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10/28/2005 08:49:08 PM · #1 |
I shot this lighthouse in the mumbles a few weeks back and it really sums the area up, there's the lighthouse to show it's by the sea, the countryside and industry all shown in the background.
I've brought the colours out more than it was by simply changing the curves but it just seems to be lacking something. I was going to change it to B&W like I do with most of my shots when I saw the nice white light and the shadows and the lighthouse itself looks okay in B&W but the sky goes from this nice blue to a very oppressive grey and I can't lighten it without losing the nice shadows on the lighthouse.
Any tips please on what I can do with the make it stand out or should I just scrap it? Thanks.
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10/28/2005 08:53:00 PM · #2 |
You can always do selective modification to the image, mask in only the sky and lighten..
you can use channel mixer during b&w conversion and use more blue channel to lighten up the sky |
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10/28/2005 09:15:35 PM · #3 |
Thanks for that, but does anyone else just think that the composition is wrong?
I'm looking at it and it's a very boring photograph, I would have loved to have got above it more but it just so happened that I was driving past just as the sun was hitting it.
Should I have it more to the right?
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10/28/2005 09:49:52 PM · #4 |
how about this 
Edit- Usually, offcenter subjects are more interesting and artistic. Zooming out and getting a better sense of the landscape would be good too.
Message edited by author 2005-10-28 21:51:51.
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10/28/2005 09:52:19 PM · #5 |
I've been working on this for a few minutes and wavelength beat me to the punch on the crop.
Here is my version. I am not able to bring out any detail in the blown highlights. But here it is.
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10/28/2005 10:10:15 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by greatandsmall:
I've been working on this for a few minutes and wavelength beat me to the punch on the crop.
Here is my version. I am not able to bring out any detail in the blown highlights. But here it is.
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Yes, having spot metered on the highlighted part of the lighthouse would have helped immensely. Another trick is to use evaluative in "auto" and then changed to manual shutter priority and take it a few stops faster that what it set from there to get a little less light.
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10/28/2005 10:19:40 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by wavelength:
Yes, having spot metered on the highlighted part of the lighthouse would have helped immensely. Another trick is to use evaluative in "auto" and then changed to manual shutter priority and take it a few stops faster that what it set from there to get a little less light. |
There's also that thing where you layer two exposures; one metered for the darks and one for the lights. |
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10/28/2005 10:40:51 PM · #8 |
I just worked on this for literaly 2-3 minutes, so it's a LONG way from perfect, but you can make a selection for the bright area and save it. You can make a copy of the BG and load the selection and then hit delete to empty the selected area.
Now turn off the dupe layer and select a section of wall on the original layer and copy it. Paste the selection, drag it so it covers some white area. Paste/drag as many times as needed to cover all the white area. You'll have 5-6 new layers, each with a pasted selection.
Make BG also invisible, and go to "layers/merge visible" to make all the pasted pieces into a signgle layer. Now make the top layer (the dupe from BG with the hole in it) visible, and you'll see the bright area filled with the pasted wall. Use levels, contrast, hue/sat, whatever works to make this pasted layer a reasonable tonality/brightness. That's as far as I took it. The major flaw here is that I've lost some details of the angled planes, and this can be fixed with careful selection and lightening/darkening as needed. The appraoch is valid....
Robt.
Edit: Went back and cloned/reversed/stretched a roof plane onto the filled-in area.
Message edited by author 2005-10-28 22:50:36.
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10/29/2005 07:08:40 AM · #9 |
Thanks for the feedback. Just moving it offcentre made a big difference and I like the shot a lot more like that.
You guys are chocolate. |
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10/29/2005 07:16:33 AM · #10 |
| Please, someone to clone the pole out!!! :D |
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