A few friends and I went to Lake Alatoona Dam on the Chattahoochie River a few weeks ago, and I took a lot of shots, (300 or so, actually) only about 30 or so did I decide were presentable. I was curious what a typical ratio is for everyone.
Here are 4 of my favorites from that trip:
This one is by far my favorite. I dropped down the clarity in Lightroom, and bumped up the vibrancy and saturation. I was going for a dreamy, fae sort of look for the forest. I'm usually overly critical of my own stuff, but I'm really proud of this one.
This is the earthen portion of the dam, right near the parking lot. Again, there was some adjustments in Lightroom.
Walking in the Hooch. The afternoon light on the water really gave me a "summertime" impression.
This one frustrates me. I was watching the duck, and it's a great pose for the duck, but the woman in the background is really distracting. I considered trying to remove her, but I'm not nearly good enough at retouching to attempt it.
I'll post a link later to the smugmug gallery, right now they're kind of jumbled up with some other random pics I took that weekend (
here, for the time being.)