River (sequel to River Peer)

[JMAS]

I processed another photo taken in th same place as in this post http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=71255

This one was taken from the float.
Shot in AV f16, ISO 100 @18mm; exposed for the foliage in the horizont (with the * button) and focused in te log, then recomposed.
Post processing was similar to the one discribed in the a.m. earlier post.

As always, any comment is very welcome.

http://images.fotopic.net/?iid=y8nfyh&outx=760&quality=70&original=1&noresize=1&nostamp=1

[Titus213]

All that blue water and blue and white sky in B&W? I don't think the B&W suits the subject matter in this case. It takes a powerful image to pull off a good black and white - my opinion...

[Croasdail]

wish I could see a larger image of this.... it looks like there is a lot of loss of detail in the blacks around the trees - but that could be largely due to image reduction. But good contrast. It would be interesting to see if you could bring up the mid-tones just a bit to get some more definition in the darker areas...... digital bW is tough....

[JMAS]

All that blue water and blue and white sky in B&W? I don't think the B&W suits the subject matter in this case. It takes a powerful image to pull of a good black and white - my opinion...

Hi Titus212,

Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it.
As for the water, that's part of the reason I choose Black and White. It was brown, really, really brown ;) :lol:.
But I'm glad you got the feeling of a deep blue sky and blue water. That was the intention.

[JMAS]

wish I could see a larger image of this.... it looks like there is a lot of loss of detail in the blacks around the trees - but that could be largely due to image reduction. But good contrast. It would be interesting to see if you could bring up the mid-tones just a bit to get some more definition in the darker areas...... digital bW is tough....

Hello Croasdail,
Thank you for your comment.
Looking now at my post I see you are right. Some areas are to dark to be seen in the monitor.
The problem was that I prepared the image for printing and then I took the same image reduced and posted for the web.
That was wrong because for printing I normaly apply much more contrast than for web viewing.
I found out the printed image retains the detail as I wanted, even at 4x6 but in the monitor, even well calibrated, it is realy too dark. :rolleyes:
I should probably have processed up until a point then saved and from that saved file I should have then added the necessary contrast for printing or for the web separating the process.

Lately I have found a growing interest in digital B&W, but you are right, I find it very though and not always rewarding of the effort in the final result.

Thanks again for your comments. ;)

[malcolmx]

i do like your river scene (i am an ardent angler) but if i may suggest that you take 2 images next time 1 exposed for the sky and one exposed for the the water and combine the the two in photoshop then desaturate and apply a little tone .where was this taken thanks for the image

[JMAS]

i do like your river scene (i am an ardent angler) but if i may suggest that you take 2 images next time 1 exposed for the sky and one exposed for the the water and combine the the two in photoshop then desaturate and apply a little tone .where was this taken thanks for the image

Thanks malcolmx,

I appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Do you mean desaturate only, instead of using the channels mixer?

Regarding the two exposures (for the sky and for the ground) I have tried that many times, but somehow I can't make it work for me.
I'll have to give it another try.

This was taken in a detour from the Tagus river in Portugal. In a place where someone once wisely built a palace by the water. Unfortunatly the palace is reduced to ruins, and there's not much left to reconstruct.