Reprocessed southwest

[Almazar80]

I've been reprocessing some close to three year old pictures taken in Utah (and Arizona). I've learned a lot about processing in the intervening months. Here are some of the images.

1. Sunset at Dead Horse Point



2. At the other side of the road



3. Dawn at Monument Valley




Thanks for looking.

[sury]

I loved the second one. I take it, the white specks are remnant snow in the first shot. Those are making me
wonder if the image is tad over processed.

Sury

[Almazar80]

The white specks are not snow. They are rocks. (I had to take a look at the original raw flle, based on your observation). I posted the image elsewhere and I had a similiar comment to overprocessing #1. I looked at various images of Dead Horse Point in the net and could not find too many in which the rocks were visible. So for my take, I sharpened the image so you could actually see the rocks (more effective on a larger image, not something downsized). At the dimension posted, the rocks look like flakes. Thanks for the comments.

[bakubo]

I also sometimes go back to old photos and reprocess them. Sometimes I get much better results the second time around.

They look good. I suppose for my taste today (maybe not tomorrow or yesterday) the first shot is a bit overprocessed. Note that I said for my taste. What is important is your taste though. Generally, I think, it is best to do what satisfies you. Unless you are trying to sell something who really cares what other people think? Actually, even with selling there are probably two main paradigms:

1. Find out what people like and then try to sell it to them.
2. Do things your own way and try to get people to like what you like.

The same is true of political leaders. For example, Bill Clinton was a master of doing polling to find out what the whims/emotions of the day were and then scurrying to get in front of them. Of course, it doesn't mean he did it all the time and on every issue, but it was the general trajectory of his administration.