The Wooden Path

Comments welcome, as always. Thanks!

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Cool... The colors almost have a pastel quality to them. I'm glad you didn't make them more vidid. Either the camera was pointed slightly down or that path is fairly steep. Either way, it creates a very interesting path for your eyes to travel across the scene. I like it. Great job =)

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Originally Posted by KentDub

Cool... The colors almost have a pastel quality to them. I'm glad you didn't make them more vidid. Either the camera was pointed slightly down or that path if fairly steep. Either way, it creates a very interesting path for your eyes to travel across the scene. I like it. Great job =)

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Thanks, Kent!

Alis,

This is a nice shot, I especially like the path with the beautiful colors. I feel that the upper part of the photo with the sky seems unnecessary. I would crop that part altogether and make a square framed photo, which probably gives a focus on the path and colors.

Cheers,

Yan

Hi Alis,

I'd love to see the steam engine that uses this track :):D

It must be quite heavy as they have the sleepers so close together, but also a short wheel base to get round those sharp, if gentle, bends!

I came to this after seeing Sahil's "track in tunnel" shot in the Mini Comp., so that's my excuse!

Quite a few leaves on the track, sorry path.

Nice shot, although I would have been tempted to stand a little further to right and get both rails/path edges coming out of the bottom of frame. Now I'm not saying I (or you) would have been right to do that, as I am sure it would give a different (and not necessarily improved) feel to the picture, it's just my temptation.

It does look very naturally coloured though, as Kent says.
Well done.

Cheers,

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Originally Posted by Yan Zhang

Alis,

I feel that the upper part of the photo with the sky seems unnecessary. I would crop that part altogether and make a square framed photo, which probably gives a focus on the path and colors.

Cheers,

Yan

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Thanks, Yan! I agree, I actually did that crop too, althougth it was a horizontal frame and not square, but since there is nothing nice around the path, I decided to do it this way. When I go home, I will try that and post it here.

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Originally Posted by Dave Humphries

Hi Alis,

I'd love to see the steam engine that uses this track :):D

It must be quite heavy as they have the sleepers so close together, but also a short wheel base to get round those sharp, if gentle, bends!

I came to this after seeing Sahil's "track in tunnel" shot in the Mini Comp., so that's my excuse!

Quite a few leaves on the track, sorry path.

Nice shot, although I would have been tempted to stand a little further to right and get both rails/path edges coming out of the bottom of frame. Now I'm not saying I (or you) would have been right to do that, as I am sure it would give a different (and not necessarily improved) feel to the picture, it's just my temptation.

It does look very naturally coloured though, as Kent says.
Well done.

Cheers,

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Thanks, Dave! As you know, there is not train! :) This is a path for mostly people with strollers, as the ground is sort of marshy.

About the angle, I think that is a good idea and I might try it later this week if I go back. The good thing is that we still have leaves on the trees and the place is a few blocks from where I live!

About the colors, I am still struggling to get the white balance right, but I definitely did not try to increase the saturation. I think I need to buy a WB card.

Thanks, again!

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Originally Posted by Alis

About the colors, I am still struggling to get the white balance right, but I definitely did not try to increase the saturation. I think I need to buy a WB card.

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Even though raw affords you the ability to adjust white ballance after the fact, I have found my new white/gray combo card invaluable. There is rarly something completely neutral in a scene that you can eyedropper off of, so that leaves it to just playing with the sliders until it looks right. This is fine for creative effects, but a bit frusterating when you simply want accurate colors across the majority of your shots. It's a cheap accessory, and well worth it :) The bonus of a grey card on the flip side of my whitecard has been very helpful to me as well :)