Photo for C & C

TelePaul

Hey all, one of my first pics...taken with my film SLR so its a scan. Any thoughts? Does it look kinda yellow?

Fajitas!

What resolution did you scan it at? Did you add any filters in photoshop?

TelePaul

Fajitas! wrote:

What resolution did you scan it at? Did you add any filters in photoshop?

Uhmm....I have no idea what resolution, it's just the scanner that came with my printer...sorry. And no, no filters, thats how the print looks.

Fajitas!

It's possibly a wee bit soft on the scanning...that or the print, but it looks to be a lovely photo.

If the sky were to be a bit more burnt in, I think it would make a huge difference though!

TelePaul

Fajitas! wrote:

It's possibly a wee bit soft on the scanning...that or the print, but it looks to be a lovely photo.

If the sky were to be a bit more burnt in, I think it would make a huge difference though!

You mean soft in terms of focus?? And burnt in...like...photo-shopped? Thanks alot for the feedback but I'm just not sure about the terms.

Fajitas!

Aye, soft as in focus, but I'm not sure whether it's the actual neg that's soft or the scan? That's pretty much why I asked in the first place.

Burning...yep, photoshop, or, over-exposing a particular area in the darkroom!

TelePaul

Fajitas! wrote:

Aye, soft as in focus, but I'm not sure whether it's the actual neg that's soft or the scan? That's pretty much why I asked in the first place.

Burning...yep, photoshop, or, over-exposing a particular area in the darkroom!

Awesome, I'll check the print...I got the negative enlarged and it looks more...cold-coloured, would that be right? More blues and greens than browns and yellows.

DeVore

Ok, I downloaded your image there and did a little touching up on it. The original isnt of a high quality and I've over done this on purpose to illustrate what can be changed and how far.

Firstly I adjusted the Levels (I use Auto-adjust unless I really feel it needs attention).

Then I heighted the blue and green in the picture using colour balance.

I saturated the bejaysus out of it which gives it that deep colour vibrance

I put a photo filter of Blue over it and just for good measure I took the Burn tool (you might have to look under Dodge to find it in the tools pallette) and a size 200 soft brush and burned the sky to give it some depth of colour (like it needed it at that stage!). The lack of detail in the sky is clear from the burning, there was a lot of flat colour in there from the jpeging and the scanning. If you have the original I think it will work well.

Almost all of those things can be found under Image >> Adjustments in Photoshop.

Go nuts and see what you can do with a pic. If everything goes horribly wrong, Edit >> Undo or more drastically, File >> Revert are your friends

DeV.

dazftw

Yea I really like the image as it is, Even tho as DeVore did, a little saturation does quite nicely making it stick out more!

Fenster

I had a play with it myself in Photoshop:

http://www.bhalash.com/files/pics/4ibrnz9.jpg

I was limited by the quality of the photo, I couldn't get the black and white as artifacts from scanning started showing up very quickly. I will say that I was trying to get the black and white feel of some of my forest photos, such as this.

I converted it to black and white in PS3 and then burnt the sky and other highlights down as much as I could, followed by a tiny bit of dodging on the left of the photo.

Oriel

DeVore wrote:

I use Auto-adjust

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