or upstream) and away from the fence, but I can't tell if it's because I knew you'd done some clever cloning there. I like the tonemapping a lot.

Thanks Squirrels

Yes my eye still goes there but I'm not a good measure, I really expect to see a bridge and get caught there looking for it since I'm so familiar with the spot lol

Light Guru said:
Not a vary good cloning job, but that aside the image just looked over cooked, tone back your processing.

And maybe try it as a B&W

Hey Light Guru, thanks for your thoughts, I was going to gasp and be offended that you picked on my cloning job..... until I zoomed wayyy in on it lol I should have zoomed in closer to do it or something since I apparently can't see it well enough to judge without lol. Now... the cooking I will defend a bit here, admittedly this is only my second tonemap but my personal taste tends to lean towards the more conservative end of HDR and this isn't making me go ugh too much ... or wow that's definitely HDR! I might feel differently as I learn more but as of now I have to respectfully say I think it was cooked juuuuust about enough

As for B&W I really like the idea and tried it on a couple in this set that I'm still working on, there is definite promise!

Rick50 said:
I like the tonemapping too. Plus it's just a great scene. Good one!

Thanks Rick

manaheim said:
The colors and textures are decadent. Is this a HDR?

Hey C

It's tonemapped

squirrels · May 9, 2013

Plus you cloned out one of your exits, and I know how important that can be for a rabbit! :lmao:

EIngerson · May 9, 2013

I like it. The bridge being removed did work a bit better. I wonder what it would look like with your camera lower so you could see the water line through the gap below the angled log?

PixelRabbit · May 9, 2013

squirrels said:
Plus you cloned out one of your exits, and I know how important that can be for a rabbit! :lmao:

True! it kinda makes me twitch a bit looking at it

lol

EIngerson said:
I like it. The bridge being removed did work a bit better. I wonder what it would look like with your camera lower so you could see the water line through the gap below the angled log?

Thanks Eric

I'm going to play around with the angles a bit on another good sky day, I was already laying on the ground to take this and I'm curious what I can get with carefully placed log to cover the bridge

Light Guru · May 9, 2013

PixelRabbit said:
Hey Light Guru, thanks for your thoughts, I was going to gasp and be offended that you picked on my cloning job..... until I zoomed wayyy in on it

No need to zoom WAY in there are obvious cloning lines that are easy to see on the right portion you removed. Its easily seen just in the web posting without zooming in.

PixelRabbit said:
Now... the cooking I will defend a bit here, admittedly this is only my second tonemap but my personal taste tends to lean towards the more conservative end of HDR and this isn't making me go ugh too much ... or wow that's definitely HDR! I might feel differently as I learn more but as of now I have to respectfully say I think it was cooked juuuuust about enough

But it DOES look obviously HDR. In fact I don't even think the scene had enough dynamic range even need to do an HDR. When you were metering he scene how may stops different were the shadows and the highlights?