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    Oh What A Grey Day

    There's been some debate over Mono vs Colour recently. This is a deliberate half way house. I wanted to try and enhance the mood with the wet road and the troubled sky. Hence the partial desaturation. Does it work? Love some views.

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    Maybe one day I'll take such beautiful photo, John. I love the background work. How did you edit this? Did you perhaps tonemap it? I also love the leading line and the overall atmosphere. Excellent.

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    Works for me! Bravo!

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    Re: Oh What A Grey Day

    Quote Originally Posted by John 2 View Post
    Does it work?
    It does indeed.

    An excellent lesson in 'get the composition right' and your half way there. I love the whole 'shape' and balance of the picture.

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    The mood and composition are so uniquely powerful for me. It remind me those old B/W photo with water color added by hand. I may learn how to do this in PP someday. Thanks for sharing.

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    Really inspiring image... What software did you process this with? It looks a bit like it might be a NIK processing...

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    Wish I could have an 'Oh What A Grey Day" myself, to use and term from your part of the country that's a real cracker.

    Cheers:

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    It's delightful John!

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    oh what a perfect day! It just keeps me hanging on. Those lyrics from "perfect day". Immediately sprung to my mind. Love what you have done here.

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    Stunning! One of my favorite situations is bright light with dark clouds in the background and you made that combination work really well.

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    Beautiful. I works many times over. I have been messing around with the "halfway point" on some of my pics that just seem to have too much color pop naturally but with some saturation removed they are much more natural and pleasing to look at.

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    Very nicely seen, captured and processed John. This image should be in the textbook on how to effectively use selective color and the reason that it works so well for me is that it still seems realistic in the sense that the road and sky could have looked like that on a stormy day.

    I love it and would be very proud to call it my own

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    Gorgeous, amazingly so....

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    I can only agree with the accolades John. Very well done.

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    Very nice piece of photography and post processing

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    Re: Oh What A Grey Day

    John, really nice. I think everything works.

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    Re: Oh What A Grey Day

    Quite apart from the desaturation which is a pleasant alternative to the bright punchy colours so often presented I am intrigued by the composition with the tree and road echoing each other in form and both leading to an area of foliage which also echos each other ... very clever indeed

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    John,

    Does it work? It certainly does.

    Grahame

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    Great shot John - I think that the gray overtones work really well. Good choice of PP to go along with the excellent composition.

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    Re: Oh What A Grey Day

    Thank you all so much for a great set of comments. I really wasn't sure about this from a treatment point of view but it seems to have struck a chord. As I have said elsewhere, I do have difficulty judging my own work. As to detail, I used the Fuji X Pro1 plus 35 mm standard lens. PP was no more than curves to add some contrast and bring out some texture in the sky during RAW conversion and the wet patches on the road were dodged to enhance them after globally de-saturating the whole image in CS6.

    I do tone map but not here Murat and I didn't use Nick filters on this occasion Richard but I do use Photokit 2 to add vignettes and globally darken or lift areas (brilliant set of inexpensive tools to add to the workflow) and I will have done so here. Thanks again all.

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