Little River

Nice image. You can try reducing the red with the red slider on the saturation tool. Use that in conjunction with curve tool.

I think this is GREAT. Nice Anthony

I like the reddishness of the image but to reduce it, you might try Image>Adjust>Curves>Red Channel. Anchor a center point, then slide the point very carefully on a diagonal towards the bottom right corner. Don't go very far, just watch the color change until you get what you want. Very nice photo.

Nicely done, and I don't mind the red at all and wouldn't have noticed without your comment. (But that one spot of dust ... )

Rich

Rich S wrote:But that one spot of dust ...

I must have been sleeping when I worked on this one.

Tony, I love this! Very dramatic! To set the whites right the most accurate way to do it is set the white point properly in PhotoShop. This will work for any image that has an area that should be true white, or neutral.

-Open the info palette.

-Select the eyedropper tool from the tool bar (or hit "I" on the keyboard).

-Move the eyedropper around the whites of the image while taking notice to the R,G and B values in the info palette. You will see the red values are high in the area of the white water.

-Pick a spot that should be neutral white, preferably the brightest area in the image. Use the color sampler tool to mark that spot (the tool can be found under the eyedropper in the tool palette).

-Go to levels and click the lower right eyedropper icon which opens the color picker window allowing you to set the white point (the other icons set the gray and black points).

-While taking note of the values displayed for your selected point set the values in the color picker window for R, G and B so that they are all the same and within the range of the average value on your selected point.

-Click OK and the window will close. The mouse pointer will change to an eyedropper. Click once right in the middle of your selected point and you will effectively neutralize that area and all other areas will fall into place.

This should be done with a variety of points selected until you have the results you want. The actual numbers you set are a judgment call but based on the values in your selected points. If you set the number at the highest value you risk making things to bright, but contrary to that if you use the lowest number you may set things too dark. Striking a balance is key.

Hope this helps and sorry if you already know this

Greg, the red shift isn't just a problem with setting the whites. It's hard to tell from this single image but when I used the ND 4, the image intensified the reds compared to when I didn't use the ND 4. (Say when I used the ND 2 instead.) I'll have to put up a side by side example later to show the issue.

What was really weird was I couldn't correct this using the WB adjustments for the RAW. The white in the water is right on the money but the rocks are redder than the other images. This happened every time I used the filter and it is a lot more noticeable in images with a lot of green. (Or where there was suppose to be a lot of green.)

Tony:
Great shot, very soothing to the eye

Love the close up view!

Thanks all. Heather, this is what I do when I'm not out with you and Greg.

I particularly like the top part of this shot (although I like the rest of it too). I wish I had a dollar for every "Little River" there is in the world - seems to be one almost everywhere .

Tony

Very nice capture