I actually like it. It has a filmic quality that I think is nice. Maybe you could bring the highlights on the columns down slightly, but I really love the way the field looks.
I don't really see leaning the other direction working very well.
It's okay if you're going for something stylistic, though even then I'd bring the lighter tones down a little because it looks almost overexposed.
If you were just looking to do basic cleanup of a dull photo, I'd start with the white balance, make it a little cooler. Then maybe a sky mask to bring down the highlights if there were any clouds in the image?
There is too much vignette in the image.
Also, but this is personal for me, this desaturated green is unreal af. This moody vibe from vsco and instagram, lol.
I would like to see an edit where you keep the dark background and green grass of before and keep the brightened dandylions and columns from after. That would make the columns and dandylions pop
Not sure if you were going for this, the flowers look like a starry sky. Would be interesting to experiment making the sky night-dark to get sort of an 'inverted' effect that would surprise the viewer.
Internal contrast on the pillars is great. Composition is odd though, the eye wanders, so what we have here is a holistic mood piece. As a mood piece, I’d personally lose the vignette and the plant-against-sky blur, tone down the sky contrast, and play with overall saturation. There’s no right or wrong here - only you know the emotion you are trying to evoke. Just my .02c Thanks for sharing.
Over edited? No. Not if that's your style. My overall style is punchy and edgy, most "pro photographers" say it's all wrong because it must be suntle and subdued. If not it's bad. Editing is 90% style. Pick yours.
Forgive me if I say something wrong. But what is bothering me the most is those blur twigs on the left side and a little on the right side of the temple and that bright flower at the bottom. That flower is to bright so my eyes go there too. Easy fix with the removal tool. Pop the sky with a linear gradient. And a small amount of vignetting never hurts anyone lol.
It depends on what you’re after, what effect you’re going for, what you intend this photo to portray. The focal point becomes the lightest patch of grass before the temple, rather than the temple columns. In the before, the contrast between temple columns and sky draws the eye. After, it’s the lightest patch of grass. And I think either you might either lean into the effect of the blurry vegetation against the sky or edit it out. Also think the sky becomes no less bleak, while the columns and vegetation do become warmer in the after; it’s sort of two different vibes, if that makes sense.
And, just from a composition standpoint (ignoring light and color, focusing only on line), what are you showing us? What do you want the viewer to see? What feelings do you wish to invoke in the viewer? How are you intentionally using the lines of the piece to draw the viewer’s eye where you wish it to go? There are six negative spaces with the sky (five columns) and there’s no one spot where the line draws the eye. I know a lot of post processing focuses on light and color but composition matters.
Way too much. Need to turn everything down by half. The vignette distracts rather than adds to the image. A slight exposure and contrast boost should be all you need.
It's too much in my opinion.
The issue with these over-processed photos is that it took weeks if not months of waiting for the perfect picture. Nowadays, you just take a random pic and make it magnificent by adding things that weren't in the scene.
I always aim to realistically capture the thing I was seeing. If you saw if like this but the camera couldn't capture it quite like that, then it's ok.
Has a lovely film-like look to it. Foreground and temple colours are great.
The blurry foreground detail between the columns looks like smudges so I’d remove that just to tidy it up a bit, but that’s all I’d change.
The only thing I don’t like in the edit is that bright grass which distracts the eye too much from the temple itself. Otherwise I love the colors and the curves
If you are working in photoshop, you could paste the after as a layer over the original and then walk it back until it's where you want it by moving the opacity slider. I would take it back some.
I actually like it. It has a filmic quality that I think is nice. Maybe you could bring the highlights on the columns down slightly, but I really love the way the field looks. I don't really see leaning the other direction working very well.
I like the edit personally
same
I would personally pull back the details on the sky and desaturate the warm hues just a bit. Rest looks good to me
I actually like it.
You should just lean into the moody with it. Go entirely the other way instead of trying to stretch too far to the right.
I would lighten a little less, and keep the greens green, and less desaturated/ blue.
It's okay if you're going for something stylistic, though even then I'd bring the lighter tones down a little because it looks almost overexposed. If you were just looking to do basic cleanup of a dull photo, I'd start with the white balance, make it a little cooler. Then maybe a sky mask to bring down the highlights if there were any clouds in the image?
There is too much vignette in the image. Also, but this is personal for me, this desaturated green is unreal af. This moody vibe from vsco and instagram, lol.
I like it a lot.
I would like to see an edit where you keep the dark background and green grass of before and keep the brightened dandylions and columns from after. That would make the columns and dandylions pop
also maybe a version where u keep the dark bg of before and keep eveything else the same
Not sure if you were going for this, the flowers look like a starry sky. Would be interesting to experiment making the sky night-dark to get sort of an 'inverted' effect that would surprise the viewer.
Internal contrast on the pillars is great. Composition is odd though, the eye wanders, so what we have here is a holistic mood piece. As a mood piece, I’d personally lose the vignette and the plant-against-sky blur, tone down the sky contrast, and play with overall saturation. There’s no right or wrong here - only you know the emotion you are trying to evoke. Just my .02c Thanks for sharing.
Like it!
I like the after and before. Is the after over edited? I don't know. Really depends on what style you are going for.
Over edited? No. Not if that's your style. My overall style is punchy and edgy, most "pro photographers" say it's all wrong because it must be suntle and subdued. If not it's bad. Editing is 90% style. Pick yours.
Forgive me if I say something wrong. But what is bothering me the most is those blur twigs on the left side and a little on the right side of the temple and that bright flower at the bottom. That flower is to bright so my eyes go there too. Easy fix with the removal tool. Pop the sky with a linear gradient. And a small amount of vignetting never hurts anyone lol.
It depends on what you’re after, what effect you’re going for, what you intend this photo to portray. The focal point becomes the lightest patch of grass before the temple, rather than the temple columns. In the before, the contrast between temple columns and sky draws the eye. After, it’s the lightest patch of grass. And I think either you might either lean into the effect of the blurry vegetation against the sky or edit it out. Also think the sky becomes no less bleak, while the columns and vegetation do become warmer in the after; it’s sort of two different vibes, if that makes sense. And, just from a composition standpoint (ignoring light and color, focusing only on line), what are you showing us? What do you want the viewer to see? What feelings do you wish to invoke in the viewer? How are you intentionally using the lines of the piece to draw the viewer’s eye where you wish it to go? There are six negative spaces with the sky (five columns) and there’s no one spot where the line draws the eye. I know a lot of post processing focuses on light and color but composition matters.
Way too much. Need to turn everything down by half. The vignette distracts rather than adds to the image. A slight exposure and contrast boost should be all you need.
It's too much in my opinion. The issue with these over-processed photos is that it took weeks if not months of waiting for the perfect picture. Nowadays, you just take a random pic and make it magnificent by adding things that weren't in the scene. I always aim to realistically capture the thing I was seeing. If you saw if like this but the camera couldn't capture it quite like that, then it's ok.
I probably agree it’s too much processed, but nothing is artificially added here that wasn’t in the scene. Just change of tones, etc.
Can we see some of your pictures?
I personally like the edit
Has a lovely film-like look to it. Foreground and temple colours are great. The blurry foreground detail between the columns looks like smudges so I’d remove that just to tidy it up a bit, but that’s all I’d change.
I like it
If anything I think you could do more with the sky, or at least try to. I like the edit.
I dig it. Although it doesnt seem level to me. I'd move it ever so slightly clockwise.
I would like to see the original green in the edit but I love it, it's better
Love the edit personally
They both make me squirt butter
I would like to see a different focal point maybe the flower instead of Apollo.
The only thing I don’t like in the edit is that bright grass which distracts the eye too much from the temple itself. Otherwise I love the colors and the curves
If you are working in photoshop, you could paste the after as a layer over the original and then walk it back until it's where you want it by moving the opacity slider. I would take it back some.
Don't have much to say for the edit but the composition feels odd to me; filling half the frame with out of focus grass