Autumninal Scenes
canon400d
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Autuminal scenes along the banks of the River Nith which runs through the town of Dumfries, Scotland. C & C welcome as usual.
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Bob
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i'd try different exposure settings, and always look for the highlights to get better readings, do not forget Bryan Peterson's book: Understanding Exposure!
Keep bringing us those images, they help us develop styles and keep us hooked on this marvelous art!
Thanks!
Yes thanks for your advice. I really will look at Brian Peterson's book as I am still learning and thanks again for all your kind help.
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Bob
I hope you don't mind, I took a minute to play around with one of your images. It's a little over-the-top for some tastes, but I just wanted to give you an idea of the latitude you have during the post-processing process.
Please let me know if you want me to remove the image.
Shooter on a shoestring.
Thanks Cato, I think you have done a great job there as it certainly looks much better than mine. I use photoshop CS3. What did you do exactly to bring out those striking colours. When I took the shots I had it on ISO 800 and I think I should have been much lower.
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Bob
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I had the same problem with many landscapes (that hazy, washed out look). Somewhere along the way I found this quick and easy fix. Simply apply the unsharp mask with very low amount, very high radius, and threshold 0 or 1. Another method though more steps is to increase brightness and contrast with an adjustment mask and then apply the high pass filter. (A tutorial on hpf is here. I took the liberty of applying these techniques to two of your images (hope that's OK). I'll post the usm results below. I have created a protected gallery with the other (hpf/bc) results and will PM you the Password. The gallery is in the "Other" category on my homepage.
Original Image
USM applied (amt. 27 radius 158 threshold 1)
Original #2
USM applied (amt. 38 radius 158 threshold 1)
The nice thing about this is that you can play around with the amount slider and toggle the preview till you get the desired result.
Jack
(My real name is John but Jack'll do)
Hey Bob. I also use CS3. On your photo, I used EDIT > IMAGE > SHADOW/HIGHLIGHT and adjusted the "Shadows" sliders all the way to the left, and played with the 3 "Highlights" sliders. It is an easy and interactive way to affect the color and contrast of your image.
One of the neat things about Photoshop is there are many paths to the same result. You can see that Jack'll do accomplished the smae effect by utilizing Unsharp Mask. You can also use "Smart Sharpen", which is similar to Unsharp Mask but supposedly has a better alogorithm. In general, I try to avoid doing any kind of Sharpen operation until the very end of my processing, as I want the corrected colors and contrast sharpened, rather than the other way around.
Like my camera skills, my post-processing skills are pretty mediocre. There's a whole bunch of ways to get things done, and subtleties in techniques that I could never see until someone shows them to me.
Shooter on a shoestring.
Hi Jack I see exactly what you mean. You have done a terrific job on those and I will have a go. I acknowledged your PM before I saw your post. I will have a look on your site. Thanks again for all your kind help.
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Bob
Thanks Cato, I can see exactly what you mean and I must admit I am like you I have to be told and shown how to get there and you are right about there being many ways to the end product. That is what I like about CS3 at first I found CS3 very difficult but after a period of time and constant usage and reading one can achieve some excellent results. However, with the help of others from Dgrin makes life much more pleasurable and everyone is so helpful which I truly appreciate and I will try your method too.
Thanks again,
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Bob
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Bob
I'm just up the road from you in West Lothian so I know that this isn't haze from a sunny day It's bloomin cold here eh!!
Anyway, this looks to me like flare from the bright sky. Did you have a lens hood on? If so, perhaps you need a deeper one for that lens. I have an older 35-70 2.8 that I bought and I couldn't believe how much it flared and so I went out and bought the deepest hood I could, and it really does make a difference.
Cheers
Ian
Wow from a flyfisherman's perspective what a great river to fish! Made my jealous that you have such a nice river to get a line wet in. I think a close up of someone actually fishing with that beautiful tree line in the back ground would make a great shot!
Thanks for sharing
I too reserve sharpening until the end, but this technique, though it uses Unsharp Mask, is not a sharpening process at all. Using a small amount (around 20 or so) and a large radius (50 or more) increases local contrast and reduces haze. The method is often referred to as "haze cutting", "HIRALOAM" or "local contrast enhancement".
As you said, there are many ways to skin a cat.
Jack
(My real name is John but Jack'll do)
Hi there Ian good to know I have a neighbour. Which part of West Lothian are you. Gales forecast for this weekend. You are quite right I didn't use the hood on that occasion but I certainly will in future.
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Bob
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Bob
Thanks for looking Ritewinger and I certainly don't mind at all. I always shoot raw now and I have certainly learned a lot from this thread.
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Bob