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 10/16/2004 06:14:45 PM · #1
I've always loved carrying my camera with me no matter what -- and when I see something that looks good, I love to snap a picture. Just recently though, I'm trying to get into making some of the pictures look more 'professional' like a lot of the edited pictures I see on here.

Well, here's my original...

ORIGINAL

and here's after editing it with color levels, contrast and brightness...

EDITED

I was hoping to get some of you to take the original and edit it then show what you have done with the picture to make it look more professional.

Thanks in advance.

Message edited by author 2004-10-16 18:15:45.
 10/16/2004 06:41:57 PM · #2
I'm certainly not one to start giving editing tutorials, but hopefully there are other dpc'ers working on your photo as we speak!

Usually a thread like this gets great results with lots of variations (most of them great, all of them helpful!) of the original photo.

It looks like you're off to a good start, although I've found that when you've got blown out highlights in the original (like your sky), there's not much that can be done to rescue them without making them look artificial or gray...

...but somebody here will probably prove me wrong with their edit of your photo!
 10/16/2004 06:52:43 PM · #3
My quickie attempt...and I didn't even begin to tackle the sky; I do that all the time and can't fix it so I didn't bother. I boosted the reds and yellows, and then used the virtual photographer plugin called "Fall Colors." Last I used the autofx "dreamy" plugin. Probably a bit over the top for most people but that's just me. LOL ;o)
10/16/2004 06:53:21 PM · #4
Yeah I hear you about the sky. It would be nice if the trees made up the entire ceiling in the photo. I guess I'm just looking to see what *can* be done because this is definately something that has interested me even since I was a little boy. My parents were always yelling at me to stop wasting film -- but now film is unlimited (well, memory card space and battery life).

I don't have the best gear -- a sony dsc-p52 and photoshop -- hopefully a bigger memory card come christmas :-)
 10/16/2004 06:56:16 PM · #5
Originally posted by deapee:
I don't have the best gear -- a sony dsc-p52 and photoshop -- hopefully a bigger memory card come christmas :-)


Don't let that stop you! I won a red ribbon with a Sony DSC-P32...a step DOWN from your camera! :o)
 10/16/2004 07:01:22 PM · #6
I'm no expert (by a long shot) but figured I'd take a crack at it. I ran auto contrast, auto levels, then tweeked levels manually some, increased red and reduced green a little, increased saturation a little, and finally adjusted gamma +5.



Message edited by author 2004-10-16 20:57:50.
 10/16/2004 07:05:53 PM · #7
As for the sky, I have the same problem in all my outdoor shots with a darker forground than background (sky). I was just reading an article in the November Outdoor Photographer about Split Neutral Density filters that help with the drastic difference in light for these type scenes. You might want to read it.

I know, just what I need, another thing to learn about photography!

Message edited by author 2004-10-16 20:59:10.
 10/16/2004 08:11:15 PM · #8
Wow thanks for all the responses...the edited images definately look a lot better than the original.

Say you were posting this exact image on a website for example to display to people...how would you 'present' it...I mean what gets a border, what doesn't, what gets a bigger border, etc...

Thanks.
 10/16/2004 08:34:26 PM · #9


Just a quickie. Played around with color balance, contrasts, added a graduated sky filter, soft light gaussian blur layer, added border and text.
 10/16/2004 08:53:13 PM · #10
Originally posted by moodville:


Just a quickie. Played around with color balance, contrasts, added a graduated sky filter, soft light gaussian blur layer, added border and text.


nice, good stuff... props on the editing work...
 10/16/2004 08:55:03 PM · #11
Please forgive me!

10/16/2004 09:01:49 PM · #12
Whoa! See, It knew I was out of my league. Laurie, Moodville & Fibonacci all di wonderful things with the photo. I think Moodville answered the question on borders without words!
 10/16/2004 09:02:50 PM · #13


My version. Darkened and played with the colors.
 10/16/2004 11:44:03 PM · #14
here is a slightly different take...quick edit



Edit: Forgot to attach img

Message edited by author 2004-10-16 23:46:00.
 10/16/2004 11:50:28 PM · #15
Originally posted by dg02:
here is a slightly different take...quick edit



Edit: Forgot to attach img


I like the letterbox borders but I've gotten so many complaints when I've used them :(
 10/16/2004 11:56:13 PM · #16
Moodville and dg02:
SENSATIONAL WORK.
 10/16/2004 11:56:33 PM · #17
generally not a big fan of borders either, thought it worked with this one
 10/17/2004 01:15:34 AM · #18
Not as good as some others, but what the heck. Sorta of a tritone. Many layers and many different processes.
10/17/2004 09:48:45 AM · #19
I didn't mean to kill another thread. It was because I was bored and didn't have any housework to do and it was really late.
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