Small lake in British Columbia

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Took this with my digital camera, but it came out a bit dark. Any hints on which buttons to twiddle in PhotoShop to make it look a bit more exciting? It looks a bit depressing now.

-- Gavin Walker (gavin@cdnow.co.jp), September 29, 1999

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Aargh!!!



-- Gavin Walker (gavin@cdnow.co.jp), September 29, 1999.


Actually, I don't think you need to do any "twiddling" in photoshop...there is a good range of both dark and light in the picture.

I really like this picture...the foreground is interesting, and you've got a pretty good balance between the left and right side of the frame.

What camera did you use?

good job - jk

-- Jeremy Kindy (kindjd01@wfu.edu), September 30, 1999.


Quite good for a digital, but I also find the image a bit flat. The original midday lighting doesn't help very much. There's not a huge lot you can do on digital camera Jpeg's (Tiff's maybe more).

I find the overall image light enough (even hazy?). Try to lift the midtones which tend to be a bit dark, and also increase the contrast slightly. (I don't use PS, so I can't help with the functions). The biggest lift would be to use Unsharp Mask to bring out some detail in the trees (not much though).

-- Gordon Richardson (gordonr@iafrica.com), September 30, 1999.


I was also impressed with the fact that this is from a digital camera. could you tell me Exactly where this lake is, i have spent a bunch of time in the BC interior and am curious about where the lake is

-- tim bulger (tim_bulger@yahoo.ca), September 30, 1999.

The lake is on the road from Lillooet to Pemberton, about 3/4 of the way there on the right. There was a tour bus parked next to it, and *every* single one of the passengers was taking a picture looking in exactly the opposite direction to this shot. Always a good sign to look the other way :o). The other reason I took this was that the 'other way' was directly into the sun, and the digital pic I took looking that way was a bit of a mess. I'll post it if anybody's interested. I've just arrived back so I haven't got my 35mm slides developed yet, and to be honest the digital camera was just a bit of fun. Me and my wife just snapped away at anything and everything and came back with 400+ images after two weeks, as opposed to 5x36 rolls of 35mm. Some of the digital images have come out OK, but that's the beauty of the thing, you can bin most of them with impunity. It's a Toshiba PDR-M4 by the way, and is a great camera IMHO (and cheap at the moment).

-- Gavin Walker (gavin@cdnow.co.jp), September 30, 1999.


Nice photo! I don't have access to Photoshop, but doing GIMP Autolevels, increasing brightness +8 and decreasing contrast -8, improved the image. It still looks undersaturated, but increasing saturation causes color artifacts to appear (this seldom happens with negative scans). Could be just my monitor, but moving the color balance slider towards cyan (away from magenta) also helped.

-- Bill Tuthill (tut@altavista.net), November 15, 1999.

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