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• mpr (2118)
• [2008-10-11 7:57]

Hi Sequoia

What a wonderful time of year - fall. We don't get color like this in the San Francisco Bay Area. So it's nice to see photos from other parts of the country like Utah. I have a few comments if you don't mind. On my monitor, the trees are bit dark and the sky is bit washed out. Lighting like this is often hard to manage but, if so inclined, can be enhanced in a photoshop type program. My other suggestion would be to adjust your composition so that the tree in the foreground is out of the frame. At F4.5 it's difficult to maintain sharpness in both the foreground and background. By eliminating the tree you allow the camera to focus solely on the beautifully colored trees and your image will be sharper throughout. I hope you don't mind my comments.

Mike

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• ubc64 (336)
• [2008-11-24 13:57]

Hi Sequoia,

You've presented a beautiful palette of colors in your photo. As has already been pointed out, your DOF was a bit shallow, so perhaps the foliage on the right could have been left out. Before doing that, you might want to use sharpening and sharpening edges to see if that helps. I would like to see the shot in landscape, rather than portrait also -- since it really is that kind of shot. Have you looked at the selective enhancing of individual colors like red, green, magenta, yellow and cyan? You can adjust both their saturation and brightness, and perhaps make the colors jump out a bit better. In any case, I applaud your obtaining such a great vantage point and your capturing such terrific colors. It would be useful in the future to provide a few more notes so that we have some better appreciation for what we're looking at, and what you had to do to capture and post process the image. TFS.

John