Dog leap..over saturated?

[Wolfsburg]

The top image is the original, the bottom is the new edited version. Im afraid I may have over saturated the image in an attempt to draw the viewer in with bright color. I dont want this image to look blatantly over edited to achieve the "awe" effect. But I do want it to grab your attention at a glance. Does it look too over saturated? Any other advice on how I can improve this image is welcome.


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[mikerob2334]

It does look over saturated. Can you post your exif? It looks like you had a small aperture and iso turned up (adding the noise). I think if you had shot this with a larger aperture and dropped the iso down, you could increase the saturation slightly to get what you wanted.

Edit: Ok, found your exif on flickr. Those Canon PowerShots don't do well on iso set above 200. I set mine to 80 and never touched it again.

Exif data

Camera Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 5 mm
ISO Speed 400
Exposure Bias 0 EV

[dlambert]

I agree w/ Mike. If you wanted to spend a little time on post-processing, you could try to boost saturation on the dog a little more strongly w/o making the sky & grass quite as vivid. I think that with both of those, the big swaths of the same color really show the saturation more strongly than the dog does.

[MindyRaeL]

I love that you managed to capture the dog mid-grab. I agree with the others, that it does look over saturated. The only other thing I can add is that I find the light pole near his mouth distracting, and would probably attempt to clone that out.