Lake Jackson Grand Tetons

[supert31]

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3dc25b3127cce941e01619c890000002610


Taken with G2 on auto

[slejhamer]

Very well composed. However I think it needs some post-processing to bring up the shadow detail, slightly increase contrast in the mountains, and darken the sky (too similar in tone to the mountains.) There is a lot of color not evident in your shadow areas, esp. on the far shore. A simple contrast mask in Photoshop would do most of what's needed. Still, it's very good.

If you want, I will post a (slightly overcooked) example that only took an extra five minutes to do. Let me know.

[supert31]

Sure by all mean. I have Photoshop 7 but am still learning how to use it. I had just got the camera a week before that picture was taken and am now learning how to use all the settings of the camera. If you don't mind I will email you link to a gallery I have up at shutterfly to see some of my other shots. I can't figure how to link the whole gallery it seems to only work by emailing the link. Also I put a picture of a sunset up a couple of days ago, I would your comments on that one thx


terence

[slejhamer]

Here is before and after. Like I said I did not spend much time, and I only had your compressed jpeg to work with. Spend 10 mins. with the original and you can do much better than I did.

http://members.cox.net/mschlesinger/tetons%20redone.jpg

You can see that the colors are all there, even on the far shore; they just needed to be coaxed out. I did not make any adjustments to hues or saturation levels; only to the master RGB and luminosity curves.

Cheers,

[Tom W]

No bad comments at all; just wanted to point out how amazed I am at the ability to improve a picture with a little "software darkroom" activity. I'm a little (OK, a lot) new to digital and am continually amazed at what people are able to do. I would have thought that just brightening it up a bit would have brought out those colors in the distant trees - but at the expense of slightly overexposed sky. Mitch showed a better way.

Either way, the original was good, but the changes made it better IMHO.

[supert31]

thanks I have one of those learn photshop in 24 hrs books but I think I will be looking one that works with photography better.

[slejhamer]

For supert31 (and anyone looking for beginner's photoshop tutorials):

The Luminous Landscape site has a great tutorial: "Instant Photoshop" which is geared to photographers:
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/instant_photoshop.shtml

After that, read the Curves primer:
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/command_primer.shtml

And review the "Image Processing Workflow":
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/workflow1.shtml

The article most relevant to the above photos was on Contrast Masking:
http://luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/contrast_masking.shtml

I also found this site useful, Learn Photoshop in 21 days:
http://nebulus.org/index.html?pg=tutorial_ps.asp

It's all free, and probably at least as good as any published PS books.

Cheers,