Barnard Castle.....

P-E · 18-09-2005, 21:55

This is the sort of thing I like to photograph but begining to feel it is too much like a 'snapshot'............

Critique & thoughts on this one?

petemc · 18-09-2005, 22:10

I think the sky is too overly saturated compared with the rest of the shot.

P-E · 18-09-2005, 22:13

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Originally Posted by petemc

I think the sky is too overly saturated compared with the rest of the shot.

I tried some colour burning in CS on the sky.

CT · 18-09-2005, 22:14

I think it's way above snapshot status, but the sky looks very dodgily over-saturated and the halos along the top of the buildings are a bit of a give away that the sky has been selectively saturated.

The buildings divide the pic too much along the centre line and a foreground crop might help that?

P-E · 18-09-2005, 22:21

So do away with the sky colour burn and do a crop of the foreground?

CT · 18-09-2005, 22:27

That's what I'd try. There's nothing wrong with the sky burn and your pic may well need it depending what the original looks like, but that sky is just the wrong blue.

Try selecting the sky with the magic wand ( you may need to play around with the tolerances) then feather the mask by a few pixels to try to avoid the halo effect at the join. Instead of burning the sky just try darkening it for a more natural look and to bring out more natural looking colour.

P-E · 18-09-2005, 22:43

Ok had another go with the original.........

Any improvement?

Rich · 18-09-2005, 23:02

Yes but imho you seem to have lost a significant amount of sharpness in the building. Maybe adjust that a little and it would be great?
Just my oppinion of course.

-Rich

CT · 18-09-2005, 23:02

Much better. Well done!

CT · 18-09-2005, 23:05

Rich is right you do appear to have lost some sharpness but jpeg compression is progressive each time you save the image and you get deterioration. A quick sharpen might bring back the detail.

P-E · 18-09-2005, 23:05

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Originally Posted by Rich

Yes but imho you seem to have lost a significant amount of sharpness in the building. Maybe adjust that a little and it would be great?
Just my oppinion of course.

-Rich

I seem to stuggle with the sharpening when I resize for web.........either too much or too little

P-E · 18-09-2005, 23:18

Just sharpened it...........any better?

Looking now at the first one I posted it looks awful :eyesup:

CT · 18-09-2005, 23:22

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Originally Posted by P-E

Just sharpened it...........any better?

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Looking now at the first one I posted it looks awful :eyesup:

:lol: The road to photographic success is long and tortuous grasshopper.

P-E · 18-09-2005, 23:27

Thanks for the continued comments CT..........much appreciated.

Rich · 19-09-2005, 20:35

Yeah its much sharper!

You are right though, the conversion and compression process is often quite difficult to predict. I often find that if i post process a raw in PhotoshopCS is looks more saturated than it does when i "save for web".

Nice progression anyway, the shot works much better now imho.