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Critic 2023 #6

3/30/2023

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​Here is a picture I took at Tybee beach on a very overcast day when we were there visiting this winter. As some of you are aware, I am using this as an exercise to try and learn the software capabilities more than anything else.  In this particular case, besides trying to punch out the texture of the driftwood, and improve the overexposed sky, I thought it might be a good opportunity to try and remove an item and repair the image around it. I also took a close up the lighthouse to have a better resolution to put back into the image in a better spot. It also allowed me an opportunity to repair parts of that image with the items that were in front of it, before I put it back into the original image.
 
1) Overall thoughts on the clean up around the lighthouse in both aspects?
2) Should the lighthouse be knocked out of focus a touch to account for depth of field?
3) Also thought a 1:1 aspect ratio worked in this case, but not sure if better still in 4:3 and just cropped as needed?
4) Any other thoughts appreciated as well, as I am using these as examples, so any thoughts are worth trying just to get better using the photo manipulation software.

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Critic 2023 #5

3/17/2023

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The icicles hanging from this long rock face caught my attention while on a recent hike. My initial attempt to photograph this scene resulted in the sky being blown out. I metered off the sky for my second attempt but the result was a severe underexposure. My thought was why not try to salvage the shot.
Using Lightroom I made minor adjustments in the Basic Panel except for Shadows (+100) and the Blacks (+77).  This was followed by slight adjustments to the HSL Luminance colors (red +25 & orange +67). Adjustments in Detail and Tone Curve were minor.
I did find myself making local adjustments to the rock face, sky, icicles and leaves. My final edit was to remove the tree from the right edge of the original photo.
I would appreciate any input as to what I might have done differently.
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March 02nd, 2023

3/2/2023

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  • Three versions- general comments of the three editing
  • #1 is the original on which I did some basic editing
  • #2 is a crop to panorama with some dehaze applied to the sky
  • #3 is more the aspect of the original but I did more editing to add some drama to the sky and added a touch warmth which brightens the trees a bit.
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Here's a 4th version; cropped like #2, trees brighter like #3. The low, dark clouds are also lighter.
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    Maryann Flick

    President, Coastal Camera Club

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