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10/16/2007 03:13:03 PM |
| This is one I'd like to see the original of and maybe have you redo the post processing. You have a very good composition here. |
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10/07/2007 09:50:58 PM |
| The processing is a little to harsh IMO, halos can be seen around the balloons and the mountain ridge does not look natural but I do like the shot. |
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10/07/2007 09:11:47 PM |
| Maybe its my eyes or my monitor but it looks like there is CA around the mountain and all of the balloons |
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10/07/2007 08:42:33 PM |
| I bet this was something quite beautiful to see. The sky is too saturated - there's this funky bright border between the mountain ridge and the sky. Also there's a halo around some of the balloons. (5) |
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10/06/2007 11:15:36 AM |
| Whoa, what is with the funky background. The mountains seem very "unreal" to me. |
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10/05/2007 08:18:47 PM |
| Wow, watch out...way to much saturation here. I would like to see this untouched. |
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10/05/2007 07:59:44 PM |
| lovely colors but it looks like your sky was painted in |
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10/05/2007 07:15:47 PM |
| A bit too much saturation. |
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10/05/2007 07:06:14 PM |
| Was the sky really that bad in the original? Your blue fill doesn't match the rest of the image and the mask lin is very clear on top of the mountains. It is such a good capture of the ballons, too bad you chose a fill methon instead of a different filter for the sky. |
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10/05/2007 06:31:36 PM |
| I really like the composition however there is a halo around the balloons and the mountain perhaps from over saturation and lightening of the mountain. The colours are beautiful but perhaps to flat. Very nice idea though. |
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10/05/2007 02:39:24 PM |
| The sky is blue. Too blue. I can't really enjoy the balloons because of it. |
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10/04/2007 11:10:15 PM |
| Interesting concept, but absolutely horrible job of replacing the sky. The bad job around all of the balloon edges makes me wonder if this is a composite, or just an attempt to put in a blue sky. |
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10/04/2007 11:02:02 PM |
| Over sharpening and saturation takes away from an incredible capture and comp. |
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10/03/2007 10:52:05 PM |
| Is it oversharpened? I ask becasue there appears to be a halo along the ridgeline and around the ballons. |
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10/03/2007 10:15:10 PM |
| The treatment of the sky appears too artificial in this interesting capture. |
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10/03/2007 07:02:24 PM |
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10/03/2007 12:31:43 PM |
| Very bright and cheery...great detail and crisp lines. Color is exceptional. |
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10/02/2007 07:11:50 PM |
| Could have been nice - but the processing ruins it for me... |
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10/01/2007 03:20:09 PM |
| Where the halos around baloons and the rock edge intentional? They are so strong, that it looks that way. |
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10/01/2007 01:35:10 PM |
| To me it looks like you selected the sky and made it bluer and darker. You should have been more careful in the selection, there is a light halo around the mountains. The sky it SO saturated that it looks cartoonish and takes away from the image. 4 |
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10/01/2007 01:03:55 PM |
| The contrast seems a bit much. |
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10/01/2007 11:27:12 AM |
| oversharpened to the extent that it really detracts |
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10/01/2007 10:57:36 AM |
| Eeee-gads. Why couldn't you have left the sky alone...!? I'd bet the original image would have done really well, but the fake blue sky is terribly distracting here. |
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10/01/2007 10:19:50 AM |
| Nicely composed image. But the sky looks too unnatural. Doesn't match the light of the mountainside. If you need help editing this shot, please don't hesitate to PM me after voting is final :) |
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10/01/2007 09:09:41 AM |
| This would have been a lovely shot were it not for the completely overdone post-processing. The blue sky is dreadful and has created a halo effect around the balloons. |
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10/01/2007 09:06:48 AM |
| A tad oversharpened for my taste. |
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10/01/2007 08:32:14 AM |
| Looks to have a vignette/halo around the edge of the mountain. Love the balloons. |
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10/01/2007 08:07:33 AM |
| Too over-processed, the lighter blues around the balloons is very distracting. |
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10/01/2007 12:37:30 AM |
The blue sky is just way too fake. First, given the lack of color in the mountains, you'd expect the sky to similarly lack color, an instead it's an intense blue (a color not normally found in the sky). Second, the color is too uniform. The sky is always a gradient, it is never a single color. This looks like the sky was simply filled in with a single color.
Next time, try something like this:
1) Select the sky using the same method you used here
2) Now duplicate the sky on another layer and set that layer's blend mode to multiply
3) Adjust the opacity of the new layer down to where it looks normal
The above will take the existing colors of the sky and simply intensify them by using the multiply blend mode.
If the sky is completely washed out ... then you could try filling it (like you did here), but instead use a gradient. Pick two colors of blue (one lighter than the other) as your foreground and background colors. Then use the gradient tool to apply the color to your selected area. I would also do this on another layer so that you could then adjust the opacity down to where it looks good. |
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