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Subject: Too dark?

tvernuccio opened this issue on Mar 26, 2005 · 12 posts
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tvernuccio ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 2:12 PM · edited Wed, 21 August 2024 at 6:15 AM

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hi guys, here's the original image with no postwork except resize. it's a sundown scene and i like the dark moodiness, but perhaps it's too dark for your monitors? Also, does that light on the branches on the left bother or distract any of ya'all? I'm still trying to go thru that tutorial on histograms and curves that Erlick provided me...and rereading Misha's tutorial and Michelle's on histograms the the rest of the advice and info ya'all have given me...so bear with me until i get it. thanks for your advice & help!!!! f 2.2 1/800 sec. ISO-64 0 step

tvernuccio ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 2:15 PM

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i played with lightening it a little but i wanna show you this one instead. they look fine on my monitor but i think i'm gonna need to lighten them a bit. suggestions?

Zacko ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 2:37 PM

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Personally i think you should keep them that dark. But i played a little with adjust levels and curves and ended up with this one. I could have gone brighter but the grain wouldnt be worth it....

How come we say 'It's colder than hell outside' when isn't it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?
____________________

Andreas

Mystic Pic

Onslow ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 2:57 PM

Looks fine to me ! Prefer #1 - the sky looks a more realistic evening colour.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

Zacko ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 3:03 PM

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I still prefer the #1 too...but (bored as i am) i played a little bit more. This time i also altered the colourvariation a bit and also added a silly lensflare...sigh...why cant i find a photo of my own to ruin, LOL.

How come we say 'It's colder than hell outside' when isn't it realistically always colder than hell since hell is supposed to be fire and brimstone?
____________________

Andreas

Mystic Pic

tibet2004uk ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 3:09 PM

LMAO@Andreas!!! I think I prefer the second one Sheila! I like that vibrant blue u came up with!

Erlik ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 5:26 PM

I did? No, I didn't, it was gradient. Anyways, I have no idea what were you trying to achieve, but seems to me that shutter is way too high and ISO is way too low. Looks like deep dusk instead of sundown. I'd expect something like Zacko posted on the second pic.

-- erlik

tvernuccio ( ) posted Sat, 26 March 2005 at 11:06 PM

Erlick, oh...my bad. sorry about the mix-up. that happens to me sometimes. :) what was i trying to achieve? LOL...just to take some pretty pictures AND to create a mood. i was experimenting that evening as i was watching the sunset. it wasn't dark out...it was the beginning of the sunset. This image was taken thru glass. i took a whole bunch from inside my car 'cause i was freezing. Each one had a different setting because i wanted to see how the settings would affect the look and mood of the sky as the sun was going down. Anyway, you're right...it does look more like dusk because of the settings i used. Andreas, of the two you did, i like the first one better. that silly lens flare is neat! maybe for another image though!!! :) i like them dark too. that's what i was going for. thanks Richard & Pascale for your input. i appreciate it!

ReBorneUK ( ) posted Sun, 27 March 2005 at 7:07 AM

FWIW, I REALLY like that first one - it's got such a dense, spooky atmosphere... ok, you mightn't like it as a pic in itself, but as a background for an image it would be awesome! (",)

tvernuccio ( ) posted Sun, 27 March 2005 at 1:14 PM

thanks, Mike! What's FWIW? i take a LOT of photos of trees. i actually really love this image just the way it is. i just love trees!!!! anyway, thanks for telling me your choice, Mike!!!!! :) Happy EAster!

ReBorneUK ( ) posted Sun, 27 March 2005 at 1:59 PM · edited Sun, 27 March 2005 at 2:01 PM

FWIW = For What It's Worth.
Amazingly, the F doesn't mean the F word.... lol...
(",) (even worse - I typed the acronym to save typing the whole lot out and caused myself MORE work!!! c'est la vie... ROFL)

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bsteph2069 ( ) posted Mon, 28 March 2005 at 3:20 PM

The second one really looks like a christ mas card I have. I rather liked them!! Bsteph

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