Rob Trek Forum

This is an old shot I could not have done before I got TK7. I do not have a remove noise program yet. I used Photoshop and Studio 2 to clean noise up. I do not really remove noise with the noise control just as I do not sharpen (except a 60% ½pixel on import). I ran through some of the more usual luminosity masks to enhance detail, blur (½ pixel), balance lighting, tinting, etc. After the usual, I then used zone masks which I really love and wish I had before. I slightly darkened a few zones to increase the color. I did the Selective Color adjustment in PS to get the exact tints I wanted both with zone masks and global. Then something totally new to was the saturation masks. Some areas had more or less saturation and I for the first ever raised and lowered saturation without regard to color. I think I ended up with a balanced color that I used to get painting. I think it came out OK for a noisy 12mp GF5 and kit lens. The big thing for me is it was fast. I spent much more time looking at it and thinking about what I wanted to do than I did doing things. Most of the time I am working sliders and masks to get what I want. Most of the time was taken away by TK7 and I was studying the photo to see what it needed. When I cam back to it, I liked it instead of having to fix the things I forgot because I was tied up in one adjustment I wanted. It is just a pleasant photo and nothing special. I think the colors are nice, but would like your opinions as it is hard to evaluate my own work. This was all about getting the colors for me. But I think there is a place for pleasant photos and do some my calendars ever year. Photoshop removed the save as jpeg, so I exported it and the exif gets stripped on export. As always, you have to click on it to see it as I resized it for 1080 pixels high. Someday I have to move up to 4K I suppose. BTW, I do not do much processing vignetting, however in composition like this I take advantage of what nature provides to get a similar effect.

'It is just a pleasant photo and nothing special.' Yep! - I bet John Constable said much the same thing about the 'Hay Wain'. I love your colours and the depth of the view. Great job DeMorcan.

Thank you Lysippus. I hear so much about stories. I think there is a place for photos that are pleasant and maybe feel good to look at. My past personal and gallery print photos has always been about emotion and balance. A photo that fits a room and helps make a mood is a wall hanger. A photo that tells a story is a nice to look at but maybe not live with every day. Just my opinion. So I like pleasant photos. But as I am learning about photography for internet there just is not much place pleasant photos. The internet is more for drama and WOW and then move on photos. Living with a photo is a becoming a niche. Even the calendars from every place with a photo that changes every month in every room is fading away. So I only shared a couple of my pleasant photos online. And this one was such a mess, I had to do a lot of processing to develop my skills. I never even kept a good copy just a small jpeg. I may post some more of my pleasant photos that are just that and nothing more.