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Bad color

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Reason(s) for Rejection:
- Bad Color: Not enough color depth or too much color saturation.

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Re: Bad color

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Should be self explanatory.
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Re: Bad color

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Norm wrote:Should be self explanatory.
Except for the fact that iv'e changed the saturation levels 3 times and they continue to give me that 1 reason.

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Re: Bad color

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It's overexposed as well.
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My work monitor sucks for evaluating pictures but it looks way to reddish - look at the snow, etc... (there's your bad color) I'll check again later at home when I can look at it better.

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Re: Bad color

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What did you use as a lighting source?

Looks like the light is concentrated at one spot and not even across the shot. Over exposed aswell.
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nssd70m-2 wrote:
Norm wrote:Should be self explanatory.
Except for the fact that iv'e changed the saturation levels 3 times and they continue to give me that 1 reason.
You need to change more than that. It's not just the saturation, it's the color and exposure. As already mentioned, it's overexposed. The locomotive looks way too bright and the blue doesn't look correct. The sky also has a lot of noise in it.

The color is bad because it's way too orange/red.
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Re: Bad color

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A tale of two different color temperatures. If you make the scene white balance correct, the middle snow goes blue. If the middle is left correct, then the rest of the shot is off. It's gonna take some work in PS to get the entire scene correct. After you fix the white balance issues, then you can address the exposure, contrast, noise, etc.

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JUST AARON wrote:What did you use as a lighting source?

Looks like the light is concentrated at one spot and not even across the shot. Over exposed aswell.
My guess would be car headlights....

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Re: Bad color

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Typhoon wrote:
JUST AARON wrote:What did you use as a lighting source?

Looks like the light is concentrated at one spot and not even across the shot. Over exposed aswell.
My guess would be car headlights....

What I was thinking, Just thought Id ask.
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