Drifting Into Autumn

[littlebro]

Stephen, is the darker part that you mention possibly reflections in the water, Flash was used btw? I would love to see the original shot Chris only resized and converted to jpeg.

[DigiDiva]

Thanks Stephen - appreciate the time you have taken to reply. I understand what you are saying about the top tone not having unformity. I can fix this so thanks. What you said about the position of the top leaves, though I see what you are getting at, without falling into the pond, there was nothing I could do to move it. The white halo is too hard to remove with my limited photoshop skills but I think it is less prominent in the original. It is where the low lying sun catches where the leaves dip into the water. Not sure I understand what you are saying about the colour of the leaves..I didn't do much to them so can't really comment. Im also not understanding what you mean about the unatural angle of the leaf....It was floating along like that.

I'm surprised you introduced Magritte when discussing my leaf butI m flattered that my image brought him to your mind.. I really love his images and studied them a lot during my recent Photography college curse.

Thanks again Stephen. Would have liked to see some of your images but none on your gallery. Do you have a link to some to give me?

Cheers.

[StephenBatey]

No, it's the upper pair (?) of leaves which are a darker brown. The main central leaf is a soft yellow brown, and the others dark brown. That's what grates on me as unnatural - or at least out of keeping.

Since I'm back on this one, the black spot doesn't do a lot for me either.

[StephenBatey]

I'm not a great one for posting, but you could look here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbatey/

(Hope this posts OK, it looks like I'm seeing double at the moment).

On the upper leaves, I'll run a quick test and report back. It should be a simple matter of selecting and either lightening or desaturating. I can't post my results back because I don't know how...

If you want to be brutal to one of my photos, there's one up on another forum at the moment that's on open season.

Edit.
I've made a quick adjustment that addresses the main points I made about the leaves; I found the "Insert Image" hieroglyph but then ran up against the problem that it appears that the image must be available on the internet, not on my computer...

[StephenBatey]

On the "unnatural" front, it's the shadows that strike me that way, not the position of the leaves. The main leaf cast a shadow down towards us, so the main light source is above and in front. On that basis, I'm hard pushed to explain the shadows on the leading edges of the leaves.

I hadn't realised that you could see a larger image by clicking on it, so I hadn't noticed the blue/purple lines above the top leaf.

As to the relative positions, you can either change them in Photoshop, or you can change them by altering your camera position (assuming that you have the freedom to do so). The relative positions of fixed objects can be altered quite freely by changing the camera viewpoint. I have elsewhere demonstrated this fairly convincingly.

[StephenBatey]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

I really love his images and studied them a lot during my recent Photography college curse.

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Like it

[wave01]

I like this but the white halos shouldnt be there, i assume its flash reflection, maybe add another layer and try and clone it out. any way well done

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by StephenBatey

Like it

OOps lol.. I did get an A* so maybe not a curse after all!

Really appreciate your comments.

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by wave01

I like this but the white halos shouldnt be there, i assume its flash reflection, maybe add another layer and try and clone it out. any way well done

I didnt use a flash.

Here's the actual image, straight out of camera.

[wave01]

hi if you look at the exif it says flash fired, how strange