A good enough save? (BEFORE AND AFTER)

Was this a good enough "save"? This may have been too much work for the quality of composition, but I'm more concerned with what would be a "passable" edit. I feel like every time I look at a finished edit I can see everyplace I worked on, and everyone else can also. I might just be going crazy..

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Something in the background is distracting. Is the horizon off kilter?

I can't see any specific places you worked on besides the global exposure.

Looks good to me. I might try to brighten up the shadows upper left, but otherwise I like the PP and the composition.

The blue sky makes a nice difference, and it looks like you applied a bit of something like Clarity and/or Vibrance to enhance the subject, so I'd say it's an improvement.

Like was said, the horizon tilts, could be an easy fix if you don't mess up the composition.

I like all the fixes you made, except one spot: the rocks just beyond her left foot.

I did a quick edit of that spot (I cloned in some of the pebbles next to her left foot, a couple dashes of flat rock from around her that had the same lighting and focus, and a shadow from the rock on the opposite side of her) , and straightened the horizon (just to see how it would look).

Everything else looks great! I like it!

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digital paradise wrote in post #12501258
I can't see any specific places you worked on besides the global exposure.

Try looking a little harder ( guess that means I did a good job lol )

I had accidentally cut off her left foot in the pic. That wasn't a bad crop or anything, I had to manufacture 300 pixels of the right side of the image and delete it from the left side so the girl wasnt off to the right side.


I always manage to overlook horizon if it's off slightly, thanks

It's always good to get a critique of pp, because you always see someones finished product rather how much work they did to it. I'm always curious how my sooc shots stack up to the work of others, and the same can be said for pp work.

I noticed the out of level part right away but I did not think it was significant to mention. It was not in the fix. As for the foot I just figured you went back and cropped it again from the original. The only thing that I looked off was the face of the stone below the foot. I kept looking back and forth between the two as it did not not look right. Now I see it looks OOF compared to the rest of the stone in the corrected version. Since it was only a stone I ignored it. So a good job on the foot and above.

I have a cottage and have had to do many things on my own including finishing carpentry. I'm not a finishing carpenter. Did the whole place in tongue and groove pine. At first I was always worried about my little mistakes. People only noticed them when I pointed them out.

JackFlash19 wrote in post #12501028
I feel like every time I look at a finished edit I can see everyplace I worked on, and everyone else can also. I might just be going crazy..

Sometimes the hardest part of doing anything is knowing when to stop.

Hen3Ry wrote in post #12509841
Sometimes the hardest part of doing anything is knowing when to stop.

Hmmm this is very true. I'm sure when my volume of work increases I'll have to apply that more fervently haha