Increase saturation?

[swedg]

I come back to this shot all the time and wonder how it could be (could have been) made better. Not quite ready for the nature calendar I think, but the greens and the reflection please me. It has composition, but possibly too busy? One problem: it appears lighter and washed out on Flickr, but almost oversaturated on my desktop so I can't tell what it really looks like. Can anyone help?





Camera: Canon PowerShot A650 IS
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 7.4 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire

[dcclark]

I agree -- the photo is very busy. More importantly, it has no clear subject(s). I know how it goes -- I imagine that this was very pretty in person -- but photos really need some individual subject to catch the eye.

The saturation looks plenty high to me -- it's quite saturated already.

[fortunato_uno]

i've had simular troubles with pictures looking one way on my computer (a net book), and totally differant when developed. twice now i've had pictures developed at wal-mart (yes they do enlargements). when i check the image on other computers they come out fine, but when i had them developed they came out to dark or to heavely saturated.
one thought for your next attempt (not having to do with saturation). get the shot from a differant perspective. i willl some times lie on the ground and am often rewarded with a shot people like. the swamp i live in hasn't much for color (other then brown and green) so perspective is my tool.

[swedg]

Thank you both. I've just tried cropping to take out a lot of the busy foreground and focus more on the rocks in the background (and the heavy tree on the right gives a bit of frame), and I think it improves things. Not to make a new post, it's on my Flickr page right next to the other one. 4187973089_73b670d0ed_b.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!. Does that help?