I am stalled... Need some tough love.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #18896084

OhLook wrote in post #18896064
There's so much black in it that it hardly registers as green. FYI, my screen brightness is typically set to one notch below the middle.

That would explain the difference between what you are seeing and what I am seeing. . "One notch", to me, seems like a big difference. . But then again, I am extremely sensitive to any slight variations in tones or colors or tints. . Extremely sensitive! . And picky, as well.

That single notch may not explain the difference. A screenshot of the partial image you posted, with brightness set at the center (i.e., without the darkward notch):

OhLook wrote in post #18896387
I see about as much black in the grassy area as green, and the histogram shows an excess of data missing at the left end. I guess that leaves your extreme sensitivity to account for most of the prominence of green in your view. Or perhaps I'm unusually insensitive when it comes to discriminating tones.

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It looks about the same in your screenshot as it does on mine.

To my eye, and to my aesthetic tastes, having any of that green at all in the image looks completely out of place, because it is incongruous with the color palette of the rest of the image. . How much, or how little, is immaterial ...... its presence, in any amount, is a problem to my eye. . But even the part of the grass that is rendered as black is incongruous, because such a dark tonal value creates an imbalance that works against the appeal of the image.

I mean, if you were an artist, and mixing colors for a painting - colors that you think work especially well together - would you ever use any of that green in this piece? . When everything else has a nice, muted pastel look to it, just one little patch of that overbold green is too much.

It really is a lovely color palette, with the exception of the the areas of grass (both black and green).

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I think you all are pointing out one of the big issues of using screen images as the display medium. In a perfect world all screens would render color and luminosity the same... but of course they don't. It makes the image you are seeing and the image I am seeing not the same.Then there is the contrast differences too. It's what makes critique sometimes challenging because not everyone is physically seeing the same image.