Red Bud in Spring - Repost

Spencer, this is a beautiful tree. The pink blossoms against the green grass is a great color combination. I much prefer your original post as to me the repost is oversaturated and no longer looks real.

I love redbuds. Probably my favorite flowering tree. Like carol, I prefer the first, softer version. The color looks more accurate. However, there seems to be something off with the processing of both as, on my monitor, the images are distorted or "pixelated," for lack of a better word, in various areas, especially noticeable in the grass. Maybe someone else can venture a guess as to the cause.

Spencer: I love redbuds and this is a good one. Says Spring to me. Well done. >=))>

Carol, Scott, and Bill,

Your comments lift my spirits. Thanks!

I note the same pixelated portion in the grass Scott mentioned. It is also in the JPG in the folder from which I upload. It is not in the Raw photo in Lightroom 2.7. I use Mogrify to export to the holding folder but the problem is primarily with this particular photo. I have seen some distortion along limbs and tops of mountains in some photos as well (after exporting from Lightroom). One can almost read letters and numbers in the grass. If someone has any thoughts, please let me know.

I've noticed and issue with Lightroom myself, but if you check the image size after importing you might find as I did that software automatically downsized it when importing. So I have had to adjust the size in Elements after tweaking in lightroom. I don't know if that's the issue but I thought I'd pass it on. Very nice image of a redbud, by the way.

Paul

Thank you Paul. I'll look into your solution and report back.

Carol, Scott, Bill, and Paul,

I resized the exported jpg from 100 to 300KB and that seemed to correct 90% of the pixelization. Thanks again for your comments. Sincerely, Spencer

The second post has fixed the issue! This looks wonderful!

Good job on the fix.