La Charca lake

[PhotoShootGC]

hello

Long time No speak!

I am having some problems with this photo, i cant get it good enough for my liking... the shot was spontaneus as i was walking with my clients to some other shoot location So it

was handheld with Av mode on. Can you show me some interesting technique of editing?

Link to raw file
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/8f03e75ce998a3abe7b90989dfae300020190125154451/3932c5

Preview jpg

 

[JimFox]

Hey Michal, you have been missed! It's great to have you come back.

I am on the road, but I will check this out a little later and give you some suggestions.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I have an appointment, but will check this out when I get home.

 

[PhotoShootGC]

Thanks guys! I will upload soon some of my new fresh work

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is a quick edit using the RAW.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is a landscape with birds, the birds are too small for it to be about the birds. I rotated it to make it appear less tilted. I set the white and black point then ran Topaz exposure and then topaz Studio color and contrast boost. Sharpened slightly and saved. I think its a very nice image of this wetlands.

 

[AlanLichty]

I like your color balance and the straightening job Ben. This feels much nicer. My only nit is the greenish cast to the sky reflection right at the bottom of the scene. Maybe a graduated filter coming up from the bottom to tweak the color temp/tint could pull that over towards blue a bit more. I'd try this myself but I can't trust the monitor I am using right now while my primary computer is being repaired.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hi Alan, I see a brownish cast in all of these, I could dork on that.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is an update with the brownish/green cast removed from the lower left.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Here's my go at it.
Cropped, basic adjustments (brought down the highlights to avoid clipping in the clouds on the right), increased contrast, adjusted HSL color, and add a "s" curve.

 

[PhotoShootGC]

Thanks guys. I think this picture isnt really a colour once the colours seem so dull, the land lacks some Green scenery.

I could never find a good one for me i colour, here the closest one i like the most is Bens version. Although my top favourite is my version but its In black and white

Take a peak

Its from a different shot but taken 1 minute after. So everyhting is the same such as exposure and colours.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here's my go at it.
Cropped, basic adjustments (brought down the highlights to avoid clipping in the clouds on the right), increased contrast, adjusted HSL color, and add a "s" curve.
View attachment 15838

Nicely done Amy,

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks guys. I think this picture isnt really a colour once the colours seem so dull, the land lacks some Green scenery.

I could never find a good one for me i colour, here the closest one i like the most is Bens version. Although my top favourite is my version but its In black and white

Take a peak

Its from a different shot but taken 1 minute after. So everyhting is the same such as exposure and colours.

Very good in B&W. This is a natural for this image.

 

[AlanLichty]

I got my computer back so decided to give this a shot. I straightened the scene out a bit and did some cropping to focus on the good stuff in the scene. I worked the skies to get a workable blue and then used a brush in Lightroom to add a bit more clarity to the face of the mountains behind the lake and some of the vegetation on the far side. I used Precision Contrast and AI Clear in Topaz Studio in Photoshop before changing the size and color profile for the JPEG.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice job Alan, you did much better at removing or avoiding that color cast.

 

[AlanLichty]

Tossing in one more edit with a far more extreme crop to emphasize the diving egret and the heron up front.

 

[JimFox]

Here is a quick edit using the RAW.

View attachment 15820

Very cool Jameel, I like your take.

 

[JimFox]

Tossing in one more edit with a far more extreme crop to emphasize the diving egret and the heron up front.

View attachment 15844

Good one Alan, I had been considering a similar crop.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks guys. I think this picture isnt really a colour once the colours seem so dull, the land lacks some Green scenery.

I could never find a good one for me i colour, here the closest one i like the most is Bens version. Although my top favourite is my version but its In black and white

Take a peak

Its from a different shot but taken 1 minute after. So everyhting is the same such as exposure and colours.

I like this Michal. And it's funny I hadn't checked in here since your adding this so I had no idea you had gone the B&W route, so I will post mine and you will see a similarity.

 

[JimFox]

Here are mine. I actually had two, with one of them being an even more radical crop then Alan did.