Lus la Croix Haute

Anonymous, December 09, 2012; 03:35 P.M.
"Hi Latil- Compositionaly this is a very good image. I like how the tiny village seems to be protected by the overpowering peaks. You live in a beautiful part of your country.My only concern is a slight lack of sharpness, even if part,say the village was tack sharp it would create a different feeling about the image. Of course I,m a nut about sharpnes so you have to take that into consideration. I was wondering what imaging program you use. Best Regards-Ross"

Hi Ross,
Ok the picture is corrected.
(It was so cold that I was trembling all over when I took that photo, and the tripod was dangerously dancing in the wind... lol)
I use photoshop CS5.
Thanks for your sharp look.
Best regards.

Gregory Leeming , December 10, 2012; 12:24 P.M.

Hello Latil
Very picturesque location for a town. A nice composition. You have already corrected the softness. My suggestion is about the contrast and saturation. I find the image rather dark and muddy. If you check the histogram it stops the highlights stop well short of 255. If you drag the right hand slider down to about 200 or so it brightens things up and fixes the low contrast. Or even better use a curves layer to do the same thing. The other thing I'd suggest is a hue/saturation layer and bump the overall saturation up by about +40. Then paint on the saturation mask the lower section of the snow as it looks a little too blue but it's all personal taste. I think it looks better like this.
My 2 cents.
Cheers
Greg

 

Hi Greg,
actually with the correction you suggest, the scene looks much more as it was in reality. I had totally lost the brightness of the sky, and it's back again.

Many thanks to both of you.

BR

Comments welcome

Hi Latil- Absolutely marvelous, can hardly believe the difference, am really glad I brought the sharpness to your attention. The improvement in your images since we first crossed paths is really amazing & I am so pleased with your improvement. Keep it up & you will be instructing me,. All I can say is ,"WOW" Best Regards-Ross .P.S Have you given any thought to shooting in the Raw mode., it is really easy to use. Best Regards -Ross

Latil,  Viewed large this image is wonderful.  These rugged peaks are amazing.  You seem to have benefited from  some good advice on this image.  Congratulations.  Larry

Ross and Larry,

your comments stir me up.

It's really fine to meet experienced people who take time to share their knowledge and techniques, I guess I would never have achieved without that. Now I have more and more pleasure taking photos. 

Ross, by now I systematically shoot on raw. 

BR

 

Hi Latril- Just a couple of quick points,When you have good imges,Ask the viewers to view the image large, it's the difference between night & day, the large size is so much more effective. If you are correcting an overexposed image, it is best done in the raw mode, jpeg & tifff files are not very effective for correcting over exposure.,also if you are creating images & wish to finish it or correct it at a later date ,save the file in the tiff format,that way you wont loose any pixels..I always save in the tiff format until I am ready to submit for critique. Best Regards -Ross

It's indeed a good method

Thank you Ross :)

Best regards

Excellent!

Thank you Tony ! :-) 

Wonderful photo! Wonderful place! Regards.

Hi Evgeni, 

Thank you very much :-)