Sheperds Delight (C&C)

Eirebear

i took this tonight about an hour or so ago while i was sitting board and looking out the window.
I noticed the reflection on the water and thought id give it a try.

A little bit of work with the saturation slider and shadow/highlight and heres the finished result.

Any advice on how it could be better?
Again i cant seem to get it to link back to flickr, so the link to my page is in my sig.:cool:

Fajitas!

It needs some black )

Other than that, fantastic.

nilhg

Very nice indeed, I hope your weather forecast is as good.

Eirebear

Cheers guys.....

Black? How would i go about that? i was toying with darkening the foreground a little as i think it takes the eye a little, would that suffice? The weathers actually been quite good the last couple of days...fingers crossed!

Fajitas!

Well, there's no darkness in the scene, if you open up a historgram, I'm sure you'll see there's very little on the left of it, increasing this should add a lot more depth into it!

Both the foreground and horizon will benefit from it - the horizon feels a bit too bright for the skyline, and the foreground seems to run from midtones to highlights.

Eirebear

Cheers, ill give it a shot tomorrow and see what happens.

Fajitas!

Would you mind if I had a go?

Eirebear

not at all, its all yours.

Fajitas!

Fajitas!

Would have cropped off the top 1/4 too, but just wanted to show you the difference some blacks can do

Eirebear

Subtle...but makes a world of difference,the reflection stands out a lot more, cheers fajitas, gives me a few ideas for some other shots too.
Thanks

Fajitas!

Happy to have helped

mikeanywhere

Fajitas! wrote:

Happy to have helped

Dr Al, I have an itch - know anything that can help with that??

Oh, nice black addition too!!

Oriel

My take:

Borderfox

Lovely shot, good job by the three of you

Ruu_Old

Brilliant shot and good retouches by d'other two chappies.

Fajitas!

Bah Oriel... I just wanted to show some contrast adjustments...not all that sharpening malarky.

Mike. If you don't stop scratching, it'll fall off.

Muineach

hmm, I'm probably just being picky but if it were mine I'd remove the telephone pole's, they're more obvious on Oriel's version, but that's just me.

I'm obsessed with poles, there's a ton of them around me, ruining decent views and I'm constantly removing them :mad:

Oriel

Fajitas! wrote:

Bah Oriel... I just wanted to show some contrast adjustments...not all that sharpening malarky.

If you're going to ruin a perfectly good photo, ruin it well I always say.

Benster

Muineach wrote:

I'm obsessed with poles, there's a ton of them around me, ruining decent views and I'm constantly removing them :mad:

Dunno where you're living, but the poles where I am are stunners...

Fajitas!

Oriel wrote:

If you're going to ruin a perfectly good photo, ruin it well I always say.

Why? Was it taken on a Nikon