I like the shot. Fall leaves sometimes produce bright patterns like this when the sun hits them a certain way. And the sharpness of the foreground contrasts with the moody blue of the background. I think that the list sometimes works too hard to find a nit to pick. This is a good photograph. Paul On Oct 18, 2006, at 2:59 AM, Jostein Øksne wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments, folks. Much appreciated. > > Re: sharpening, I agree that it looks a bit odd. I went back and > checked the raw file again, and reduced sharpness adjustment to > minimum. This produced a very soft image indeed, but the bright spots > among the leaves were still there. Some leaves are much brighter than > the others, and produce specular highlights. Some of the trees are > aspens which have a waxy leaf surface... that could be one culprit, I > think. There are also goat willows in there, with leaves that are > covered with white hairs underneath. With a whiff of wind they could > cause trouble too. Btw, the specular highlight in the background is > caused by sunlight reflection off a barn roof. > > Hmm. Too bad. I almost felt I liked the shot...:-) > > Cheers, > Jostein > Hooom booom barooom.... > > On 10/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In a message dated 10/17/2006 1:41:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> The trees in the foreground look a bit oversharpened >> though, lots of specular highlights jumping at you ... >> >> Regards, JvW >> ========= >> Very pretty. But I agree, the leaves in the foreground look >> oversharpened. >> And that is a comment I do not make often. Because the background is >> hazy, the >> leaves jump out too much. It would be easy to tone down, then you'd >> have a >> great shot. >> >> Just my .02. >> >> Marnie aka Doe :-) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
