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thnks for any comment, jean

thanks for any comment, jean

thanks for any comment, jean

Thanks for any critic, jean

Thank you for any comment!

jean

Henri, this is just the water, I shot from a ferry deck and they were flying quite close. I was above so I got this nice dark water in the shade of the ferry. jean

Thanks for you possible comments, jean

any comment would be welcome! thanks, jean

Steve it is original with more contrast, but no changes apart this, regards, jean

Thanks for any comments that this could inspire you!

jean

Thanks for any comment/ suggestions or what you have in mind.....

jean

thanks for any comment!

You are right, ALL pictures on pn are digital as sent as jpg. Knowing this what makes the difference between a picture taken with film scanned and leveled and this one taken with a digital camera? Jean

Thanks again all...Albert you are right. One of the reason to shot exposing on the brighter area is to keep the shutter speed as high as possible as I had no read tripod..but I took note of the advice!!! Jean.

Arthur, please read the instructions about when one can cross or not the box "unmanipulated". I mean from what I have read that leveling is NOT considering as a manipulation (maybe someone from PN could confirm?). If I'm wrong please accept my apologizes. Anyway if you read my comments above you will see that I have been open and honest about how the image was processed.... Jean

Michael thank you; I have not used a lense doing such correction, I used the standard zoom lense sold with the D300, (18 - 55mm). No correction in ps either. I guess I was far away enough to have no visible distortion. Jean

Thank you all for the amazing feedback, I was delighted and surprised by the fact the picture was selected as POW. I feel proud to join all those fabulous pictures in the previous POW amazing collection but can't restrain to think the image do not deserve so much attention, but who am I to judge...?

As to the numerous comments I like to say that I understand the discussion about saturation, but as many mention it this is more or less how colour could be in this part of the world under certain conditions. To made it clear about how I have process the image, here are the details again: the picture was shot in raw mode, I tend to expose on the brighter areas of the scene, therefore I had an overall slight darker image (see the original sent), that was leveled in the sofware Capture One that I use for working the raw files. The only thing I have done is the leveling, after that I resized the picture in ps ending with the unsharpening before sending to PN.

The day of the picture was rainy, I was out in the forest on my bike with the goal to shoot a lake in the area, but I lost my way and found this spot and I was immediatly in love with the light and I spent about half an hour there, trying different angles. This is one of the first pictures indeed. My main problem was that I expected to shoot in a better light condition and I had no tripod. So I used my bike against a tree to get the best stability I could (the shutter speed is about 1/20 or so), not the ideal way to take picture as I had to be close to a tree to shot, so I felt a bit restricted in my movements and shooting spots...As usual not all of us like the same picture and this is fortunate (otherwise we would have a boring world); however I regret I was not able to share entirely with all the real beauty of this place (here I dont talk about the picture but the place); this place is'nt just another forest in my eyes, but this is probably something one can't learn to see; either you see it or not and 1000 words wouldnt help more.

Thank you again all.

 

Jean

Thank you for your kind words Aron, I feel encouraged by them, Jean

thank you Dumitru, this is in H�rsholm in denmark, only the sky was worked in ps, the rest of the scene was just there as on the picture part some slight leveling work.

best wishes, jean

Thank you Max for the time used and comments given. I appreciate. best wishes, Jean

 

 

 

 

I did focus on the eyes indeed, maybe the jpg reduction dont do justice to the picture...regards, jean

Thank you for your opinions & comments / jean

as promised here the original file before leveling and sharpening.

jean

Thank you for your opinions, jean

Max, yes this is after all the best idea; I will do that asap, the original picture is already archived somewhere else it is not straightforward. I use saturation and oversaturation on some pictures and I dont feel ashamed for that, but here it is just a natural result from this perticular days light. I'm sorry if I gave the impression having a bad feeling about your comment, it is indeed not the case. Thanks for the time already spent on the picture! best wishes, Jean