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02/05/2005 09:46:12 PM · #1 |
I took this picture today and positively love it but I know the lighting is a bit harsh. I have tried playing around with it in PSP but I can't get it to lighten up without looking washed out. I don't want to overprocess it so that future images like this would not be approved in a challenge where only basic editing is allowed.
Can anybody please help me?
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02/05/2005 10:13:36 PM · #2 |
What were you trying to convey in that photograph? Was it how open everything is and a feeling of lonliness? Zoom out more or take a few steps back to get everything in the frame. Was it something about the smaller tree growing under the bigger tree? Get both of them into the frame completely. Was it the way the light hits that third tree? Move around it and take shots of just the tree from a few angles.
There's always a reason you hit the shutter button when you hit it...what made you hit it here? Get up close if you have to or back away if you have to. Always remember though, the camera only sees what you tell it to see and not what you saw when you decided to take the picture.
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02/05/2005 10:16:57 PM · #3 |
It is going to be really hard to get rid of that blue hue with a point and click, or any camera on automatic for that matter. It is going to meter itself how it pleases, and snow either comes out grey or blue. You can bring out the color in this photo by doing a curves adjustment. You will also want to do some color balance to lessen the harshness of the blues and bring out the reds on the trees. It will make them jump out at you and look alive. A bit of sharpening couldn't hurt as well.
All in all, I find the shot to be very busy though. You might want to clone out all those little green pegs sticking up in the background, or just find a spot to crop it and show only part of the image.
Hope this helps.
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02/05/2005 10:19:14 PM · #4 |
I am not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but I took a shot at it.
Step 1: use levels and set the center number to 2, I am taking about the numbers at the top that start off at 0 1 255. This will lighten the photo but it will look very washed out.
Step 2: Use USM with setting of Radius of 90, amount of 40 and threshold of 0. This brings the contrast back in.
Step 3: This is optional but I used remove color cast to whiten the snow.
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02/05/2005 11:57:09 PM · #5 |
my attempt...
my objective with this initially was to bring more attention to the grave markers, i realized however, that there was simply not enough detail in the graves to really bring anything out. Only one of the gravestones had any recognizable writing, but it wasnt even readable.
what I ended up doing was increasing the contrasts, shifting the red channel slightly over to the yellow in order to allow me to put less emphasis on the trees (found initialy on the red channel) and then saturating slightly the red channel in order to bring out the reds of the roses, and the flower on the grave marker.
hopes this helps.
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02/06/2005 04:15:54 AM · #6 |
Before, i just posted ideas on how to make your picture better. I actually played with it in photoshop and thought that you might enjoy looking at the results. I did curves, color balance and brightness on this picture and it is shown here:
also I put up a tritone on the picture. I feel that a tritone brings out the best in a snow picture. It is hard to get that good exposure on snow. Plus when I first looked at it, I was so stuck on the tree by the pond, I didn't notice those were temprorary grave markers. My try is posted below:
Maybe this helps more than what I posted earlier. If not, let me know. |
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02/13/2005 08:33:50 PM · #7 |
Here is my attempt (totally new to all of this, so the more images I mess with, hopefully the better I'll eventually get!)
Cloned out green stakes, adjusted color balances, some dodging and burning to background and foreground objects, slight saturation and contrast adjustments, and a USM.
*edit: Just realized you wanted this done under Basic Editing rules. Sorry about that. This was most definitely done under advanced rules.
Message edited by author 2005-02-13 20:43:20.
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02/13/2005 09:26:15 PM · #8 |
Basic editing rules - PSP8
Fade correction, B&C, USM, Hue/Sat
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