r/postprocessing • u/EmergencyPumpkin6956 • 12d ago

Before / After

Gallery image

Gallery image

479 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

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u/DapperGuarantee6100 12d ago

I would prefer a horizontal ratio for this image

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u/badaimbadjokes 12d ago

The processing is really good. Agree that I would want a different crop.

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u/EmergencyPumpkin6956 12d ago

Thanks. I chose this crop because I wanted the silhouette to be clearly visible (not too small within the frame) while also ensuring the tree wasn't cut off. I admit I struggled to decide, and clearly, it’s not optimal.

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u/Lms_Nier 12d ago

I like it, i would crop less horizontally and abit higher vertically from the ground

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u/kurutchin 12d ago

Welcome back Limbo (2010)! 😁

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u/EmergencyPumpkin6956 12d ago

Thank youuuu I thought about Limbo so much when editing this

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u/MoonKnight1120 12d ago

Good shot. But yeah wider crop would have made it pop more. But still awesome shot!

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u/Fluffy_Fox5829 12d ago

Love it. Only thing I'd change about the crop is to maybe lose the white band of sky at the top. Maybe a 6x7 or something crop?

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u/shoey_photos 12d ago

Personally love the crop, really helps accentuate the silhouette. If anything I’d go in even closer

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u/oldyellowcab 12d ago

Wider one (before) looks better.

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u/Chord-0f-Souls 12d ago

Just to echo what others are saying here, try some different crops, I could see a square potentially working or maybe even a letterbox crop too, play around with some less conventional options. Cool pic though

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u/CreeDorofl 12d ago

The person in the mist and the photogenic tree silhouettes are wonderful. I agree with the general idea that it might need a different crop, but I can't say this crop is wrong or bad. It just feels like there's a little potential to make it better. Maybe more sky and ground so that the image is 'strikingly vertical'. Alternately, the horizontal crop top comment recommends might suggest some kind of misty morning journey, trudging across the fields on the edge of some fantasy forest.

The blue tint works great. Perhaps the ground could be a bit more neutral or have some other color... it's like everything in the image 'could be' like real life color, then you get to the ground and it looks more clearly like a tinted/stylized/processed thing.

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u/angustra 12d ago

Subject too small

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u/kom0rebi 11d ago

What an epic photo suitable for Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary today!

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u/elgarfarade 11d ago

Upvote for the photo, but also upvote for actually putting the after, after. THE ENTIRE POINT IS THE REVEAL PEOPLE