 | Discussion on: Image 357 - "Malta Sunset" |
| Discussion on: Image 357 - "Malta Sunset" |
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| Discussion, revisions and constructive criticisms of Image 357 - "Malta Sunset" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #1 August 26th 2005 13:03:00 | Hi Tannis, Beautiful sky and I like the way you included just enough of the city and water to give a feel of location. The orientation didn't look quite right to me so I used the tower (?) as a guide and made it vertical. Then I played with brightness and contrast a bit. I selected the sky and increased the contrast a bit. I inverted the selection and brightened, increased contrast, and sharpened the city. (My selection was very sloppy. I'm still having some trouble with fine motor control. Don't let someone slam into you at 50+ MPH. ;o) The final version is up to you. My intent is to show you that you have a lot of opportunity to adjust the overall scene so that it reflects your memory of the place and time. Or so that it reflects your 'artistic vision'. |
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| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #2 August 26th 2005 21:13:40 | Agree with Bob about the rotation of the image, I think I'd post process slightly differently though. Rotated 2°CCW to straighten it a bit, and then cropped off the untidy edges. Shadows/Highlights - Shadows 50% to bring up the brightness overall. Then used an s-shaped curve, similar to that suggested for Ali's "Blind Pig" shot. I was going to sharpen it, but the JPEG artifacts are a bit too strong for that to work well unfortunately. |
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| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Msg: #3 August 26th 2005 22:07:02 | That looks good Adrian, but I'm going to bet that it was darker when Tannis took the shot. Notice the lights that are turned on around town. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tannis McCartney (tannismc) Msg: #4 August 28th 2005 21:17:35 | Thanks for the suggestions. I've rotated the image by 1 degree (the tower is actually a crane from the dry docks so it's not actually vertical). I adjusted the levels a bit first to improve the contrast, then sharpened the city. Within ten minutes of taking this photo, the sky had darkened enough to start the fireworks, so I think these clouds got the absolute last sun fo the day. I wonder if the city could still use a bit more something... |
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| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Msg: #5 September 9th 2005 21:39:42 | Yes Bob, the city is lighter in my version - but I find it looks very murky on the others. It's a sliding scale between realism and impact IMO. More light on the city looks better IMO, but it's less realistic - just a matter of how far to take it I guess. There's not enough lights on in the city for dark to work well - if you drop the brightness and increase the contrast it just loses any bite. Tannis: Yes, that looks better than the original :) Remember that verticals near the edge of the frame - particularly on wideangle shots - aren't particularly reliable anyway, since any perspective distortion is magnified there... | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Revision: 2 Adrian Warren (AdrianW) |
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