Evening pic - a little help?

rahtkennades · 30-08-2007 5:43pm #1

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure what I can do with this image. It was taken around dusk, so was quite dark. I made a few exposures, but all have come out a bit too 'bright' or else way too dark.

The original and my attempt to edit are below. I guess I'm trying to recapture the 'warmth' of the original scene, if that makes any sense?

Original:

My edit:

BTW image was taken on a 350D, ISO400, f5.0, 1/25th second. I also have the same at ISO100, f18, 2sec, but that's really dismal!

Oh, also the edits are being done in PS Elements 2.0.

Any advice much appreciated.

Cheers

ThOnda · 30-08-2007 7:43pm

BW and more misty.
And to go there another day. I've been there three times and I have good pictures only from the last time.

heavily tweaked...

EDIT: If you are there on time, parking is free and you can get closer. Another road to the right is to the parking.

Calina · 30-08-2007 8:31pm

I hope you don't mind, I did the following with it:

1) upped the contrast a little
2) converted to black and white
3) applied a deep blue filter, while keeping luminosity
4) applied a black frame to kill some of the whiteness of the sky.

If you don't like it, I'll delete...

rahtkennades · 30-08-2007 10:17pm

Calina wrote:

I hope you don't mind, I did the following with it:

1) upped the contrast a little
2) converted to black and white
3) applied a deep blue filter, while keeping luminosity
4) applied a black frame to kill some of the whiteness of the sky.

If you don't like it, I'll delete...

Damm! No fair! It's like another shot entirely! It's nothing like what I saw at the time, but I really like what you've done with it. Thanks for the advice. I've too much to learn on this processing lark!

5uspect · 31-08-2007 8:46am

You said you took a few exposures. Was it on a tripod? Maybe you could do a HDR with them.

rahtkennades · 31-08-2007 9:24am

5uspect wrote:

You said you took a few exposures. Was it on a tripod? Maybe you could do a HDR with them.

Yeah, it was on a mini-tripod from a stone wall, but I doubt the shots would be a close enough match. Still, no harm in trying. I know I read something here a while ago about doing HDR, i'll give it a shot after the weekend.

Thanks for the advice 5uspect!

jaggiebunnet · 31-08-2007 10:08am

took some this summer too of this place, great for photos - no editing done wouldn't know where to start!

pic1.jpg

mathias · 31-08-2007 1:31pm

Did you take the shot in raw by any chance ? If so , from a single image raw , pull a -1 exposure , a 0 exposure and a +1 exposure , and try making a HDR from those , or just try tone mapping from a single raw shot.

If you have the raw it should be no problem to make a warm and colourful shot from the picture above.

PoleStar · 31-08-2007 2:22pm

Where is this place, I need to go there and check it out!

mathias · 31-08-2007 2:48pm

http://www.kylemoreabbey.com/

A much photographed spot , in Connemara

sheesh · 01-09-2007 7:16pm

Hi also played with this too used this tutorial to convert it to black and white then overlayed a solid brownish color for a sepia tone

rahtkennades · 03-09-2007 4:17pm

Thanks for your help all.
@mathias - Unfortunately it was shot in jpg. I really should just invest in more memory cards....
@sheesh - thanks much for the link to the tutorial. I'll have to get full PS to work it though I think!

I like your conversion though, it gives it a nice warmth all right.

Valentia · 05-09-2007 10:24pm

Used a gradient tool to give a warm feel to the sky and background. Upped the saturation a bit on the boat.

rahtkennades · 06-09-2007 9:48am

Good idea, that's pretty nice. I tried using a black/white gradient on the sky, but not a coloured gradient. What was that, white to some sepia type of colour? The B/W gradient made it worse, but that adds a lot to the sky tone.
Thanks for the idea there.

Valentia · 06-09-2007 10:53am

I just went to the reds/browns and picked something that seemed right. I used a gradient adjustment layer and transparency a bit.

sheesh · 06-09-2007 11:45pm

rahtkennades wrote:

Thanks for your help all.
@mathias - Unfortunately it was shot in jpg. I really should just invest in more memory cards....
@sheesh - thanks much for the link to the tutorial. I'll have to get full PS to work it though I think! I like your conversion though, it gives it a nice warmth all right.

have you tryed theGimp it is a opensource version of photoshop it has most of photoshop functionality its a bit buggy but free.:D

http://www.gimp.org/

Evening pic - a little help?

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