Wun Foto

Midget · 02 Oct 2012, 10:10 am

Just one photo from a family trip during the long weekend.

hawkeye5086 · 02 Oct 2012, 2:52 pm

Nice composition but it could do with some cropping and post-processing. There is too much negative space with the sky which can be fixed with cropping. The colour cast is a bit strange, I understand you tried to HDR but it seems you did not get enough EV stops to achieve the desired effect and in combination with the lighting conditions it is not ideal. Also crush the blacks and reduce highlights in order to get rid of the over-exposed nature of the shot and it'll make the three sisters pop.

tl;dr

Shoot in RAW and edit in Light Room, keep rule of thirds in mind and work on your colours

mpi · 02 Oct 2012, 5:21 pm

hawkeye5086 wrote: tl;dr

Shoot in RAW and edit in Light Room, keep rule of thirds in mind and work on your colours

Solid advice!

I used to be morally opposed to post processing but then I saw the light (Room) and it's phenomenal how much it helps.

Midget · 02 Oct 2012, 7:59 pm

mpi wrote:
hawkeye5086 wrote: tl;dr

Shoot in RAW and edit in Light Room, keep rule of thirds in mind and work on your colours
Solid advice!

I used to be morally opposed to post processing but then I saw the light (Room) and it's phenomenal how much it helps.

I used to at least do a little adjustment with brightness and contrast in Paint.NET (not the same as the Microsoft offering), then... I found Lightroom.

hawkeye5086 · 02 Oct 2012, 11:54 pm

mpi wrote:
hawkeye5086 wrote: tl;dr

Shoot in RAW and edit in Light Room, keep rule of thirds in mind and work on your colours
Solid advice!

I used to be morally opposed to post processing but then I saw the light (Room) and it's phenomenal how much it helps.

I was the exact same, it can make a good photo, great. The other thing you are doing what the camera does in post, you just have super duper manual control.

Midget · 02 Oct 2012, 11:59 pm

With Lightroom;