Post Production Help?

WexfordMusings

Hi guys,

Now maybe I should just take another picture, but sure here goes. I like the way the shine of the light is picked up on the edge of the bridge and also on the roof of the building just to the bottom right hand side of where the bridge meets the quay. Hovever, I dont like the brightness of the right hand side of the picture. Any ideas or attempts on post-production, or any advice on just taking a better picture

georgey

If you have CS2 try the shodow/highlight adj this will bring back some detail in the shadow areas (if its not all blocked). If that doesnt work, copy it in layers(ctrl+J) changs the blend mode to screen add a mask and paint with black the areas you want to leave unchanged, both these will help with the underexposed areas in the foreground. After this I would make an adjustment layer for saturation and adjust to taste and then add a mask and paint out with black the foreground and this will add some colour to the sky.
Philip

Oriel

Advice: take a different photo during the evening time with better weather.

Calina

I think a little judicious use of the scissors myself would go a long way towards helping. After that, a black and white conversion.

Muineach

i used the standard curves "darker" and used a gradient fill on the left side of the mask, you can also do one circular gradient on the top right. I can see what you were trying to do with the picture, but the sun was just too bright, if I was taking the photo I would tend to more on the left side of the photo and leave the sun out of the frame, but that's just me.

Anyone know if bracketing this shot would have helped ?

Culann

If you shot in RAW then you could have processed the sky separately in RAW Shooter Essentials (reducing the exposure) and then processed the foreground (increase exposure slightly to bring out detail), and then combined the two in PS. That sky has potential, it just needs toning down.