Honest answers and crit PLEASE

[hhcanon]

OK, the title may give you a clue. I processed the attached image in LR. But, what I did was use the white balance picker on a white object (birch tree zoomed in on bark) selected and a tad sharpen and hey presto. NOW, I used a polarising filter when I took this to get the blue sky, but what I want you to tell me, is this all rather blue madness...or does this work and is it realistic?? Im feeling really out on a limb here.
Im not interested in the composition etc. just the colour balance.
Looking forward (really) to honest answers. Thanks




Polarised Bluebells by Robin M Jones, on Flickr

[Trev B]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

Hi Robin

I love that - its the sort of shot I always aim to achieve, just a bit sad there's a shadow across the bluebells, but its great

Trev

[David Stallard]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

Honest opinion from me and please remember I'm a motorsport photographer and not a landscape guy:

I opened it full screen and looked at it as a painting or large print and I would be more than happy to have that on my wall, the colour is terrific and the sky fading from blue to almost white works really well.

Agree with Trev that the shadow is the only 'let down' BUT you were under the tree's so that is to be expected in a 'real' photo

.DAVID.

[AndyA]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

I'm very much a novice, so please keep that in mind It's a lovely shot Robin, but to me the vivid blue sky is so colourful that it's battling against the purple flowers somewhat?

[hhcanon]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

Hi Robin

I love that - its the sort of shot I always aim to achieve, just a bit sad there's a shadow across the bluebells, but its great

Trev

Thankx-that helps

[hhcanon]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

Honest opinion from me and please remember I'm a motorsport photographer and not a landscape guy:

I opened it full screen and looked at it as a painting or large print and I would be more than happy to have that on my wall, the colour is terrific and the sky fading from blue to almost white works really well.

Agree with Trev that the shadow is the only 'let down' BUT you were under the tree's so that is to be expected in a 'real' photo

.DAVID.

Youre too modest David- thankx for the comments - its all helpful

[hhcanon]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

I'm very much a novice, so please keep that in mind It's a lovely shot Robin, but to me the vivid blue sky is so colourful that it's battling against the purple flowers somewhat?

Good point Andy, Ill take that on board...first time Ive used a Polarising filter. Just remember there has been no colour adjustment (other than a WB in LR).. this is straight out of the camera

[Sandra]

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Love the bluebells with the white bark of the silver Birch. Though personally I'd crop out the blue sky which would mean loosing about the top 1/3. Then try and get the silver Birch near the middle on the right hand 1/3'rd approx.... then a tiny bit off the bottom. Now I am a novice, so remember the pinch of salt. Was this at Wakehurst. Hoping to go tomorrow....in the rain it would seem.

[akimages]

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Hi Robin,

I think the colours really work!

What troubles me is that it looks incredibly 'busy'. I think this is because of the amount of small detail in the shot, leaves, branches, grass, flowerheads etc. I hope my description makes sense! Have you tried softening it a little?

As the others have said, cracking shot.

Andy

[Les McLean]

Re: Honest answers and crit PLEASE

Agree with Andy, there's a real competition going on, my eyes keep bouncing back from flowers-sky-flowers-sky............

If the intention was to showcase the bluebells, then without a top crop, taking out a lot of the blue sky, this doesn't work.

But if it's a test to see if a polariser works in this instance, then yes, I think it does.

[JaKS_Foto]

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I submitted something similar at my local camera club monthly, and scored 15 out of 20! The main reason was 'no central point of interest'.

I like these types of images, this is really good, always take photo's of what you like and what you are pleased with!

[mirador]

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hi I like it and think it works well