Brenda Fishbaugh, QPSA
About the Image(s)
In early October, we spent a week in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. One of the highlights was the boat ride on Lake Superior to look at the rock formations--called Pictured Rocks. The water is a wonderful clear sea glass green.
I am looking at this as an option in PSA Nature, so I can't add a texture, a better sky, etc.
I did shoot from a boat, so I could not do "silky water", and that is usually not accepted into PSA Nature, as it's not how we see water.
I did bring up the exposure and removed noise. I straightened and did a little selective sharpening, but wanted the trees soft. I burned the sky down. I cropped off the interesting cave on the right, as I found it distracting.
Frankly, it seems blah to me, so I thought I would check in for ideas, in case a crop or other clever trick would make it more interesting. Of course, I want to show off the leaves changing, but am hesitant to make it any more vivid, since it is to appear natural in PSA Nature. Thanks for your input!
Canon R5 mirrorless, Canon EF 24-105 lens handheld.
ISO 2500 85mm focal length f/7.1 1/1250 sec
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Nice fall foliage, fall, and exposed cliff. I would have loved a more interesting sky! From my humble perspective, what to do with the image is a matter of taste and style. I took your image and tried a slightly different version. I decreased the highlights and whites in the sky and selectively increase the yellow, red, orange and green, and decreased the aqua.... I also cropped to put the fall on the left third of the image. Please let me know what you think.
  Posted: 11/09/2021 11:42:20
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A nice landscape from the boat but I agree - somewhat bland overall, partly because of the gray and featureless sky (typical of northern Michigan in the late fall and winter). Cropping in would help some.   Posted: 11/14/2021 15:45:50
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