Following My Fishermen

I have a husband and a son who are both fanatical fly fishermen.

Sometimes I like to tag along. When I do I end up in places like

this. Comments, critiques, advice are welcome.

I am guessing you had a more productive day than your husband and son. I do like this but the vanishing point doesn't seem to work. You are drawn into the photograph and as your eyes gaze upwards along the stream you come to a dead end. I might have cropped it so the water beyond the land was not visible.

Thank you David, I appreciate your comments and advice. All the best.

Lovely colours here, although i feel its a bit very saturated. Sharpness and composition of the image are nice. This is the kind of place which i like walking along.

Regards - Dylan.

I think that blue punch works well. I agree that cropping down would make this into a different photo, more like a stained glass, natural abstraction. But then you'd lose the fringe of red (or a lot of it) and I think that's a good counterpoint to the blue. Well, whatever you do, you've captured a place I'd like to wander around.

I think the depth of the water, both in color and as it leads my eye along its path, and the earthy feel are the strong suits here. Whatever allows me to feel at one with the main subject and also enhances the pull of depth, keeping me grounded, would be what I would emphasize here. This is a complex and interesting compositions that has allowed you many possibilities. Your eye was sensitive to something special here.

 

 

Dylan, Thank you. I did use the saturation tool in Photoshop CS2 on the new green growth, and the red in some shrubbery that was coming back to life. This was lost in the original. I took this in the early spring when there were only bits of colour here and there. I wonder how I can increase contrast without increasing the saturation?

 

 

 

Thank you Jeff. I often hear that my images are oversaturated. I do like to bring out colours that are lost, as I said above, the green and red in this one, because I thought they were invisible. The blue saturation increased when I adjusted the shadows and light, I didn't intend to intensify it, but liked the end result. You may be right about the crop. I originally liked the look of coming out of the dark forest on a difficult path into the light of the lake and sky. To my eye it feels like I am being drawn towards that light. I liked the symoblism. In reality the path was clear and well prepared and I was standing on a little bridge. Thanks again, all the best.

 

 

 

 

Fred, thank you so much for your observations and comments. I appreciate it. Warm regards.

Linda--

 

The Hue and Saturation menu as well as the Selective Color menu (both under Image and then Adjustments) can be helpful. With those, you can increase or decrease saturation and severity of particular colors instead of doing it globally. Generally, when contrast is increased overall, certain colors do tend to get more saturated, which can me minimized with some subtle adjustments in the two menus I mention. With color photos, for instance, whenever I deepen the Levels, I do some desaturating to accomodate the increase caused by the change in contrast. The Hue slider bar can also be effective in moving your blues, for instance, more toward magenta or more toward green. These two menus give you a whole lot of control that you might find useful. For instance, in your Selective Color menu, check out what happens when adding some magenta vs. some blue to your blacks. Taking a little magenta out of your yellows will often make grass have a very nice feel of illumination. Lots of possibilities. My sense is that, in this photo, if the blue in the foreground and on the distant mountains were lessened a little, the ground would not seem unnaturally saturated.

 

--Fred

Linda, I like the composition,the eye is leaded till the "dead end " of the vanishing point, to a second layers of the landscape, behind the trees. so I don't see a problem with it( even I think it is possible to tone down the second waterlayer..

 

The FG. is a bit oversaturated, so Fred's advice is a good one.I think that it is worth coming to that place again and taking it in different hours and light.

Estupenda composicion y colores.

 

Un cordial saludo -Tolo.

Hi Fred,

 

Thanks for that tip. I have a second shot that I like, similar to this one. I am going to try your suggestions on it.

 

 

Thanks Pnina, I am going to try Fred's suggestions on a similar shot that I'm working on. There are so many generous, helpful people on Photonet!

 

 

 

Hi Tolo, Thanks for looking and commenting. All the best.

I can see why so many people have stopped to take note of it. The other one is nice but this one stands out because of the length of the stream and the gorgeous blue and then how you took the picture. The color of the day was perfect.

 

It is a great picture you should be very proud of.

A beautiful shot. Many of the above suggestions are interesting and helpful (particularly Fred's comments re careful use of the Selective Color menu to create subtle changes), but I'm too moved by this image to add anything but simple praise. Regards...

Beautiful shot. Best regards.

Stunningly gorgeous. Maybe the blue is a bit too saturated, but also very, very nice!!! Very good work. Regards.

Micki, Joseph, Huy, Kelvin,

 

Thanks so much for your comments. I appreciate it. Best regards.

Such a beautiful place and photo! (Sorry Linda for answering so late. You asked if i had succes on that website. Till now i think i did.There are better photographers there that have sold nothing! People like my rat photo's the most.

Anyway, thanks for your comments and best regards, Ellen.)