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Hi,

I posted photos from my Redwood National Park trip back in July here (https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4399908).

Usually, I spent a day to pick photos from a trip then process them and I never look at the photos again. They just stored in my backup storage.

One of my friends suggested me that it is helpful to look at the photos after a few weeks with fresh eyes. I did that and I think it was very helpful. I was able to find three more photos that I like and I think these are better than photos from my first thread.

Do you look at your photos again with fresh eyes or do you process them and don't really look at them again?

I'm in the process of looking at my photo collection from the past trips now. It's fun :)

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Beautiful work. I can always rely on you to post some inspiring stuff. I've been meaning to dedicate a photo trip to Redwood NP.

Love the 1st one.
 
Beautiful photos. The last one is stunning!! Glad you revisited them.
 
Beautiful!! My favorite is #1, #2 and #3!! 😁
 
Love the last image.
 
Thank you Bing Chow for the kind words. I also tried to visit Redwood National Park for 2 years and finally made it this year. Hope you can visit Redwood soon!
 
Thank you! I actually did not have to use orton effect. It was very foggy and images are a little blurry to being with. I kind of...don't like it for some images because they are not sharp at all.

Update: Ah! I think I've used color efect pro effect on the 1st image.
 
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Interesting images all. The first I kind of don't care for - unless I view it as a painting - and then I do.

On the second, when viewed small, I don't like the fact that the path is dead center, but when I blow up the image I no longer have that critique. The framing looks great.

Both the 2nd and third are, as you know, both blessed with wonderful lighting for the given image.
 
Thank you Gary for the meaningful critique. The atmosphere condition was really great on the day.
 
I have to tell you that I personally do not normally take landscape/nature/travel photos BUT I appreciate them. And your work has me SO inspired. Can you tell me a little about your editing process on these photos? Or on say - the first one? Apart from basic colour/white balance adjustments can you tell me a bit about what did here?
 
Hi Canonphotogri!

Thank you for the kind words.

I think Nick Page explains orton effect very well. You can watch it here

I was very lucky that the lighting condition was really nice for these images. I did not have to do much for the first image, except the following.

1. Cropping. The first one is heavily cropped.

2. Burning and dodging in photoshop. In this case, I tried to accentuate the lighting on the tree.

3. Level adjustment to darken the surrounding area.

4. Tonal Contrast effect from Color Effect Pro, but I think "Texture" or "Clarity" in lightroom should give the similar result as well.

This is raw image before the changes.

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Moon0326 said:
Hi Canonphotogri!

Thank you for the kind words.

I think Nick Page explains orton effect very well. You can watch it here

I was very lucky that the lighting condition was really nice for these images. I did not have to do much for the first image, except the following.

1. Cropping. The first one is heavily cropped.

2. Burning and dodging in photoshop. In this case, I tried to accentuate the lighting on the tree.

3. Level adjustment to darken the surrounding area.

4. Tonal Contrast effect from Color Effect Pro, but I think "Texture" or "Clarity" in lightroom should give the similar result as well.

This is raw image before the changes.

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Thanks for the link! I can't. believe that is the "before" RAW image! Lol! Blown away!

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Very good images all, the third the best IMO.
 
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