This post started with a visit to Chateau Gaillard, which is a castle that was built by Richard the Lionheart and sits on the bank of the River Seine in Normandy, France. As you can see from this original shot, it was a beautiful day:
ISO 200 22mm f/16 1/200sec
My first edit was this one:
ISO 200 22mm f/16 1/200sec
I was initially happy with it, but decided last week to take another shot at it and here is the second edit:
ISO 200 22mm f/16 1/200sec
The first change, was a minor one to the cropping. The second was to change the tones just a bit before applying other boosting edits like changes to the sky and sharpening. None of these second edits were massively different than the first, but overall I like the second version better.
What do you think, do you prefer one version over the other or are these similar enough that you don’t have a particular preference? Your thoughts and comments are welcome below.
Cheers!
Added to Tuesday Photo Challenge, Bank.
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A nice bit of editing and a lovely subject, Amy. 🙂 🙂
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Thanks very much.
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A beautiful spot! I prefer the second version. The crop is nice and the sky is a bit better. Well done
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Thanks very much Tina 🙂
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In its heyday that must have been a terribly impressive building!
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Yeah, no kidding right, intimate your friends and enemies I think.
I’m sorry that you submitted this several days ago and it ended up in my spam section. I have fished it out of there and am approving it. Thanks, as always, for your visit.
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Glad you got hold of this one, P J B – would have hated you thinking I don’t like visiting you!
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🙂
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Second version is great. I have not heard about this Place and I am happy when seeing it thru Your wonderful photo(s). Thank You.
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Thank you very much, and thanks for visiting.
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I like what you’ve done. It’s such a beautiful area of France.
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Thanks very much and we definitely had a beautiful weather day as well.
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It seems we both ended up on banks of rivers, albeit the Seine is more famous than the Raritan.
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Yes, I had seen that we went with a similar idea for the theme. I am including a link again here to your post because from my end, the link you left comes back with an error: https://islandinthenet.com/bank-raritan-river/
Hopefully, between the two, people will be able to visit your blog.
Cheers, Amy
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Amy, I’m not sure why that first link didn’t work. Probably a typo. Thanks for letting me know.
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I figured it out. There is an extraneous ” after the forward / at the end of the URL in my original comment. Perhaps you can edit my original comment to fix that.
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Yes, that was exactly it, I’ve mended it now, and it is working.
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I like both but have a preference for #1: darker greens and a higher horizon line.
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Thanks very much, in real life the colors were so intense that day.
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I like your second edit, Amy. The sky and clouds are more defined and vibrant. Nice post processing!!
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Thanks very much, I was pleased with that version as well.
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