This is a slide scan so its a little different from a digital capture. Curious as to what you would do. Just out of the camera not enhancements !!!
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This is a slide scan so its a little different from a digital capture. Curious as to what you would do. Just out of the camera not enhancements !!!
HI Alfred
Didn't really do much here, I got rid of the tree bases and house, made it a little more of a panorama shot and boosted the saturation to make it look hot...not sure if this is what you had in mind, check out your previous Optimize Image..tell me what you think...Paul
Hi Paul Yes just checked the last one and thats one the things I had in mind, bringing out the blue sky ! Just perfect !!!
The color balance for this is all subjective and don't remember being so intense in color. I just did a quick color balance using a neutral tone and came up interesting. Will see what everyone comes up with !!! Really neat seeing all the version
Nothing fancy. Basic adjustments in Camera Raw. "Applied Image" in LAB. Cropped to 8x10. Further Levels adjustment. Blurred the top right hand corner a tad. A tiny bit of vignetting.
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Hi Alfred
Tried several vertical crops but ended up coming back to the first one !!
1.Crop. 2.Levels. 3.Color Curve Contrast. 4. Noiseware. 5. Sharpen.
Cheers: Ian Mc
This is a good thread...Ian I like your crop; it brings out and emphasizes the daily routine in the life of these ladies...well done...:cool:
I was thinking of that crop Ian Its a natural !!!
Got a suggestion for the colors. If you have no clue as to what it should look like you can rely on the neutral colors. The sun is fairly high, not much warmth to the light, so color balance on the black outfits. By removing any cast from the black all else will fall into place. You could do the same on a white or even preferably gray object.
For color balancing use your eye dropper and remove the cast by making all reading the same (or close) ... or you can get a plug-in form PictoColor iCorrect EditLabPro and just click in the desired area and all will be done for you. A real time saver !!!
My Take
I added canvas to top ,cropped into pano, did a curve adj. added a little saturation, selective sharped little areas, burned a few hot spots- After seeing Ian's crop I like the vertical w/ the inclusion of the palm trees
Last edited by denise ippolito; 12-16-2008 at 08:42 AM.
Color wise this what I had in mind Used the eye dropper to color balance. Place it on the white bucket the first lady was carrying and on her dress that appears to be black. Corrected the cast.
Then used curves and did a standard S curve adjustment, then pulled the curve by the midpoint to make it slightly darker. After used selective color for the neutral and blacks. Finally worked on the shadows and darkened all for added contrast. Did not do any cropping and left it as is so more of the image would show.
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Thanks Al for the advice about eye dropper.
With PS Elements I use Adjustment Layer to adjust Levels and fortunately it also has the three droppers !!
Still not "Au fait" with S Curves but find that Picasa's "I'm Feeling Lucky" gives a fair representation of your color result.
Here is an edit of my previous crop with white & black dropper and Picasa's "Lucky".
Cheers: Ian Mc
Looks great Ian btw if you were doing this same image taken very early/late in the day then you need to color balance differently. Using a neutral tone and removing he color cast would remove the warm light and turn it into a mid day image.
If you get a chance to look at CS4 there is a super neat way to manipulate curves. Just point to a section and drag the curser up/down. Curve changes like magic !!!
Cheers Al
Slowly the jigsaw pieces are coming together even with different editing tools !!!
Ian Mc
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Another version
Again, I am such a novice at all this pp-ing stuff. I started with trying a vertical crop but wasn't satisfied. Eventually I realized that the monotone of the earth on either side of the women was boring. So I tried some dodging and burning on the earthen area and on the women's robes, used the patch tool on the area just across the road, and tried a bit of levels to even the whites and blacks.
No idea how this works.
The original is a very striking and haunting image
Cheers
Gail
I like it Gail and the colors look realistic !!! Neat !!!
Interesting shot. I opened the jpeg in ACR, made two "exposures," the second leaning toward higher contrast -- and then lowered opacity on that one). Also used shadow/highlight filter to bring out the colorful details in the clothing. (All this could be done better starting with the raw file, of course.) I suspect I've got the color a bit too reddish.
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