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06/05/2004 03:50:13 PM · #1 |
Went down to the pub this afternoon and took some pics. I'm still going through them but really like this young swan pic and would be glad of any critique or ways to enhance it? Lightly cropped, resized and a little curves.
I almost sank a pint watching him float toward me.
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06/05/2004 04:01:03 PM · #2 |
Left this note on the photo:
I can't really think of any improvement on this; maybe I'd play with giving the background a blue or golden cast instead of the pretty pure black it seems to be now.
OK, MAYBE run the blur or burn tool along the top-left wing edge where you seem to have a tough of haloing. Otherwise looks great! |
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06/05/2004 04:26:42 PM · #3 |
Thanks Paul, to be honest a couple of minutes after I posted it I thought 'hey, can I do better this month?' and thought about removing it for submission to the June comp. 8 peeps had already viewed it so I guess I just have to do better lol. When you say 'golden' how would I do that?
Heres another one that was close, this had another Swan behind the subject so I cloned it out (hope my cloning skills have improved?)
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06/05/2004 04:29:47 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
Went down to the pub this afternoon and took some pics. I'm still going through them but really like this young swan pic and would be glad of any critique or ways to enhance it? Lightly cropped, resized and a little curves.
I almost sank a pint watching him float toward me.
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I am a sucker for reflection shots and this is a very good one Andi,
Paul. |
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06/05/2004 05:11:06 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
... I guess I just have to do better lol. When you say 'golden' how would I do that? |
Here's some quick experiments/approximations, perhaps ideas for a starting point. Maybe it's too subtle and in my imagination (or monitor settings).
In Photoshop, there's usually at least five "right" ways to do anything (except resizing!). Given the color range, you might also try this in a sepia-tone.
Used tone curve on the Blue/Yellow channel only: fixed points at 25=25, 50=50, 75=75, and dragged the 100 point over to about 86=100. This should subtract blue and add yellow to only the darkest parts of the image, and mainly shows up (to me) in the color of the reflected feathers.
Same as above, but also used composite RGB curve and dragged the black value down to about 86%.
Starting from the original (no curves) I had loaded a Foreground color of Cyan=3, Magenta=46, Yellow=94, Black=0. I used the Fill command at 16% in "Lighten" mode.
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06/05/2004 05:23:03 PM · #6 |
Thanks for taking the time to do this Paul, jeez, this fotog thing gets complicated! of your edits I think the first is the best :)
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06/05/2004 05:25:28 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
Thanks for taking the time to do this Paul, jeez, this fotog thing gets complicated! of your edits I think the first is the best :) |
Yeah, the others start to get noisy (I think) in the blacks. Might work better at higher resolution or running NI on it or something, but really the original is just fine :) |
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