Taken off HWY 242 in the Willamette National Forest.
I can't seem to separate the impression being there made on me from the image I worked on. In the actual scene, there was an especially wide range of greens and prominent complementary reds interspersed throughout.
This is a nice scene, Mike - I'm always a sucker for forests and ferns! It looks like you chose to keep the reflection off the leaves to show that it was raining (per your note on no polarizer)? That certainly captures the mood of being in the rainforest, though I'm not sure it's a overall plus for this image since it comes at the price of color and saturation. Overall, it has just a slight yellow cast (on my monitor) - you might consider adjusting the hue toward reds/blues?
Ditto on the yellow. You may have gotten too much in this image. Simplifying and narrowing down things might work better. It has a nice rain forest feel to it though.
Thanks, guys, it definitely was too yellow (although the light there was filtered through leaves and had a yellow cast,the first version doesn't match what my eye saw). I moved the color temperature toward the blue end and the tint toward magenta. This image has been more of a challenge to color correct than any I have worked in a long time. I finally pulled it in to LAB mode to get more separation in the greens/yellows. I'm sure I'll revisit this again later, but this version is closer to the wide range of colors I saw. They eye-brain combination creates a lot more "distance" between colors than the camera sees, that's for sure.
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4 repliesI can't seem to separate the impression being there made on me from the image I worked on. In the actual scene, there was an especially wide range of greens and prominent complementary reds interspersed throughout.
5D
23mm
ISO100
1/2 sec
f/11
No polarizer
Tom