I have a picture that I like but wonder if it can be made better?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12918935@N00/430355238/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12918935@N00/430355238/
Any one want to show how better than can do
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It certainly can, but you need to adjust your mindset slightly and learn to critically evaluate your image from your own eyes.
e.g. A few questions (in no particular order of priority) that you should really be asking yourself to get a few ideas ticking over in your head:
- What do you want to see from this shot overall?
- Was it shot handheld?
- Could the ISO have been reduced?
- Is the composition good?
- Would the shot benefit from any cropping / post processing?
- Are any areas in the shot over-exposed or blown out slightly?
- Could the shot have been re-framed to show more areas of interest? (hint, the sky is far more interesting than the foreground in this IMO)
- Does the shot look sharp?
- Do you think the shutter speed was too long/short?
I know you're just starting out Rookies but you need to be patient. My advice would be to read those Bryan Peterson books that you ordered and keep plugging away
e.g. A few questions (in no particular order of priority) that you should really be asking yourself to get a few ideas ticking over in your head:
- What do you want to see from this shot overall?
- Was it shot handheld?
- Could the ISO have been reduced?
- Is the composition good?
- Would the shot benefit from any cropping / post processing?
- Are any areas in the shot over-exposed or blown out slightly?
- Could the shot have been re-framed to show more areas of interest? (hint, the sky is far more interesting than the foreground in this IMO)
- Does the shot look sharp?
- Do you think the shutter speed was too long/short?
I know you're just starting out Rookies but you need to be patient. My advice would be to read those Bryan Peterson books that you ordered and keep plugging away
Already been done
Compared to:
Again, it all boils down to what you want to see, you need to start being able to critically evaluate your shots, this is probably the key to the learning process.
So we've already got one example - what do you want to see from the shot? More vibrant colours? Black & white?
divine_madness said:Quick bash:
Compared to:
Again, it all boils down to what you want to see, you need to start being able to critically evaluate your shots, this is probably the key to the learning process.
So we've already got one example - what do you want to see from the shot? More vibrant colours? Black & white?
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You could really give it the works in photoshop and crop, blue the sky, green the grass and trees and tweak the building....giving you something like this:
You can download the Photoshop file (.PSD) HERE (about 4mb - please say if you downloaded it so I can delete it
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For stuff like this the colour balance in Photoshop is you friend can really bring out the colours, but can leave it looking VERY fake sometimes 
You can download the Photoshop file (.PSD) HERE (about 4mb - please say if you downloaded it so I can delete it
)For stuff like this the colour balance in Photoshop is you friend
can really bring out the colours, but can leave it looking VERY fake sometimes
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Jimmy_Lemon said:You could really give it the works in photoshop and crop, blue the sky, green the grass and trees and tweak the building....giving you something like this:
You can download the Photoshop file (.PSD) HERE (about 4mb - please say if you downloaded it so I can delete it
For stuff like this the colour balance in Photoshop is you friend
Download wont work mate
And that picture is fab how do you change it all do you have to select what you want changing or does it all change the same time?
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Justin said:Change the colour balance a bit and brightened up the sky, also added a bit of unsharp mask. Parts of the bushes and trees are underexposed, would have been better if it was shot in raw and you could have adjusted it.
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Sky is now blown out and over saturated. If anything, the sky needed darkening from the original. Mine came out the same as Jimmy's, except i fixed the vignetting (SP?) in the top left before doing any editing.
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oops fixed the link to the download now - wish I could spell 
The way I do it is to make a couple of copies of the same image (select all, copy, paste) so you end up with 4 or 5 layers in photoshop with the same thing on each. Then select the top layer and go to Image>ajusmtents>colour correction and shove the blue slider upto the top (so it makes the whole image fairly blue) then using the eraser tool rub out anything you dont want to be blue - this will show you the original image where you are erasing (as thats whats on the layer below)...repeat this process for the next layer, but now try green...and make the grass and bushes look a bit greener. Then use the eraser to rub out the church, so again it shows through to the layer below. Now you have a green "mask" at the bottom and a blue mask at the top...so all I did next was use the Brightness & Contrast tool to brighten and contrast the church building itself a bit..... think thats about all I did. Cant remember.
Not sure if you can do all of this in elements - never used it, but imaging you can do most of that as its fairly basic (not 100% sure you can do colour correction).
The way I do it is to make a couple of copies of the same image (select all, copy, paste) so you end up with 4 or 5 layers in photoshop with the same thing on each. Then select the top layer and go to Image>ajusmtents>colour correction and shove the blue slider upto the top (so it makes the whole image fairly blue) then using the eraser tool rub out anything you dont want to be blue - this will show you the original image where you are erasing (as thats whats on the layer below)...repeat this process for the next layer, but now try green...and make the grass and bushes look a bit greener. Then use the eraser to rub out the church, so again it shows through to the layer below. Now you have a green "mask" at the bottom and a blue mask at the top...so all I did next was use the Brightness & Contrast tool to brighten and contrast the church building itself a bit..... think thats about all I did. Cant remember.
Not sure if you can do all of this in elements - never used it, but imaging you can do most of that as its fairly basic (not 100% sure you can do colour correction).
Jimmy_Lemon said:oops fixed the link to the download now - wish I could spell
The way I do it is to make a couple of copies of the same image (select all, copy, paste) so you end up with 4 or 5 layers in photoshop with the same thing on each. Then select the top layer and go to Image>ajusmtents>colour correction and shove the blue slider upto the top (so it makes the whole image fairly blue) then using the eraser tool rub out anything you dont want to be blue - this will show you the original image where you are erasing (as thats whats on the layer below)...repeat this process for the next layer, but now try green...and make the grass and bushes look a bit greener. Then use the eraser to rub out the church, so again it shows through to the layer below. Now you have a green "mask" at the bottom and a blue mask at the top...so all I did next was use the Brightness & Contrast tool to brighten and contrast the church building itself a bit..... think thats about all I did. Cant remember.
Not sure if you can do all of this in elements - never used it, but imaging you can do most of that as its fairly basic (not 100% sure you can do colour correction).
I go and try and find a trailware of Element for Mac if you find it give us a shout
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or a bit of black and white and colour
