Delaware River

[Nick D]

An narrow overlook in Forks township locally called " Saint Anthony's Nose". These were taken Sunday Afternoon. Comments, critiques welcome.

[Yammer77]

My nose may be brown, but not that big Nick.
First one is too muted. Love the second.
Try converting the first to infrared.

[leelf62]

Nick, nice job.  If you "tweak" the colors in LR2, you'll be amazed at the vibrancy of the colors!!

[lotus]

Nick, I agree with Lee. My favorite is the first one, I like that river curve. You may get something like that after few adjustments.

            

[Nick D]

Alex,

I like your pp work on the image. I must admit your pp work is probably better than mine would be. These were ooc no pp work. I had a few other images postd ( in dpreiew) and was told I overdid it. So I was curious how the ooc looked. Also, I'm working with someone and wanted him to see the original images.

Nick.

PS Anthony,

Your also not a saint

[emtp563]

They definitely need some more contrast and saturation.  Fall Foliage is all about the vibrancy of the colors.  Everything will be muted after next week and the colors will be "blah."  Here's my take:



Just a simple bump in contrast and saturation and a quick tone curve adjustment in CS3.

This one took a little more work:

[lotus]

Anthony, on your first quick adjustment you still have yellow color cast and white point is not set-up. Second photo looks flat partially because it has the same sharpness through the whole image.
Nice frames 

[Ken K.]

Nick,

In your original shots, had you use a polarizer?  It does not look as if you did as what I think I'm seeing is some haze (moisture in the air) and as you were shooting through a lot of it (long distance) it builds up.  A polarizer would really help with that.

Ken

[Nick D]

Ken, On the first, I believe I used a polarizer, but not sure. For the next two, yes I used a polarizer for the water and  gradient ND for the sky on both those.

Nick

[RacingHistorian]

Nick,

I'd be interested in knowing what settings you have set in the E-3.   Those colors seem VERY muted.   

[Nick D]

Scot,

On the PC I am using, I uploaded them as DNG so I don't know yet. I have them on my other PC. I'll let you know, but i thought it was set for vivid. Don't know why they are so muted.


Anthony,

I like what you did to the first one very much.  The second one is growing on me.

Here is my attempt at the PP of these images:

[Nick D]

Hi Scot,

Double checked my settings and was shot in vivid mode. Now the strange thing. I viewed the oimages in both lightroom2 and olympus master and found image in the latter much more vivid. i opened up an image in both softwares and did a straight raw to jpeg convesion and here is what they look like:

This is from Olympus Master Software:



This is from Lightroom 2 Software:

.

It is obvious LR2 took my image and made it drab. Does anyone have any ideas why?

[Yammer77]

Try photoshop...see what happens.

[RacingHistorian]

Try photoshop...see what happens.

If it's updated,  Lightroom and Photoshop use the exact same Adobe Raw converter.   

[Yammer77]

Gotcha.
I thought with all the patches LR has had, that unless you were on top of it, those issues were already corrected in PS.