A scenic view in Vancouver

[chanedcomm]

Shot in 2005 in Vancouver with a Canon P&S (pretty much auto everything). Major PP work include warmify (reddish colour), contrast adjustment and sharpening...



Please share with me how it can be improved...

thx

[stevesutt89]

This is nice, i like the colours--they're rich, but look natural to me (who's never been to Vancouver). It might just be me, but the water down the bottom left seem to lead the eye straight out of the picture. Maybe if more of the water was included this effect could be lessened.

Hmmm, that wasn't a very useful comment since this photo was taken in 2005, i presume you can't just duck back over there and take some more shots.

[clockdoc]

Nice work overall. I tried cropping the base off a bit on my monitor to reduce the wide spread of the river. Seemed to work a little better. Give it a try and see what you think. The lean of the trees on the right may be normal but straightening them some may also help.

[chanedcomm]

Thank you

Is this what you mean?



I was again bound by my stubbornness to insist of keeping the 4x6 perspective and therefore did not think of cropping (just) the base (or the photo would be too narrow to show the trees on both sides). Anyway, I gave it a try as suggested, I do think the composition is better but I am some what uncomfortable about the size (i.e. no longer 4x6). (You see, I am stubborn ) The straightening of it did help though. thx.

Yes, I wish I could go back and recapture it but I probably can't in the near future.

[clockdoc]

Thanks for taking the time to crop and repost your image. I feel it is better balanced with some of the water removed and straightened a bit. I can appreciate your frustration about losing the 4x6 format but I guess sometimes we have to do what looks best in the end.

[ELAY]

I thought the warming was nicely done, but -- and maybe this is nostalgia interfering with esthetic judgment -- I wondered if it was a bit out of place.

My recollection of clambering around the Capilano and Lynn River valleys in my youth (or is it the Seymour) is of brilliant greens, and a feeling of cool and damp -- something which the low-lying clouds in your picture emphasize for me. So I wonder if a warming treatment is the right choice for this shot.

Maybe your experience was different, but I might have cooled the pic a bit, and sought to really bring out the greens.

EL

[chanedcomm]

You mean this?

[ELAY]

More like this:



I took some of the magenta and red out, until I got the fog pretty close to white. Then i used curves and an opacity-adjusted multiply layer to get the greens a bit darker and more vibrant. I also did a local contrast to try to get the background mountains a bit stronger. (I suspect this may be close to what you got out of your camera!)

Looks like I got some posterization in the sky with the curves and local contrast. I also find some of the green highlights in the lower left a bit much with my treatment.

But that is my take, for what it is worth, based on my memories of the tangled canyons on the North Shore.

EL