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Wow! Absolutely gorgeous. The first one is my favorite. The only thing that might have been better would be to crop out the bush on the left-hand side. Then again, it adds a nice sense of balance.
The second is stunning as well. I would have liked to see a version of that with the other side of the gate included – that would have been very nice.
Thanks tjons! However, the pictures seem a little underexposed to me. What do you think about that? I tried to highlight my pictures but they looked ”blown” because of the fog.
I agree with @mr-quebec about the pictures seeming to be underexposed. I popped them into Lightroom and took a look at the histogram. As you can see, most of the data is right in the middle of the histogram. The fog really lowered the contrast of the scene, there are no deep blacks on the left of the histogram, and no bright whites on the right of the histogram. (click on the screenshots to see a larger version)
For this second image, I edited the tone curve a bit, just to see how it would affect the histogram. As you can see, it ‘extended’ the histogram in both directions, effectively increasing the contrast. (The white balance change was purely a matter of taste, I thought it was a bit too orange.)
Here’s one more example, where I tried to stretch the histogram as far as I could, just to see what it would look like. In my opinion, this last one is “overdone” it was merely an example to prove a point. I think you could have turned up your camera’s exposure compensation about +1.00 stop, and it would have been about right.
(To change the exposure compensation on Canon EOS Rebel T3, you can hold the button on the back with the little blue “trash-can” icon beside it while rolling the dial located in front of the shutter button)
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Excellent tips @buddingphotographer!
In comment of the comments, pulling the whites up in LR does the trick of fixing the underexposed look. If you had overexposed in-camera, than I don’t know if you would have gotten the same results. Notice too that the edited image there neither the white nor black point have actually been set; that’s ok. Normally setting these points give just the right contrast, but this is the perfect example that if you set those points it would ruin the picture.
It seems as though there’s a little too much sky in both pictures, especially the horse silhouette. It would have been neat to explore an angle that would have included more of the fence fading off into the distance.
Overall, I must say that must have been a very fun morning to shoot! Great shots @Mr. Quebec.
Thanks, James Staddon!
I edited again my horse picture. I cropped some of the sky, and also a little to the left where after some reflection, I thought the bush was too big and distracting from the subject.Attachments:
Very nice! Do you have the ability to add a hint of contrast as @buddingphotographer suggested?
Well, I was thinking a little more like this. I don’t have the original, but I basically pulled the whites and blacks sliders in quite a bit more. I guess it needed more than just a “hint”.
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@James Staddon, I like the lighting in your version a lot! I must say, though, that it does look rather grainy/noisy now.
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You have to keep in mind that he didn’t have the original picture to work with. When you’re working with little tiny compressed jpegs, the results don’t look too good. Hopefully, the OP will be able to get better results with his original.
Very true, @buddingphotographer. I stand corrected. I should have noticed that.
What OP stands for? Me?
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OP stands for “Original Poster” i.e. ‘the guy who started this thread’
Yes, I’m afraid the contrast is a little bit overdone. You notice down at the bottom of the frame that the grass looks nearly black. That seems rather ‘unnatural’ to say the least. Keep trying!
You’re right, @tjons, my re-edit is very grainy and now that I look at it, the tint is quite “orange”, unlike what was in the original. Should have tweaked the White Balance a bit after adding contrast.
At this point, it’s the original artist’s call on what he feels is the best way to make the final edits on the image to make it look what is his definition of “perfect”!
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