Other Side/Sunset+REPOST

A beautiful and peaceful scene.

Very nice scene with great light. I like the positioning of the canoe as well. The saturated highlights in the clouds look over processed though, and if this were mine I'd get rid of any sharpening on the water as there is too much micro detail to make it look natural. Hope that makes sense.

Ooh, I wish I was in that kayak! I really miss mine since it was stolen. Love the reflected color in the water, but the clouds seem overly saturated to me. Would agree with Marsel on the sharpening, but I wouldn't reduce it too much. Nice work on the blend.

Thanks guys.
MARSEL: Thanks for the thoughtful critique. I'm afraid this one has me baffled, and it's not a new problem for me. Over-sharpening the water is easy to understand; a dumb error while sharpening the Web size reduction. But those clouds were a big problem for me. The sky was so spectacular that I wanted to reproduce it in the image. The problem is that when I changed from Adobe RGB to sRGB, the colors totally flattened out. It was a huge disappointment, so I went back and "over-cooked" it to try to retain as much of the original color and tone as I could when I switched from Adobe RGB to sRGB. This sort of thing has been a problem for me ever since I got a wide-gamut monitor. My Adobe RGB prints (using calibrated wide-gamut monitor and wide-gamut printer) look great now, but I can't tell how my images look on the Web on other people's computers. I see huge differences between monitors and browsers (Firefox vs. Internet Explorer). I know this looks pretty bad on my wide-gamut monitor in Firefox, but not so bad on my old monitor. However, I just looked at this using Internet Explorer on my wide-gamut monitor, and it looks as garish as a neon sign on the Las Vegas Strip! I don't know what to do.

I am really lucky that you commented on this, because this one, because I don't think many people look at this gallery. I have considered asking for help in the forums, but have not taken the time to try to explain my problem. I'm off on another canoe trip now, but hopefully I'll find time to address this next week.

P.S. BILL: You commented as I was typing. I appreciate your observation, too. Gotta run now, but I hope I can get some help next week. I should mention that most of my adjustments on this were to brighten the trees and water. Did not mess with the sky until I tried to fix the sRGB conversion prolem. Sorry about the kayak! (Some good used ones around -- I just sold one.)

ONE MORE QUICK TRY: Is this better? I just accepted the loss of color when I converted to sRGB this time. THANKS (back next week.)

I think the repost looks much better Wayne. The color looks good.

Hi Wayne, What a wonderful and peaceful feeling scene. The repost looks so much better to me!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Neat spot and nice shot. For me, the repost is a huge improvement both in saturation and in sharpening. The colors look nicely realistic in the repost but still have a wide range of tones.

Hi Wayne,

Wow, what a great time and moment to be either on the lake in that kayak - or from your vantage point - either works for me!

Aside from the mentioned sharpening issue - I agree the water is a bit over sharpened - as are the trees; at least it looks like to me just a tad. As far as the color goes, looks pretty good to me and quite believable. We've all seen some spectacular skies in our time and adventures. But I will say this, I displayed this page/image in IE, FF and Chrome, all side by side. they all looked identical to me. The key is having the tagged srgb profile which is the safest way to ensure images look the same across browsers. Personally, I think the issue is these new wide gamut monitors that display 100 billion-gazillion colors. I know Harley and others have had these issues... but for the rest of us poor-folk, the color is certainly not grotesque on my monitor (never mind it's a 1970 CRT with tubes.... )

Lon

The re-post is a very nice image. Restfull. TFS