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South of France (Colour / PS advice)
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Hi all,
Would be delighted with some advice on colour on this landscape photograph of a poppy in a wheat field in France. (if it’s not gone too far already). Taken with a Fuji S7000 with 0.79x extender. Advice C & C on any other aspect would also be great. EDITING STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.
Cheers.
I like the contrasts.
I just messed around a bit and I’m not saying this is better BTW :) Gave a little gradient to the sky, ran a velvia action and softened with a little mix of blur.
Thanks for that. Trouble is I don’t have PS I have a very poor cousin version of PS called Arc Studio it comes with the Canon 350D/20D software bundle. I am very interested in the Velvia effect. I saw elsewhere in the forum that it involves boosting the colour in the each channel separately. Is this the case?
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Thanks for that. Trouble is I don’t have PS I have a very poor cousin version of PS called Arc Studio it comes with the Canon 350D/20D software bundle. I am very interested in the Velvia effect. I saw elsewhere in the forum that it involves boosting the colour in the each channel separately. Is this the case?
That’s right. You can also vary the action by doing different effects like “colour Burn” which prooduces very dramatic shadows and colour contrasts. That only really works with a few photos.
Did you get PS Elements? If you want (a legit) copy of Elements I can send you one.
Did not get PS Elements. What exactly is it? Shareware? Freeware?Trial Version?
Full version. Got it with the 10D I think. PM me your address and I’ll send it off tomorrow. It is a cut down version of Photoshop but has a lot of what Photoshop has.
I think that you can not do lots with the background.
I croped the bottom and top and gives you ‘red in green’.
Cheers Roberto,
I never thought of the tight crop. It actually works very well.
I had thought of the crop and tried it by just moving the pic on the screen. I thought it looked too “compressed”. Roberto has shown that I was wrong. It does work very well.
Grangraf I’m afraid you have blown it…….not the composition, but the red channel!
With the poppy playing such a key role in the photo, we need to be able to study its shape, texture etc. Now it just looks flat and red. Is the original file like that, or is it your post-processing that has done that to the reds?
It is a real shame, because the crop shown above demonstrates that there is a great shot there.
Get yourself a mini-tripod so you can use a smaller aperture on shots like this. The strong, sharp lines of the grass would have worked well together with the soft lines of the poppy.
Are you shooting RAW? If you are not and your camera has the facility, PM me. I will give you some good tips.
Hope this didn’t sound too harsh, but I would view this photo as a wasted opportunity. You had a great idea which is more than half the battle won, but you let it down with bad technique.
Cheers Steve,
I going to go back to the original file and see if anything can be retrieved. I think you are right the poppy is almost starting to flare. Problem with the S7000 is the top f-stop as far as I could get was f/8. I also have no idea of the impact of the extender on wavelengths, absorbsions, apertures and the like. As with alot of my shots this was a case of – I saw the poopy in the field stopped the car, jumped out, quick snap. However, of late I’ve been getting a little more steadied about shots, partcularly landscapes.
Well done on that shot grinagraf. It was brought to life by Robertos work. A real example of how this site is working. well done.
Cheers John,
I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve learnt more in the last few weeks than I did in the previous two years.
Slan MJ
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