Another fake foliage pic from a big influencerSn4tch t1_iuwq6kk wrote
I see this every damn fall, some leaf peeper flies his drone in Vermont and then processes the hell out of his photos in Lightroom. The instagrammers eat it the hell up and everyone thinks it's amazing. Meanwhile real professional photographers who take beautiful shots of the foliage get passed up for this hack BS. It sucks....
TL;DR This photo is massively oversaturated and looks like shit.
Twombls OP t1_iuwves7 wrote
Not even just oversaturated. Like willoughby foliage doesn't hit all at once like this. He straight up painted the foliage on the trees.
Sn4tch t1_iuwxg64 wrote
hahahaha holy shit I didn't even zoom in enough to see this. That's utterly insane.
Optimized_Orangutan t1_iv5ajtv wrote
>Like willoughby foliage
This. The great thing about the Willoughby gap area and especially the steep face of Pisgah is the variety of colors and the changes over time as the reds and oranges of the lower altitude maples give way to the bright yellows of the beech and birch trees at higher elevations mixed with the green of the pines. It's never at any point all orange.
AMC4x4 t1_iuxmoc6 wrote
I was just talking to someone who said he went to VT and was disappointed in the color. I sent him pics from a few weeks ago of some of the most amazing color I've seen in the state. It wasn't oversaturated. He's like, "yeah, I guess there are some nice colors in there, but I was expecting better." I was like WTF are you on about?
Now I know why he was disappointed. He's probably used to looking at "photos" like these.
Elysia99 t1_iuxwnvv wrote
OMG these people. They plan their leaf-peeping weekends and then they complain about the colors. Like, you DO know that the color depends on environmental factors beyond our control, riiight? 🤦🏼♀️
Twombls OP t1_iuxzxis wrote
We paint the leaves at night. They were understaffed this year. Next year we will paint them krylon orange like in this picture to make up for it.
Twombls OP t1_iuy0bql wrote
Its a pretty common phenomenon. Especially because even vibrant foliage will look like shit in cell phone photos. So a lot of people come here expecting to take beautiful fall photos. And get BROWN.
AMC4x4 t1_iuy791k wrote
I dunno. I thought my measly camera photos (S22 Ultra) showed the color pretty well. These are all "untouched," but I guess the Samsung algo might have done something: https://imgur.com/a/Xo2fM4i
Actually, the one with the pond was sharpened a little, but that's it.
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