I will c&c your work for you

[Dwayne Oakes]

Beginners welcomed, I will c&c your work for you. Tweak your photo with
a repost and a list of the tweaks so you can pick up some pp tweaks.

One photo per photographer and a 35 photo limit to this thread only.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Yemme]

Oh this is so sweet of you... Let me find some images.... brb..

 

[Bill19]

today i took this:

and turned it in to this:

any C+C welcome

 

[Yemme]

Ok here goes...

I think this was the original...

So this is the altered version that I don't like that much.... The windows are darker but I wanted to bring the outside ... in.

If you can think of anything else better to do with it...... Good Luck!

 

[squirl033]

nice of you to offer, but may i ask what makes you any more qualified than anyone else to critique someone's work? are you a professional, published photographer or something?

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

today i took this:

and turned it in to this:

any C+C welcome

good

-great clouds
-overhanging tree adds interest and works here
-good comp (just a tad to much dark FG in the color version)

nit

-photo is underexposed (light meter being tricked by bright sky)
-photo has a slight tilt to the right when placed on a (grid)
-photo is noisy

tweak

-cropped a tad off the bottom of photo
-brightened the photo by setting the white point on one of the clouds

-used gradient tool in Nikon NX2 to lightened just the dark FG and not the sky to imporve overall exposure

-straightened the photo
-healed out the tv antenna in the far left
-put the photo through NR software

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

PS If any of these terms are new to you just google them as there is
lots of info on them and not that hard to learn.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

nice of you to offer, but may i ask what makes you any more qualified than anyone else to critique someone's work? are you a professional, published photographer or something?

A good eye.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[PhotoXopher]

How about this one?

Thank you for offering this up... I'll take C&C anytime I can get it!

 

[Christie Photo]

nice of you to offer, but may i ask what makes you any more qualified than anyone else to critique someone's work? are you a professional, published photographer or something?

A good eye.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

OK. I'll give you a HARD one to critique.

Do THIS one. Really. It's tougher than you'd think.

Thanks.

-Pete

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

Ok here goes...

I think this was the original...

So this is the altered version that I don't like that much.... The windows are darker but I wanted to bring the outside ... in.

If you can think of anything else better to do with it...... Good Luck!

good

-interesting comp (lines and shapes)
-good light

nit

-black film border is a bit of a distraction
-photo is flat (lacks contrast)
-photo lacks color vibrance
-photo has alot of dirt specs
-photo is noisy

tweak

-cropped the black border out
-set black and white points (room still left on the histogram)
-added a tad of global contrast boost
-added a tad of selective color saturation to just the trees with color

-lightened (dodge) the lower window frame were the light is reflecting
-lightened (dodge) to main vertical window frames

-healed out the dirt specs
-put the photo through NR software

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

 

[davev]

Ok here goes...

I think this was the original...

So this is the altered version that I don't like that much.... The windows are darker but I wanted to bring the outside ... in.

If you can think of anything else better to do with it...... Good Luck!

good

-interesting comp (lines and shapes)
-good light

nit

-black film border is a bit of a distraction
-photo is flat (lacks contrast)
-photo lacks color vibrance
-photo has alot of dirt specs
-photo is noisy

tweak

-cropped the black border out
-set black and white points (room still left on the histogram)
-added a tad of global contrast boost
-added a tad of selective color saturation to just the trees with color

-lightened (dodge) the lower window frame were the light is reflecting
-lightened (dodge) to main vertical window frames

-healed out the dirt specs
-put the photo through NR software

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

When you're dodging these items, are you selecting them first, or free handing it?
What setting on the dodge tool?

 

[Montana]

Always looking for help, especially with a new camera body. Taken at sunrise, so the colors are really orange/red.

 

[Dwayne Oakes]

How about this one?

Thank you for offering this up... I'll take C&C anytime I can get it!

good

-very nice waterfront and building
-nice natural colors
-good comp (no cropping needed)
-good contrast

nit

-photo is underexposed by 2/3 Ev
-building has a slight tilt to the left when placed on the (grid)
-workers cones are a bit of a distraction
-photo is noisy (in the brick)
-photo is soft

tweak

-used midtone (levels) slider to brighten photo

-used whitepoint (levels) slider to brighten the highlights (still room left
on the histogram) to improve overall exposure

-straightened the building
-healed out workers cones and sign also the sewer drain

-lightened (dodge) the shadows under all of the trees
-added selective color saturation to the colors in the water reflection
-added a tad of global contrast boost

-set chroma point (LCH tool in Nikon NX2) on the brick to increase the
bricks color saturation only

-put the photo through NR software

-added a tad of global USM (sharpening) to get over the AA filter

Hope this helps and thanks for posting.

PS This sounds like alot of work but with a little practice the tweaks
move along very fast.

Take care,

Dwayne Oakes

before

after

 

[PhotoXopher]

Looks great! Thank you for the time and effort to show an example and the honest C&C.

Much appreciated.

 

[A-Spot]

Before PP:

After PP (enhanced blacks, reds and cyans, cropping, slightly added contrast, gaussian blur based on channel gradient in upper third):

Shot with a Fujifilm F100.

Cheers,

A-Spot