Playing with Photoshop... Comments appreciated!!!

Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM

08/28/2005 04:53:24 PM · #1

Total madness.... I processed the heck out of these shots...
Are they over done?

Don't be shy, I'm trying to learn. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

SteveJ

Canon EOS-7D

08/28/2005 04:55:39 PM · #2

Bluffs 5 is maybe a little over-processed, but still a good shot. The others look okay to me. The kit lens is surprisingly good, don't know why so many knock it??

Elitism??

Steve

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

08/28/2005 04:58:10 PM · #3

The kit lens seems to work OK... Got my eyes on a EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM though... I can't wait!!!!

Thanks for the comments

aronya1

Nikon D70

08/28/2005 05:11:39 PM · #4

Love the 2nd one.

Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

08/28/2005 07:27:49 PM · #5

bump.

CEJ

Canon EOS-40D

08/28/2005 07:34:32 PM · #6

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Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC for Canon

08/29/2005 07:56:47 AM · #7

final bump for the morning weekday crowd

could the first two be examples of high contrast?

Message edited by author 2005-08-29 07:57:21.

lucas

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

08/29/2005 08:16:33 AM · #8

wow i really like them. my favorite is the second one. and i dont think you over did them. they look really great. As for the last one it looks like you photographed reflections in the water. (or you did something in photoshop)

reading your last post i might assus you want to get high contrast picutre in the first one. if you have the color version of the first one here is some of the stuff that i would do.
1. Add a Gradiation layer to make sure its black and white.
2. Add a Channel mixer layer
- Check Monochrome.
- Make red a bit more, Green a bit less, and blue a bit more ( you dont have to do it like this just play around with it till it looks good.)
- Pull contrast up a bit too. but just a bit you dont wanna over do it.

SJCarter

Canon EOS-7D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

08/29/2005 09:28:18 AM · #9

Really beautiful work! Left you some comments.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

08/29/2005 12:45:21 PM · #10

The B/W image doesn't seem quite right in its tonalities. There's a blocked-up sense to the dark areas and a general lack of luminosity to it. Additionally, it seems cropped too tight on the right. Thje grass area and the water to the left seem blotchy. Where the dark tree trunks overlap the water there seems to be haloing. Overall, it's a poitentially nice shot with a palpable mood; I'd start again from color and see if I could get a better-expressed tonal range here.

Bluff 6, the one with the blue sky, is the weakest of them all technically. I deduce from the overall soft appearance that you were applying some sort of glow effect, but it has failed here. The impression is of an out-of-focus picture, and the sky is the sharpest-looking part of the image. The bright areas on the clouds, though, lack any detail. So do the dark areas amongst the trees. The sky's an unnatural baby-cyan color, and finally there's a visible banc of lightening around the entire perimeter of the image, quite odd.

Bluff 7, the reflections, is visually appealing and soothing. I'd clone or crop out the isolated clump of tree reflection along the right edge, though. Personally, I'm not a fan inverted-reflection shots, but that's jus5t me...

Bluff 5, the "green" shot, is for me by far the most arresting of these images. Some might call it overprocessed, since the greens are truly surreal looking, but it works for me. What I'd do is try to pull some more detail out of the foreground to balance it out in terms of luminosity. As it is now, nearly half the image is nearly full dark, and it feels static, but I'm sure further tweaking can get some more impact from the reflections.

Disclaimer: ldowse PM'd me asking me to look in and give my honest reactions to these images. Normally I don't comment if my comments will have such a generally critical flavor to them. I don't want anyone to think I'm sniping here.

Robt.