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Subject: Is this too blue?


zhounder ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 2:09 PM · edited Thu, 30 January 2025 at 12:19 PM

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I took these during the snow yeterday. We got away with less than an inch of snow but tons of rain. The image is as it came from the camera. Magick Michael aka zhounder


mysnapz ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 2:24 PM

Michael this does look a little blue, but I like it, it adds to the cold feeling of the picture. Colour casts are all down to taste, in the darkroom I would often tint pictures just to add to the mood of them, I guess this id still true of digital work. The question is a bit like, is this printed right? Its all got to be down to personal taste and I personally like this. Just can't wait for the Snow here in the UK. :0)

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali


Michelle A. ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 2:48 PM

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Don't usually play around with other people's work.....but the blue cast is common in snow pics... Well I see blue anyway...those who have had their eyes tested (and they know who they are) for color might argue that it is something else....sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I like your pic, just wanted to show the difference. I used curves to set the white and black points and then duplicated the layer with some layer blending and merged.

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com


mysnapz ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 4:03 PM

Good to see the comparison, I guess this just goes to illustrate the printers dilemma. Both pictures I feel work the cold blue of the first giving a feeling of dusk and the oncoming cold night the bright snow whites of the second giving a much brighter feel. I guess there are another 10 versions that would work, nether of these are wrong or right, both are a matter of personal taste. :0)

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali


firestorm ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 5:27 PM

as mysnapz said it's a case of personal tastes...the first one has good detail in the snow which is lost in the second one...saying that though i prefer the modified one (sorry :-)) p.s mysnapz...no...no snow...snow=cold=bad...

Pictures appear to me, I shoot them.   Elliot Erwitt


DHolman ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 6:34 PM

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Yea..there is a definite blue caste to the photo .. but like everyone is saying, I think it has to do with personal taste and what the photographer is trying to do or say. That's what makes, at least for me, learning about color correction so hard. I probably would have corrected it this way. But that's just me. -=>Donald


Michelle A. ( ) posted Thu, 26 December 2002 at 6:50 PM

I like yours too....I think mine may be a bit too bright...you've managed to save the detail in the snow....

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com


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