Thy King: practice shot - Scifi-Meshes.com

Thy King · 05-27-2007, 12:29 PM

Hi, I just wanted some feedback on my practice shot here. I am a total novice (aka: noob

) in photoshop, so i tried an advise by Alec Trevelyan on one of my questions.

Quote:

I don't know how much is the camera, how much is the photographer, how much is the conditions in which the photos were taken, how much has to do with photoshop...so many damn factors go into this stuff.

Does your panasonic shoot in RAW? One thing that helps me greatly is the flexibility afforded by the RAW format. My standard PS tweaks are curves, sharpening, and some selective saturation/desaturation.

I do however know that my camera pretty much is, eehh, less impressive in comparison with his, but i still wanted to give it a try. The camara is the Panasonic DMC-FZ5.

I am posting 3 photo's, the first is the original (jpeg-ed, true original is TIFF, and on my HD), and the minor/simple correction, and my play-around-with photo.

And in case you are wondering: yes, it is a photo straight out of my window.

Any pointers or things i should pay attention to?

Thy King · 05-31-2007, 11:30 AM

anyone?

**DAve** · 05-31-2007, 12:01 PM

I'm not really sure what you want?

Yes you have sucessfully modified the colours to get a 'better' picture, but I'm not sure anyone can give you advice from this.

Rather than just being able to change the colouring the question may be "What is required to fix this picture" - i.e. in old (wet) photography terms where do I need to dodge to burn the image.

Note I'm no expert myself, I'm just trying to help out with why you are not getting (m)any responses here.

DAve

**Alec Trevelyan** · 05-31-2007, 07:48 PM

I'd play around with curves for contrast and possibly some saturation tweaking. That, and possibly finding some more interesting subject matter than the trees outside your window

flatula · 05-31-2007, 08:46 PM

HDR Shop Home Just a suggestion, some of the software and the tutorials for creating HDR images lend them self to balancing and correcting colors in PhotoShop rather well, this piece of software above is free to use for non commercial work and works quite well, the tutorials , In my humble opinion will probably explain more for you on color correction, or at least head you where you want to go...

05-31-2007, 11:30 AM	#2 (permalink)
Thy King SFM Guru Realname: Ben Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Netherlands, Europe, Earth, Sol, Milkyway, Universe Age: 24 Posts: 177	anyone?
	In life only 2 questions really matter: 'Who am I?', and 'Who do I want to become?'. The answer to these questions is identical for both, but in different words. - Thy King

05-31-2007, 07:48 PM	#4 (permalink)
Alec Trevelyan Awake and Dreaming Realname: Nate Howe Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston, MA Age: 24 Posts: 1,407	I'd play around with curves for contrast and possibly some saturation tweaking. That, and possibly finding some more interesting subject matter than the trees outside your window
	It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive... www.nhowephotography.com

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

New To Site?	Need Help?
Register to Participate View Forum Leaders Search Contact Us	Frequently Asked Questions Did you forget your password? Mark Forums Read

05-31-2007, 12:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
DAve Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Guildford UK Age: 36 Posts: 468	I'm not really sure what you want? Yes you have sucessfully modified the colours to get a 'better' picture, but I'm not sure anyone can give you advice from this. Rather than just being able to change the colouring the question may be "What is required to fix this picture" - i.e. in old (wet) photography terms where do I need to dodge to burn the image. Note I'm no expert myself, I'm just trying to help out with why you are not getting (m)any responses here. DAve

05-31-2007, 08:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
flatula SFM Nugget Realname: Gerry Verfaillie Join Date: May 2007 Location: Greenville, North Carolina Age: 41 Posts: 4	HDR Shop Home Just a suggestion, some of the software and the tutorials for creating HDR images lend them self to balancing and correcting colors in PhotoShop rather well, this piece of software above is free to use for non commercial work and works quite well, the tutorials , In my humble opinion will probably explain more for you on color correction, or at least head you where you want to go...

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)