Beara Peninsula - need help fixing up a pic

CraggyIslander

Had great craic down the beara peninsula in west cork (flippin long drive tho!) last weekend and albeit bit hazy the weather was quite good, sunlight was not too harsh ;-)

Cant say same for sunday when drove back thru kenmare and killarney -- pissing rain :-(

Anyway one of the first shots i took was this one:



White balanced adjusted, some levels and a straight resize (no crop)

When looking at the fullsized pic I noticed the following detail tho:



same for the lines along the mast of the sailboat and cabin of the other boat.

Any suggestions if/how can fix this in PS as I love the tranquility of the pic itself

Calina

Fred, is it the pixellation you're concerned about, or the buoy itself?

CraggyIslander

its the red glow around the edge.. dont think it should be there. The pixelation is mostly coz forgot to switch iso back to 100, so its shot at 200 instead

irishcrazyhorse

id say loose the bouy all together,its slightly distracting
nice pic all round though

sheesh

Have you tried putting it through noise ninja? there is a demo version

JMcL

Possibly a result of over sharpening - is it a JPEG from the camera, or is whatever you're using to process applying some default sharpening?

Muineach

To me it looks like Chromatic aberration, made worse by a jpeg conversion.

I don't full understand it myself, but I know with Canon when you open it up in "Camera Raw" theres a tab there that you can play around with. Search on Google for Chromatic aberration.

More Info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/chromatic.html

How to fix:
http://www.outdooreyes.com/photo26.php3

Fajitas!

Muineach wrote:

To me it looks like Chromatic aberration, made worse by a jpeg conversion.

Indeed.

RichyX

irishcrazyhorse wrote:

id say loose the bouy all together,its slightly distracting
nice pic all round though

Without the buoy there would be a large expanse of not hugely interesting water. There'd also be nothing in the foreground.

It adds some depth to the image so I'd say keep it.

Where in Beara was it taken?
The girlfriend is from there so I spend a fair amount of time down those parts.

CraggyIslander

Thanks Muineach have some bedtime reading to do

The original is a camera raw file, so there's hope yet for me :-)

Richy, it was taken a few minutes from Glengarriff on the road to Castletownbere

Muineach

If you have the raw file look for the tab i was on about, i generally just move the sliders around till the problems gone

digitally-yours

I tried with JPEG

hows this ?