Is this Overdone?

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Is this Overdone?

Postby Man Tripod on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:00 pm

Just finished a fair bit of PP on this image take in the Snowy Mountains last winter. Not sure whtehr or not i've overdone it or not. Would appreciate others opinions.

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Postby Big V on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:03 pm

Excellent!
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Postby Alpha_7 on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:05 pm

Looks lovely and doesn't look overdone to my eyes.
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Postby Nnnnsic on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:06 pm

Seems fine and quite nice to me.

How do you think you've overdone it, if I may be so bold?
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Postby Geoff on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:14 pm

Hi MT,
This image looks good to me.
Mind if we see the original? That way we may be able to give better judgement on whether or not it's over done :)
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Postby Man Tripod on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:28 pm

Thanks for the positive feedback.

Heres the photo i started with:

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Processing involved blending three different exposures of the same image (original photo was RAW file). One exposure to darken sky a little, another for the midtones and another to bring out some detail in the shadowed lower right of the pic. All photos were merged using layer mask and blurring filter in photoshop. I tweaked the contrast of the sky a little before merging. Once all three exposures were merged i did some overall curves adjustment.

I wasn't sure whether or not i oversaturated the sky.
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Postby Pehpsi on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:43 pm

Looks great :) Not overdone in my eyes..
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Postby Mrs Reschsmooth on Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:52 pm

I think it looks great. I like the crop.
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Postby Yi-P on Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:32 pm

Not overdone at all, I like it. It should live on paper and wall :)
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Postby Reschsmooth on Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:44 pm

I think it is great, but in fact, prefer the uncropped version, as it adds to the size of the landscape. My opinion only :D
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Postby Willy wombat on Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:54 pm

All good in my eyes - you started with a nice shot to begin with too!
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