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Killarney
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Unfortunately the skys were poor.
Converted to b+w, increased contrast and cropped.
I think that’s pretty good; I like the composition and the sky suits it well. Possibly it needs a very slight anticlockwise rotation.
Really like the composition on that too, Mark, and would like to see what it looked like in colour. Agree with you on the sky, a more dramatic sky and lighting woulda made it a really speciial snap. Heading down that way in a few weeks myself, hopefully I’ll manage to take a decent snap or two.
You may have boosted contrast already, but I think it needs a lot more. The shot has a very grey feel over all for me. I’d be inclined to whack up the contrast significantly in this shot – mind if I have a go? (very quick edit)
I was just looking at this image and figuring out what I thought about it. The composition is good and I like the crop but I felt it was very grey and flat and needed a good boost in contrast ( I’m not sure Mark but do you convert to BW by applying using grey scale ? I find that leaves them ….well … grey :shock: )..
Anyway I think Ciaran’s edit really brings out the “punch” in this shot in terms of sharpness and contrast … Its transformed :) quite a moody feel to it, Very nice. Me Likey :D
Lorraine
Hmmm, Ciaran I like it, looks nice better. How much contrast did you ask ?
Feel free to edit any of my pics :D
Mark
Overall, looking at the originals histogram, there seemed to be good contrast in the shot with a nice range of tones all the way through from black to white. But the problem is that they were very localised. All the blacks were in the trees on the left (some in the middle) and all the whites in the sky and the speculative highlights in the water. The mountains and reeds in the foreground were where the mid tone greys were found. So I just boosted the contrast locally in each area. The sky I brought some detail back in by adjusting the black point. The mountains I stretched the contrast so you had a complete range of tones, as these make up a significant portion of the image. I also locally boosted the contrast in the reeds.
It’s a quick edit, so there are some halos visible, but it gives you an idea of where contrast could be boosted. Also, with the higher contrast it gives the impression of a sharper image because there are more transitions from shadow through to highlight rather than gradual transitions through the middle greys.
Finally, I added a hint of sepia as well as slight vignetting and a border. If you want to email me on the original full sized version I’d be happy to give it a full edit. No pressure though!
Really like Ciaran’s version, and he’s right on all points.
Hope you don’t mind me having a play with your bits either; I know my way of messing with snaps isn’t to everyone’s taste, so slap me if I’m treading on toes.:lol: :lol:
Great forum this .. playing with eachothers “bits” now : :shock:
Another cool edit – I really like this
what did you do ??
Lorraine
what did you do ??
I wish I knew, sometimes stuff just happens and I go with it.
But basically there’s three soft masks – sky, trees to the left, and then an overall one like a graduated ND filter.
Fecked about with the contrast in each of these on a seperate layer. Merged everything. Copy pasted onto a new layer, gauss blurred that layer and set it to soft light 50%. Burnt/dodged various bits. Added two new layers of full flat colouts – a greeny blue and an orangey grey, set opacity on one to 20% colour, set opacity on the top one to 15% darken. Unsharped the lot at 50/3/8. I probably did a few other bits, it gets kinda vague when you’re in the middle of it. ;)I admit to not trying to bring out every single detail – though I could – and using blow-outs and deep blacks, but for me it’s more about creating a mood based on how I see things.
Great guys. Anyone else feel free to have a go also :)
Really interesting look there Mick, like something from the 1920’s.I’ll get the original in psd format for you Ciaran. Thanks !
Mark
Burt wrote:
Well, since everyone is having a go……
Looks like a sepia version of mine :D
For sepia to have an “authentic” look, you have to ensure only to add it to the shadow details. Hand printed sepia prints, the whites are still white, or at least sepia is added in far smaller proportions to the shadow detail.
“Looks like a sepia version of mine Very Happy
For sepia to have an “authentic” look, you have to ensure only to add it to the shadow details. Hand printed sepia prints, the whites are still white, or at least sepia is added in far smaller proportions to the shadow detail.”
No actually, its a Duotone version of Marks :D
but thanks for the tutorial
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