Bob, I think you did the right thing or almost the right thing. However on the second image the curve brought out the little flare patch just above and to the right from the weeds.
There may be different ways to treat the originals however. May be even more towards the dark direction. Boris Bob W wrote: > Hi, > > I don't usually muck about much with photos, just presenting them more > or less as they come straight from the camera. However, here are a > couple of photos from a reedbed close to my house: > > http://www.web-options.com/Reedbed/ > > I have altered the curves on both of these because the originals are > very muddy: > http://www.web-options.com/_4084933.jpg > http://www.web-options.com/_4084944.jpg > > I'd be interested to hear peoples' opinions about these alterations. > Do they look natural? I've done them by eye, but I don't trust my eyes > in this sort of thing, being colourblind. Do they look overdone? > > The more I look at them, the more I think the edited ones are overdone > and overdramatic. The unedited ones have a calm about them, despite > the muddiness, which I quite like, but I feel as though they could do > with something a bit more. > > Opinions, please? > > Thanks, > Bob > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
