Second try give me some ideas on what do different

Cody_2130 · Dec 1, 2011

Went for a walk the other day to find some cool stuff to shoot, after a quick edit this one turned out way better than I thought it would, let me know what you think!

marmots · Dec 1, 2011

over saturated

especially in the blues

Cody_2130 · Dec 1, 2011

How do I fix that? I am super new to this...

SCraig · Dec 1, 2011

1. It's oversaturated as noted above.

2. It's leaning slightly to the left (roughly 1.5 degrees)

3. It's so busy I'm not sure what the subject is.

marmots · Dec 1, 2011

it's a problem with post processing...
unless you used some kind of incredibly weird/bad camera

you added too much saturation with whatever you used to edit it is what im guessing

Dillard · Dec 1, 2011

The lake line REALLY cuts the picture in half, almost to much...
Also, the foreground (concrete?) wall is pretty distracting

Cody_2130 · Dec 1, 2011

Thanks guys, I really liked the way that wall looked but I can see how it would be distracting, as far as the color goes I did change that a good bit as it was very...gray out that day and I really wanted the leaves to pop out of the picture

photo guy · Dec 1, 2011

the concrete wall does nothing but distract I woulld have liked to see that lift bridge more.

MTVision · Dec 1, 2011

I just did a quick edit on your picture. What a beautiful area! If I were you I'd try to get a little bit closer to the bridge (or zoom in if you can). I think the image would look better without the trees in the foreground. I know you liked the colors of the leaves but it seems like there is a lot of that orange/red color in the background. The leaves in the top left frame look like they have absolutely no detail.

I cropped it to get rid of the foreground, then did a quick (horrible) job of cloning out the branches.....I played around with the colors a little bit.

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2. This is the same as above but I added some contrast

Let me know and I will take down my edits!!