I just stepped out the wardrobe, back from Narnia, where I have two visions. The top image is colour balanced via the shadows and midtones with a cutout filter added, the bottom image as I originally saw it with very little editing. Do you have a preference? Click on images for a closer look.
December 2017, The Other Side of The Wardrobe, Narnia
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I prefer the second.
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I think I do, too 🙂
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So pretty pictures… I prefer the bottom image since this makes me think of a clear and crisp morning. The other one feels more like a cold evening.
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Thank you, Susanne 🙂 A lovely way of putting it 🙂
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I don’t know much about photographs..But I prefer the second as it looks more natural
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Thank you, Surya 🙂
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My pleasure!😊
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🙂
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Both beautiful. I prefer the blueish one because it shows the cold.
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Thank you, Cecile 🙂
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I much prefer the second, but I prefer to take my nature “natural.” It’s such a wonderful scene — I’ll say again, “Lucky you!”
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Thank you, Linda 🙂 I love the snow so long as I don’t have to take the car out in it.
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I prefer the second one, too. The blue one made me colder and feeling more snow on the way. The second feels like the sun might pop out.
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Thank you, Ellen 🙂
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I like the blue one…more moody. And, we look forward to cold looking photos here in Florida 😊.
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Thank you, Judy 🙂 I bet you do, too 🙂
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They both look good, but in light of ‘Narnia’, the top one definitely has a magical quality about it!
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Thank you, Helen, I appreciate your thoughts 🙂
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Top image for me Pete, I like the blue.
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Thank you, Brian 🙂
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Perfect examples of how colour affects mood and “temperature”. Have you seen “Stranger Things”, Pete? The top photo reminds me of something you’d see in The Upside Down. (P.S. What’s a cutout filter?)
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I have never seen the series you mention, so I had to Google out of curiosity. Thank you for the comparison, Sally 🙂 A cutout filter is an artistic filter used in Photoshop to alter images, an added effect if you like, as the intial image appeared to me to be quite fairytale and I just wanted to elborate on it.
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Ah, Photoshop! Thanks, Pete. I like the effect you got with it.
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Thank you 🙂
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I prefer the bottom image not because of the color difference but because I see more detail in it than the blue cast image.
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Thank you, David 🙂 Well noticed. The filter I used did remove some of the finer details in the top image.
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Beautifull image! I prefer the second ☺️
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Thank you, Lisa 🙂
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My personal choice would be the bottom photo but if thinking “Narnia” I’d go for the top one!
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Thank you, Liz 🙂 You got where I was at! 🙂
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The scene is beautiful but I prefer the second version. Looks very much like winter in your neck of the woods😏
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Thank you, Belinda 🙂 The snow falls very heavily this morning.
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I prefer the second as it looks more natural. 🙂
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Thank you, Anki 🙂 That one appears to have the majority vote.
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I prefer the second.
(and it does remind me of when the film first shows the step out of the wardrobe in to the snowy woods).
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Thank you, Vicki 🙂 I love the magic the first snow brings, which always reminds me of that moment beyond the wardrobe.
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The second one is my preference Pete. Snow provides some wonderful photography opportunities.
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Thank you, Brian 🙂 It sure does!
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My own choice would be the second as I like b&w photography, but the top image definitely shows that extra magic can be created to specification. Both lovely in their own right, but obviously the ‘right’ image is the one you would be happiest with in line with what you wanted. 🙂 We had rain overnight, think our bit of snow will be gone today.
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This one was one those when I was not sure what I wanted, so I decided to do both in the end, leaving one as the original shot. Thank you for your lovely comment, Jill 🙂
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Actually, I’ve had another look as snowy scenes can be fooling. Bottom isn’t actually b&w is it? Still peaceful and beautiful.
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I did consider just putting out the single image and making it black and white, but decided to do the versions as seen. Thank you 🙂 They are Silver Birch trees, and I have always loved their droopy branch nature.
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