Photo Edit; Favour Needed!

divuk83 · 16 Jul 2013 at 22:48

I'm thinking of getting a large panoramic canvas printed however I'm not 100% happy with the picture and my photo shop skills are pretty poor and I thought perhaps someone on here could help? I think with some subtle tweaking it could be greatly improved.

Thanks in advance.

Dave

https://picasaweb.google.com/107783051387991232807/ForumsStuff#5901183827174336738

Gaffer · 17 Jul 2013 at 00:28

IMHO, it isn't a great image. The sky is meh. There is nothing to focus attention on.

I went into LR an:

Colour balance auto.
Blue saturation to max and Recovery to max to try to get something out of the sky.
A little more saturation on orange and red.
A little more contrast.

http://tug.com/stuff/Florence%20Pan-2.jpg

Cosimo · 17 Jul 2013 at 09:58

A little more life....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosimoss/9307132438/

Solaris · 17 Jul 2013 at 10:20

Can we not get the RAW?

Solaris · 17 Jul 2013 at 10:23

And what camera was it taken on? What lens?

Cosimo · 17 Jul 2013 at 10:58

The stones of Florence....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosimoss/9304649689/

Solaris · 17 Jul 2013 at 11:12

Thought I'd have a go...

Florence-Pan by solarisfireball, on Flickr

divuk83 · 17 Jul 2013 at 11:19

Thanks all.

Taken on a d7000 with a 50mm f1.4 exif will probably missing as its several shots merged with PTGui. I need to check as to what this software outputs, I'm not sure I can emerge raws in it?

The sky is not the best and the green of the trees distracts from the building. But I though with some careful tweaking it would be greatly improved.

Thanks Cosmo and gaffer, I will have a proper look when I'm back on a proper computer.

Dave

Solaris · 17 Jul 2013 at 11:36

Take 2... Trying to do this with a mouse... Need my gfx tablet really...

Florence-Pan-NewSky by solarisfireball, on Flickr

Nexus · 17 Jul 2013 at 12:27

Urgh, HDR looks horrible.

Genoma · 17 Jul 2013 at 13:09

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...AAmM/bESGK7sL4Rk/w1587-h545-no/AY_130506_.jpg

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balanced the clouds with a bit of contrast, made the trees pop into the foreground, a bit of clarity and a bit of detail. Tried to keep it natural and balanced.

Cosimo · 17 Jul 2013 at 13:32

Nexus said:
Urgh, HDR looks horrible.

A little more subtle:

Well it is when viewed on a calibrated monitor.

PistolPete · 17 Jul 2013 at 13:50

Cosimo said:
A little more subtle:

a1ex2001 · 17 Jul 2013 at 14:21

OVER COOKED HDR tick FAKE SKY tick how to ruin any photo is three or four mouse clicks!

Genoma I really like your take on it nice pop but not too fake and the colours still feel reasonably authentic, Florence is beautiful and the view from Micheal Angelo Plazza stunning I think the OP needed to visit at sunset and bring a wider angle!

Genoma · 17 Jul 2013 at 18:01

a1ex2001 said:
Genoma I really like your take on it nice pop but not too fake and the colours still feel reasonably authentic

Cheers!

Genoma · 17 Jul 2013 at 18:02

divuk if you can post the RAWs I'll stitch them for you and post process as above if you are thinking of printing.

ElDude · 17 Jul 2013 at 21:33

I think TUGs version is the best so far. The only thing I'd do with that now is maybe add a layer over the mountains and sky to try and get a bit more detail/colour. Not an easy task as the sky is blown and the mist/haze has eaten most detail there. The clouds look like an old oil painting.

Also, those HDR attempts are everything that is wrong with HDR. Not being mean, but they truly are horrid.

Clown · 17 Jul 2013 at 22:02

Those HDRs are not nice to look at.

Click for larger. You took a really nice panorama, I like my panos

divuk83 · 18 Jul 2013 at 15:12

Genoma said:
divuk if you can post the RAWs I'll stitch them for you and post process as above if you are thinking of printing.

Thanks very much, I really like your edits, particularly the second one. Annoyingly after converting the RAW's to jpeg to create the panorama I think I must have deleted the raws as I can't find the original files anywhere. I have printed decent canvas prints of 6mp jpegs before and they looked great so I should get away with the jpeg this time, not that I have much choice!

Cheers

Dave

Colourjam · 18 Jul 2013 at 16:00

Beautiful photo, nice one.