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I think having a element within an image that doesn't confirm to a norm or may have a be a bit of a distrupting aspect, brings both a bit of uncomfortableness and interest/tension in what might be otherise a familar cookie cutter approach. I applauded this effort.
Thank you very much Alan for your kind words coming from you! I really appreciate them. I've love B&W. It gives me unlimited creativity.
Eric, welcome.
Hi Eric, and welcome to the forum!
Um, I think it’s much more likely that Eric’s monitor has a magenta or red cast—think about it!
thanks guys for the help and advice. i was really struggling with the color. i think my monitor is okay. it is may editing skills unfortunately. i can't figure out how to make them work. i edit in lightroom. i will try some of the suggestions and see how it goes.Hi Eric, and welcome to the forum!
I am going to be a bit hard [critical] on you in two different areas, but please note that we have something in common—I also have an Aptus 22, which remains an excellent back, albeit a bit slow by current standards. Please take this post as well-intentioned …
First: colour
Both pix are quite green-yellow in colour as displayed on my iMac. It’s calibrated with macOS’ inbuilt calibrator, which is not too bad, though nowhere near as precise as using hardware calibration. Is your monitor calibrated in any way, and is it an IPS-based panel?
And which software are you using to process your RAW files? I assume Capture One, in part because it’s free to use for the cited equipment; C1 has a great feature where you can drop multiple colour readout tabs onto various parts of the image, so you can look at colour readings at various points. If you took out some green, and a bit less yellow, vegetation would still be green, but skies would be bluer, giving increased colour variation. Another strategy could be to push the pix in a magenta direction. As it is, these shots look dull because of the samey colouration. I’d like to see how the right foreground would appear with colour correction—a sere yellow-brown? I have no compunction about treating different parts of the frame via local adjustments AKA layers to make them better separate from one another!
Secondly: composition and cropping
The first pic has some plants sticking up into the left-hand bottom of the frame; these do not add anything to the picture, and should be removed or cropped as a distraction.
The second pic has OOF grass along the bottom, and a bit of a blob at top left. Both are distracting. It also has the same colour characteristics as the first, so that advice applies here too. Good separation in the bright sky on this one, but the land portion is a bit too dark and flat for me; the two sidelit hills could be brightened to increase contrast and modelling. I also think that this shot is not as sharp as it could be—focus?
I’ll stop now!
Todd, it was indeed a great pleasure once again to shoot alongside you with your X1D. I love your images of Mid-Town!! I think I might try a wider lens soon just for fun, although my own results were nice enough to be a part of our current project.
Hi Eric, and welcome to the forum!
I am going to be a bit hard [critical] on you in two different areas, but please note that we have something in common—I also have an Aptus 22, which remains an excellent back, albeit a bit slow by current standards. Please take this post as well-intentioned …
First: colour
Both pix are quite green-yellow in colour as displayed on my iMac. It’s calibrated with macOS’ inbuilt calibrator, which is not too bad, though nowhere near as precise as using hardware calibration. Is your monitor calibrated in any way, and is it an IPS-based panel?
And which software are you using to process your RAW files? I assume Capture One, in part because it’s free to use for the cited equipment; C1 has a great feature where you can drop multiple colour readout tabs onto various parts of the image, so you can look at colour readings at various points. If you took out some green, and a bit less yellow, vegetation would still be green, but skies would be bluer, giving increased colour variation. Another strategy could be to push the pix in a magenta direction. As it is, these shots look dull because of the samey colouration. I’d like to see how the right foreground would appear with colour correction—a sere yellow-brown? I have no compunction about treating different parts of the frame via local adjustments AKA layers to make them better separate from one another!
Secondly: composition and cropping
The first pic has some plants sticking up into the left-hand bottom of the frame; these do not add anything to the picture, and should be removed or cropped as a distraction.
The second pic has OOF grass along the bottom, and a bit of a blob at top left. Both are distracting. It also has the same colour characteristics as the first, so that advice applies here too. Good separation in the bright sky on this one, but the land portion is a bit too dark and flat for me; the two sidelit hills could be brightened to increase contrast and modelling. I also think that this shot is not as sharp as it could be—focus?
I’ll stop now!
Welcome to medium format Eric!
I have an advantage here since my wife got me involved in photography. It is wonderful being able to create this art together. But our funds are limited (5 kids one income). Hence our entry level medium format digital system. I hope it doesn't break.
